LeadershipNow 140: February 2010 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2010:

• @dablervision: Overcoming Charisma. Very thoughtful http://bit.ly/d4OCnI
• Start your morning with this happy ditty! via @scotthulme: Pretty much my new favorite song of all time. http://bit.ly/9nknrH
• @LeadCap Prof. Sternberg is one of the most intelligent people that I have ever spoken to. Read it to believe it. http://www.hurl.ws/bzpo
• FT: The kids are alright but they need help http://bit.ly/cmVltI
• Scott Eblin: What It Takes to Build Leaders http://bit.ly/apFzvS
• You need to be constantly learning. Spend 15% of your time learning about fields adjacent to yours. ~Ian Pearson, Futurizon
• @michaelaroberto: Do scientists and scholars peak at an early age? http://bit.ly/aBsMD5
• @hulmevision: The subject of more than 100,000 books, Bonaparte’s story still fascinates two centuries later http://bit.ly/ayZWg
• Norm Smallwood: Leadership Development Secrets of Top Companies http://ow.ly/18XAW
• Happy Chinese New Year! Can you believe it's already Year Of The Tiger? I'm still writing Year Of The Monkey on my checks.
• Valuable read: The problem with trying to "identify" leaders by @mikemyatt > http://bit.ly/brSrBX
• John Baldoni: Learn to Ask Better Questions at HBR http://ow.ly/18ih9
• @rosasay: Working w/this self-leadership thought the past few days, and it's helping me be so much more productive: http://ow.ly/17W1y
• @scottmckain: What the Kevin Smith vs. Southwest Airlines feud means to YOUR business & how you treat customers: http://budurl.com/wnks
• John Quincy Adams on How to deal with controversy http://ow.ly/17UAV
• Do you know someone who irritates/frustrates/mystifies you? Can you see something of yourself in this person?
• Good> @judyrees: What happened to the parrot? http://bit.ly/9R7fby Asking the right questions.
• @TimElmore: My latest blog post is up. Today's post is on "The 3 Rs of Leadership." http://bit.ly/bQzWx4
• @mjasmus Listening, Part I: It's Highly Underrated. http://ow.ly/17tW0
• We go further if we demonstrate we are more concerned about helping the people we lead, than we are in protecting ourselves.
• The Power of Saying "We Blew It" http://ow.ly/16Wh2
• @HarvardBiz: "Undercover Boss" and the Missing Information Loop http://s.hbr.org/d4gIIT
• FT: The Value of Falling into the Parent Trap http://ow.ly/15X47 Having a family can help make you a more humane boss.
• Power is something given to a leader by others, but it must be redistributed by leaders to make others feel connected and grow.
• @tom_peters: When confronting the unexpected, resilience and character are the two principal tools that must be in our kit.
• @KateNasser: Quicker Way to Learn & Use Personality Type Info for Success at Work http://bit.ly/bNKkrS "Love the differences"
• @RosabethKanter: Toyota woes,Winning Streak ends, leadership lessons. http://bit.ly/c3FNJT "Erosion begins by removing a discipline."
• You don’t align people & strategy as an exercise in organizational development. It's about relevance. from Never By Chance http://ow.ly/14HXI
• Can't argue with this: RT @artpetty: When Will You Choose to Be Successful? An Irreverent Look at Personal Motivation http://bit.ly/dbGNt0
• Mike Henry Sr: Three Promises of Character-Based Leadership http://bit.ly/bD1uK8
• @rosasay: Public Education Woes http://ow.ly/12RKZ Money helps, but doesn’t solve student apathy, teaching complacency or mediocrity ...
• @DebbieLaskeyMBA: Blog Post: Top 10 Leadership Blogs. http://bit.ly/dCoyKY >Thanks Debbie. I appreciate the mention.
• FT View from the Top Interview: Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo http://ow.ly/12I44

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2010 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2010:

