Leadership is defined as an act or instance of leading; guidance; or direction.  This is such a vague statement; where to begin? If you want to be a good leader and practice good, effective leadership development and leadership skills, what should you focus on? I am going to give you my basic 3 components of

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This is the seventh in our series of guest posts from our ten Best of Leadership Blogs competition finalists (cast your vote here) Michael McKinney is the individual behind Leading Blog, a leadership blog run through LeadershipNow. He is constantly presenting new ideas on how to think about leadership differently. He is a firm believer

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All month we have been featuring the bloggers nominated for the Best Leadership Blog of 2009.  (If you haven’t yet voted, why not?) While you can learn more about each of these smart folks through their blogs, and communicate with them through comments, Twitter provides you with another level of interaction with these smart folks.

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Below is a popular YouTube video, which shows a leader, taking action (even if it is a kinda goofy action), and through his passion and example, creating followers.  To get the full effect, watch the full video, but at a minimum watch at least past the one minute mark. Is this guy exhibiting executive leadership

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This is the fifth blog post of a series of guest posts from the ten bloggers nominated for Best Leadership Blog of 2009 (cast your vote here) Seth Godin is referred to as “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by Business Week. On top of being a marketing expert, Seth is also a renowned

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This is another in our series of blog posts by the nominees for the Best Leadership Blog of 2009 (you can see the list and place your vote here.)  In addition to being an executive coach, Scott is also a speaker and author. In his book The Next Level: What Insiders know about Executive Success,

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This is the third of a series of guest posts from the ten bloggers nominated for Best Leadership Blog of 2009 (place your vote here) John Bishop is a person who never fails to bring forth discussions and insights that are not only thought-provoking, but informational and inspirational also. An evidence to this is his

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This is the second in our series of guest posts from the ten bloggers nominated for Best Leadership Blog of 2009. (please vote for your pick now). With over 20 years of experience in the field of leadership development, Dan is no stranger to providing insights into leadership and helping others succeed personally as well as

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A lesson that we all tend to forget and overlook in regards to leadership: You don’t always have to follow what people did before you. That should be simple right? But if you look at some examples, lots of people tend to follow in the footsteps of those before them. So maybe it’s not so

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This is the third year in a row we have asked this question – What is the best leadership blog in the world?. But rather than to just ask the question and answer it ourselves, we searched for the best, asked colleagues and others for the best and compiled a list. This year 40 blogs

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