Category: Leadership
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Leaders Share Life Stories
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It is graduation season, and leaders in all walks of life are commonly invited to share their life lessons at graduation ceremonies, inspiring future leaders of tomorrow. These leaders may include celebrities, entrepreneurs, political change-makers and more, all with stories and life lessons to share. Here’s an article from Teen Vogue that collects some of the most…
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Changing Leadership in the New Now
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2020 has been a crucible for leadership. The world faced a crisis, and workplaces and workforces were forced to adapt. Some leaders fared better than others, creating lessons for leadership in the “new now,” as we navigate a more hybrid future. Needed skills have shifted in three crucial ways: The need for communication shifted to…
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Lessons from Female Leaders
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There is a growing call for a more equal future with better representation of women as leaders. We rally around the need to eliminate or reduce obstacles in the way of women on their paths to leadership. Yet, in a recent article in Harvard Business Review and a compelling Ted Talk, psychologist and author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic accounts for…
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The Multiplier Effect
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Women in Leadership In our last blog post we reviewed where women stand in the quest for gender equity based on a Declaration and Platform for Action developed by the UN in 1995. Although the global community has a long way to go, there are bright spots, where innovative women “solutionaries” are pivoting not only to cope…
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Women’s Leadership – Where Do We Stand?
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September 2020 marked the 25th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace. There, 189 countries committed to equal rights and opportunities for all women and girls. In 1995, UN Women created a “Declaration and Platform for Action,” recognizing that the odds were systematically stacked against women and organized…
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Leadership 2.0
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Recently, Jim Collins, #1 bestselling author of Good to Great, talked to Inc. magazine on their podcast “What I Know” about meeting Steve Jobs and how he was a different leader when he came back to work for Apple a second time. The difference, said Collins, was, “(Jobs) never lost the passion for what he…
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Chasing Strengths
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What Really Matters in Effective Leadership The maxim may be true that you cannot lead others if you don’t understand yourself. However, leading only with a strengths-based focus can reveal character blind spots, which may cascade to organizational weaknesses. For example, a creative, big-picture thinker who cannot translate their vision into a realistic operating plan with specifics…
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Defining Leadership for Yourself
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According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of leadership encompasses: 1) the office or position of a leader; 2) capacity to lead; 3) the act or instance of leading; and 4) leaders. Leadership is personal and organizational. It can be demand-driven, purpose-driven, people-driven or all three. Leadership can be described differently by different people, depending on their vantage point.…