How to be a Better Leader by Getting Out of the Way

Companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on training their employees every year, and much of that is spent on building new leaders, strengthening existing leaders, and transforming good leaders into game-changing, high-level influencers. Pinpointing how to make those leaders most effective is extremely difficult though, as every company has a different set of characteristics…

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How to Get the Most out of Social Collaboration

This blog has been adapted from the original post found on the IHS company intranet. More than 1,000 colleagues and leaders at IHS have had an opportunity to take an Emergenetics Profile. Emergenetics is a psychometric tool used to measure thinking and behavioral attributes. In addition to supporting communication, trust building and team formation, Emergenetics…

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5 Ways to Define Leadership

The best way to define leadership is difficult. Look up “Leadership Definition” in a Google search and in .44 sec you get 269,000,000 results. Despite this massive number, I don’t actually think that the definition is the issue…it is the action of leadership that is the hardest part. Inherently, defining leadership means understanding yourself from…

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Leadership Lessons from the Year of the Goat

Happy Chinese New Year! As a global organization, this is an exciting time for us. A third of our team is based out of the Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore, and for the next week, they’ll be celebrating the Lunar New Year with friends and family. As for the rest of us not based…

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The Golden Rule of Effective Leadership

“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” –Brian Tracy How many times have you heard a leader utter these words: “I have the best of intent”or “I had the best of intent”? To be an effective leader, having the best of intent does not matter if it…

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