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“Leading UP – Put the Straw Away.“ Episode 3 of the Leadership Character Webinar Series is presented by Jane Perdue (@thehrgoddess).  It will be offered on September 21, 2010 at 3 PM Eastern. One of the definitions for “leader” in the World English Dictionary is “a person who rules, guides, or inspires others.” Other words [...]

Now that we’re posting on the Lead Change blog daily, you can help promote character-based leadership, and the other Contributing Members and guest bloggers in 5 minutes a day.  Bookmark the blog and once a day you can catch up on a member’s blog post and share it with your social network with just a [...]

The second installment in the Leadership Character webinar series will be delivered by Steve Keating (@LeadToday) on Tuesday August 17, 2010 at 3 PM Eastern. Steve will discuss the necessary role Vision plays in character-based leadership and how your values are essential to your vision. Steve is the Selling Skills Manager for Toro Corporation, a [...]

Most of us don’t need to be reminded of the benefits of teamwork. Yet many of us are solo entrepreneurs or people who are looking for work. And all of us want to make a difference.  We want to be better leaders. We know leadership starts with us as we’ve said over the last few [...]

As members of this group can attest, there are several types of leadership.  We’ve written before about good leadership, and benevolent tyrants and we speak often of what we call character-based leadership.  When you lead from who-you-are rather than your position or power, you’re a character-based leader. So when we decided to launch a webinar [...]

Join us for a free webinar this Wednesday July 21, 2010 at 3 PM Eastern Framework for Understanding Poverty – and its effects on leadership and learning Presented by Rebecca and Jim Holland How is leadership impacted when poverty is present? How are teachers, mentors and leaders accepted in impoverished states? This session will explore [...]

Join us for the Lead Change Group Leadership Character webinar series. This series is for contributing members of the Lead Change Group. The series will be delivered in 12 monthly installments as a feature for contributing members of the community.

This is a guest post by Jessica Henry (Twitter, LinkedIn), my daughter.  She has no shortage of hobbies or books on her reading list.  Many of the books come from me.  But when she read this one, because of her feedback, I asked her to post the review.  You’ll find that leadership comes in every [...]

Linchpin is a fairly important recent book by Seth Godin.  Most of the concepts in the book aren’t new and have been presented in many other books including The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn.  Many times the way the author makes a point or the current state of the economy may serve to add impact [...]

Did you see the movie or read the book, The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall? In it the main character, Jason, goes to a Central American nation that I don’t recall to help out with a project that his father was involved in. The project was a library. Jason is a bit jaded when he [...]