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#Ladyboss: 6 Leadership Tips for Female Entrepreneurs

by | Aug 13, 2020 | Business, Strategy | 0 |

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9 Ways to Encourage Leadership From a Young Age

by | Aug 13, 2020 | Business, Strategy | 0 |

Being an adult is a tough job indeed. Getting a job, paying the bills, getting married, having a kid, retirement- the list never ends. However, with age, a lot of things become clearer. Parenthood, for instance, is one of...

9 Ways to Encourage Leadership From a Young Age

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A leadership coach says there’s one type of mentoring relationship that could help you rise faster in your career

by | Mar 21, 2016 | 0 |

job interview, boss, meeting The concept of soliciting feedback on your performance at work might sound strange.

Mandatory performance reviews are stressful enough — it seems almost masochistic to subject yourself to hearing about your failures and “areas for improvement” when it’s not required.

Yet experts say the most successful leaders are often the ones who actively seek feedback and advice from the people they work with.

According to Suzanne Bates, CEO of Bates Communications and author of the new book “All the Leader You Can Be,” successful leaders often have peer mentors, or coworkers who they regularly exchange feedback with.

Bates says seeking feedback on your performance is a critical step on the path to developing executive presence, which she defines as “the qualities of a leader that engage, inspire, align, and move people to act.”

In an interview with Business Insider, Bates said that “people who have peer mentors (and mentors) tend to rise faster through their organization” than people who try to go it alone.

A peer mentor — i.e. someone who holds a similar level position as you — is especially valuable because it helps you “think of yourself as someone with something to give,” Bates said. Not only is your mentor telling you about your apparent strengths and weaknesses, but you’re also giving that person your advice.

“The best mentoring relationships grow out of some mutuality,” she said. “When it’s a two-way street, the relationship is more real and valuable.”

Bates added that it’s valuable if your peer mentor works in a different business or department at your organization. It’s even better if you’ve worked with that person on a cross-business or inter-department project.

all the leader you can be To start the conversation about mentorship with that person, you might say something like:

“We’ve gotten to know each other and I’ve enjoyed working with you. I don’t know much about finance [or whatever department the person works in] and I would love to spend time and learn more about it.”

Bates’ ideas about peer mentorship are especially important in the context of research from leadership development consultancy Zenger/Folkman. According to their findings, younger people tend to make better managers, partly because they’re receptive to feedback and always trying to improve.

Meanwhile, bestselling author Simon Sinek says the most successful leaders have a “buddy,” or someone who also aspires to leadership. Buddies regularly exchange knowledge and advice in order to keep each other from getting too caught up in the trappings of wealth and fame.

The takeaway here is that, while receiving feedback might be scary, it’s crucial for leadership development. And asking for feedback reminds us that leadership is hardly a one-person experience — instead, it’s a process that requires constant input and tweaking from others.

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The 100 best leadership and success books to read in your lifetime, according to Amazon

by | Feb 26, 2016 | 0 |

This week, Amazon’s editors released a list of 100 leadership and success books to read in a lifetime.

“We chose books to help people plan for their futures and/or deal better with their present,” said Chris Schluep, senior books editor at Amazon.com. “The same book won’t work for every situation, or every person, so you’ll see titles sitting beside one another that might not normally share shelf space.”

In other words, while this list does include books by traditional business people, you’ll also find works by outspoken entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and Hollywood producers.

What each of these authors shares is a desire to help people find out what they really want — and to make their dreams a reality.

Check out the full, ranked list below, and learn more about the top 25 here.

“#Girlboss” by Sophia Amoruso
“A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle
“Andrew Carnegie” by David Nasaw
“Awaken the Giant Within” by Tony Robbins
“Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert
“Business Adventures” by John Brooks
“Change Your Brain, Change Your Life” by Daniel G. Amen
“Chicken Soup for the Soul” by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark
“Choose Yourself!” by James Altucher
“Crush It!” by Gary Vaynerhcuk
“Do Over” by Jon Acuff
“Drive” by Daniel H. Pink
“Eat That Frog!” by Brian Tracy
“Elon Musk” by Ashlee Vance
“Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman
“Essentialism” by Greg McKeown
“Execution” by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck
“Find a Way” by Diana Nyad
“First, Break all the Rules” by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
“Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Flying Without a Net” by Thomas J. DeLong
“Freakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
“Getting More” by Stuart Diamond
“Getting Things Done” by David Allen
“Getting to Yes” by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
“Give and Take” by Adam M. Grant
“Good to Great” by Jim Collins
“How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie
“How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
“Influence” by Robert B. Cialdini
“Leadership on the Line” by Martin Linsky and Ronald A. Heifetz
“Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg
“Made to Stick” by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
“Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl
“Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius
“Mindset” by Carol Dweck
“Misbehaving” by Richard Thaler
“Oh, The Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss
“Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
“Personal History” by Katharine Graham
“Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely
“Quiet” by Susan Cain
“It Worked for Me” by Colin Powell and Tony Kolt
“Siddhartha” by Herman Hesse
“Start With Why” by Simon Sinek
“Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
“Strengths Finder 2.0” by Tom Rath
“Stumbling on Happiness” by Daniel Gilbert
“Superforecasting” by Philip E. Tetlock
“Talent is Overrated” by Geoff Colvin
“The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing” by Al Ries and Jack Trout
“The 48 Laws of Power” by Robert Greene
“The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss
“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
“The Art of Happiness” by Dalai Lama
“The Art of Stillness” by Pico Iyer
“The Art of Strategy” by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff
“The Art of the Start 2.0” by Guy Kawasaki
“The Art of War” by Sun Tzu
“The Big Short” by Michael Lewis
“The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The Charisma Myth” by Olivia Fox Cabane
“The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande
“The Confidence Code” by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
“The Effective Executive” by Peter F. Drucker
“The Essays of Warren Buffett” by Warren E. Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham
“The First 90 Days” by Michael D. Watkins
“The First Tycoon” by T.J. Stiles
“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni
“The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills
“The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brene Brown
“The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor
“The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin
“The Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz
“The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton M. Christensen
“The Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham
“The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
“The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries
“The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo
“The Miracle Morning” by Hal Elrod
“The Now Habit” by Neil Fiore
“The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg
“The Prince” by Nicolo Machiavelli and N.H. Thompson
“The Profit” by Kahlil Gibran
“The Road Less Traveled” by M. Scott Peck
“The Road to Character” by David Brooks
“The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne
“The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” by Deepak Chopra
“Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman
“Titan” by Ron Chernow
“Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
“Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom
“Turn the Ship Around!” by L. David Marquet
“Uncertainty” by Jonathan Fields
“Way of the Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman
“What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
“Willpower” by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
“Year of Yes” by Shonda Rhimes
“Zero to One” by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters