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Effective Personal Development requires good Personal Knowledge Management. How’s yours?

  • August 31, 2013
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FURTHER TO POSTS on leadership development (“Why developing leaders is hard…” and “Developing Good Leaders…“), here’s a great slideshow by Steve Dale (@stephendale), on: “… taking responsibility for personal & professional development in order to remain ‘relevant’ in a sometimes chaotic and fast-changing environment” [slideshare id=17012079&style=border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px&sc=no] Beyond wanting to “remain relevant”,…

Good leadership means knowing how to change your self

  • July 2, 2013
  • MPJ
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IN the last several decades, it’s become an almost axiomatic truism that you should accept yourself as you are; that you should love yourself unconditionally.  That’s not quite true, as it turns out. While it is true that acceptance precedes self-esteem, and that you do have to love yourself before you can love anyone else,…

The one emotion good leaders don’t feel.

  • May 17, 2013
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IN answer to Monday’s question: Self Pity. If you ever indulge in feeling sorry for yourself:  Don’t.  It’s a killer.  There’s almost no surer way to stymie your personal growth and your potential for happiness than by pitying yourself.  Self-pity is the emotion that you feel when you face perceived unjust adversity and you don’t…

Are you building your expertise?

  • April 3, 2013
  • MPJ
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EXPERTISE is one of the four essential attributes of good leadership. It is rare to find a good organizational leader who has not built up a wealth of knowledge and skills within his or her industry that is directly relevant to the organization, as well as considerable “general knowledge” and a suite of transferable skills….

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