• Davos: Business Leadership for the 21st Century http://bit.ly/9JYV8g Good panel: Stephen Green, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Indra Nooyi, Eric Schmidt, Wang Jianzhou
• RT @tom_peters: Mega-success-tip: Master beginnings! Master endings! Never leave either to chance! (Applies equally to accountant and Broadway actress.)
• Mike Myatt: The myth of "When To Lead" http://tinyurl.com/ybhknqf >An important point!
• Not to be missed insights from @JohnBaldoni Check out his blogs: http://bit.ly/1J7hJT and http://bit.ly/a9dvcO
• Do you think people apply the same values in their private lives as they do in their professional lives? 22%=Yes / 62%=No @ Davos
• Personal Responsibility: It comes down to individual moral actors making micro-level decisions. Thomas Glocer @ Davos
• While many things are wrong systemically, I think we have a serious moral compass issue at the individual level. Thomas Glocer @ Davos
• Are we wise enough to learn frm these lessons & take them into our daily life as a check-list of our daily deeds? Yasuchika Hasegawa @ Davos
• Scott Elbin: Three Mantras to Keep Your Ego in Check http://bit.ly/aqiEdr
• Mike Henry Sr: Sources of Leadership http://bit.ly/aSBc7C
• RT @LeadToday: The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is not training them and keeping them. - Zig Ziglar
• Michael Roberto: What Happened to Toyota? http://ow.ly/11qV7
• Good Post: RT @mikemyatt: A closer look at leadership DNA...Do you have it? http://bit.ly/r0FrO
• RT @hulmevision: Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself | A. J. Heschel
• @davidrock101: 2nd NeuroLeadership Journal is out. Free intro paper outlining NeuroLeadership develpments in 09: http://bit.ly/cDharn (PDF)
• We usually aren't suffering because we can't solve our problems; we are suffering because we can't see our problems.
• I was grateful to be able to answer promptly. I said. “I don't know.” ~Mark Twain
• RT @toddsattersten: "If you work really hard and you are kind, amazing things will happen" Conan closing final show as host of Tonight Show.
• @BillGates My new website is live check out thegatesnotes. Excited to share more about what I’m learning, hope you like it!
• Read: To Be or Not to Be? http://wp.me/pt5Ht-4a Being Intentional by @eschreyer
• RT @eschreyer: Leaders - demanding proof too soon could stifle innovation. Nice read from Business Week: http://bit.ly/59Jj1O
• Scott Elbin: How Coakley and Brown Pulled Defeat from the Jaws of Victory and Vice Versa: What Leaders Can Learn http://bit.ly/5wedHn
• FT: Master the mix of continuity and change http://bit.ly/8TACK4
• Scott Elbin: Six Qualities That Made Martin Luther King, Jr. a Great Speaker http://bit.ly/5jUv94
• Jerry de Gier: Are We Enjoying the Journey? http://bit.ly/4xc0NK
• Manias, panics and bubbles all have same characteristic: the absence of real leadership that takes a contrarians perspective. http://ow.ly/VR7c
• Wally Bock: Leadership Development: Crafting Your Personal Development Plan http://bit.ly/4rMYgg
• FT: A little knowledge is deadly dangerous: Organisations may already possess the information they need to avoid disaster. http://bit.ly/51njzl
• TEDxMcGill - Karl Moore on Postmodern Leadership http://bit.ly/6ZcxL3
• How To Keep Your Plates Spinning in 2010 http://bit.ly/6aYQZf
• @tom_peters: 2010 quote of the yr award, but also goes into dictionary as Definition #1 of "They just don't get it." http://bit.ly/5OhzkU
• @hulmevision: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes | Marcel Proust
• Wally Bock: Becoming a Great Leader is Up to You http://bit.ly/4ywash
• Pliny the Younger on relationships: "We are paid in our own coin."
• 59 Seconds: The myth of the "Yale Goal Setting" Study http://bit.ly/7cnobt
• Terry Starbucker: A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year http://46xps.th8.us
• @Mark_Sanborn: Lessons at Decade's End http://bit.ly/7JXxWZ
• @rosasay: I once heard it said “hope has nothing to do with what is going on in the world.” So what, then, is it about? http://ow.ly/RZNt

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2009:

