LeadershipNow 140: March 2018 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2018 that you might have missed:

• The Reciprocity Ring: When Giving At Work Becomes An Act Not A Check from @JohnBaldoni
• VIDEO: Understand blockchain in under 7 minutes: Don Tapscott with Lloyds Bank
• Are you a Role Model? by @LeadToday Steve Keating
• Career pathing: an obsolete practice? by @Julie_WG
• 7 Crucial Things You Must Do Before Graduating College
• Five Phrases To Eliminate From Your Leadership Voice by @TerriKlass
• Manage Polarities . . . or Step Off the Seesaw by @JesseLynStoner
• 4 False Beliefs That Will Destroy Your Leadership by @LollyDaskal
• 5 Reasons You’re Probably Going to Fail by Tony Morgan @UnstuckGroup
• How to Understand Your Audience via @publicwords
• 3 Ways To Keep Your Leadership Fresh and Powerful by @WScottCochrane
• Do You Want a Rich Life? 4 Things to Do Every Day from @wallybock
• Understanding Speed and Velocity: Saying "NO" to the Non-Essential via @farnamstreet
• No Do-Overs in Leadership, But You Can Do Different by @artpetty
• Attenuating Attrition: How Leaders Can Create a Sticky Situation by @Julie_WG
• John Beilein: Coach The Whole Person Not Just The Player from @JohnBaldoni
• Reckenrich & Anderson | Creative Leadership in 16th Century Venice by @jamesstrock
• We Replaced Leaders with Artificial Intelligence. Here’s What We Learned via @DDIworld
• The Difference Between Promise and Performance by @PhilCooke
• Work-life Balance: It's Becoming a Blur - Julie Winkle Giulioni
• 5 Life Lessons Steve Wozniak Shared with HPU's Students - High Point University
• The Power of Observation by @KevinEikenberry
• Building a Culture of Managers Who Lead—4 Key Ingredients by @artpetty
• Problem Solving Steps: 3 Steps to Take Before You Take Any Steps by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr
• Fly High, Dive Deep by @DougSundheim
• Getting Everyone on the Same Page (Does More Harm Than Good) by @LollyDaskal
• Five Leadership Lessons from a Righteous Dude by @soul2work Scott Mabry
• How prepared are you? > "The Power of Observation" via @KevinEikenberry
• Personal Development: Secrets of Getting Better at Almost Anything from @wallybock
• Practicing the Lost Art of Moderation from @GrowingLeaders
• The Golden State Warrior Who Leads From The Bench from @JohnBaldoni
• How to Be Your Best In an Emotionally Demanding Role by @LollyDaskal
• VIDEO: Don't mistake the difficult for the impossible by @NidoQubein @HighPointU
• The Power of a Free Popsicle via @stanfordgsb
• If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. via @techreview “The maximum success never coincides with the maximum talent, and vice-versa,” say the researchers.
• What Exactly Are We Looking For? The Three Required Virtues of an Ideal Team Player by @patricklencioni
• Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs by @jamesstrock
• 5 Good Things To Remember About Failure by @Mark_Sanborn

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2018 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2018 that you might have missed:

• Most Leaders Know Their Strengths — but Are Oblivious to Their Weaknesses by @jhzenger and @JoeFolkman via @HarvardBiz
• Reducing Tension: The Power of “Help Me Understand” by @EricTorrence83
• Does It Pay to Be Ethical? by @FSonnenberg
• Six Kinds Of Procrastinators, and How to Help Them Deliver by @NextNate
• 3 Myths About Millennials in the Workplace Debunked via @bkpub
• How Healthy Is Your Organization's Culture? by @MarcellaBremer via @TanveerNaseer
• The Ultimatum: Improve or Shut Down by @rickmaurer2
• Forget Work-Life Balance and Focus on These 5 Things Instead by @RandyConley
• Culture Blinds Great Opportunities by @KateNasser
• How to Lead Under Pressure and Remain Calm by @LollyDaskal
• Humans may not always grasp why AIs act. Don’t Panic. from @TheEconomist
• 5 Thing I Have To Do, But Don’t Like Doing as a Leader by @RonEdmondson
• Learning How to Think: The Skill No One Taught You from @farnamstreet
• How to Make Your Point and Be Heard When You Speak Up by @JesseLynStoner
• No development budget? Internal career mobility is still within your reach by @JenniferVMiller via @SmartBrief
• How to Move People Past an ‘Us Versus Them’ Mindset at Work by @babettetenhaken via @TalentCulture
• Organizational culture polarities hold the key to a healthy culture by @JesseLynStoner
• Tired Or Weary- The Importance Of This Distinction for Leaders by @WScottCochrane
• New Report Details the Devastating Effects Social Media Is Having on Generation Z by @TimElmore
• The day after tomorrow: transform or perish via @LBS
• Learning from History: What didn’t they know and when didn’t they know it? from @wallybock
• Stop worshipping unicorns. Your firm can be entrepreneurial by @profhamel via @LBS
• Mr. Morris Lives from @wallybock
• 10 Reasons Leaders Have No Patience For This by @BrianKDodd
• How to Handle Annoying Overconfident People In Your Life by @LollyDaskal
• 7 Things Your High-Performing Employees Long to Hear You Say by @LetsGrowLeaders
• What's the shape of your organization's culture?
• 5 Outdated Axioms That Can Be Hurting Your Leadership by @WScottCochrane
• What are you doing to create a better future? Big question every leader must ponder by @JohnBaldoni
• Doubt kills more dreams than failure by @richardbranson
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• Types IN people, not types OF people. This will re-set your view on diversity. by @NextNate
• VIDEO by @JohnBaldoni > Don't Let Self-Doubt Get You Down
• The Skills Transformation Leaders Need by Doug Ready and Alan Mulally
• What You Can Learn About Self-Observation and Self-Improvement from Kevin Durant by @ScottEblin
• PDF: Special Report on Business Ethics: Moral Philosophy via @whartonknows
• Five Practices of the Most Change-Ready Leaders via @INSEADKnowledge
• Why Is This Generation Gap Different? by @BruceTulgan
• What Will Work Look Like in 2030? via @stratandbiz
• How biases, politics and egos trump good strategy via @McKinsey
• How to Lead Cynics by @tedkinni via @stratandbiz

