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Do You Love What You Do?

If you're putting in 60- to 80-hour workweeks, you'd better love what you do.READ»

Ivan Glickman
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The Leading Edge - Leadership Made Simple - the CTR Filter

Leadership is not all that complicated. If a leader inspires Confidence, engenders Trust and commands Respect, people will gladly follow. On the other hand if a leader triggers doubt, engenders distrust and elicits disrespect, ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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The Leading Edge - Stop talking, start listening

The more you want to talk, the more you need to listen. - Warren Bennis Recently I landed a wonderful new client. All I needed to do was remind myself of Warren’s directive above. Boy was that difficult. Along ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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October 28 - Live Webinar with World's Foremost Authority on Leadership

Sadly there is much more brightness (knowing what is brand new) and smartness (knowing what will sell) than there is wisdom (knowing what is important and what is worth fighting for and what is not) in the world.  If you want to ...READ»

Life/Work - Issue 39

"Taken together, the quadrants create a map of a complete life."READ»

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Off My Bookshelf II

In the newly revised edition of "On Becoming A Leader," leadership guru Warren Bennis says that there's still much to learn from the New Economy ideas that became popular in the 1990s. In a new introduction to the book, first ...READ»

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Nonsense At Work

Leaders should fail early How do you react to failure? Do you view it as the end of something or as the beginning of a new phase? Do you accept failure as something that has shrunk you in some way, possibly because it has ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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The Leading Edge - Instilling Confidence (Part 2)

A track record, my kingdom for a track record. In my last blog I spoke about leaders needing to engender trust, because when people trust they feel safe, lean towards you and are more willing to listen to you. When people don't ...READ»

The Secrets of Their Success - and Yours

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Readers' Choice: No Leading Without Reading

This month, we turn over Readers' Choice to three of our favorite leadership experts for their book recommendations on leadership and change.READ»

Fast Talk: The Mentor's Mentors

We asked top leaders about their mentors. What did they learn? What lessons do they still apply? What do they pass on to mentees of their own?READ»

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Courage... But Were Afraid to Ask.

We asked some of the world's foremost leadership thinkers 15 questions to get to the core of courage.READ»

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Thought Leaders: A Top 20 List

Who are the most influential business gurus? In a recent book, What's The Big Idea, a couple of authors rank the top 200 thought leaders in business by using a rather wacky methodology. They combined Google hits, media mentions, and ...READ»

Jerks at Work

A friend of mine called tonight to complain about her boss. As I listened, I agreed that her boss was completely out of line in calling her on the carpet in front of her colleagues. She felt terrible, she was in tears on the phone ...READ»

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The Consulting Cat Is out of the Bag

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Boss Management

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Ivan Glickman
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The Leading Edge - "Field of Leaders and Dream makers"

Leading is easy, the hard part is getting people to follow. - Yogi BerraREAD»

The Voice of Experience

What's the best strategy for making it through a bad patch? The answer comes from 12 experienced business leaders who have been there, seen it, and made it through -- old pros who speak with the voice of experience.READ»

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Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

Ivan Glickman
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The Leading Edge - Leadership Defined

Leadership is creating the possibility of a future that wasn't going to happen and then enrolling others into taking action to fulfill that future. - Ivan Rosenberg, CEO, Frontier Associates Through The ...READ»

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For Those Who Love Ideas

This month's letter from the editor.READ»

Ivan Glickman
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The Obama Way: From Transactional to Transformational

Management is about doing what can be seen and executing it well; Leadership is about envisioning what can’t be seen that spontaneously enrolls people to make it happen. - Ivan Rosenberg, CEO, Frontier Associates When America ...READ»

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Innovation For Beginners

In his classic 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that the people who achieve “fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have either been very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they ...READ»

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Innovation For Beginners

In his classic 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that the people who achieve “fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have either been very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they ...READ»

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The Leader's Edge in Tough Times

We are at one of those turning points in history where the kind of leaders we have and how they exercise that leadership are critical to the kind of world we will live in. Optimistic and positive leaders are needed, and the rest of us have a duty, not just to support them, but insist on that kind of leadership.READ»