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What does courage look like in a leader?

What does courage look like in a leader?

Hard to say, because, ironically, we talk about it all the time, but if pressed to answer, “When was the last time your spine was stiffened?”, we would come up short.

The challenge with corporate leadership, is that humans are involved. We are perfectly imperfect. Flawed. Broken yet beautiful.

This video is long (7:59). About 4:30 into it, your spine will be stiffened. If it doesn’t, well…

 

 

The corporate world actually shuns audacity. It’s dangerous. It could be misinterpreted.

So can cowardice conformity.

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The science of persuasion is something every great leader needs to hear

The science of persuasion is something every great leader ought to know. While the video is nearly 12 minutes long, it reveals six shortcuts. Who doesn’t embrace shortcuts?

 

 

In a world full of information overload, videos like this help us sort through the key points quickly, and in a fun way too.

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This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To go in an instant from this money (career) blog to the HQ blog, just click -> go to Next Blog

Be social versus doing social

Following up from yesterday’s idea that there are no secrets anymore, how do we leverage our businesses (and personal lives) now that the Internet has changed everything?

For starters, we can pay attention. I do. It’s often a time investment, like this 15-minute video of Jay Baer at The Power Of Now – Connections 2011. Jay suggests we don’t “do social media”, he says we must “be social”. Big difference, but only if you study it:

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