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2018 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2018 that you might have missed:

• Whoa! What are Today's Most Common Leadership Mistakes? by @julie_wg
• You’re a Human Being, Not a Human Doing: 3 Steps to Opt Out of the Rat Race by @RandyConley via @ThinDifference
• Why Crisis Management is a the Ultimate Test of a Leader by @JohnRichardBell
• 7 Big Rules For a Successful Talent Review by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders
• The Five Most Important Investments for Your Time in 2018 by @SteveGutzler
• Performance Coaching – If You Wait, it May Be Too Late via @LeaderChat
• How to Make an Effective Apology and Increase Trust by @JesseLynStoner
• How to Make a Small Tweak in Communication for a Surprisingly Big Change by @LizKislik
• Cultivating The Essential Ingredient In Leadership: Energy by @steenbab via @forbes
• 4 Ways Leaders Test for Trust In Their Team by @WScottCochrane
• Leaders are Pushers by @patricklencioni
• The Power of Leading Between the Lines by @WScottCochrane
• Leadership’s Dirty Little Secret from @wallybock
• Diversity’s Missing Ingredient by @patricklencioni
• My thoughts on social media and the threat they pose to democracy. Russia was just a sub-plot by Niall Ferguson
• The Power of Feedback: How To Make Feedback Constructive by @LollyDaskal
• Boss’s Tip of the Week: Let them know you care from @wallybock
• Why time management is ruining our lives by Oliver Burkeman
• Google CEO: Digital technology must empower workers, not alienate them
• The 5 Levels of Trust by @JesseLynStoner
• Leadership: Andrew Jackson and Leadership in Adversity by @wallybock
• What Great Leaders Struggle With – But Are Scared to Admit by @LollyDaskal
• Fact Check: Are Your People Skills As Good As You Think? by @swhitbo
• 3 Strategies that Minimize Hierarchy and Maximize Speed and Agility by @Leadershipfreak
• The Quick and Easy Way to Assess Your Leadership Effectiveness
• Wonder if the company culture at Volkswagen will ever change? by @James_M_Kerr
• 5 Ways Leaders Can Focus When Everything Is Important by @davidmdye
• You have to be willing to sacrifice and pay your dues if you want to live the life down the road. That’s not just the way it is; that’s the way it’s always been. - @SteveTobak
• Will Oprah's Next Act Be Her Role Of A Lifetime? by @JohnBaldoni
• A Manual for Self-Disruption via @stratandbiz
• The Problem of Virtuous Leadership via @stratandbiz
• Improve Your Executive Presence via @StanfordBiz
• Shirzad Chamine: Five Strategies to Challenge Negative Thoughts via @StanfordBiz
• Make Better Your Mantra For 2018 by @JohnBaldoni

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2017 that you might have missed:

• How to lead a group of experts, or, how to be a president of presidents by @profkjmoore
• 10 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via @Inc
• Learn from Lincoln how to elevate the quality of our thinking by Chris Brady @RascalTweets
• I learned from Saatchi: quality is remembered, long after price is forgotten by @RobinSharma
• Where are you allowing yourself to be "deliciously deluded" in business? from @scottmckain
• Deconstructing the Development Mindset by @Julie_WG
• The Risk When a Values-Driven Company Like Patagonia Takes a Stand by @JesseLynStoner
• Homeboy Humility: Growing Stronger And Better By Listening from @JohnBaldoni
• Eight Ways to Be a Better Leader in 2018 by @KevinEikenberry
• Look for these traits in future leaders by @HarveyMackay
• How to Deal With Colleagues Who Deny Reality by Gleb Tsipursky via @JesseLynStoner
• 10 Simple Rules for Mastering the Language of Leadership by @WScottCochrane
• 10 Leadership Resolutions for a Successful 2018 via @CCLdotORG
• Safe enough to try: An interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
• Putting lifelong learning on the CEO agenda via @McKinsey
• What Really Matters for Your Business Is Forwardship via @INSEADKnowledge
• Corporate Heaven: The ‘Authentizotic’ Organisation by Manfred Kets de Vries via @INSEADKnowledge
• Leadership: The MacArthur Maxim by @wallybock
• The Problem with Hurry by @CABachelder
• 5 Inspirational Stories Of Resilience from @JohnBaldoni
• Sitting Near a High-Performer Can Make You Better at Your Job via @KelloggSchool
• Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with "dopamine-driven feedback loops"
• Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things? by Heather A. Butler via @sciam
• 5 Ways to Lead Change in a Change-Averse Environment by Jon Lokhorst
• READ > 10 Warning Signs of Leadership Insecurity by @WScottCochrane
• Six Toxic Thoughts Successful People Quarantine by @talentsmarteq
• VIDEO: How Great Entrepreneurs See What Others Don’t via @StanfordBiz
• How to Become a Powerful Follower...and a Good Leader by @GusGiacoman via @stratandbiz
• Three Connections That Energize Every Great Leader by @davidmdye
• Lessons in Love and Leadership from @wallybock
• How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them by @AdamBBryant
• Disruption Is a Team Game via @DDIworld
• Too much information? via @LBS
• How To Sharpen Your People Skills When Working From Home via @PhilCooke
• 10 Principles for Winning the Game of Digital Disruption via @stratandbiz
• The Strength of Vulnerable Leaders via @stratandbiz
• 3 Lies that can Shipwreck a Leader by @WScottCochrane
• Three ways introverts can be better bosses for extroverts by @profkjmoore
• Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy by @BarnettTalks
• Real gratitude doesn’t appear at moments in our life, but it is a disposition we have towards life.
• Assess Your Impact: Three Questions Every Leader Must Ask from @JohnBaldoni
• The Problem With Data via @KotterIntl

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2017 that you might have missed:

