Archive for Category: Leadership

How well-trained are your Middle Managers?

When it comes to leadership development, many middle managers get left behind. Companies invest in training their new employees to be good employees and they train their executives to be better leaders, but they don’t spend much effort or dollars developing the group that needs it the most. Often,...

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How Successful Leaders Deal with Failure

Everyone fails at some point in his or her career. It happens to even the most successful leaders. Apple fired Steve Jobs. Western Union fired Thomas Edison for secretly conducting experiments in his office. Walt Disney’s newspaper editor told him he wasn’t creative enough and then fired him. A...

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Ways to Assess Yourself and Grow as a Leader

Effective leadership is also self-aware leadership. If you’ve held leadership positions during your career, you know there are times when your approach resonates with those following you and times when they don’t. Or do you? The ability to self-assess will help you see when your leadership resonates with others...

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The Value of The Question

Often times asking a provoking question can serve as a greater catalyst of innovation than providing the right answer. The right question can be a disruptive agent, cutting through years of complacency to redirect a team or a company’s focus. It serves as a pointer, aiming us in the...

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