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Selecting My Team: The Art of Choosing the Right People

Leading Blog

In a team setting, courageous members prompt open communication and transparency, empowering everyone to express their thoughts and ideas. Her new book is Crisis Capable: Building Your Capacity to Survive and Succeed in Every Environment (Advantage Books, Oct. She frequently speaks on compliance, leadership, and risk management.

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The Secret Ingredients to Successful Leadership

Leading Blog

Leaders who are positive create an air of enthusiasm, openness, and high morale among employees. It involves approaching difference through an unbiased and open-minded lens. She describes her findings in her new book, Common Wisdom: 8 Scientific Elements of a Meaningful Life. Positivity benefits both the leader and company.

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The Book That Hit Me Hard This Year.

Rich Gee Group

One book that punched me in the gut this past year? Books like this dont just sit on a shelf - they change your thinking. Its the kind of book that makes you pause mid-sentence and rethink how you show up every day. Whats your go-to book? What book have you cracked open over and over again, and why?

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Red Flags at Work: Recognizing Problems and Delivering the Bad News

Leading Blog

Raising the temperature slowly doesnt get peoples dander up, and hence they are more open to sharing what they are actually feeling. They will be more open to compromises and less inclined to hate you if they end up losing their argument. They will personalize the conflict. They will remember names and times.

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

Let's Grow Leaders

Confidential Information: Balancing Transparency and Privacy (February 2024) Read here Why it clicked: Striking the right balance between being open and protecting sensitive details is a leadership tightrope act. If you want better information, create clarity and ask for exactly what you need.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Tony Blair on Leadership Essentials

Leading Blog

T ONY BLAIR wrote a book about leadership in government. You forget that it isnt only about ability; it is also about circumstance, the door of opportunity opening in a timely manner, the poor quality of the opposition and, of course, luck. However, his practical ideas on leading in the 21st century apply across the board.

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SOFTEN-ing Improves Your Zen but Does NOT Diminish Your Authority

Leading Blog

Employees want to see those in leadership positions show calm under pressure, where moments of crisis or stress are met with more openness and creativity; where they can show different ways of handling and solving a problem - showing that theres another way forward, even when others cant see it.

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