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We’ve had a couple of posts about character based leadership as a starter for discussions that will take place at LeaderPalooza Feb 19-20, 2010 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  You can find the other posts on character-based leadership under the titles Sources of Leadership and Three Promises of Character-based Leadership.  Also, you can click the LeaderPalooza logo or this link to find out more about the un-conference.

Promise implies hope.  Our last post assumed that your organization had the hope of at least three outcomes as you apply leadership inspired from who you are and not what title or role you play.

Character isn’t the only factor that affects an organization’s ability to realize the promises. Character must be joined by Competence[click to continue…]

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In our group, we’ve had a lot of conversation about character-based leadership.  This is the second post in a series on character-based leadership.  The first was Sources of Leadership.

What result does character-based leadership promise? What makes our type of leadership different?

So I thought about the question for a few minutes. Quickly, I thought of 3 promises of character-based leadership. [click to continue…]

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Random Acts of Motivation

February 3, 2010

This is part of a series of posts organized and arranged by Jane Perdue. You can find the introduction here and the post on networking by Jennifer V. Miller at her blog The People Equation. I also posted on Sincerity and Office Politics.  This week, we’ll discuss Susan Mazza’s great post on the [...]

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What Is LeaderPalooza, Anyway?

February 2, 2010

We’ve spoken quit a bit about LeaderPalooza but more than one person has asked for clarification. Much of what we’ve said to date refers to what LeaderPalooza is not, rather than what it is.  It’s not even a conference, but rather an un-conference!
So what is LeaderPalooza going to be anyway?
LeaderPalooza will be a small gathering [...]

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Lead Change Group

Applied Leadership

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The January Tweet Chat using the #LeadChange hashtag we asked the question, “How are you doing?”  Remember in the first chat in December, we had quite a few people commit to applying character-based leadership to make a positive difference.  In fact, Make a Positive Difference was the title of the post where we reviewed the [...]

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Birds of a Feather

January 31, 2010

Nicole DeFalco of Write Influence and her blog, Saying What You Mean published a wonderful post about the Lead Change Group last week. If you haven’t seen it, please click over right now and read it.  Nicole is a writing coach and you can tell it from the well-written article. She’s also a member of [...]

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Sources of Leadership

January 29, 2010

The way I see it there are only two sources of leadership.  Will you lead because we are in a position of leadership or because you are a person of leadership?
“Leadership is influence.” John Maxwell
Position
Some people think of a leader as the person “in charge.”  If the person in charge was a better leader or [...]

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Core Purpose Interview

January 28, 2010

My gratitude goes out to Joan Koerber-Walker and her Core Purpose blog.  Joan is very involved in leadership development, small business and Arizona small business.  She manages several on-line profiles and works tirelessly to make a difference through her business and professional services.  Joan took the time to publish an interview of me that even [...]

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Sincerity and Office Politics

January 26, 2010

This is part of a series of posts organized and arranged by Jane Perdue.  You can find the introduction here and the post on networking by Jennifer V. Miller at her blog The People Equation.  Next week, Susan Mazza will post on the political side of agendas at Random Acts of Leadership. The question before [...]

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Energize, Mobilize & Guide

January 21, 2010

Do you inspire a vision of the future that energizes, mobilizes and guides your organization?  Would you objectively say your team is inspired or energized by the team’s goal, or by the time remaining until they get off work?
This is the third post on vision.  Other posts about vision are

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