What can human resource management do to develop leaders and managers?
As the site grows we are finding that people searching for answers to some pretty practical questions are finding us here at develop a leader dot com. For instance as we were analyzing web traffic we found the following key word phrase and noticed that […]

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Time to get back into the Linked In Question: How do you develop yourself as a leader?
I want to talk about the response from Anand Vidwansa a software engineer from India. What struck me about Anand’s response was the simplicity of it. No simplicity as in simple but rather as in elegant. Anand is a […]

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You know I am often asked how to be more effective at a particular aspect of leadership. How can I be a great communicator? How can I be more effective leading change? How can I figure out the vision for my team?
Questions like these are critical ones certainly. They need to be answered, the learning […]

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People will disappoint you
I was sitting with my wife today discussing a story of a monumental mix up of a process and this thought came to me.
People will disappoint you.
It will happen, unfortunately it will happen often. People you count on to get a job done will not do so. People who agree to take […]

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Lately I have found myself seeing many problems through my leadership lens. Has this ever happened to you? It is kind of like when you buy a new car and suddenly all you notice when you drive is the model you bought.
This is a real danger for a leader. When we allow this process to […]

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Yves Hanoulle
The next participant in our discussion on how leaders develop themselves is Yves Hanoulle. Yves is actually a leadership coach based in Belgium.
How does Yves develop himself as a leader? Well his advice is very straight forward. He recommends reading from good leadership books every day and taking training courses from reputable sources. In […]

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Christopher Sorge
Our next guest to the Linked In sales question is Christopher Sorge. Christopher is a banking professional from Pennsylvania. Christopher’s answer focused more on where leadership and sales diverge. He expanded on the differences between the roles rather than the similarities.
In my opinion, the two roles are very dynamic but their end goals maybe […]

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Our next participant in the Linked in Leadership development question is Sudarshan Balakrishnan. Sudarshan is a financial analyst in India. In his response to the Linked in question he focused on the concept of planning. I think this is an obvious point that is missed by many and hence wanted to discuss it here on […]

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Were back everyone and today we will be talking to another engineer, Amanda Conger from Alabama. Amanda made a very critical yet elegantly simple point in her response to how she develops as a leader.
I think the method that works best for becoming a leader is very simple–put yourself in situations where you must be […]

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Our next contributor to the leadership development question is Joel Landoe. Joel is a supplier quality engineer in the aerospace industry in the pacific north west. If you get a moment check out Joel’s blog over at blogger. I found it a bit eclectic but well written and a good read, Vision 2012. […]

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