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Today’s reading is Marshall Goldsmith’s article “The Mark of a Great Leader.” In the article, Goldsmith says that the key trait of today’s leader is self-awareness. He goes on to say that self-awareness entails “having a heightened understanding of one’s own behavior, motivators, and competencies – and having ‘emotional intelligence’ – to monitor and manage one’s emotional responses in a variety of situations.”
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A few weeks ago Angela Bell from the University of Iowa shared Dan Bobinski’s article “Is your leadership developing or diminishing?” with her cohort and now I’d like to share it with everyone.
As Bobinski, a training specialist, author, and president of Associates at Leadership Development, indicates, too many leaders easily get caught up in the immediate and forget, or neglect, the important.
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In today’s reading “Back from a vacation?”, David Rock, founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and CDO of Results Coaching Systems, reports on research indicating that we are more likely to solve really difficult problems when we have a fresh or quiet mind. Specifically the research points out that when faced with a new problem we apply strategies that worked in prior experiences. This works well if the new problem is similar to an old one, but is far less likely to work if there is little relationship between the two problems. What happens is that th
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Today’s reading is alternately titled “Five Lessons We Can Learn from Toyota”. In this piece Roberta Chinsky Matuson, founder of Human Resource Solutions, reflects on how you rebuild trust after you’ve made huge mistakes. She provides five lessons that can be learned from Toyota’s current problems:
1. When you make a mistake, own it the moment you realize something is not right. If you are honest, from that first moment, you will likely be forgiven.
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Recently Linkage published a short piece by Marshall Goldsmith – “When I Get Better at ...” A Simple Exercise for Changing a Behavior to Achieve Results <http://bit.ly/aUrU3M> – which is this week’s reading.
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This weeks Tuesday Reading “Getting You and Your Boss on the Same Communication Wavelength” comes to us from John Baldoni’s FastCompany blog and can be found at <http://bit.ly/6PbJvE>
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Today’s reading is – IT Hiring: How Thomson Reuters’ CIO Identifies Cultural Fit – a recent piece appearing in the CIO newsletter. It features an interview of Kelli Crane, senior vice president and CIO of Thomson Reuters by Beth Ehrgott.
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Terry Gray, IT Leaders Program alumnus from the University of Washington, suggested today’s reading, “How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story”. Terry thought that the piece might be of interest to the leaders community. And, I agree.
In this Forbes.com piece, its author Avril David talks about two acquaintances – whom he calls Mike and Ted – and their respective, different approaches to their first job, analyst at a small investment firm.
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Today’s reading, “The Power of Trust: A Steel Cable”, comes to us from the Mindtools Newsletter. The author is Bruna Martinuzzi, the founder and president of a Canadian consulting company that focuses on emotional intelligence, leadership, and presentation skills training.
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MIT’s Leadership Center <http://mitleadership.mit.edu/> hosted Anne Mulcahy, then Xerox’s Chairman and CEO at the Sloan School’s Dean’s Innovative Leader Series in November 2006. A synopsis of her remarks will be found at <http://mitleadership.mit.edu/