• Leading Blog selected as one of the top 10 leadership blogs of 2009 by @mikemyatt > http://bit.ly/6GWZwZ Thank you!
• Leadership Un-Conference: LeaderPalooza: Have you ever noticed how quickly a fire dies out when you separate http://bit.ly/8bRISj
• @tom_peters: NewTech=Mega-WOW. But: basics=basics. E.g., "Thank you." PowerTool Then. Now. Tomorrow. >Timeless!
• Poem for the times. FT: The Bankers Who Wouldn’t Say Sorry: A Cautionary Tale http://bit.ly/50VLPW
• Scott Berkun on speaking: It's the mistakes you make before you even say a word that matter most - preparation matters
• Until 2024, in America on average 100 boomers turn 60 every 13 min. That's a lot of people asking "What am I doing with my life?" D Pink in Drive
• What your team members want from you: Are you a boss? Here are seven things your team members want from you http://bit.ly/6A77A3
• RT @hulmevision: Page through beautiful new issue of Vision, includes leadership article http://bit.ly/2qJTlU
• RT @Xlead: Great video - London Business School’s Don Sull discusses how to find the upside in volatile times http://icio.us/jooubo
• How to raise your game in 2010: Following a year of high anxiety, Stefan Stern offers three practical ideas to help http://bit.ly/7jpOsF
• Scott Elbin: The Diplomatic Approach to Senior Leadership http://bit.ly/80CoFP
• Professor Michael Roberto's Blog: Are you a micromanager? http://bit.ly/8F9p5u
• LeaderTalk: Becoming is hard work. (Encouraging post.) http://ow.ly/Oka8
• @mjasmus: New post: Cultivating Talent http://bit.ly/4QHjyS >Always Good!
• Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man http://bit.ly/5N3SO9
• Business Pundit: The 75 Best Business Blogs of 2009 http://bit.ly/65WnKI
• RT @Xlead: Where do our leadership models and leadership lessons come from? Do We Celebrate the Wrong CEOs? http://bit.ly/7H9lnY
• People who find happiness & meaning at work, usually find it at home as well. (BusinessWeek) http://bit.ly/7jCH95
• Value added by best CEOs: Research shows that all the leading bosses proved their worth over an extended period http://bit.ly/83m3Vc
• Tom Peters: Appreciation! "Tool" No.1 http://bit.ly/6LwcS9
• The Teacher as Leader: Paul Samuelson and Phil Jackson http://bit.ly/5Ay6vB
• deGier: The Art of Communication http://bit.ly/8pAwFd
• CB Sully Sullenberger says, we need to try to do the right thing every time. We don’t know what moment in our lives we will be judged on.
• RT @wallybock: Leadership might be a bad choice for you if ... http://ow.ly/K3LI
• RT @michaelaroberto Round 4 in this week's look at classic reads for leaders: http://bit.ly/8S3otz
• Jim Rohn tribute - September 17, 1930 - December 5, 2009 http://tribute.jimrohn.com/
• RT @tsattersten: Economist chooses Too Big To Fail, Lords of Finance, How Markets Fail ... for its 2009 biz books - http://bit.ly/4wxmIr
• RT @Mark_Sanborn: What makes a company great? http://bit.ly/6bmUw8 >>Great interview with Joseph A. Michell
• FT: A question all leaders should ask themselves http://bit.ly/6q3lYp

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2009:

• Leadership – What’s Love Got To Do With it? http://ow.ly/HajA
• Our comments shape people's lives. Our remarks point people in a direction. What future are you pointing people to?
• If there's any secret to leadership it is "fit." Leadership style must fit the leader, & it must fit the org. http://bit.ly/1eD3RZ
• Fortune: How to build great leaders - http://bit.ly/2Z5Pot
• VIENNA: Peter Drucker - yodelling down Mount Fuji http://bit.ly/5wHLfz
• The reason why so many people want to get back to “business as usual” is that that is what they do best. ~S. Stern in FT
• @LeaderTalk: Leadership Priniciples Series | Leading Self with Character: Health and Well Being http://bit.ly/68yL5K
• Interested in brain based solutions to leadership gaps? http://bit.ly/79hSqY
• Drucker's principles still relevant today, interview with NPR's Marketplace http://bit.ly/15GvtE
• Inc: The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z http://ow.ly/ED90
• Still Here After a Rough Year http://bit.ly/4DI6QX
• @DruckerInst: It's Drucker's 100th birthday—check out the celebratory "Apps"! http://bit.ly/2hRDSZ
• “What you did tonight,” I said, “meant the world to a man whose life is ending. And what did it cost you? Nothing.” http://bit.ly/2FTMMA
• Dilbert and his boss are practicing leadership again http://bit.ly/3w55BM Good Stuff!
• Alan Weiss' 11 Problems That Plague Organizations - http://bit.ly/8K9ZF
• @johnspence123 What are the Most Important Leadership Skills? Some really great info http://tiny.cc/FK1bU
• Open your mind to the idea of innovation: Only complacent leaders believe their way of doing things cannot be improved http://bit.ly/4odakM
• Want to market yourself memorably? Apply the personal touch — and a little creativity. http://ow.ly/CT1C
• Bolster Your Leadership By Recognizing Mistakes http://ow.ly/CT1j
• Fortune: Steve Jobs named CEO of the decade http://bit.ly/3J5MOi
• Same leadership probs come up again & again in downturn. Solving them doesn't take fancy tech--just character & courage http://bit.ly/3HNDTX
• On teamwork: Consultant John Ghegan has this sign on his desk: If I had it to do all over again, I'd get help.
• @mikehenrysr: New post: Tribal Leadership http://bit.ly/t5C8x
• Young people not only value parental input, but tend to have healthier relationships when they receive parental advice http://ow.ly/BnN7
• Danish proverb: He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
• @MeredithMBell: "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" - Sidney J. Harris
• Drew Gilpin Faust: Most imp leadership lesson is understanding the context in which you are leading http://bit.ly/39Ta5T

