These articles about leadership improvement are offered to you at no charge. They were written by Don Blohowiak of the Lead Well Institute which specializes in custom leadership development.
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To make firing a substandard performer as swift, clean, and painless for everyone involved, be sure to follow these ten steps. |
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When group conflict becomes too intense to either ignore or work out casually, a more formal approach is required. Here's a simple seven-step process you can use with your team. |
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You know what a monopoly is. How about a monopsony? Listen to the audio for today's Word of the Day. |
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In a stalled but still fiercely competitive economy, organizations need to turn on the innovation spigot for a flood of business creativity -- by everyone on the payroll. In answering that call to arms, Professors Alan G. Robinson & Dean M. Schroeder offer some worthwhile and occasionally surprising and compelling contributions in their new book Ideas Are Free. |
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If you have passion for your occupation, great! At the same time, if you don't you are not defective. |
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Sticking to a course that is no longer relevant in today's world for the sake of consistency, or the appearance of commitment, is no virtue. Expect to experience -- and make -- shifts in direction, changes of heart, and even dramatic 180-degree turns. |
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Many conversations and meetings turn counterproductive, even ugly, because they are not-so-subtle contests of power and will. The focus is on winning instead of learning. And that is a choice you make. |
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Your view of the world -- and your perception of your place within it -- inevitably colors your entire experience. To maximize your experience, choose your perspective. |
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Sometimes we try to ignore a deteriorating situation. Or tell ourselves that we'll get around to dealing with a quietly nagging problem "someday." But most things don't improve through neglect. |
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No matter when your organization goes through its budgeting cycle, bear this vital principle in mind: Budgets communicate. |
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While there is already a bountiful harvest of materials covering the strategy landscape, retired Air Force Major General William A. Cohen, Ph.D., has made a valuable, highly readable, and practical addition to the strategist's arsenal. |
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Involved in a major change effort? This book, that challenges the change cliches, might help. |
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In place of accounting’s precision, or manufacturing’s consistency, strategy and its operational counterpart marketing are awash in a sea of widely held but misguided truisms that may hold the seeds of a company's destruction. |
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Some days in the office I all but shut down into a catatonic state, barely going through the motions of work. Other days, I attack the pile with joyous fury, expediting more work in a couple of hours than what I accomplish in an average week. Why is that? |
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When describing our capabilities, we almost always follow "strengths" with "weaknesses." But those descriptors don't have to track that way. And shouldn't. |
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To live is to be in conflict. Here's how to deal directly with conflict for better results. |
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To be effective you need to stay healthy. But being pressed for time certainly tempts one to tempt fate... |
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Introversion, modern medical and social researchers confirm, is a temperament, not a pathology. Here are ideas on how you can relate better to your more reserved colleagues. |
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Unless you have some divine form of telepathy, it's highly unlikely that you can accurately determine why someone -- even you -- is behaving as they do. Assuming intentions can lead you down the wrong path. |
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Competent, even very powerful, people sometimes withdraw from their responsibility to stand up, speak up, and tell truth to power. And nothing good comes from that. |
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A career path in today's world is increasingly circuitous, bumpy, and unpredictable. But you can still navigate to a good place for you. |
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The trite "think outside the box" commandment confuses many people. If you're looking for fresh thinking, there's a better way to get it. |
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So much business literature is mind-numbingly and illogically recursive, suggesting that breakthroughs for your business will stem from imitating the techniques of other business people. In his new book, consultant and coach Dick Richards provides lessons from leaders operating outside of corporations: in not-for-profits, the arts, sports, religion, education, government... Leaders succeed, he suggests, when they secure follower commitment by working on, if not mastering, ten competencies in four interrelated domains... |
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Denying uncomfortable aspects of your life can have terrible consequences. Problems denied are problems not addressed. Not solved. They are problems that will fester and likely worsen. To avoid this trap, ask yourself one of the most powerful questions you'll ever encounter... |
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In today's communication-clogged environment, one-way disseminations -- regardless of their merit -- reach blinder eyes and deafer ears. So how do you "get your message out"? |
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Breast cancer patients and their loved ones are invited to share their experiences and perspectives as part of the research for a forthcoming book: The Guy's Guide to Female Breast Cancer: A Practical Manual for the Husband, Lover, Father, Brother, Son or Friend of a Woman with Breast Cancer.
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