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What We Get Wrong About Authenticity In Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to improving the way we lead, there’s a number of approaches that have been championed by both leadership experts and researchers looking into understanding what makes someone a successful leader. One example of this is the idea that we need to be “more authentic” in our leadership.

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What is Great Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Ted Bagley: All organizations worry about leadership, from the mom and pop community businesses to the giant global entities both domestic and international. Good leadership is defined as proper training, rewarding, assisting, coaching and respecting those who “carry the load”.

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Leadership Is About Alignment

Tanveer Naseer

There are as many definitions for leadership as there are companies that have leaders, yet at the core, leadership is about alignment. In fact, leaders leave companies when their personal values clash with the corporate values. When you do something that is against your values, you are out of internal alignment.

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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit July’s Leadership Carnival Published by Michael Lee Stallard on July 5, 2010 03:56 am under E Pluribus Partners Every month I participate in a leadership carnival with several bloggers whose work I respect.

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10 Reasons Why Every Manager Should take a Finance Course

Great Leadership By Dan

Caution: when employees feel like owners, no more wasting money on expensive furniture, management boondoggles, or projects with a poor net present value. finance leadership business acumen finance and accounting for leaders finance' You can help them feel like owners too. They will call you on it.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

When forced to present familiar metrics for truly out-of-the-box "beginning" ideas, work teams develop what our friend Jay Paap calls "Imaginary Numbers." As for decision-making there is one simple rule in pursuit of breakthroughs: "The higher the goal the higher the role."

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A Simple Ritual for Harried Managers (and Popes)

Harvard Business Review

The Jesuit Constitutions didn't equip me to do present value calculations. During seventeen subsequent years there, I was lucky enough to serve as a Managing Director on three continents. To be sure, my head was often spinning during early days at Morgan.