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6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When

Harvard Business

But what if you feel like you’re not equipped to take on a new and different leadership style — let alone more than one? In this article, the author outlines the six leadership styles Daniel Goleman first introduced in his 2000 HBR article, “Leadership That Gets Results,” and explains when to use each one.

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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration.

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4 Reasons Why Managers Fail

Harvard Business

Gartner research has found that managers today are accountable for 51% more responsibilities than they can effectively manage — and they’re starting to buckle under the pressure: 54% are suffering from work-induced stress and fatigue, and 44% are struggling to provide personalized support to their direct reports.

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Boss vs Leader: Two Distinct Management Approaches

Tom Spencer

A heavily top-down approach might have worked in the past but this style of boss management is increasingly ineffective and alienating to employees. In the modern workplace, the best managers have instead embraced a more empowering and collaborative method known as lead management.

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Servant Leadership: The Unstoppable Force for Greatness

Rick Conlow

Servant Leadership is an unstoppable force for positive change that can transform toxic workplaces. Current leadership approaches fail to realize employee potential and the connection to business success. Unfortunately, leadership–business owners and executives–tend to look at a toxic culture with a blind eye.

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Leadership: finding your style

The Management Centre

Managing a team and maintaining – or even upgrading – their performance is a big, time consuming job, however experienced you are. Part of the answer is to understand we all have our preferred approach to – or style of – leadership. In leadership one size most certainly does not fit all. increase your flexibility. supportive.

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Servant Leadership: The Unstoppable Force for Greatness

Rick Conlow

Servant Leadership is an unstoppable force for positive change that can transform toxic workplaces. Current leadership approaches fail to realize employee potential and the connection to business success. Unfortunately, leadership–business owners and executives–tend to look at a toxic culture with a blind eye.