• 8 Principles of Collaborative Leadership by @JesseLynStoner
• How Leaders and Their Teams Can Stop Executive Hubris by Jonathan Mackey and Sharon Toye via @stratandbiz
• How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant) via @HBSWK
• Neuroscientists have identified how exactly a deep breath changes your mind by Moran Cerf
• The Right and Wrong Way to Apologize and Why It Matters by @LollyDaskal
• Culture Leadership Charge – A Crisis of Respect by @scedmonds
• 5 Tips for Creating a Culture of Gratitude by Scott Mabry @soul2work
• What’s Your Learning Style? by Kay Peterson via @leadchangegroup
• How Should Leaders Address Challenge Of Low Performers? by @TanveerNaseer
• Three Critical Ingredients of the Successful Manager's Foundation by @artpetty
• Deconstructing Delegation by @Julie_WG
• 8 leadership lessons from history via @wef
• 29 of the Most Gifted and Highly Recommended Books by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet
• Leaders: Have a Sense of History by @ThinDifference Jon Mertz
• The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty via @stanfordbiz
• 7 Deadly Mistakes That Even Great Leaders Make by @LollyDaskal
• Beware Cargo Cult Management by @wallybock via @leadchangegroup
• Reflect before you leap via @thehrgoddess
• 3 Indicators You Need to Recharge Your Leadership Battery by @WScottCochrane
• Are You a Windshield or a Rear-View Mirror? by @paul_larue via @leadchangegroup
• How Positive Images (and negative ones) Shape Your Reality by @JesseLynStoner
• Be Better at Spontaneous Speaking via @StanfordBiz
• VIDEO: What Successful Entrepreneurs Know via @StanfordBiz
• Jim Collins: On Leadership In America via @ChiefExecGrp
• Music only helps you concentrate if you’re doing the right kind of task
• Be the Water, Not the Dam by @thehrgoddess via @leadchangegroup
• LBJ: A Role Model For Our Times? from @JohnBaldoni
• A Time for Courageous Leadership by @chiprbell via @leadchangegroup
• Should you take a vote at the start of meetings? NO! by @michaelaroberto
• 9 Brain-Aging Sins That Can Kill Your Performance by @MarcelDaane
• Leadership: 5 things you can do to get better results from @wallybock
• The Tension Between Power and Leadership by @tonymorganlive
• “When Leaders Must Confront “There Was a Day” Thinking” by @WScottCochrane
• 3 Ways Executives Can Champion Lifelong Learning via @leadchangegroup

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2017 that you might have missed:

• If You Can’t Answer This Question in 5 Seconds, You’re in Trouble by @SteveTobak
• Four innovation lessons from the Aston Martin Atom by @AlastairCole
• Leadership Tunnel: The Need to Be Right Leads Nowhere by @KateNasser
• 10 Theodore Roosevelt Leadership Lessons by @jamesstrock
• Stages of Team Development and Leadership by @JesseLynStoner
• Four Ways Work Will Change in the Future via @StanfordBiz
• You Can't Change Fundamental Behaviors Without Changing Fundamental Beliefs by Greg Satell @Digitaltonto
• Dysfunction Isn't Heroism by @edbatista
• Learn to Identify and Assess Assumptions as Part of Your Decision-Making by @artpetty
• 10 Things Every Team Leader Needs to Know by @JesseLynStoner
• Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams by Michael Blanding
• The Bad Influence of Aggressive Bosses by Manfred Kets de Vries via @INSEADKnowledge
• Yes, You Are The Lid by @shawnlovejoy
• Leadership: Dinosaurs and Behavior Problems from @wallybock
• Jeff Flake Gives A History Lesson For The Ages from @JohnBaldoni
• Practical Tips to Practice Empathy by Shubha Aptevia @leadchangegroup
• 8 ‘Momentum Killers’ Leaders Must Avoid – @WScottCochrane
• My advice to a much younger me by @richardbranson
• Video: How Are Your Core Values Showing Up? by @larrywinget
• Start your day off right by checking where you are on the MoodElevator. Take My Free Quiz!
• How to Make Your Point and Be Heard When You Speak Up @JesseLynStoner
• A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide to Greatness by @LollyDaskal
• Improve Your Executive Presence via @stanfordbiz
• Trying to Get Ahead? Plan in Reverse, Study Suggests
• What the Future of Leadership Looks Like by @timelmore
• 7 High Costs of Leadership Every Leader Should Pay by @RonEdmondson
• 7 Fears You Need to Overcome to Be An Effective Leader by @LollyDaskal
• Increase Your Influence – Stop Talking! by Mark Deterding via @leadchangegroup
• The Most Important Boss from @wallybock
• Want to Be Successful? Quit Overthinking by @SteveTobak
• “If you’re not willing to make the commitment, don’t complain about the outcome.” ~ @FSonnenberg

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2017 that you might have missed:

• How Exceptional People Developers Beat Bad Systems by @Julie_WG
• The One Skill That Will Cure All Your Communication Problems via @soul2work
• Can We Find Happiness in This Digital Era? by @TalentCulture Shawn Murphy
• How to Use the Science of Awe and Wonder to Succeed by @MarciaReynolds
• What Do Great Leaders Have in Common? by @DougConant
• Does Mindful Acceptance Reduce Stress, Increase Happiness? by @DrMelanieG
• Is it Time to Innovate? What Netflix Got Right (And WebTV Didn’t) by @DanielBurrus
• Introverted Leaders are Primed to Lead Millennials by @JennKahnweiler
• Six Ways To Lead On A Multi-Generational Team by @TerriKlass
• 10 Ways Leaders Build a Good Name – @WScottCochrane
• Ikigai: A Japanese concept to improve work and life via @BBC_Capital
• How to Easily Evaluate the Quality of Research by @JesseLynStoner
• 8 Techniques to Help Your Middle Managers Cultivate Their “Sweet Spot” in Your Org by @LetsGrowLeaders
• Are you in Control? Really? by @LeadToday Steve Keating
• The Power of the Pattern Interrupt by @KevinEikenberry
• John Le Carre: Storytelling Lessons For Managers from @JohnBaldoni
• Rebuild Respect: Conditional to Unconditional Apologies by @KateNasser
• How to Succeed as A New Leader by @LollyDaskal
• The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change - via @HBSWK
• Read How to Take a Stand Without Polarizing Others by @JesseLynStoner
• How to Kickstart the Social in Your Leadership by @Social_Hire David Shindler
• Please don’t become a boss if … from @wallybock
• Free Speech: Faculty/college presidents/nightmarishly protective parents bear much of the blame.
• 6 Ways to Master the Art of the First Impression by talentsmarteq
• John Feal Teaches Us What It Means To Serve Others from @JohnBaldoni
• Why Everyone Should See Themselves as A Leader by @LollyDaskal
• How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
• The Vital Importance of Respect in Leadership by @WScottCochrane
• Trust Us: Authenticity Needs Work via @LBS
• A Manual for Self-Disruption via @stratandbiz @dlclarke
• Putting Humanity First in Our Organizations by Eric McNulty @RicherEarth via @stratandbiz

