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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Simon Mac Rory: If you work in an organization today as a leader you will lead a team. Simon operates from London with a Dublin-based support office. 90% of what we do in an organization happens through collaborative effort, making the team the most important production unit.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

The Mafia values immorality, loyalty, resourcefulness, and steadfastness and attracted and retained mobsters with these values. Staying in the family required unyielding loyalty and a code of silence. Wannabe Mafioso often waited decades before becoming made men. Zimmerman , Ph.D.,

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3 Ways A Leader Can Gain Commitment From Their Team

Joseph Lalonde

The same goes for gaining the loyalty of your team. Put others first : Simon Sinek laid out this principle in Leaders Eat Last. Loyalty is built upon this principle. Help people set stretching but achievable goals : We’ all heard the saying that people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

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February 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Dan writes, “Imagine: a leader who knows how to gain efficiencies, decrease costs, increase employee retention, and inspire customer loyalty based on taking another’s point of view? Simon Teague of New Level Results shared The Incredible Power of Coaching. ” Connect with Simon on Twitter at @newlevelresults.

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Servant Leadership in Action

Leading Blog

Simon Sinek adds, “The daily practice of servant leadership is less grand than people tend to think. A leader who offers money or the potential for future riches is not earning loyalty. A few scattered, well-intentioned actions by a leader can’t hurt, but they won’t breed loyalty. They won’t be enough to earn trust.

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First Impressions Win Hearts and Minds

Coaching Tip

Source: Helio Fred Garcia: Power of Communication, The: Skills to Build Trust, Inspire Loyalty, and Lead Effectively. Simon Reynolds: Why People Fail: The 16 Obstacles to Success and How You Can Overcome Them . Bill Lane: Jacked Up: The Inside Story of How Jack Welch Talked GE into Becoming the Worlds Greatest Company.

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Leadership Is Difficult, But It Doesn’t Have To Be Hard

Tim Milburn

The quote is by Simon Sinek. Simon Sinek explains why people will follow our lead when he says… Leaders don’t simply have people who follow them; real leaders command a following or a group of people who want to follow you, not because they have to, but because they believe in you. There are leaders and there are those who lead.