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I don’t know, I wasn’t there, but from all accounts of the Shawn Chacon v. Ed Wade brawl, Shawn was a little more than insubordinate.
 
Don’t know what I’m writing about? Former Houston Astros’ starting pitcher, turned reliever, Shawn Chacon was none to happy about his recent demotion to the bullpen. When reportedly called to [...]

Tags: Leadership, leadership development, leadership news and views, Leadership Situations, Management, subordinates

Here are a couple of interesting Leadership Development blog entries discovered by TheManager:
A Great Perspective on Accountability
By webmaster
For quite a while now, I’ve been planning to write a series on creating a culture of accountability. There’sa huge amount to say on the subject, and I think anyone in leadership can benefit from having a [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership development, Leadership Weblog

I received the following question from a reader this week:
“My manager is a constant procrastinator, who seems to always fail at making decisions. It’s not that he makes bad decisions, he simply won’t ever make any decision. Whenever I approach him with a suggestion, he always wants me to go back and get more data. [...]

Tags: blog, Focus, inability to make decisions, Leadership Advice, leadership development, Management, management 101

Blog entries from the past few days discussing Leadership Development:
What’s DNA Got To Do With It?
By Epic Living
I wrote last week about DNAand leadership. I got some quizzical looks when I discussed this with a few people. So in the spirit of better explaining myself, the following outlines what DNA has to do with [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, Leadership Weblog

In all my years teaching and developing new leaders, the neatest trick I ever tried involved managers who were stuck making every decision for their teams. No matter how many leadership development books they read or management training resources they studied, they were simply better decision makers than the group they supervised — that’s why [...]

Tags: empowering your team, Leadership Advice, Management Training

The difference between high performance and failure for most companies can come down to a very simple management choice: execution versus discussion. In straightforward terms, execution is getting something done; discussion is talking about getting something done. It’s not hard to figure out which of these two creates a high performance culture in the workplace.
 
When [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership development, leadership observations

Although everyone has their favorites, the editors at AskTheManager.com chose the following tomes as The Best Leadership Books of All Time:
 

  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; by Stephen R. Covey – It’s hard not to put Dale Carnegie at Number 1, but Covey’s 7 Habits is simply the best leadership development book of [...]

Tags: Best Sellers, Business Books, Leadership

Re: Upcoming leadership development training with CCL
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Tags: Leadership Advice, Leadership Blogs, leadership news and views