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2009:

• Effective crisis leadership is really imagining a future that brings you beyond the status quo ~Ron Dufresne, St Joseph’s Univ
• We're Governed by Callous Children http://bit.ly/3GerXd
• RT @hulmevision: “People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not” | Neil Postman
• RT @MargieMcKinney: "The secret of being boring is to say everything." ~Voltaire
• In order to lead and influence others, we have to be available and intentional in our relationships. ~Becky Robinson @LeaderTalk
• http://bit.ly/M7vli Discussing definitions of leadership not any good unless it affects the way you do your job.
• RT @hulmevision: Rehabilitating Stalin http://bit.ly/pHZ0r
• On the pain involved in most change: There is no fruit that is not bitter before it is ripe. ~Publilius Syrus (85-43 BC)
• For a short-term fix, fear based leadership wins out every time.
• RT @HarvardBiz: Don't Let Your Strength Become Your Weakness http://bit.ly/3uC7pE
• Taboo or not taboo? Some new office guidelines http://ow.ly/ub1w
• Generational differences have to do with life stages, not date of birth http://ow.ly/ub0k
• Spouse Test: Before you submit a proposal ask your spouse to read it. If they can’t make sense of it, rewrite it. http://ow.ly/uaOR
• My Nobel Prize for Leadership would recognize individuals who have unquestionable moral authority, says Alan Webber http://bit.ly/EtkkZ
• RT @stevefarber: The Best Advice Ive Ever Gotten #1 - http://ow.ly/15UvJF // Good read. "Assume he was right and go from there."
• Overconfidence: When leaders stop listening to the advice of others.
• RT @hulmevision: Lights make light not noise—unless they are defective. // What kind of an example are you?
• Sometimes the greatest act of courage and show of character is the willingness to change.
• What kind of person do you need to become for you to be the leader you need to be?
• As a leader, sometimes you need to change; sometimes you need to be changed.
• How to compete in an upside down world: Leading managers do not wait for crises to concentrate their minds http://bit.ly/OJrrI
• The upside of anger http://bit.ly/CL3cB
• Strengths become weaknesses: We need tough, strong, confident leaders. But how can we prevent them from spiral. http://bit.ly/3wZmL7
• “Every age has its own outlook,” wrote CS Lewis. Tradition must have a voice but not a veto.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2009:

• We tend to learn an enormous amount in the short term, quite a bit in the medium term and absolutely nothing in the long term.
• RT @profkjmoore: An interview I did with Henry Mintzberg just came out on the Globe website: http://tinyurl.com/nnht5e // Insightful book
• FT: Success can be a bad teacher. It's intoxicating; erodes self-awareness and fosters self-indulgence. http://ow.ly/rETr
• RT @wallybock: My latest post at Momentor: "God is in the details" http://ow.ly/rBY8 Good advice
• @hulmevision: @Bob_Wheeler Bob sent me this funny, charming, award- winning video http://bit.ly/GTw32 Good message about validation
• Your leadership team has lost its mind when people at the table actually believe the org would be in worse shape if they were not there @perrynoble
• RT @hulmevision: There are really only two ways of living: Give and Get. Get might work temporarily, Give works eternally.
• It's difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it. ~Sinclair Lewis
• Your most valuable currency is relationship, emotional capital, the ability to connect with others. ~Susan Scott in Fierce Leadership
• RT @scottmckain: http://tinyurl.com/m4sadz One of BEST posts EVER how to establish your own character & style from TELLER of Penn & Teller
• RT @sreardon: If you can watch this 7min motivational video and it doesn't get you choked up - check yer pulse http://twitzap.com/u/L44
• We influence others. Who we are often depends on who we are with and who they are depends on who we are.
• RT @AthletesArtist: "Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind." Evan Esar
• GRT Interview! RT @hulmevision: “successful forgiveness, . . . a real commitment to change is shown in word and deed.” http://bit.ly/3wte7N
• Managing with the Brain in Mind http://ow.ly/pja4
• RT JD's Corner http://cli.gs/yUrsJ The Character that Should Define Us
• Let's not confuse what it means to be famous or great. Great is for others. Famous is for you. Erwin McManus
• RT @MichaelHyatt: What’s holding you back from success? Could it be that all you lack is courage. Re-post: http://is.gd/Ark5
• RT @paul_farrier "Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle." Jack Paar
• Find a repeatable formula RT @HarvardBiz: How Marvel Went from Bankruptcy to $4-B Buyout http://bit.ly/13Arpc
• How to Escape Perfectionism http://ow.ly/nKuz

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2009:

• Leadership Lessons from Ted Kennedy http://bit.ly/IS4Zt
• Why Gen-Y Johnny Can't Read Nonverbal Cues http://ow.ly/miyi
• @HarvardBiz: Ted Kennedy, Low-Potential Leader http://bit.ly/14ehlo
• Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry. ~Jim March
• Our nature has no built-in braking system. More is never enough. ~Peter Whybrow
• Good mgnt is art of making problems so interesting and solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal w/ them. ~P Hawken
• “You know why I do marathons? Because this is how I practice not quitting.” ~ @OrlandoMagicPat
• The problems of an aging customer base http://ow.ly/kwmu
• USAF leadership lesson SLICED=Selflessness, Loyalty, Integrity, Commitment, Energy, Decisiveness http://bit.ly/NhNcJ
• The more unpredictable the world becomes, the more we rely on predictions. ~Steve Rivkin
• You need to learn to level with people without leveling them. ~The Effective Editor
• Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up. ~Mintzberg http://ow.ly/kjq3 Book: http://ow.ly/kjtd
• The Lesson of the 38 Candy Bars - We would’ve followed that general anywhere. http://ow.ly/kdM1
• RT @hulmevision: Subject of 100,000+ books, Bonaparte’s story still fascinates 2 centuries later. How did he do it? http://bit.ly/ayZWg
• Authority should be seen as a part of leadership, not as a way around leadership.
• Another good column by @HarveyMackay: "Uncommon leadership has common traits" http://bit.ly/if2uA
• Can business leaders learn a lesson from the president of the United States? http://ow.ly/jVwQ
• RT @JohnBaldoni: Forgiveness is an act of leadership. Read my column at http://tinyurl.com/qmcoav
• Old friend Lance Cosgrove offers FREE mp3s dwnlds. Not a country music fan but check out In Your Little Girl’s Eyes (from the Raining In Bakersfield album) Grt Lyrics http://ow.ly/jS08
• Change the world: Begin as a band of madmen welcoming other crazy ppl who want to be part of something bigger than themselves
• @dbsIII Your emphasis on alignment in your new book - A Leader Within - is good. http://bit.ly/Epv0u
• Gary Hamel: "Don't confuse the edge of your rut with the horizon."
• 31 Refutably Irrefutable Laws of Lame Leadership: http://scribd.com/doc/273295 This will resonate!
• WSJ: Just how accurate are those numbers? More guesswork than we'd like to think. http://ow.ly/ja3B
• Stefan Stern: The rules of engagement: All is not fair in love, war and business http://bit.ly/vOkp7
• Change the way you work: Forget call centres – systems thinkers see the world differently: http://bit.ly/i2ZoD

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2009:

• Releasing control and sharing influence with others may be the one of the most difficult changes to make in your leadership style. ~JR Kerr
• RT @UtneReader: Creativity it’s surprisingly orderly, it can be learned http://bit.ly/l581L Think about problems as abstract
• Is your reluctance to follow undermining your leadership?
• Ultimately, leadership is about life.
• Grow yourself. You can't separate yourself as a person from yourself as a leader.
• RT @davidzinger: Employee Engagement Zingers. A tad of Monday morning twitter humor to start your work. http://bit.ly/1xNbm4
• RT @SirHendrix: you are acting opportunistic because you don't know your purpose, you don't focus, and you have no strategy.
• Live through the unfair things, develop the hide to not let it bother you & keep your eyes focused on what you have to do. Hank Greenberg
• Identify the influencers. Work through them, not around them. Invite them, don't inform them.
• We build who we are by building up others.
• Excellent Piece WSJ: Celebrity Culture vs. The Right Stuff
• Time to get your strategy right: It's not just that markets have changed. Your organisation has changed. FT http://bit.ly/1YLaIt
• Time Magazine: No Charisma? Don't Worry, You Can Still Be a Leader http://ow.ly/hJKz
• Turnaround Question: What do I want this situation to become?
• Cronkite: "A career can be called a success if one can look back and say: 'I made a difference.'" He made a difference.
• RT @donhornsby: They Never Said That! | U.S. Presidents | Reader's Digest http://ff.im/5kHFS
• A Farewell to Harms WSJ http://bit.ly/15UkE4
• Everyone is normal until you get to know them better. ~Manfred Kets de Vries
• Every despot must have one disloyal subject to keep him sane. ~GB Shaw
• As a leader, if you are not encouraging candid feedback, you are just asking for trouble. Do you have a court jester?
• RT @perrynoble NEVER allow the voice of those who know you the least to shape you the most!
• Ideas from under your nose: While networks of outsiders are a fashionable concept, those looking for innovation... FT: http://tinyurl.com/nwd4qf
• RT @pamslim: The big 5 mid-year game-changing questions http://bit.ly/CWcV3 Good questions to ask yourself
• Interviews with top business authors during FT Press & Wharton School Publishing Author Week http://ow.ly/haRj
• Otto Scharmer- Leader: All people who engage in creating change or shaping their future, regardless of their formal positions
• If you can't live through adversity, you'll never be good at what you do. ~Hank Greenberg
• Managers who act like owners: Extravagant restaurant bills and huge taxi fares might not endear you to the peopl.. http://tinyurl.com/lesxgz
• RT @Ventureneer: Leadership can be learned :: says http://bit.ly/XNQJq
• Making History > David McCullough WSJ http://tinyurl.com/kumpdg
• The Fall of the Workplace Jerk ?? WSJ http://ow.ly/gn6j

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2009:

• Survive company mergers: Business leaders will soon see opportunities for mergers and acquisitions. FT: http://tinyurl.com/kth2e4
• To lead you must come from a context larger than the self.
• What you don't know about Ed McMahon by @wallybock http://ow.ly/fNhY
• RT @innovate: "Know when to be stubborn and when to be flexible: Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible about tactics" - Jeff Bezos
• RT @scottmckain: It's the label on a wine bottle ... What can YOU do to get more business? http://budurl.com/smvp Now that's thinking!
• RT @MichaelHyatt: RT @human3rror: Overheard: Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook are merging together: "YouTwitFace.com"
• Make a list of your most basic assumptions. Are they still true?
• Effective networks lead to innovation : You need to understand how informal networks can work to your benefit. http://tinyurl.com/lqhx5l
• Relevance: Are you answering questions no one is asking?
• Raising Kids: Our revolutionary leaders wanted the best from their children. http://ow.ly/feoG
• Twitter: Tips, Tricks and Tweets http://ow.ly/f3vd Very helpful book-esp for people like me!
• How to rebuild trust: (Registration Required) http://tinyurl.com/m3zvqe
• Most leadership is not out front and heroic. We don't see it because we don't know what we are looking for.
• If you do not have some bad loans, you are not in business.” ~Paul Volker
• The undercover boss: The CEO went undercover in his own business, disguised as an office worker (Registration Required) http://tinyurl.com/mmapv4
• Developing leaders is a long term solution. Recruitment is a short-term answer to a long-term problem.
• Counselors should quit trying to determine who is right and instead guide people on how to apply the correct principles in their situation
• Are you getting enough sleep? http://ow.ly/d899
• Are you building margin into your life? Emotional, physical, schedule and financial margin?
• Leaders take note: Disappointment breeds cynicism.
• Real success or failure is hard to measure especially in short term. Targets and personal gain are attractive alternatives ~How Rome Fell
• When we start with our eyes on our needs, we are never able to see anything else.
• If you’re just maintaining the institution, it’s difficult to see beyond the old and allow the new to emerge.

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2009:

• Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders HBR  http://ow.ly/9Piu
• Mulally on Ford: "This is a huge enterprise and the magic is, everybody knows the plan." How well are you communicating?
• Edison’s genius lay in his ability to conceive a fully developed marketplace, not simply a discrete device ~Tim Brown IDEO
• Our competencies enable and restrict the range of leadership roles we will be able to perform well.
• How to manage the clever squad: It is time to reframe the debate about talent and start thinking about clever people.
• All the truly grt armies in history had a cause that inspired the individual to remarkable heights of courage & endurance ~Eisenhower
• The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make weaknesses irrelevant. ~Peter Drucker
• We don’t first find leaders and hope they take on the qualities of a servant. We need to find servants and let them be leaders ~Cole
• To paraphrase Thomas Carruthers, a leader is one who makes themselves progressively unnecessary.
• Life reveals who we are inside. Life is the test of the measure of your leadership. ~Neil Cole  http://ow.ly/8aDf
• A model of action or agreement: Some leaders simply tell people what to do, while others try to build consensus..  http://tinyurl.com/rbyh3d
• Fund mgr James Chanos explained in 2007, "It is the regulated bits of the system you should worry about!" How true.  http://ow.ly/6F6c
• No such thing as dysfunctional org because every org is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it currently gets. We want it that way!
• Soar above the skyful of lies: If we are to manage the increased flow of information, first we have to learn to ...  http://tinyurl.com/o3jcv7
• Rick Smith: To be successful, you need to earn every relationship. Good Post:  http://ow.ly/5Pfj
• If we keep our focus too tight, we may miss the opportunities all around us.
• 'Shrink to Win' Isn't Much of a Strategy  http://twurl.nl/bkf6bj
• Goodbye Bland Affluence  http://twurl.nl/up47pe
• A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead ~Nicolas Chamfort
• The Secret faithful have been left standing at curb dutifully visualizing a new Ferrari as the repo man takes the Ford  http://ow.ly/4HY7

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2009:

• Lessons from Legendary Advertising Executive David Ogilvy http://ow.ly/4v11
• 100 Excellent Online Tools to Feed Your Creativity http://ow.ly/4v0m
• 12 Reasons To Be (Economically) Optimistic WSJ > http://ow.ly/4pZi
• Twittering executives reveal more than they realize http://ow.ly/478r
• “What frightens a people serves as a reliable guide to their idolatries.” What you have closed the book on may be limiting your growth?
• RT @KarlRove WSJ: A superstar, not a statesman, today leads our country. http://twurl.nl/xnf3q3 Great leaders aren't defined by consensus
• 12 Major Brands that 24/7 Wall Street believes will not survive until the end of next year >> http://ow.ly/3zi9
• The 7 secrets of really, really lucky companies http://ow.ly/3lpZ
• Tom Peters: "we"-the-gurus are not in the business of discovering and propagating "immutable laws. Well said Tom! http://ow.ly/3lm9
• Random House to publish Dan Brown's new novel, The Lost Symbol September 15. 5-million copy first printing - the highest in RH history.
• Nido Qubein: The more you operate within your area of effective influence, the larger the area becomes.
• Douglas Rushkoff: Instead of focusing on what we still lack, we must take stock of what we already do have.
• Companies do not take advantage of feedback opportunities. FT: http://ow.ly/3k5g
• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original ~ Ken Robinson http://ow.ly/31Vn
• Four reasons to be cheerful: Leaders should not be moping about, feeling sorry for themselves and spreading misery. http://tinyurl.com/cyjllr
• Taleb on Experts: People who were driving a school bus blindfolded (and crashed it) should never be given a new bus. http://ow.ly/2mub
• Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in FT: http://ow.ly/2msV
• Best and Worst states to do business with: CEOs rated Texas #1 state and California as the worst. http://ow.ly/2bWj
• "Writing is a moral act: What you write has a real effect on others, often to a rather surprising extent” ~ Alexander McCall Smith
• Entrepreneurship can rescue us: As the risk averse withdraw, braver business leaders will step forward, writes Stern. http://tinyurl.com/d5ob93
• Fear has overwhelmed greed; adventurous are on retreat Until we reverse this psychology won't recover economic momentum http://ow.ly/1Qc6

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2009:

• Engagement issues? First, forget the idea that emerging leaders must conform to the existing culture. Respect it? Absolutely.
• A lack of creativity in an org may not be the employees; it’s more likely it’s the org itself. Does your org suffocate ideas?
• Managing the mood is crucial: Tough trading conditions like these test character as much as business acumen. tinyurl.com/dgaxuy
• Life Lesson: The more you help other people with their hurts, the easier it is to handle your own. ~ Scott McKain
• Jac Fitz-enz: Not only is a “best practice” subjective – it’s transitory.
• Humility: Understanding the danger of being educated beyond your intelligence.
• Steve McKee said, "You can cut your way to survival but not success."
• Growing people requires that we reinforce improvements along the way - before they've "made" it. Don't wait.
• At work or at home, the more support you build into the system, the faster you can grow people.
• Lack of accountability paves the way to mediocrity.
• Atlas Shrugged is selling at a faster rate today than at any time during its 51-year history. ow.ly/Vgd and ow.ly/Vgg
• FT: “Timidity, confusion and populism have been the enemies of effective action.”
• This makes a good case for not criticizing others. tinyurl.com/covj5n
• Diplomatic Gifts: It's only natural that Obama's eye drifts to the discount bin at the video store. ow.ly/Tqy
• “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who still undecided.” -Casey Stengel
• T Jeary: "If you are the first person to see that something needs to be done, you are probably the best person to do it."
• Focus found in ability to boclk out all things we don't like about ystrdy & things we worry about tomorrow & do next correct thing we need to do today
• FT: “The great mistake was to rely merely on self-interest in - as imperfect and as important a market as - the financial sector.”
• “Business television makes the crisis feel like it has the tempo of a videogame. But this isn’t Wii Economy. It is plate tectonics.” WSJ
• Building self-confidence is the starting point for unlocking the potential of yourself and others.
• 2008 Bestsellers Fiction: The Appeal by Grisham / The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by Wrobleski / The Host by Meyer / Cross Country by Patterson
• 2008 Bestsellers Non-Fic: Last Lecture by Pausch / Purpose of Christmas by Warren / You: Being Beautiful by Roizen & Oz / Outliers by Gladwell

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2009:

• Currently, GM supports five retirees in the U.S. for every active employee. Nearly equals the population of Wyoming - almost 500M
• RT @AlexKaris: Children spell the word Love - "T I M E" - make your investment today! - That pretty well nails it!
• So long as our compensation systems encourage execs to look only a year or two ahead, that’s what they'll continue to do http://ow.ly/uXB
• Our economy didn't get into this mess because executives were paid too much. Rather they were paid too much for doing the wrong things. WSJ
• Shoichiro Toyoda: “We are not gods, we are not infallible. Sometimes even Tiger Woods misses a shot.” (WSJ Sub Req) http://ow.ly/rWq
• Microsoft is sponsoring a free download of 5 classic HBR articles. http://ow.ly/jqG
• Some “positional leaders” are so good at managing that they obstruct genuine leadership.
• Jack Hayhow's "Kicking the Recession's Butt" e-book FREE download here >> http://ow.ly/ilq
• 2009 C-SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership - Overall Ranking http://ow.ly/ilf
• Many organizations are providing leadership for the past because they don’t understand the present enough to project the future.
• Many Emerging leaders feel stifled because they come to a situation where all questions of how to organize and lead were answered long ago
• The “all-hat-no-cattle leader” Time Magazine http://ow.ly/fmD
• U have 2 get people 2 face up 2 the reality. People will follow you. What they can't stand is unrealistic deluded leadership. A Norman, ASDA
• Mr. New Deal Harry Hopkins of FERA '33: "Our job is to relieve the unemployed not to develop a big social-work organization." What a concept
• "I don’t like offending people, and it’s easy to offend people when you don’t know as much as they do." Good insight by Seth Godin.
• What business ppl need to do to regain trust: Stop behaving like 18th century French aristocracy. Think shared sacrifice. http://ow.ly/8Pv
• “That’s the way we’ve always done it.” Are we so tied to our approach that we lose our effectiveness?

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2009 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2009:

• The phrase leaders cast long shadows is used to draw attention to the fact that a leader’s actions are magnified far more than they imagine
• “You always have to eat humble pie at some point…. Every rejection is the fuel for what you will be.” Diane von Furstenberg in Feb 2009 T&C
• WN: A leader must summon citizens to rise above themselves, but without appearing preachy or contemptuous of their present state of mind
• Not what you’d expect him to say: Creativity flourishes at the edges of things. It needs boundaries and it needs constraints. P Ibbotson
• Without an effective infrastructure for learning – action reviews – a plan is just a plan. An idea is not reality.
• Chief speechwriter for George W. Bush, Marc Thiessen: History Will Remember Bush Well http://ow.ly/4GF
• FT said of Obama’s speech: “the performance of a born leader.” That really means he put the time in. You’re seeing the result.
• FT: Managers who see economic strife only as a threat are missing out on ideal opportunity to implement change and instill better practice.
• Kissinger: Occasionally an outsider may provide perspective; almost never does he have enough knowledge to advise soundly on tactical moves
• Think of leadership IN, not leadership OF. It's not position.
• To develop new leaders, existing leaders will have to give up control and empower emerging leaders to lead in new ways.
• In a downturn, set realistic goals and use shorter time horizons. Predictions are likely to be more accurate and relevant.

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