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Tasty Catering on driving engagement through transparency and shared...

This guest post is by Miri Zena McDonald, a strategic communications consultant. Miri tweets at @miri_orgchange. She recently attended the Advanced Learning Institute’s Strategic Internal...

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A shaky economy breeds more careful risk-taking

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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This week’s most clicked

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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Business leaders: Are you drinking from the fire hose?

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...

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The 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...

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What'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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Your leadership trump cards

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,...

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Persuasion: 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...

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Habits 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...

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Do 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...

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Why 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...

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The 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...

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Leading 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...

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Influencing 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...

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It 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,...

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5 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...

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Trust 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...

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5 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...

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How 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...

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Creating 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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