Articles of Faith: Leaders Take Responsibility

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Tom Atema

—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. See the whole series here. Published only on Sundays. —————————————————————————– Everyone is a leader… No matter if you are a one day-old or 121-years young, you have influence over someone else. So everyone is in [...]

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Securing Your Legacy

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Jennifer Werth

The mark of a great leader is the legacy one leaves behind. How your company survives and recovers from your absence is a tribute to your leadership. What’s your exit strategy?

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Leadership Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Ken Jacobs

Leaders can significantly improve their skills by having outside hobbies, passions and pursuits. It helps them channel their energies, frustrations and passions into something else other than organizational effectiveness. It can also help them learn a thing or two… Business leader Carol Cone of Cone, Inc., a leader in cause-related branding programs is also a champion in the [...]

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The Truly Situational Leader

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Scott Archibald

I believe that truly great leaders are timeless and can lead in any situation. However, most leaders are situational leaders, and by that I mean that they can lead in certain situations perhaps because of some situational knowledge or some other quality that they posses.  Unfortunately, when leaders do a good job in a certain situations [...]

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Pride: The Silent Leadership Assasin

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Bryan Stewart

Pride is a powerful foe. Even the best leaders can easily fall victim to this silent assassin if they are are not vigilant. How often have we seen leaders fall from places of significance and influence to places of disgrace? It seems like a regular occurrence that we hear about a leader who comes crashing [...]

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“Thing” or a Person?

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Eleanor Biddulph

I may be dating myself with this question, but remember the TV show, “The Addams Family?” One of the “characters” on the show was “Thing.”  It was portrayed as a hand that would occasionally rise up out of a box to perform some small task.  Thing had no face, no specific identity, no role in [...]

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Hierarchy of Organizational Needs – Continued (3 of 3)

Posted on February 27, 2009 by L2L Contributing Author

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid – 1943 Maslow’s Pyramid – Continued (3 of 3) Hierarchy of Organizational Needs (HON) |  Part1 | Part 2 | Part 3 It may be evident by now that, beyond Level 2, organizational culture plays a vital role in an organization’s position in the Hierarchy of Organizational Needs (HON) model.  It may also be [...]

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