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2017 that you might have missed:

• Two Questions You Need To Stop Obsessing Over by @PhilCooke
• The Courage to Deliver Difficult Messages by David Grossman
• There’s One in Every Group (and How to Make Sure It’s You) by @ScottEblin
• Why It's Essential to Invest in Developing Your Managers as Leaders by @artpetty
• Ten Great Coaching Questions by @KevinEikenberry
• How to Know Yourself by @LeadToday Steve Keating
• 10 Unmistakable Signs You’re Talking Like a Leader by @WScottCochrane
• Are You in Charge of Your Kids or Are They in Charge of You? by @timelmore
• Boss’s Tip of the Week: Doing what doesn’t come naturally from @wallybock
• The Pistol Maker Who Saved American Industry by @ChipRBell via @leadchangegroup
• Yes, There Are Leaders In America from @JohnBaldoni
• A leadership expert says every business team needs a Jobs and a Wozniak
• 7 Surprising Leadership Lessons We Can Learn From Jazz by Laura Montgomery
• “Eight Guidelines to Involve Your Team in Creating Vision and Strategy” by @JesseLynStoner
• Team Building Toolkit-25 Tips! via @justcoachit
• How to Get Ahead and Make Steady Progress by @FSonnenberg
• Invest in Trust via @LeadToday
• Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught by Manfred Kets de Vries
• WIll Machines Rule? 3 Ways to Defeat the Plot to Overthrow Humanity by @MarkDMcKinney
• The Emotional Sophistication Tomorrow’s Leaders Will Need by Quy Huy via @INSEADKnowledge
• Diffusing Unconscious Misbehaviour in the Workplace by Manfred Kets de Vries via @INSEADKnowledge
• How Marketing Can Trick Our Brains via @INSEADKnowledge
• You Won’t Improve if You Don’t Focus by @will_lukang
• A Proven Mathematical Formula For Leadership Success With One Major Caveat by Brian Dodd
• Putting Humanity First in Our Organizations by @RicherEarth
• The Self-Aware Leader by @KevinEikenberry
• Hard Human Consequences of Taking the Easy Way Out by @KateNasser
• Leadership: Crucibles, Consolidation and the Power of a Journal from @wallybock
• The Words You Leave Behind by Scott Mabry
• Want to Be a Self-Made Millionaire? With 1 Sentence, @mcuban Reveals How to Get Rich via @Inc
• The One Time You Should NOT Express Positivity by @LollyDaskal
• From @JohnBaldoni Great leadership infographics you can download
• How do you become an AuthenticLeader? The answer isn’t the same for everyone. Use my the TrueNorth Mirror to find out.
• Agility is Today's Most Critical Leadership Competency by Julie Winkle Giulioni @julie_wg
• Leadership is About Creating Insight by Randy Hall @4thGear
• Improving Company Culture Is Not About Providing Free Snacks via @stratandbiz
• How Leaders Can Improve Their Thinking Agility via @stratandbiz
• The Space Between Coaching and Delegating by @JesseLynStoner

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2017 that you might have missed:

• Two Truths About Humans that Leaders Must Always Remember by @KevinEikenberry
• Honorable Leadership by @BarnettTalks
• Driscoll's CEO on servant leadership via @SmartBrief
• 10 Principles of Organizational Culture via @stratandbiz @jon_katzenbach
• What Happens When Leaders Divide to Conquer by @LizKislik
• How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day by @SkipPrichard
• When Goals Matter – Part Four by Steve Keating @LeadToday
• How to Listen in an Age of External Distractions by @SusanMazza
• Unexpected Truths About Lying and Liars You May Want to Know by @KareAnderson
• 4 Practices That Will Make You a More Powerful & Trusted Leader by Randy Conley at @LeaderChat
• Return to Calmness: A Leadership Imperative by Jon Mertz @ThinDifference
• Culture Leadership Charge – WOW Your Customers by @scedmonds
• 5 Tips to Remove the Weapons of Mass Distraction
• Team Development Is a Key Leadership Responsibility by @JesseLynStoner
• Hit 'Em Straight: Nice Guys Know How To Play The Game by @JohnBaldoni
• The Internet of Changing Things via @stanfordbiz
• Act Like the Leader You Want to Be via @StanfordBiz
• The 4 Questions Leaders Ask to Turn a Failure Into a Learning by @WScottCochrane
• How three men in suits made Apollo 11 a success from @wallybock
• 10 Signs You’re Suffering From Rear-view Mirror Leadership by @RandyConley
• Daily Two Minutes Of Greatness by @LollyDaskal
• 5 Ideas to Help You Knock the Negativity Out of Your Career and Life by @artpetty
• Are Generational Stereotypes Ever True? Millennials and beyond Interview with @profkjmoore
• Do People Learn More from Mistakes or Successes? by @MarciaReynolds
• 17 Ideas for the modern world of work from altMBA
• How to Not Act Like a Jerk When With Someone Who Is by @KareAnderson
• 5 Leadership Snacks to Chew On by Scott Mabry @soul2work
• The Courage to Be Courageous by @btreasurer
• Are Great Leaders Born or Made? via @LeaderChat
• 7 Steps to Deal With Toxic People by @EliasKanaris
• The Eight Pillars of Trust via @DavidHorsager
• If We’re Not Human at Work, What are We? by @MarySchaefer
• Team Alignment Is For the Birds! by @JesseLynStoner

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2017 that you might have missed:

