As corporate leaders explore how to elevate the effectiveness and professional excellence of their working teams, there is a lot to be learned from Special Ops.
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Monday, February 29, 2016
7 Tough Leadership Lessons From A Navy SEAL Commander
As corporate leaders explore how to elevate the effectiveness and professional excellence of their working teams, there is a lot to be learned from Special Ops.
Warren Buffett’s Leadership Lessons
Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway brk.a shareholders, released last Saturday, is scrutinized worldwide for economic and investing insights. Understandably so; in 2015 Berkshire had, guess what, another knockout year.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
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1:54 PM ESTWhy Setting Goals Is Overrated Here's how to really keep work exciting.
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10 New Truths Great Leaders Know That Most People Don't
Like any other field, leadership goes through trends and changes--and if you want to be successful, you need to stay on top of them. Old-school leadership is just that, and what we do today is very different.
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Saturday, February 27, 2016
Friday, February 26, 2016
Tim Cook and Marissa Mayer Head into Battle
-Apple CEO Tim Cook vs. the FBI and director James Comey. Apple filed court papers on Thursday in its escalating fight with the FBI over opening a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone.
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75 Inspiring Motivational Quotes on Leadership
Leadership is lonely. No matter how big your team, sometimes it's just you--which means you sometimes need to look inside yourself for motivation and inspiration. Or you can find personal inspiration from someone who has been there, done that...and done it well.
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Is Your Leadership Showing?
Most members of a team know when they’re doing their work well. They often have a particular area of expertise, and they have deadlines and deliverables. For leaders, it’s a bit different. How do you show that you’re leading? Here are five competencies that good leaders demonstrate.
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4 Ways to Measure Your Leadership Skills
Can leadership qualities be measured? It turns out the answer is yes. Robert Mann, author of "The Measure of a Leader," has spent the last 43 years developing leadership appraisal tools.
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
25 Unique Leadership Quotes to Inspire and Motivate
In an age when a high-profile CEO operates with secrecy and dishonesty, and a global retail giant is accused of firing people because they got cancer or miscarried (according to last year's brutal report in The New York Times), inspiration for a quote list must be pumped from a different water well.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
When a bitter civil war tore Liberia apart over a decade ago, Sirleaf helped mend the country, a remarkable feat of leadership that earned her the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
As a leader, is it better to be feared or loved?
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5 Leadership Lessons From Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
From high school dropout to founder of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey’s career path has been a wild ride. Along the way, he’s developed a unique management style.
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Powerful Leadership: Do Unto Others As They Would Want Done BY Dave Kerpen
This past week, I pissed off a major business partner. I can't get into all the details, but, in essence, I added my own sales force to my product his team had been selling. I truly thought he would be thrilled to have more support selling the product.
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Leadership Tips: 6 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself Daily
Intelligent and successful leaders all do one thing better than anyone else. They are constantly asking themselves questions to stay relevant and insightful.
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How to Convert Your Tiny Startup into a Larger Business
The goal of a startup is to not be a startup forever. No startup wants to be a startup forever. Sure, its founders may want to have the same hustle, drive, determination, and innovation throughout its existence, but no one longs to stay stuck in the cash-strapped infantile stage of startup forever.
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7 Signs You May Be Ready for a Big Career Change
What can I do if I am so frustrated with my salary that I have lost all motivation to work? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge-sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
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What's Your Story? How Personal Narratives Impact Leadership BY Robert S. Kaplan
Everyone has a success story and a failure story. Which is in your mind when you're making a big decision? Each of us has a life story. In fact, we have several stories. We have a "success story.
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8 Leadership Attributes That Make Employees Go the Extra Mile
I like to call a certain typical leadership style "shock and awe." You know, managers who deploy yelling, profanity and arms that turn like windmills to motivate employees.
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The Wrath of a Great Leader BY Hitendra Wadhwa @hitendraw
LEADERSHIP FORUM How Martin Luther King, Jr. wrestled with anger and what you can learn from his example. Advertisement Average leaders focus on results, and that's it. Good leaders focus also on the behaviors that will get the results.
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Excel at What Does Not Come Naturally: 7 Ways to Lead Better
It may seem counterintuitive, but you don't only want to lead with your strengths. Here's why and what you can do about it. People often ask me, "How can I become a great leader?" I usually put the ball back in their court.
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13 Leadership Tips That Lead to Fast Growth
Professor Christopher McCusker of the Freeman School of Business MBA program (Tulane University) is leading a dynamic class to identify successful business leadership techniques. Dr.
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Leadership Without Presumption: Lessons From Eisenhower
LEAD Intellectuals scoffed at Eisenhower during his time in office. Now his leadership style seems like genius. Advertisement During World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower took a cruise around the Isle of Capri. On seeing a large villa, he asked about it and learned that it was to be his quarters.
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10 Tips and Quotes From the Best Leadership Books of the Year
Leadership is not about who you know, or why you know it, or how much you are paid to lead. It's often about what you know and how you apply that knowledge.
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How to Create a Leadership Development Program
What kind of magic does the Walt Disney Company use to keep its large and sprawling staff of smiley, friendly, and competent workers all on the same page ... and keep them all smiling? Contrary to popular belief, it's not the pixie dust.
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3 Leadership Skills That Trump All Others
The first job I accepted after college was with a large home builder in Phoenix. In my first year, the company had been taken private, carved up, and the pieces sold off. During this span of time, I worked for three different companies all while sitting at the same desk.
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Lesson 1: What Makes a Leader?
Students will identify characteristics of leadership by researching the lives of great American leaders. DIRECTIONSWarm-up Today we will be studying great American leaders. As a class, create a list of American leaders from the last century.
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The education of Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
How the home-sharing site’s co-founder hacked leadership and taught himself to be a world-class CEO. Brian Chesky is drawing intently on a napkin. We’re sitting in the President’s Room at Airbnb’s airy, ultra-chic headquarters in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco.
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Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
The government has been placed in an awkward position. It's part of a push to stop companies from avoiding taxes.
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World's Most Admired Companies
The Most Admired list is the definitive report card on corporate reputations. Our survey partners at Korn Ferry Hay Group started with approximately 1,500 companies: the Fortune 1,000—the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue—and non-U.S.
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The 9 Traits That Define Great Leadership
Many leaders are competent, but few qualify as remarkable. If you want to join the ranks of the best of the best, make sure you embody all these qualities all the time. It isn't easy, but the rewards can be truly phenomenal. 1.
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