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5 Keys To Delegating Well
Delegating well is key to success – it allows you to deliver on the truly big projects. Here are five ways to improve your delegation skills no matter what stage you’re at in your career.
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How To Run A Great Meeting
I want to share with you some of the ground rules that I use to successfully run meetings. There are three that I really find useful, particularly when I’m chairing the meeting.
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Leadership: Making Plays vs. Running Plays
A successful basketball coach was telling me about the difference between making plays and running plays, and how the best players do both. Sports teams have set plays – we’ve all heard the term “playbook” – and they practice them. These are about scoring. For the play to work during a game…
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Leaders: False and True
Team Leadership A basketball coach recently described one of the girls on her team as a “False Leader”. As it was a new term to...
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Leadership Lessons from Steve Jobs
Beyond the amazing innovations he has brought to our world, there are three lessons I have learned by observing Steve Jobs, the leader, from afar. And the good news is that these don’t require being an inventive genius to be useful.
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It’s About The Team
At today’s Varsity Sports Award ceremony at my daughters’ high school, I was heartened to see the next generation of leaders and reassured that, at least in a small corner of England, affirmative life lessons are being taught and learned. This is a sports program that is about more than simply winning. It is a…
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Why Like-Mindedness Is Limiting For Leaders
Career Advice We inherently like spending time with people who think like us, and maybe even act and look like us. It’s easy,...
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How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Year: 2011 I wasn’t sure what to expect from the YouTube video link that my daughter recently forwarded to me (“we watched this...
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Influence: Leaders Are Not Colorfast
Career Advice The people we surround ourselves with have a big influence on how we think and behave, as well as how we are...
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Leadership In Adversity
Life is complicated. Things don’t always go the way we expect, much less the way we want. Yet, it is often adversity that brings out our best leadership qualities.
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