• Words to Live By from @wallybock
• How to Accelerate Team Learning via @tnvora
• 3 Ways to tell if a Company Values Innovation via @DanielBurrus
• 10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Become a Leader via @DDIworld
• Churchill & Orwell: Speaking Truth To Power from @JohnBaldoni
• Three Things Executives Around the World Tell Me Always Work by @ScottEblin
• Are You a First-Time Manager? 6 Tips to Start Off Right by Jesse Lyn Stoner
• Why Good Communication Matters by Steve Keating @LeadToday
• How Introverted CEOs Make A Powerful Impact by @JennKahnweiler
• 8 Habits of Effective Critical Thinkers via @AMANET
• Confused People Never Say Yes by @PhilCooke
• Podcast: Agile is a State of Being with @work_matters and Huggy Rao
• Are You Living a Dream? by @fsonnenberg
• 4 Disciplines For Long-Term Sustainability Of Change by R. Kendall Lyman/Tony Daloisio via @TanveerNaseer
• We Don't Have a Crisis of Trust - We Have a Crisis of Untrustworthy Leaders by @RandyConley
• Mary Barra: Simplify Bureaucracy, and Don’t Be Afraid To Job Hop via @stanfordbiz
• Why Uncertainty Makes Us Less Likely to Take Risks via @stanfordbiz
• Pet Peeves: Quit Talking About Yourself—No One Cares by @artpetty
• Helmut Kohl Leadership Legacy via @jamesstrock
• 5 Powerful Ways to Answer Self-Doubt and Step into Your Greatness by @LollyDaskal
• 7 Warning Signs You Need to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence @LollyDaskal via @Inc
• It's important to know what not to do. "Why I Had to Shelve this Startup Idea" by @MarkDMcKinney
• How to Get Incredibly Helpful Feedback from Just About Anyone! by @coachgoldsmith
• Why Heroic Leadership Is Needed Now More Than Ever by @LollyDaskal
• 9 Leadership Lessons from Dad by @skipprichard
• Self-Awareness: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You by @LeadersServe Mark Miller via @WeaveInfluence
• Surround Yourself with Top-Notch People by @FSonnenberg
• Episode 51: Why customers do NOT want “service with a smile” from @scottmckain
• 3 Trends That Will Disrupt Your Workplace Forever via @Gallup
• Leadership Readiness: Are Your People Skills Ready? by @KateNasser
• Why You Might Be a Micromanager and It’s Not Your Fault by @JesseLynStoner
• Stop Thinking “Productivity” — Start Thinking “Problem Solving” via @leadchangegroup
• Four neuromyths that are still prevalent in schools – debunked via @GuardianTeach
• Teachers must ditch 'neuromyth' of learning styles, say scientists
• Organizational Culture: Innovated in 3 Basic Steps by @DanielBurrus
• Boss’s Tip of the Week: The Learning Loop from @wallybock
• A Simple Way to Rise to Your Next Level of Leadership by @SusanMazza
• How to avoid starring in your own drama by @MJasmus
• How do You Improve Workplace Communication? Ask Questions via @boxofcrayons by Michael Bungay Stanier

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2017 that you might have missed:

• Four Questions To Turn Everyone In Your Company Into A Futurist by @faisal_hoque
• 5 Important Coaching Techniques Every Leader Should Practice via @leaderchat
• 38 Sobering Facts For Leaders Who Have Squandered Great Opportunity by @briankdodd
• Three Things Jim Hackett Can Do To Save Ford (Again!) from @JohnBaldoni
• Seven Critical Leadership Rituals by @TerriKlass
• Why effective leaders must manage up, down, and sideways via @McKQuarterly
• Boss’s Tip of the Week: How to talk about behavior from @wallybock
• What Kennedy and Reagan Can Teach Trump About Taking Responsibility from @JohnBaldoni
• The Role of Forgiveness in Rebuilding Trust - 8 Principles to Remember by @RandyConley
• If You Are a Leader, Expect Sabotage
• Be careful when offering criticism by @HarveyMackay
• Subtle sabotage: The invisible impediment to change by @Julie_WG
• The Importance of Leadership via @LeadToday
• Solving Problems Three Ways from @wallybock
• What’s Wrong With (Always) Being Right? by @DougDickersonSC
• How compassion helps renew your leadership purpose by @JenniferVMiller via @SBLeaders
• The Remarkable Power of the Truth Teller by @LollyDaskal
• Four Decision-Making Styles and When to Use Them by @JesseLynStoner
• Debunking the “It Doesn’t Matter Who Gets the Credit” Myth by @WScottCochrane
• How Middle Managers Provide Leadership Everyday by @JesseLynStoner
• 12 Steps for Creating a Culture of Inclusion by @JohnRStoker
• Don't Fear the Elephants by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr
• You don't change the world by fighting for your turf by @philcooke
• Making the Case for Culture Change via THRUUE
• Reality Is Doomed, Long Live Facebook by @SteveTobak
• 4 Proven Reasons Why Intuitive People Make Great Leaders by @LollyDaskal
• Leadership Governance: A Guardian Angel Practice via @ThinDifference Jon Mertz

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2017 that you might have missed:

• Do Young People Really Have It Harder Today? by @SteveTobak
• 4 Things to Let Go Of from @wallybock
• The Power of And via @stratandbiz
• How to Stop Procrastinating and Manage Your Scarcest Resource by @JesseLynStoner
• 9 Ways a Leader Can Earn Trust by@SusanMazza
• The Importance of Yellow Lights by @edbatista
• Collaborative Thinking: Do You See Problem Solving as Collaboration? by @KateNasser
• Handel’s Messiah and Why it’s Never Too Late for Your Dream by @PhilCooke
• Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker
• Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn
• Coaches help you find your own answers. 25 Powerful Coaching Questions to Get Where You Want to Go by @JesseLynStoner
• 6 Steps for Crafting a Compelling Vision by @pauljsohn
• 7 Signs What’s Driving You Is Beginning to Destroy You by @cnieuwhof
• 5 "Secrets" Which Can Make You A Better Leader by @RonEdmondson
• A Surgeon's Legacy Teaches Us The Power Of Mentorship from @JohnBaldoni
• Beware of these three leadership traps from @wallybock
• How to Create Psychological Safety on Your Team via @leadchangegroup
• One Temptation Most Successful Executives Resist by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders
• Leadership As a Performing Art by @edbatista
• Clear Values Are a Business Imperative by @JesseLynStoner
• How Leaders Build Great Organizations … And How They Can Destroy Them by @LollyDaskal
• Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego out of Ideas” via @StanfordBiz
• 10 Easy Ways to Measure the Security of Your Leadership via @WScottCochrane
• Culture Leadership Charge – Servant Purpose by @scedmonds
• If You Want To Innovate, Avoid These Myths by Greg Satell @Digitaltonto
• The Number One Killer of Productivity by @TimElmore via @GrowingLeaders
• Motivational speakers are WRONG about changing habits! It's a process, not an event by @scottmckain

