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Be Powerful & Em-Powerful!

Leading Blog

For forceful leaders, its seen as giving power away; giving power to your staff means giving up your power. Its easy for forceful leaders to feel that granting power to others takes away from their own power or that they are somehow rendered passive, as one forceful leader put it. Its also accepting power up.

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The Intangibles: Leadership Approach & Authenticity

N2Growth Blog

This reality is only magnified by the growing leadership gap we are experiencing not just here in the United States, but globally. Seasoned leaders are retiring or exiting the workforce at a higher rate than almost ever before, and there are fewer and fewer millennials and gen Z employees interested in leadership roles.

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Reader’s Choice: Your Favorite Human-Centered Leadership Content of 2024

Let's Grow Leaders

Celebrating Your Reader’s Choice Content of 2024 As is our tradition, we share your reader’s choice content of the year from our Let’s Grow Leaders blog, Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, and Asking for a Friend Video series. Key takeaway: Trust is built not only by what you share but by what you safeguard.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Tony Blair on Leadership Essentials

Leading Blog

T ONY BLAIR wrote a book about leadership in government. Leadership, both good and bad, leaves clues for us to study how other leaders have handled problems and challenges common in all leadership situations. On Leadership does just that. Below are a selection of Blairs thoughts on leadership.

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The Power of a Verbal Yes in Driving Team Alignment

Next Level Blog

A few months ago, I had an executive bring up the exit row speech as a good analogy for a leadership team that was experiencing a lack of alignment. The post The Power of a Verbal Yes in Driving Team Alignment first appeared on The Eblin Group. Then the attendant waits for and insists on a verbal, Yes.

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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2025

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2025 curated just for you. As algorithms become increasingly adept at accessing the human mind, they also become more and more powerful at controlling it, enticing us to buy a certain product or vote for a certain political candidate.

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Beyond Metrics – Why Human Capital is Key in Founding and Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

Evaluating founding and leadership teams of portfolio companies and acquisition targets has become crucial for investment and operating partners. As businesses grow and adapt to shifting market demands, the strength of the leadership team often dictates a company’s ability to scale and succeed.