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Leadership

Why Do Leaders Lead? Vision Values People

Leaders want to understand and tap into what motivates people, and as a consultant and coach I provide answers to these questions.

Lately I’ve been wondering what motivates leaders to lead.

So I asked.

Here’s what they said.

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Emotional Intelligence

6 Questions To Measure Your Leadership Engagement

Truism “Deprived of meaningful work men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.” Dostoyevsky. We make much ado about employee engagement, but it trickles down, or not, from leadership engagement. How engaged are you as a leader. Find out by answering six simple questions.

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Leadership

6 Leadership Lessons from One Curious Tale

As a leader, there are times when it’s best for you to take a stand, to be certain, to explain and to defend your actions. There are times, however, when it’s best to be curious and explore. These leadership lessons from music director, Marin Alsop, show you when and how.

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The One Thing Leaders Need to Know

What is the one thing leaders need to know to ignite and sustain transformation? When offered a choice between the path to evolution and the path to stagnation, people will choose….

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Transformational Leadership’s Dirty Little Secret

Professor James MacGregor Burns, presidential biographer and leadership expert, walked the usual path towards his office in the political science building. On this day, however, he turned towards the psychology building, where he didn’t teach. What secrets did psychology hold to understanding how transformational leadership happens.

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