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SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 150,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last...
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Tips for making tough decision; the number of millionaires avoiding their taxes; and career advice for chief financial officers. It’s all in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief for...
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This guest post is by Christopher Frank, vice president of business-to-business and communications research at American Express, and Paul Magnone, vice president for business development and alliances...
View ArticleThe impact of unlearning on leadership
Mike Myatt writes, speaks and offers advice on the topics of leadership, strategy and innovation. He is widely regarded as America’s Top CEO Coach and is the author of “Leadership Matters — The CEO...
View ArticleWhat's your personal leadership maxim?
The following is an excerpt from Mike Figliuolo’s book “One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership.” Figliuolo is a regular SmartBlogs contributor. Leaders have to make...
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Eileen N. Sinett, author of “Speaking that Connects,” is a coach-consultant and keynote speaker whose knowledge spans several cross-functional disciplines: the speech arts, communication sciences,...
View ArticlePersuasion: Getting what you want and what you need
You just know that you can close that deal … if you could only figure out how to reach the right decision-maker. If this sounds all too familiar, now’s the time to get unstuck! Think about it: We all...
View ArticleHabits vs. decisions: Why you do what you do
SmartBrief is partnering with Big Think to create a weekly video spotlight in SmartBrief on Leadership called “VIP Corner: Video Insights Powered by Big Think.” This week, we’re featuring Charles...
View ArticleDo you know how much you don’t know?
“The thing that is interesting to me as a politician who’s been out of office a few years and now I see the world is how much I didn’t know, which is really shocking.” — Tony Blair, former British...
View ArticleWhy waiting is a new executive’s first task
A new vice president (“Hank”) was hired from outside the company to fix the organization’s broken supply chain. He was put on a short leash: the CEO wanted to see results within three months. With that...
View ArticleThe real value of introspection
As leaders, we are constantly facing challenges and choices — not just within our organizations but within ourselves. One of the leaders I coach told me recently, “I have allowed my lack of...
View ArticleLeading from the values up
I remember the comment as if it were yesterday. As a high-school teacher living in Chicago, I had been invited to a school weekend “spirit” event for students and faculty at an area hotel. The facility...
View ArticleInfluencing snap decisions
We all make snap decisions. Many issues we decide on the fly should be made that way. Fax the document or e-mail it? Delegate the assignment to a junior colleague or do it myself? Do I want fries with...
View ArticleIt is OK to second-guess yourself
The challenge of leadership is to do what is right for the organization even when it means reversing a decision. When reconsidering a decision it is important to decide what you did, why you did it,...
View Article5 ways to make better, faster leadership decisions
How much time each week do you spend making decisions? Likely, many of the choices you make are almost automatic, requiring little thought: Attend that meeting or not? Stay late to finish the report...
View ArticleTrust your own judgment
Judgment, writes Schumpeter, the business columnist for The Economist, “is too often missing from leadership studies.” The reason is that it is a topic too hard to quantify with metrics but as the...
View Article5 ways to get unstuck
Adrian had been looking for a solution to an issue at work in her head for months (and months). She was, in her words, a perfectionist who was looking for a way to control the issue without negative...
View ArticleHow managers become leaders: Resilience
Have you ever known someone who was a manager, but not a “leader?” Have you ever known someone, or even worked for someone, who simply couldn’t make a decision? Oh my, how performance-disabling, if...
View ArticleCreating an organizational culture of resilience: Resilient leaders are the key
Volatile equities markets, rising interest rates, international turmoil and instability, unstable monetary exchanges, shrinking resources, changing employee values — all of these factors seem to be...
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