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Create Connections

BY Mark Goulston
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Communication is key to getting the results you want. Do you connect with people or do you push them away?READ»

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Leadership: What's Your Purpose?

BY John Baldoni
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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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Video: When Things Get Tough, Loosen Up

BY John Baldoni
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Tough times call for tough actions. So, ease up on your team. That's right, dispel tension and help your people focus on work, not distractions. John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership development consultant, ...READ»

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Leadership: Fresh Eyes Approach

BY John Baldoni
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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
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“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
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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
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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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Act with the Big Picture in Mind

BY John Baldoni
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Putting your ideas into action is the mark of a successful manager in the middle.READ»

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Leadership: Trust Matters

BY John Baldoni
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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: Kick Back and Relax

BY John Baldoni
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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: Watching "The War"

BY John Baldoni
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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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What Executives Can Learn From Fastball Pitchers

BY John Baldoni
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What happens when your greatest gift becomes a source of your greatest liability?READ»

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Replacing a Missing Star

BY John Baldoni
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Sometimes if you scratch beneath the surface of a good team, you may find that team performance depends upon the efforts of one or two high achievers. That may be okay for the short term but what happens when one or two of those ...READ»

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Behaving Better for the Good of All

BY John Baldoni
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"Which corporate leaders do you admire?" was a question posed to me during a break during a leadership workshop I was conducting. In years past I would have rattled off a list of the "usual suspects" of familiar names with folks ...READ»

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

BY John Baldoni
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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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Re-Engineering a Leader's Value

BY John Baldoni
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Just as companies seek to re-engineer the value propositions of their products, managers should consider doing the same. Companies do it by adjusting the features, benefits and pricing of their offerings; managers do it by ...READ»

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What It Means to Lead Your Boss

BY John Baldoni
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The real strength and resilience, not to mention creativity and energy, of an organization lies with the people who make things work. So now is a time for those in middle management to consider ways to help their organizations succeed in these troubled times. We call this "leading up."READ»

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Tenacity and Gratitude: Virtues Only Exist When You Exercise Them

BY John Baldoni
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In an interview on NPR's "Here & Now," actor Henry Winkler revealed two principles that guide his life: tenacity and gratitude. As an actor, Winkler has known his share of ups and downs. Not only should gratitude and tenacity hold actors in good stead, they are principles for anyone in the workforce to remember.READ»

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Leadership: Our Better Nature

BY John Baldoni
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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: Dealing with What You Don't Know

BY John Baldoni
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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: Heads Up on Coaching

BY John Baldoni
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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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How to motivate employees: What do we know?

BY Ray Williams
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How many management articles, books, speeches and workshops have pleaded plaintively, "How do I get employees to do what I want Motivating people to do their best work, consistently, has been an enduring challenge for executives and managers. Even understanding what constitutes human motivation has been a centuries old puzzle, addressed as far back as Aristotle.READ»

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President as COO: In Your Face Execution

BY John Baldoni
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“He’ll sit [in the Oval Office], and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that!’ And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.” That sentiment expressed by Harry ...READ»

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Leadership: Are You Ready to Stand and Deliver?

BY John Baldoni
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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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Video: How to Bounce Back From Adversity

BY John Baldoni
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How a leader bounces back from adversity requires resilience. The resiliency of a leader is important to leading up. John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership development consultant, executive coach, author, and ...READ»

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