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2017 that you might have missed:

• How to Invest Today in Your Future by @SusanMazza
• Revisiting What It Takes to Become You at Your Best by @artpetty
• The Most Powerful (And Dangerous) Question in the World by @Kevineikenberry
• How Middle Managers Provide Leadership Everyday by @JesseLynStoner
• Ten Toxic People You Should Avoid Like The Plague by Dr. Travis Bradberry @talentsmarteq
• The Worst Mistake You Can Make With a Bad Hire via @LetsGrowLeaders by Karin Hurt
• The Difficulty of Empathizing Up by @edbatista
• What David Rockefeller Taught Me About Life and Leadership by Alan Fleischmann via @FortuneMagazine
• The Best Opportunities Are the Ones You Create for Yourself via @99u
• The Best Way for Leaders to Build Trust by @LollyDaskal
• To create a more intelligent enterprise, executives need to leverage the strength of both humans and computers
• Leadership: Create a great working environment for your team from @wallybock
• Jeff Weiner: Manage Compassionately, and Prepare for the Next Worker Revolution by Bill Snyder via @StanfordBiz
• The Forgotten Skill That Will Make You a Better Leader by @LollyDaskal
• Why John Beilein Is The Truest Coach In College Basketball from @JohnBaldoni
• 10 Easy Ways to Measure the Security of Your Leadership by @WScottCochrane
• Conflict Is In The Air by Jane Purdue
• 15 Things Leaders Can Manage (and One They Can't) by @JesseLynStoner
• Mr. President, Running The White House Isn't Like Running Your Company from @JohnBaldoni
• How ‘Intellectual Humility’ Can Make You a Better Person -- Science of Us
• Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds from The New Yorker
• What happened when one school banned homework — and asked kids to read and play instead from The Washington Post
• The power of connection by @Mark_Sanborn
• How to Lead Better When Pressure Is Mounting by @LollyDaskal
• Why Monkeys Are More Self-Aware Than You Are by @SteveTobak
• Beware the promise of easy success by @wallybock

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2017 that you might have missed:

• Three Leadership Lessons from La La Land’s Jordan Horowitz by @ScottEblin
• Dialogue Bridges the Divide by @JesseLynStoner
• Six Ways to Be a Better Manager via @StanfordBiz
• Take a look at where Tim Cook's new office will be via @FortuneMagazine
• Create an Adaptable Workforce to Ensure Your Company’s Longevity by @hollisthomases
• 4 Sure-Fire Ways to Boost Your Self-Awareness via @CCLdotORG
• How General H. R. McMaster Can Lead The President from @JohnBaldoni
• Culture Leadership Charge – Why Leaders Do What They Do by @scedmonds
• Motivation for leaders: Seven proven levers via London Business School @LBS
• 4 Ways to Avert An Emotional Hijacking by @SteinbrecherInc
• My Favorite Coaching Tool to Help Improve Self-Awareness by @pauljsohn
• Why You Don't Understand "Disruption by @BarnettTalks
• How to Lead with an Open Mind by Steve Axelrod via @ChiefExecGrp
• To Achieve Your Vision, You Must be Willing to Tolerate Discomfort by @JesseLynStoner
• New Research Identifies How Trust Impacts Employee Work Passion via @LeaderChat
• Leadership, Decision-Making and Emotion Management by @edbatista
• Why You Should Speak Less and Listen More by @SusanMazza
• 8 Ways to Gift Your Students With a Lifelong Learning Mindset by @leecrockett
• Your Vision Shapes Your Reality by @HarveyMackay
• Feedback: The Key to Growth, Motivation, and Company Strength via @Incentive_Mag
• 12 Signs You Have the Mindset to Be a Great Leader by @LollyDaskal
• The Shape of Great Problem Solving by @Greene_Nat
• Change starts with a leader's ability to look inward via @LSEforBusiness
• Most business solutions are cross-disciplinary via @LBS
• 10 Simple Rules for Mastering the Language of Leadership by @WScottCochrane
• Is the Time Right For You to Speak Out? by @thehrgoddess Jane Purdue
• The Secret of Great Leadership from @WallyBock
• Why High-Character Employees are the Key to Your Success by Bruce Weinstein via @DDIworld
• Tom Brady Huddles Up For Greatness by @JohnBaldoni
• Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Silenced By #DeleteUber Campaign by @SteveTobak
• Trying to be the “next” ensures that you won’t by @scottmckain
• How to Change a Selfish Person's Stripes by @AdamMGrant
• Americans Think Busyness Signals High Social Status by @SarahFKessler

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2017 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2017 that you might have missed:

