Great leaders are hard to come by. Defining what makes great leaders great is even harder. However, there are a few fundamental ways to improve your leadership skills and lead like a boss. 1. Start with your Superpowers The best leaders are those that people are naturally drawn to. A great leader might be charismatic,…
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Held as a prisoner of war for nearly 8 years, Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale was the senior ranking American officer at the “Hanoi Hilton,” the nickname for the North Vietnamese prison camp holding American prisoners of war (POW) from April 1965 to February 1973. During his time as a POW, Stockdale was regarded for…
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I recently saw a meme that wonderfully summed up the concept of a toxic corporate culture: How do you feel on Sunday night about going to work on Monday? It’s such a visceral question. When you think about corporate culture, it can seem like such a broad topic. But it really comes down to this–how…
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Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.
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There you are, just sitting in the conference room minding your own business and waiting for the meeting to start. Then in it comes—a gray 10,000-pound trunk-swinging monstrosity. To your dismay, it plants itself firmly in the center of the room. The meeting begins as expected, but everyone’s attention is drawn to the unwelcome centerpiece….
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If you are an emotionally intelligent manager, you work hard to have good relationships with your direct reports and are rewarded by your employer for doing so. You pick up on the moods of your people, and you’ve mastered the art of using your team’s collective feelings—both the sour and the irrationally exuberant—to create positive…
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, clearly among the greatest leaders of our time, had different childhoods, different experiences, different struggles, and different goals. Yet both had a transformational impact upon those around them. What sets these two men apart as leaders? Transformational leadership. Unlike the traditional, dogmatic transactional leader or the hands-off…
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One of the most popular Dilbert comic strips in the cartoon’s history begins with Dilbert’s boss relaying senior leadership’s explanation for the company’s low profits. In response to his boss, Dilbert asks incredulously, “So they’re saying that profits went up because of great leadership and down because of a weak economy?” To which Dilbert’s boss…
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One of the most popular Dilbert comic strips in the cartoon’s history begins with Dilbert’s boss relaying senior leadership’s explanation for the company’s low profits.
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If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likeable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of
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