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Can You Handle the Honest Truth?

Peter Stark

Do you know what people really think about you as a leader? When you are confident in your opinion and the belief you are right, people are less confident to speak up and tell you what they really think. If you don’t like honest feedback, this is a brilliant strategy. They retaliate. They avoid.

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What Leadership Looks like: Ukrainian President Zelensky

Rick Conlow

How Would You Rate Your Integrity? You will be set apart from others with these characteristics. So, what can you do to gain trust on a day-to-day basis with your team? Check these out: Do what you say you will do. Handle conflict constructively. Tell the truth. They are to blame.

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What Servant Leadership Looks like: Ukrainian President Zelensky

Rick Conlow

How Would You Rate Your Integrity? You will be set apart from others with these characteristics. So, what can you do to gain trust on a day-to-day basis with your team? Check these out: Do what you say you will do. Handle conflict constructively. Tell the truth. They are to blame.

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The Velveteen Leadership Principles: How to Become a Real Authentic Leader

Consulting Matters

“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’ ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.

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Is Your Nice Corporate Culture Too Nice?

LSA Global

Can a Corporate Culture Be Too Nice? She was rightfully concerned that the nice corporate culture would not be able to handle the level of accountability and performance transparency required to increase performance at scale. Why Would an Organization Promote Niceness? Why Would an Organization Promote Niceness?

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How to GET Feedback When You Are the Leader

Rick Conlow

When you are the manager, it can be down-right difficult to get candid critiques or compliments that are not coated with ulterior motives or filtered by fear. I overhead the executive yell: “Why are you interrupting me over this? If you cannot handle it, I will find someone who can.”

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Ground Zero: Leading When You are at the Epicenter of The Crisis

Peter Stark

Some of our team members handle stress well and are able to make decisions to improve the condition of our team. Some team members can take a small incident and blow it up so the whole organization feels the severity of the situation. So, what would you do if you were leading in this type of high stress, rapidly changing environment?