Leadership Articles by Don Blohowiak

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Know someone with breast cancer? Modeling Values   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. The ... Full Text

Becoming Your Best Self Inner Leadership   Most of us have an image in our mind of the person we'd really like to become. How can you actually become the person you want to be? Here's an amazingly powerful technique that you can put to work for yourself. It requires but five easy-to-implement steps. Full Text

Potent "Must Read" on Power Maximizing Own Effectiveness   Power affects all relationships in a way that is, arguably, either underestimated or misunderstood. Or both.  So a book that takes a fresh-eyed view of personal power is a welcome addition to understanding the complexities that underlie all human relationships, and can make a profound difference in the life of every leader (and everyone you know). Full Text

Social Entrepreneurs to the Rescue Leader's Library   Many people are ready to roll up their sleeves and dig in to fix, or at least substantially address, the very difficult problems that evade governments and established institutions alike. Some folks, author David Bornstein shows us, are doing that already all over the world. Full Text

Thou Shalt Heed & Honor Ancient Lessons Leader's Library   "The Bible," leadership development consultant Lorin Woolfe contends, is the "greatest collection of leadership case studies ever written." He postulates that Biblical tales provide modern managers with "tremendously useful and insightful lessons," because these ancient stories "form some of the major archetypes of our collective consciousness." Can modern managers lead better today by looking back thousands of years? Full Text

Serving Purpose Perspectives on Leadership   A popular notion of leadership is very wrong. Leaders are not the sum of ideal traits; they are neither born nor made. Leaders emerge. And they emerge because of one critical, driving factor... Full Text

Humility Aside, Here's Food for Thought Leader's Library   Part memoir, part social commentary, part company case study, the book Authentic Leadership is Bill George's wide angle take on, and prescription for, the current state of corporate leadership. Full Text

Manifesto for a Revolution Leader's Library   The feelings of your employees influence the feelings of your customers, and that drives their buying behavior and your profits. How do you make that happen? The Gallup Organization has some intriguing ideas for you. Full Text

Engage—and Keep—Your Employees Leader's Library   Veteran consultants Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans wrote a handy, very practical, advisor for pressured, task-based (and, yes, even gruff) managers who are too consumed to always remember—but who know down deep—that people, the engaged and motivated variety, really do make the difference in producing great results. Full Text

Got Volunteers? Encouraging & Developing Others   If your organization depends on volunteers to lead and do work, you might be interested in sharing your experiences and receiving a report on Volunteer Best Practices. Participate in a confidential survey on attracting, motivating and keeping volunteers. It originated with some of our volunte... Full Text

Book = Fresh Look at Business Success Leader's Library   A review of: The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continually Developing a More Profitable Business Model by Donald Mitchell and Carol Coles Some wag, a few years ago, audaciously claimed that there really was no such thing as a "business model." It is probably true that many busines... Full Text

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