How to Become an Effective Delegator (July 2010)
The best leaders don't need to get their hands dirty, writes Blinds.com founder and CEO Jay Steinfeld. It's tempting to try to do everything and make every decision yourself, he writes, but leaders who don't learn to let go eventually become a constraint on their company's growth. Relax and learn to delegate and you'll be able to focus on the big picture -- and that, Steinfeld argues, is what a leader's job is really all about.
 
How to Learn to Love Performance Reviews (May 2010)
Managers can make the performance reviews an affirming experience and not an excruciating experience of judgment and copping failure.
 
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky (April 2010)
Belsky has spent six years studiying the habits of especially productive people and teams--the ones who make their ideas happen time and again. Here, the author presents their most powerful and sometimes counterintuitive practices. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare.  According to Scott Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be developed by anyone willing to develop their organizational habits and leadership capability.
 
The Leadership of John Wooden (June 2010)
Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. from Kravis Leadership Institute writes his take on lessons learned from John Wooden.
 
Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li (May 2010)
An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be "open" while maintaining control.  Be open, transparent, and authentic, are the current leadership mantras, but companies often push back.  This resource will help the modern leader understand how to lead in the new open world; where blogging, Twittering, Facebooking, and Digging are becoming the norm.
 
Discovering Your Authentic Leadership (February 2007)
The ongoing problems in business leadership over the past five years have underscored the need for a new kind of leader in the 21st century.
 
How to Grow Great Leaders (December 2004)
The biggest test that rising leaders face is aggressively championing a business unit while looking out for the enterprise as a whole. Helping them meet that challenge demands a new approach to leadership development
 
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More extreme techniques for keeping meetings on track.
 
840 Million Reasons to Celebrate
Amazon's $840 million acquisition of Zappos.com
 
Maximize Productivity Without Burning Out
Workaholic tendencies that are starting to induce productivity-draining burnout.
 
Business Founders Likely to Emerge From Meltdown
Crushing setbacks are a critical element of success.
 
Incremental Changes Bring Lasting Rewards
Where you can make incremental changes.
 
Building The Emotional Intelligence of Groups
Models for change.
 
Flame First, Think Later: New Clues to Email Misbehavior
Flaming has a technical name, the “online disinhibition effect,” which psychologists apply to the many ways people behave with less restraint in cyberspace.
 
The Business Impact Of Effective Employee Management
The impact of employee management establishing an ongoing steam of information, data and recommendations focused on effective people.
 
In Praise of the Incomplete Leader
No leader is perfect. The best ones don't try to be-they concentrate on honing their strangths and find others who can make up for their limitations.
 
Leading At The Edge
How to unlock extraordinary performance.
 
Teachable Points Of View For Leadership
If your not teaching, you're not leading. Teachable point of view about ideas, values, emotional energy and edge.
 
What Your Leader Expects
Team success is based on the realationship between a boss and his or her direct reports.
 
Sticking To The Standards
Reward and Recognize those Employees who exceed expectaion.
 
Get Rid Of The Performance Review
Alternative to performance reviews.
 
Initiative Moves Women Up Corporate Ladder
A roadmap for boosting the presence of women in management.
 
Challenges Strategies Matrix Orginization
Provide managers with the best practices that will improve their matrix organization.
 
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