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How to Bounce Back from Adversity
Here's a way to understand - and redirect - your instinctive reaction to crisis. By Joshua Margolis and Paul Stoltz (Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 2010)
Leadership In Action
Experience videos, podcasts and great audio presentations
CEO Lyceum Presentation
Top CEO's from around the country come together to share ideas and discuss successful strategies for raising capital for your organization.
Leadership Library
Read our favorites to gain the edge
Extreme_Ways_to_Shorten_and_Reduce_Meetings
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.
But We've Got A Mission Statement
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5 Tips For More Productivity In 2009
Tips on become more productive.
7 Things That Surprise New CEOs
Most new chief executives are taken aback by the unexpected and unfamiliar new roles, the time and information limitations, and the altered professional relationships they run up against.
Creativity 101
The secrets to the creative process.
Incremental Changes Bring Lasting Rewards
The Executive Team - Leadership in Action
CEO Lyceum Presentation
Top CEO's from around the country come together to share ideas and discuss successful strategies for raising capital for your organization.
Ithaca by C.P. Cavafy
Experience this beautiful poem by Greek poet, Cavafy, as read by Sean Connery. Incredibly inspiring with great messages relating to goal setting and experiencing the joys on the path to success.
Failure: The Secret to Success
"Trial and Error" sums up Soichiro Honda's vision of the company, the idea is that you can fail one hundred times as long as you succceed once. "We can only make fantastic advances in technology through many failures" says Takeo Fukui - President & CEO Honda Motor Co., LTD. Dreaming the impossible!
Ask The Experts
Following are responses from The Leadership Edge Team to some of the challenges that are most frequently faced by our clients.
The Challenge
Delegation
“I’m trying to delegate, but it seems that I always have to go back and redo the work that I’ve delegated! How can I be sure that my delegation will be successful?”
Coaching For Performance
You're in The Big Leagues Now: Coaching for Performance.
Team Building
“I am looking for ideas to build my team. Where do I begin?”
Communicating Your Ideas
“My ideas are better than my bosses ideas. I am certain that I am right. What should I do?"
Effective Hiring
"I need to hire a new member of my team. How do I make sure to make the best hire?"
Delegating Too Much
“My boss is delegating too much to me. How do I give him/her feedback without sounding like I am not a teamplayer?”
Getting 110%
“How do I get 110% effort from my employees?"
Limited Resources
"I am on a tight deadline and I don't have enough resources. Help! What do I do?"
Communication Problems
“I am having communication problems within my team. They keep heading off in directions that areinappropriate.”
Driving Positive Change
“Our company has just put another new initiative in place. People are resisting the change.”
Motivation After A Hiring Freeze
“I am trying to keep my people motivated after announcing a hiring freeze.”
Time Management
“I am having trouble getting everything done in a day and my personal life is non‐existent. Any tips?”
Only Seeing The Big Picture
“I have a boss who just sees the ‘big picture’. His directives don’t seem to take into account the incredible amount of details necessary to 'just get it done'.”
