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Leading Thoughts for February 13, 2025

Leading Blog

Source: Synergistic Management: Creating the Climate for Superior Performance II. Robert Shaw on blindspots: Blindspots are not simply problems to be identified and fixed. Managing blindspots is learning to accept them as inevitable and, in some respects, positive because they force you to remain vigilant.

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How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

Let's Grow Leaders

Set during the US Civil War, Colonel Shaw, played by Matthew Broderick, is asked to lead one of the first regiments of African American soldiers. Shaw’s commanding officer, who mistreats, disrespects, and even shoots his own men, tells Shaw that he can either follow the order or protest it through normal channels.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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How to Find Leadership Blindspots

Leading Blog

In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots. Shaw suggests that not all blindspots are bad. Once uncovered it can be managed in some way. We all have them not because we can’t find them, but because we don’t look very hard.

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The Essential Traits Of An Extreme Team

Eric Jacobson

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more conventional teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling even an obsession. Value members cultural fit and ability to collectively produce results.

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Important Ideas on Change and Transitions: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

” - George Bernard Shaw. Managing Through Career and Life Changes. Monique Valcour of the Harvard Business Review Blog Network shares If You’re Not Helping People Develop, You’re Not Management Material. Facilitating employee learning and development is an essential competency for every manager. You Go First.

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The Optimal Margin of Illusion

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. The above approaches will help you identify and manage the blindspots that all of us have. awareness blind spots coaching development feedback Robert Bruce Shaw' Robert holds a Ph.D.

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