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How Leaders Can Understand and Work More Effectively with Four Generations in the Workplace

Great Results Team Building

Ask Baby Boomers to be Mentors : With their extensive experience and strong work ethic, Baby Boomers are well-suited to mentor younger generations. As a successful basketball coach, Sean gained valuable insights on turning talent into teamwork – and now he travels around the country to share those lessons.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes. She climbed the corporate ladder from the very bottom and overcame countless obstacles to reach the top of the cruise industry.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

Kilimanjaro and spent more than a decade traveling the world. She explores each of these questions in depth, as well as the six key qualities of leader humility: a balanced ego, integrity, a compelling vision, ethical strategies, generous inclusion, and a developmental focus. She went on to reach the summits of Mt. Rainier and Mt.

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May 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Linda Fisher Thornton of LeadinginContext contributed Ethical Thinking: Sifting For Values. Linda shares: “ While we may think about ethics from time to time, ethical thinking is different. Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting shared 4 Ways to Cultivate Openness to Experience to Enhance Innovation and Leadership.

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Motivate with a Memorable “Vision Phrase” that Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

Examples include healthcare services, food and beverage products, lawn care, construction, clothing, lodging, entertainment and travel services, utilities and police protection. When Chuck Schwab started The Charles Schwab Corporation, his vision was to provide “the most useful and ethical financial services in the world.”

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How Sabbaticals Help Our Careers

The Horizons Tracker

A hard sell In societies that have come to be defined by the Protestant work ethic, taking such prolonged periods away from work can feel all kinds of self-indulgent. The researchers examined how people who had taken a career break felt when they returned to their jobs again.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.” The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better.