To be clear, there are as many different leadership styles as there are people. Yes, lots of smart people have created models to define and describe basic leadership styles, and yet all of us bring our uniqueness to the equation too. Perhaps the simplest of leadership style models divides leaders into “people leaders” and “task

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There is much written about (and worth learning about) project planning and goal achievement. You can learn many strategies and approaches to help your projects be successful and your goals be reached. Seldom is today’s starting point discussed. Yet rightly, this starting point will make all of the tactics, tools, and approaches work better. In

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There are lots of things people become addicted to. I believe one of the most prevalent isn’t ever mentioned in the same breath with the addictions you thought of as you were reading the first sentence. Under-recognized, unspoken and without a support group, perhaps the biggest addiction that business people have is distractions. For example,

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John Wayne was one of the biggest film stars ever. And his legacy has been hindering leaders for a long time. Unwittingly, in many of his movies, John Wayne “proves” that you can succeed alone. All you need is the biggest will, the most stamina, and the fastest gun. John Wayne taught (well, perhaps reinforced)

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Today in 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier – going faster than any human had ever gone up until that point – about 768 miles per hour or a mile in five seconds. And it seems that since then speed has played a bigger part in all areas of our lives, including at work.

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By Richard Fagerlin Trust is a pervasive and important topic for all of us personally and professionally. I get asked to teach about it often, and I have worked hard to study it over the years. For those reasons and more, I wish I had written this book. The author takes an important topic and

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By Edgar H. Schein When one of my favorite management thinkers writes a new book, I am always curious – and Edgar Schein is on that short list for me. His book Process Consultation: Its Role in Organizational Development, played a big role in my development as a consultant, and his recent book Helping: How

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I’m a big believer in the power of relationships in leading others more effectively. After all, would you rather (and are you more likely to) follow someone you know and like, or someone you don’t? In part because of this belief, I have often used an exercise at the start of leadership training that I

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You can run, but you can’t hide. Actually, it is not (quite) true. There are leaders everywhere that are trying their best to hide every day, like ostriches burying their heads in the sand, when their team isn’t achieving what they could. Leaders who want to blame others, the economy or the market for their

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Does this title have you scratching your head? Are you thinking that innovation and structure are opposites?  Read on.  . . Ask most people what they think about when they consider creativity and innovation, and most likely “structure” and “process” won’t be on the list. Would they be on yours? Most of us think about

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