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Five Qualities Genuine Leaders Have in Common

Leading Blog

But it only intensifies something we were already seeing in the world of work: organizations need to adapt constantly to keep up with market dynamics. Genuine leaders have a deep understanding of their values, ambitions, and goals, and project their true selves for all to see. Achieving clarity of purpose. Empowering others.

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How Inspiring Identity Fuels Team Performance

Michael Lee Stallard

Inspiring Identity and the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project, as it was called, represented one of the most challenging and significant scientific accomplishments in history. By mid-1942, the project had become the number one defense priority with a $2 billion budget. Identity influences almost everything we do.

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Leadership and Teamwork

Lead on Purpose

Perhaps it’s a little more time off, more responsibility, more rewarding work, or the chance to work collaboratively on a new project. Avoid micromanaging. A middle ground can be maintained between complete freedom and micromanagement , but each employee requires a different balance. You won’t know until you ask.

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Creativity: An Undervalued Leadership Skill

Lead Change Blog

New products and services hit the market that have never been offered before. Micromanaging. However, you should refrain from micromanaging and trying to control every aspect of a project. Micromanagement kills morale and imagination. On the other hand, creativity is free flowing, chaotic, and unrestrained.

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3 Character Traits That Make You a Better Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

At the same time, many leaders occupy too much space, and micromanage those around them. And that fortitude, the ability to bear the burden of the unpleasant traffic situation, helped her be a better marketing VP at work as well. We have to make hard decisions and follow through on them. Both extremes are bad for business.

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Taking Chances to Lead Change in the 21st Century: Why It’s Cool Not to Be So Cool

Great Leadership By Dan

The job of a leader, whether of a large corporation or small project team, is to discover new ideas to make life better for their customers, workforce, and communities. To succeed, leaders must find new ways for their organizations to satisfy rapidly evolving market and organizational demands. What does this have to do with leadership?

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My New Boss, What Can I Do?

Lead from Within

He started at the company about a year ago and his overly emotional, micromanaging style does not suit me. Because we work closely on major projects, neither is an option. We’re about to start a major project that I will be managing. Miserable Marketer. Should I give them a heads-up before I give notice?