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Author :: Chris Stowell  |
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| Article Title :: Leadership Development for Success |
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| In today’s highly competitive world, there is a lot of pressure on leaders to create highly productive organizations. To be successful with this task, leaders will need all of the talent, skills, techniques, and experience they can muster through leadership development. The pressure to succeed can create a real dilemma: whether to “manage” people or to “lead” people. At CMOE, we maintain that in order to achieve high levels of employee engagement and morale, people in authority must learn how to show others the way, be a “lighthouse,” rather than to “railroad” people into compliance by telling, commanding, or controlling them. Respected leaders easily gain loyalty an (read full article) |
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: Chris Stowell |
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| Article Title :: Building Teams and Teamwork |
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| A tight knit team is a group of competent individuals who care deeply about each other and are fiercely committed to their mission. They are highly motivated to combining their energy and expertise to achieve the common objective. From our observation and studies on building teams, we have found three primary conditions that have to be met in order to attain higher levels of team performance and member satisfaction.
Resources and Commitment
Ownership and Heart
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: David Handler |
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| Article Title :: Wisdom From The Rock |
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| He grew up in Brooklyn, the son of an ex-con father and with a Mob-connected uncle who earned a living as a loan-shark. He credits his father continually saying, “Never lie, never steal,” as an influence in his making a better career choice. After getting a law degree, he became a U.S. Attorney, prosecuting organized crime and Wall Street inside traders. Of 4,152 convictions he attained, only 25 were reversed.During two terms as mayor of New York City, he achieved many major victories including reducing crime, spurring economic recovery and advancing education. While critics frequently accused him of being too aggressive, he charged ahead. Then, in the days following September (read full article) |
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: David Handler |
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| Article Title :: Miraculous Leadership |
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| It was a time of turmoil. In November 1979, supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini took 71 Americans hostage in Iran. On Christmas Eve that year, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Gasoline prices, inflation and interest rates were soaring as 1980 began. President Jimmy Carter said America was in a “crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.”Then on February 22nd – 25 years ago – our American spirit received an unexpected boost. A group of U.S. amateur and college athletes took on the mightiest hockey team in the world in the Winter Olympics. Prior to the game against Russia, coach Herb Brooks told his team: "You were born to be hockey (read full article) |
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: Mike Shannon |
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| Article Title :: Are You a Leader or a Manager? |
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| President Ike Eisenhower once demonstrated the difference between leadership and management to his cabinet by putting a piece of string in a straight line on the conference table. He then asked one of the attendees to put his finger on one end of the string and push it. The string, of course, bunched up in an ugly bundle. He then asked the man to pull the string with his finger on one end. The string straightened up in a nice neat line and followed the finger across the table. “This”, said Ike “is the difference between managing and leading.”I love this visual example and use it often. Managing people is often pushing them to do what you want them to do. People resis (read full article) |
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: Barbara White |
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| Article Title :: A Good Leader Knows The Team's Colours |
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| Leadership can be a very challenging task. As leaders we don’t always get to choose who is on our team. In fact very often a leader inherits a team, of which most of the members have been there far longer than the leader, and may even know more about the work than the leader. Whatever the situation, one of the responsibilities of a leader is to motivate the team to all work together towards the common goal. This can be a daunting challenge. So often the team is comprised of very diverse members, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and work styles. The team dynamics are also often complicated by internal disagreements and personal conflicts. The leader, not only has work with this (read full article) |
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: Karin Syren |
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| Article Title :: Ten Qualities Of A Great Leader - Plus 1 |
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| Great Leaders are optimists first and foremost. Their tendency is to interact according to Henry Ford's observation, "whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right." Because the buck must stop somewhere and because the dynamic of authority dictates that all delegated authorities are themselves subject to authority, they understand that being a leader is far more than a title. The ten qualities listed herein are based on these assumptions and are just the beginning of developing the character of a great leader. Here's to a great beginning!1. Great Leaders are mission inclined and ensure the survival of the vision. By making certain that the principles of that vis (read full article) |
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: Barbara White |
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| Article Title :: What Kind of Leader Are You |
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| You are a leader if someone is following you. This could be as simple as one person watching you and following your example and encouragement, to being a leader in your home, your community, your workplace or even your nation. Leadership can take many forms, but typically it often involves managing people- one of the most difficult of all tasks. It means coordinating and motivating the actions of others to achieve a common goal. A leader has to establish that goal, and gain the willing agreement of others to be governed by and work together towards that goal.The style of leadership taken by any leader is usually predetermined by the personality and motivational values of that perso (read full article) |
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: Rosemary Johnston |
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| Article Title :: What Does Exceptional Business Success Require of Us? |
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| To excel in business we need conscious command of all our faculties, mind, body and heart to ensure our work/life balance. Then we can seize the moment of opportunity and create exceptional results.Western business schools us in our physical and mental aspects of business. We learn the requirements for:1. Great processes to deliver complex team results, and,2. Great strategies to out perform the competition and deliver to our client’s expectations and beyond.In contrast, Eastern business schools us in the discipline of our heart and physicality, to remain committed and involved to the outcome of the project, regardless of the distractions.The image (read full article) |
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| Category :: Leadership Articles |
Author :: Daniel Sitter |
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| Article Title :: Real Charisma, Clinton Style |
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| What exactly is Charisma? Most would agree that it is a magical, illusive, personal quality, divinely endowed on some people more than others. One thing is for certain, it is more easily identified than defined. It is the secret to being liked and agreed with by others. It is the much sought-after quality that causes people to envy others because of their congeniality and ease at which they interact with people. Charisma, like many other character traits, may be gifted more to some, but regardless of your given level, charisma, like any other skill, can be further developed.It is officially defined as "an unusual ability to influence people and arouse devotion" and "a personal attr (read full article) |
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