Category Archives: Self Leadership Development

AWOL Leader

Hey everyone its been a while 5 months wow. A lot has happened since then. I enrolled in a coaching program at Fielding Graduate School to test how well my coaching skills fared against a formal program and I am … Continue reading

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Google Leadership Development Question

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 … Continue reading

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Linked In Leadership: An Exchange with Anand Vidwansa

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 … Continue reading

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$5.00 gasoline: Coping with a new leadership reality

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 … Continue reading

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The Challenge of Leadership: Managing Disappointment

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. … Continue reading

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A Leader’s perspective: Seeing the world through mental models

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 … Continue reading

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Linked In Leadership: Leadership Coach Yves Hanoulle

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. … Continue reading

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Sales = leadership: Christopher Sorge’s Opinion is…

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 … Continue reading

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Linked In Leadership: An exchange with Sudarshan Balakrishnan

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 … Continue reading

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Linked In Leadership: An exchange with Amanda Conger

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 … Continue reading

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