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Key Leadership Traits that Help You Through a Crisis

When facing a crisis, collaboration, flexibility, empathy, and resiliency are the hallmarks of leaders who successfully navigate turbulent waters. Today’s post is by Ron Schutz, author of American Fathers (CLICK HERE to get your copy). The true colors of leaders appear during a crisis and Hurricane Harvey was a shining example. From the Mayor and […]



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Has your boss ever sabotaged your efforts to take on a new role?

Our reader poll today asks: Has your boss ever sabotaged your efforts to take on a new role? Absolutely. They ruined a good opportunity for me.: 49.6% Maybe. They didn’t support me the way they should have.: 28.3% Never. They’ve always encouraged me to take new roles.: 22.1% Talent hoarding is career sabotage. Unfortunately the majority […]



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Leadership Lessons Learned from the Avengers

The Avengers can teach us a lot about leadership. Leading a team of high performing and high potential individuals carries with it a unique set of challenges. If you overcome those challenges, you can unlock something special. In the spirit of Avengers: Infinity War hype, I figured I’d resurrect this post I wrote several years […]



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Occam’s Razor and Leadership Excellence

Simplicity can drive outstanding results. Providing your organization simple guidance and a clear desired outcome enables your people to spend more time executing instead of wasting time on unnecessary activities. Today’s post is by Gary Morton, author of Commanding Excellence (CLICK HERE to get your copy). The principle of Occam’s Razor has influenced many of […]



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Should you focus on great technology or a great operation?

Our reader poll today asks: Which is more important: having a great technology to sell or a great operation that sells it? It’s all about the tech. It’ll sell itself. :15.5% Operations and execution is where it’s at.: 84.5% The tech is the easy part. No matter how great your technology is, if you can’t sell […]



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Strengthening Thinking as a Mechanism to Building Resilience

The ability to manage and strengthen your thinking goes a long way toward making you more resilient and better able to deal with the daily challenges you face. Today’s post is by thougthtLEADERS principal Maureen Metcalf. During a time when we are facing natural disasters and geopolitical uncertainty, many of us are trying to find […]



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How to Find Your Company’s Core Values

Your core values define the behaviors you treasure and demand above all others. Investing time in defining them increases the likelihood they come to life and become part of everyone’s daily behaviors. Today’s post is by Trevor Throness, author of The Power of People Skills (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Lots of time is […]



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Have you ever considered starting your own business?

Our reader poll today asks: Have you ever considered starting your own business? Yes, I’ve started my own business and currently run it : 24.6% Yes, I’ve thought about it but never made the leap: 52.8% No, I’ve never seriously considered starting a business: 22.5% Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone. A long time ago I heard a […]



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A Quick Boost to Your Leadership Efficiency and Effectiveness

It’s hard to balance all the demands that are placed upon you as a leader. Many of us default to dysfunctional ways of spending our time and energy. If you know what the common mistakes are and take a more deliberate approach to investing your time and energy, you’ll get better results from your team […]



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When You Need Agility, Deploy Focused Teams

Cross-functional teams are great but only if you enable them to succeed. Simple business practices and policies can increase speed, flexibility, and ultimately drive success. Today’s post is by Amanda Setili, author of Fearless Growth (CLICK HERE to get your copy). No doubt about it: we live in a rapidly changing world. Disruptive technologies, shifting […]



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