Archive for the Leadership Category
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Great Quotes From Great Leaders by Peggy Anderson
Peggy Anderson has compiled a great tabletop book of inspirational quotes that is sure to be enjoyed by anyone that gets the pleasure to read through it. Great Quotes from Great Leaders is a wonderful book filled with photographs and quotes from the
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Coaching From the Heart by Ken Blanchard and Don Shula
If you show your team the proper way to win, does everyone win no matter what the outcome? This question is posed in Coaching from the Heart by Ken Blanchard and Don Shula and it is answered in the affirmative. In fact, it is more than just merely an
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The 10 Qualities of Charismatic People by Dr. Tony Alessandra
Many factors contribute to success in a person's life. The 10 Qualities of Charismatic People, written by Dr. Tony Alessandra, takes a unique approach to the subject by making his premise that successful and charismatic people are different from othe
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HR and Employee Relations Training For Employee Engagement
One common topic in employee relations training is how to increase employee engagement. If your company values employee engagement, the human resources department must work to create an engagement strategy using the resources available. With the righ
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Training in Project Management and Leadership
Project managers must face a variety of challenges in their day to day work. Project uncertainty is a given, but training in project management can help project managers better face and overcome these difficulties. Training in project management and
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Senior Leadership Team Conflict – Good or Bad?
The term "groupthink" was first used by Irving Janus in 1972 when he was researching why teams made excellent decisions one time, yet made disastrous decisions another time. The two most famous and widely used examples of groupthink that led to disas
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Manage the Task, Not the Person
In the early 1970's Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard developed one of the most popular and used leadership models which is called Situational Leadership. While I think a more appropriate name would have been situational management since it deals primari
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Leadership Lessons From the Chicago Blackhawks
There has been much written about the turnaround of the Chicago National Hockey League franchise - from being almost dead last in attendance to winning the Stanley Cup in June of 2010. In 2004, ESPN had named the Blackhawks the worst franchise in spo
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Learning Preferences and Developing Subordinates
A key role and responsibility of any manager is to develop those people who report to them. Often, when developing subordinates through delegation or training activities, managers may fail to take into account that each person has different learning
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A Players Manager
Bobby Cox, the manager of the Atlanta Braves baseball team, is retiring at the end of this season after 29 seasons as a manager. He is fourth on the all time list of wins by a manager. His teams in Atlanta won an unprecedented 14 straight division ti
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