• Don’t you love the beginning of a new year? by @mark_sanborn
• Do team values unite or divide your team? @JesseLynStoner
• Your Only Competition Is Yourself by @paul_larue
• The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet
• Five Culture Killers in Your Organization by @GrowingLeaders
• The 5 Worst Mistakes Leaders Make When they Apologize by @WScottCochrane
• Ep. 523: Tom Asacker Interview with Michael Covel
• 20 Awesome Questions That Will Make You A Better Boss by @CoachDavidPeck
• How Would You Answer This Question About Your Leadership? by @TanveerNaseer
• Fundamental Truths That Will Change Your Life by @talentsmarteq Travis Bradberry
• Networking: Why you only need a core group of 10 by @GuithJoe
• How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? by Chris Cancialosi @gothamCulture
• 4 New Entrepreneur Problems You’re Going to Face and How to Road-Map Them by @SusanSolovic
• Will It Make the Boat Go Faster? by @joecalloway
• Fostering The Sense Of Belonging Promotes Success from @JohnBaldoni
• The Ten Behaviors of Strong Personal Leadership by Scott Eblin @EblinGroup
• Do You Have All the Answers?
• 5 Ways to Be a Better Leader in 2017 via @CCLdotORG
• Here's Why Emotions Are The Secret Sauce Of Innovation by ‏@HessEdward
• The Best Leaders Use These 3 Hard Words by Lisa Kohn @ThoughtfulLdrs
• Do You Lead Positive? by @ericaarielfox
• 21 Things New Leaders Should Do by @LollyDaskal
• 6 Elements Of Every Message Stand Out Above The Text by Martin Zwilling @StartupPro The unwritten aspects of every communication are critical.
• Leading by Design by @BarnettTalks
• Five tips for hiring (and holding on to) young people via Management Today @MT_editorial
• Seven Attributes of the Most Innovative Cultures by Gordon Redding via @INSEADKnowledge
• How & Why to Be a Continuous Learning Leader by Anne Perschel @bizshrink
• How Leaders Create Safety (and Danger) by @edbatista
• 2 Self-Leadership Hacks for Positivity by @AlanDUtley
• The Secret Ingredient for Extraordinary Leadership by Jane Perdue @thehrgoddess
• Project Distinct Podcast by @ScottMcKain
• Speaking Effectiveness: Solid Reasons to Moderate Your Energy by @KateNasser
• How to Improve Trust With One Word by @MarySchaefer
• Daily disciplines for successful leaders by @Mark_Sanborn
• HBR: Why We Keep Hiring Narcissistic CEOs
• Six Kinds Of Procrastinators, and How to Help Them Deliver by @NextNate
• Team Building: Let The Big Dogs Bark First from @JohnBaldoni
• 3 Ways Excellent Leaders Keep Getting Better from @wallybock
• 11 brutal truths about emotions that you really need to hear by @justinjbariso
• NYT: The Year of Conquering Negative Thinking by Lesley Alderman
• Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel
• The Best Leadership Books of 2016
• The Best Leaders Are Great Coaches by @LollyDaskal
• Unleashing Creativity And Avoiding Groupthink by Michelle M Smith via @octanner
• The Key Traits that Separate CEOs from other Senior Executives via @ChiefExecGrp Chief Executive magazine
• 9 Teaching Rules that Will Instantly Improve your Leadership by @TerryLinhart

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2016 that you might have missed:

• Don’t you love the beginning of a new year? by @mark_sanborn
• VIDEO: Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace
• The Line between Confidence and Hubris by Tim Laseter via @stratandbiz
• Five Overlooked Principles Shaping the Destiny of Your Business by @jjsviokla via @stratandbiz
• Jeff Bezos: Why Getting 8 Hours of Sleep Is Good for Amazon Shareholders via @thrive
• Future Friday: Shifting Megatrends and how they will affect the workplace
• 5 Reasons You Need to Stop Imitating Other Leaders by @cnieuwhof
• McGill Professor @profkjmoore takes you inside his CEO class.
• 3 Ways to Create Meaningful Goals to Increase Engagement and Trust by @DanNegroni
• Pasta Shapes (Stupid Fights and How to Stop Them) by @edbatista
• Do you make these common leadership mistakes? from @wallybock
• Do an Ethics Check to Navigate the Gray Zone by @JesseLynStoner
• How Self-Reflection Can Make You a Better Leader by @HarryKraemerJr - 8 daily self-examination questions
• 5 People Skills Realizations to Recast Success in New Year by @KateNasser
• How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance? - via @HBSWK
• What I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career (Part One) by @scott_mautz
• Self-Talk: What story do you tell yourself? About learned optimism and success by @MarcellaBremer
• Anthony Bourdain: Management Is Not For The Faint-Hearted from @JohnBaldoni
• Why Organizations Fail by Greg Satell via @IXchat
• 7 Habits That Are Destroying Your Ability to Lead by @LollyDaskal
• Leadership Effectiveness Can’t Be Improved by Peer Groups by @Michael_Beck
• Criticism Is Not Feedback by @FSonnenberg
• Where Great Leaders Earn Their Stripes by @AdamMGrant
• 3 Messages Leaders Listen for in Silence by @WScottCochrane
• 10 Ways to Keep “Post-truth” From Crippling Your Leadership by Jane Purdue @thehrgoddess
• John Glenn: "A Natural Public Servant" from @JohnBaldoni
• Show People the Leader You Are in a Moment by @MarySchaefer
• How Will AI Likely Impact How We Work, Live and Play? by Irving Wladawsky-Berger
• The Best Leaders Are Humble Leaders by @LollyDaskal
• 3 Strategies for Spectacular Leadership by @melissa_lamson1
• Rereading Great Business Books from @wallybock
• Trust: does it impact team performance... or not? via @ScienceForWork
• How to Bring Mindfulness to Your Company’s Leadership

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2016 that you might have missed:

• Learn to Respond, Not React! by @coachgoldsmith
• Teaching Your Firm to Survive a Crisis by @artpetty
• Telltale Signs That You Lack Emotional Intelligence by Travis Bradberry @talentsmarteq
• Political Anger Is Showmanship, Not Leadership by @JohnBaldoni
• If you want innovation in an organisation, no single boss should have the power to kill an idea. - @profhamel
• How to Talk about Politics at Work by @JesseLynStoner
• Leadership Theology by @wallybock
• 3 Times a Leader Must Kill Off a Good Idea by @WScottCochrane
• John Donahoe: Dump the Myth of the High Achiever via @stanfordbiz Build a Whole Life
• NYT: Graduating and Looking for Your Passion? Just Be Patient
• Gratitude is Good for You Too from Leading Blog
• Leading by Values by @kenblanchard
• The Weakness of Extreme Strength by @KateNasser
• 12 of the Most Dangerous Leadership Mindsets by @LollyDaskal
• 7 Ways Successful Creatives Think Differently than Unsuccessful Ones by @MichaelHyatt
• 10 Myths of About Being A Visionary Leader by @pauljsohn
• 10 mistakes creative directors should avoid A good list for any leader.
• What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do by @LollyDaskal
• 16 Habits Of Leaders Who Have Your Back by @BrianKDodd
• 2 Harsh Realities All Leaders Should Know by @BrianKDodd Harsh Reality: No One Cares What The Former Leader Thinks
• 4 ways that leaders can learn more…to become more by @scottmckain
• How to Sustain Your A-Game (Every Day) by @RobinSharma
• HBR: We Drop People Who Give Us Critical Feedback
• NYT: Pay less attention to people's intelligence and more attention to the quality of their reasoning.
• 2017's most in-demand skills, according to LinkedIn
• The Covenantal Leader by Cam Caldwell & Zuhair Hasan via @GraziadioSchool

