Category: Leadership
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Growing Your Leadership Resources with Social Media
Social media has erupted in our culture as an essential tool in our daily lives. Look at these staggering statistics from SmartInsights—58.4% of the world’s population now uses social networks, with an average daily use time of two hours and 27 minutes. These numbers reinforce how commonplace this digital resource has become. Grow Your Leadership Resources…
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Why coaching can help you retain your people
Maybe it won’t surprise you, but studies show that 50% of people would fire their boss if they could. On top of that, 40% of employees between the ages of 24 and 35 are thinking about quitting their job. Those are some pretty sobering statistics. It seems that overall, we’re doing a shoddy job of keeping people…
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The Significance of Setting and Referring to Goals in Business
In the bustling world of business, success is often attributed to various factors such as innovation, strategy, and market trends. However, one fundamental element that underpins achievement in any endeavour is the significance of setting and referring to goals in business. Goals serve as guiding stars, providing direction and purpose amidst the whirlwind of tasks…
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5 things that take 5 minutes and will make you a better leader
You don’t need lots of time to practice good leadership. In fact, there are a number of super effective leadership practices that take less than five minutes. You might think that if something takes so little time, surely it can’t have a super big impact. Not true. Practiced consistently, these speedy leadership initiatives pack a…
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9 Qualities of the Servant Leader
Leading With Others in Mind At first blush, you may think a servant leader literally takes on the role of a servant. Taken to an extreme, that definition would look like this: As you pull into work, the leader meets you at your car, opens your door, and welcomes you to the office. Maybe the leader gets…
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What Leadership Style Am I?
What leadership style am I? For many years I’ve been fascinated by the concept of Leadership Styles as they provide an efficient and useful shortcut to understanding complex ideas. And while I am no Joseph Campbell, I have spent the last dozen years working with and studying thought leaders and learning about and writing about thought…
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Unwritten Rules of Management
The CEO’s Secret Handbook Filled with rules and tales about management, the gray-coloured Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management was originally part of a PowerPoint presentation the CEO made to engineers and scientists at the Waltham defence giant. But Swanson, who has spent his entire career at Raytheon, was later asked if he could put his rules down…
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5 Leadership Lessons – Richard Branson
The Virgin Way by Richard Branson takes us over very familiar territory. But then maybe that’s the point. While there is not much that is new, Branson has taken sound principles and demonstrated that – in practice – they work. He quotes Mark Twain, “All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside…
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11 Simple Concepts on How to Be a Better Leader – Dave Kerpen
Being likeable will help you in your job, business, relationships, and life. I interviewed dozens of successful business leaders in my last book, Likeable Business, to determine what made them so likeable and their companies so successful. All of the concepts are simple, and yet, perhaps in the name of revenues or the bottom line,…