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Leadership is motivational or it's stumbling in the dark. The
best leaders don't order people to do a job, the best leaders
motivate people to want to do the job.
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I was talking with first-line supervisors in a utility company
about how to deal with poor performing employees.
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Summary: All leaders have to deal with conflict. The author
cites three essentials you must adhere to in your dealings and
describes a powerful leadership tool that will help you manifest
those essentials.
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The ancient Greeks had a saying: "When Aschines speaks, the
people say, 'How well he speaks,' but when Demosthenes speaks, the
people say, 'Let's march against Philip!'".
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Summary: The author contends that leaders get truly great
results not when they have power over people by making things
happen but when they have power WITH people by letting things
happen. He gives three specific ways to achieve this.
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Leaders live and die by results. For almost a quarter of a
century, I've been teaching leaders of all ranks and functions
worldwide to achieve not just average results but "more results
faster continually." And "continually" is maybe the most important
factor.
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The Leader's Fallacy lives! We subscribe to the Fallacy when we
believe our enthusiasm with a particular leadership challenge is
automatically reciprocated by the people we lead.
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Summary: The author asserts that most organizations have a great
deal of value locked away and thus unused. Through misguided
leadership, they neglect to tap the deep reservoirs of their
members' motivation, talents and skills. Here is a surprisingly
simple and powerful way to make unlock that value both on an
organizational level and personal level.
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Summary: The author draws a lesson from a classic radio skit to
show leaders how they might raise their activities to new levels of
awareness and commitment.
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Summary: The global economy has been a fact of life for decades
now. But the author asserts that most leaders don't understand the
right kind of leadership to propel those organizations to great
global success. Here is a blue print on how to make your leadership
truly effective on an international basis.