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Leadership: What's Your Purpose?

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 87
Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 11:23 AM

Two conversations got me thinking: do we know what we’re doing and why we do it? One conversation was with a senior leader in large company; another was with a friend who runs his own business. Both are highly competent and ...READ»

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Leadership: Fresh Eyes Approach

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 72
Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM

Some time ago I listened to a national sales manager exhorting his sales team to take critical look at the appearance of facilities within their franchise network. While some facilities were in tip-top shape; others were sub-par. ...READ»

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Managing with a Leadership Edge

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 66
Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 8:26 PM

“We’re all becoming managers now.” So read the headline reporting the findings of a new study conducted by The Work Foundation in Britain and reported by Nic Patton of Management Issues News The study concludes that ...READ»

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Leadership: Make It Positively So

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 57
Wed Jul 11, 2007 at 1:00 PM

Think positively! That’s the mantra of a new book on executive coaching, Appreciative Coaching. But more than thinking, the authors provide a roadmap for how to envision your future and then make it happen. Based on principles of ...READ»

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Leadership: Watch for Reactions

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 53
Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 9:47 AM

The other day while watching the making of a short video comedy, I noticed how the director made time to get reaction shots from key members of the cast. Anyone who knows comedy knows that what is often funniest, particularly on ...READ»

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Leadership: Trust Matters

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 47
Wed Oct 3, 2007 at 1:00 PM

Let’s say you are the manager of a department that includes one hundred people, including supervisors and employees. How many of those people would you suspect are loyal, that is planning on sticking with the company? 34! How many ...READ»

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Leadership: Watching "The War"

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 1:00 PM

There was a time when I was growing up in the early Sixties when it seemed that every dad I knew had fought in “the War.” Viewed from the point of view of a child who squeezed in games of “war” between games of baseball and ...READ»

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Leadership: Kick Back and Relax

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 1:30 PM

The ability to relax! That’s what presidential historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, advises as a necessary attribute of presidential leadership. Kearns, who consults for NBC and was speaking on Tim Russert’s CNBC show, presented a ...READ»

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Leadership: Less Buzz, More Results When It Comes to Employee Engagement

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 41
Wed Oct 17, 2007 at 1:00 PM

You want your employees engaged in their work? Absolutely! And because they are engaged your company will achieve its intended results? Not exactly! “Intuitively most managers know that that it’s better to have engaged ...READ»

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Leadership: Heads Up on Coaching

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Nov 21, 2007 at 9:15 AM

The need for executive coaching is booming. One reason for the boom is the increased emphasis on succession planning. More and more senior leaders are looking for replacements, not simply for themselves but for key levels throughout ...READ»

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Leadership: Dealing with What You Don't Know

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 33
Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 1:00 PM

How do you lead when you don’t know all the facts? That’s a question that Don Vandergriff and George Reed explore in a thought-provoking new article “Old Dogs and New Tricks: Setting the Tone for Adaptability,” published in ...READ»

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Leadership: Our Better Nature

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 33
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:53 AM

We like him because he makes us feel good about ourselves. And we dislike her because she makes us feel inferior. That’s an assessment from political pundit, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, about why people like Barack Obama and dislike ...READ»

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Leadership: Are You Ready to Stand and Deliver?

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 32
Wed Nov 7, 2007 at 10:06 AM

Tremble. You have a big presentation to make. Tremble. Tremble. You are not exactly sure of what you will say or how you will say it. Tremble. Tremble. Tremble. You freeze up whenever you have to speak in public. Don’t panic! ...READ»

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Questions for the Next Leader

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 31
Wed Mar 28, 2007 at 11:14 AM

When corporate leaders fall, they tend to fall hard. One moment they are riding in the company Gulfstream, the next moment they are flying coach. I had one former CEO tell me that the perk he missed the most was the corporate jet. ...READ»

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Recognition Makes Dollars and Sense

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 31
Wed May 2, 2007 at 11:00 AM

First, a disclaimer. I subscribe to the leadership philosophy that says leaders create conditions for people to succeed. Leaders need to show support for their people. Recognition for a job well done is a leadership mandate. Sounds ...READ»

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Bottom-line: Culture Matters

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 31
Wed Feb 14, 2007 at 10:33 AM

Want to improve your bottom line along with your sales growth and shareholder value? Pay attention to the culture within your organization. A new study, conducted by Denison Consulting, shows that “firms with lower ...READ»

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Leadership: Lessons from Scooterville

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 27
Wed Jul 4, 2007 at 1:00 PM

The presidential commutation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison sentence raises some curious questions about leadership. Namely, is it politics or is it principle? On the side of politics, we have a president who has built a ...READ»

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Leadership: Lesson from Appalachian State

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 26
Wed Sep 5, 2007 at 1:00 PM

I was there. In section 12, row 67 for the biggest upset in collegiate football history. A Division 1-AA school, Appalachian State, beat the No. 5 ranked team, Michigan, in the nation. One for the ages certainly, but also one to ...READ»

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Leadership: Ambition--Vice or Virtue?

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 26
Wed Jun 6, 2007 at 11:41 AM

A pair of new books on Senator Hillary Clinton, as described by the Washington Post, draw a portrait of a woman who is smart, shrewd and very “methodical.” Both books, one by Carl Bernstein (Her Way) and the other by Jeff Gerth ...READ»

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Faithful Follower, but No Leader

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 25
Wed May 16, 2007 at 2:00 PM

Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, is a nice man. Even his sharpest critics compliment him on his friendly demeanor. He is also a man of accomplishment; he rose from humble beginnings to graduate from Harvard ...READ»

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Conflict Brewing

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 25
Thu Jan 18, 2007 at 2:39 PM

“Myth: Most conflicts resolve themselves over time.” Uh-huh! And pigs can fly, too! Put another way, “Unlike fine wine, conflicts that are left alone rarely improve with age.” So write Eric Harvey and Steve Ventura in When ...READ»

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Cubicle Coaching

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 25
Wed Apr 11, 2007 at 1:00 PM

Faced with a challenging issue in your workplace and need some good advice? The person who can help you best may be someone you already know well. Peer coaching is process by which colleagues offer each other advice about issues ...READ»

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Apologize? Who me?

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 24
Wed Feb 21, 2007 at 10:00 AM

You decide which apologist gets it right. One said, “Yes, I regret it. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said I hate gay people…” The other said, “I’m ready to bear all responsibility for what happened. You can’t hurt me ...READ»

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Leadership: When to Say Good-Bye

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 24
Wed Nov 28, 2007 at 10:24 AM

Tens of millions of Baby Boomers will be retiring over the next decade. Organizations are working diligently to plan for their replacements as leaders as well as hiring new recruits to fill new positions that open up due to ...READ»

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Leadership: No One-Hit Wonders Need Apply

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 24
Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 1:00 PM

“What would have really pissed me off is if Jeff had said, ‘We’re just one hit away.’ He never said that…” That is Jeff Immelt talking about another Jeff -- Zucker of NBC Universal. “[Zucker] took all the right ...READ»

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