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2016 that you might have missed:

• Becoming the Best Version of Yourself by @JohnBaldoni
• The Attributes of an Effective Global Leader
• 5 Leadership Lessons From My Tour Of Chick-Fil-A Headquarters by @JosephLalonde
• Three Problems with Top-Down Teams (and How to Fix Them) via @stanfordbiz
• Are Your Management Approaches Stifling Thinking? by @artpetty
• 5 Ways to Sound Helpful Not Patronizing by @KateNasser
• From @WallyBock How to get better at almost anything
• “You and I are the answer to someone’s problem. Live that. Repeat.” by @mikehenrysr
• Five things we learnt from @richardbranson in Boston via @Virgin
• Five Destructive Parenting Habits We Must Replace by @TimElmore
• 10 of the Greatest Leadership Questions Ever Asked by @RonEdmondson
• 5 Emotional Intelligence Hacks That Can Immediately Improve Your Leadership by @Careynieuwhof
• What Google Learned From Its Pursuit to Build the Perfect Team by @pauljsohn
• From @WallyBock Thoughts on Retirement and Purpose
• What Do You See That Others Don't? It Could Be The Key to Your Future by @philcooke
• How to Overcome the Five Greatest Fears via @philcooke
• Using Conflict for Good—a Conversation with Nate Regier by @beckyrbnsn
• Why Expressing Gratitude Through Our Leadership Matters by @TanveerNaseer
• “The Pot-Belly of Ignorance” by @farnamstreet
• This Is What It Takes to Succeed in a Complex World by @SteveTobak
• 7 Things That Drive Your Core Strengths and Make You Unique by Mick Ukleja
• Energy and Flow by @djgreer
• These are the leadership skills Harvard thinks you need
• These 8 phrases will instantly make you the smartest person in the room (in a good way) by @chaddperry
• Teachable Moments: Learning to Win Well the Hard Way by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders
• Another Way You Can Get Recognition Right by @MarySchaefer
• How to Survive in a Brutally Competitive World by @SteveTobak
• Take More Risks by @RichardKoch8020
• Lean Startup and Design Thinking: Getting the Best Out of Both via @StanfordBiz
• What I Learned About Teamwork from the Team Who Built the Largest LEGO Model by @pauljsohn
• Doing This Too Often Could Be Why You Feel So Burnt Out via @FortuneMagazine
• FT: Lessons in clarity from Edward Mike Davis by Lucy Kellaway
• Leadership Getting Hard? Resist These 3 Shortcuts by @WScottCochrane
• 7 Netflix documentaries every entrepreneur should watch by ‏@LollyDaskal
• 9 Communication Mistakes To Avoid At All Costs by @LollyDaskal
• Snap out of it! by @TomAsacker

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2016 that you might have missed:

• Criticism, Boundaries and Useful Feedback by @JesseLynStoner
• Nobody Rises To Low Expectations by @tnvora
• Learn from the Best: Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation via @IXchat
• The Ambidextrous Leader by Julian Birkinshaw via @LBS
• Want to Be a Good Boss? Start by Understanding Why You Want to Lead via @KelloggSchool
• The Key to Being Resilient by @SusanMazza
• How NOT to Screw Up Organizational Change by @macdarling
• From @JohnBaldoni How Arnold Palmer Mastered Golf And Fame By Being Himself
• Bridging the Manager/Millennial Disconnect by @DanNegroni
• Free Guide: End Bad Habits: The Ultimate Guide To Break Any Bad Habit
• The Best Free Leadership Advice You'll Ever Get by @LollyDaskal
• Three Questions Humble Leaders Ask by Annet Aris via @INSEADKnowledge
• Leaders, How Do You Stay Inspired? by @KateNasser
• Back To School At High Point University: Five Business Lessons Taught By Dr. @NidoQubein by @Hyken @HighPointU
• Success Is Never an Accident – It’s a Choice by @SteveTobak
• 14 reasons why it’s tough to be a boss by @WallyBock
• Do Not Take Rest Breaks And 4 Other Productive Tips For Leaders by @BrianKDodd
• Business Book Classic: The Abilene Paradox by @WallyBock
• The Powerful Organizational Trust Elixir by Karin Hurt
• From @JohnBaldoni Can You Be Happy If You Are Clueless?
• Do You Know The Value of Your Social Capital at Work? by @MarySchaefer
• When Things Go Wrong by @djgreer
• Paying Your Dues: What It Really Means & Doesn't Mean by @KateNasser
• Ritual Questions Help Inform Effective Leaders by @RicherEarth
• Leadership Development Needs More Podium Results by Bruce Watt, PhD via @DDIworld
• VIDEO: John Baldoni: Be Open to New Ideas
• Lead Change Group: 10 Insights on Inspirational Leadership by @scott_mautz

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2016 that you might have missed:

• How Ordinary People Can Become Extraordinary Leaders by @LollyDaskal
• The Great Leadership Cop Out: Why “That’s Just Who I Am” Is Derailing Your Results by Karin Hurt
• Leadership Engagement Always Trumps Employee Engagement via @profkjmoore
• Why We All Need to Get Good at “Next” by @ArtPetty
• Why Smart People Make Dumb Decisions by @JesseLynStoner
• A Prescription For Empowering Employees To Succeed And Grow by @TanveerNaseer
• Athlete mentality lessons & limitations for business leaders by Anna Johnston via @lbs
• We All Make the Choice to Transact or Transform by @artpetty
• The Most Overlooked Habits of Great Leaders by @LollyDaskal
• Leading a purposeful, positive, productive culture by @scedmonds
• A Definition of Leadership for These Pressing Times by @JesseLynStoner
• Patience Is an Unrecognized Virtue in Leaders by Ritch K. Eich
• The Five Most Valuable Leadership Skills by Dante Munnis
• Five Reasons Why Young Adults Don’t Accept Responsibilities by @timelmore
• Mindfulness: how to train your chattering monkey mind via @LBS
• The Secret To Being An All-Star At Work? Get More Sleep - Forbes
• To Develop a Culture of Trust and Loyalty, Try Sharing Your Leadership by @MarcelSchwantes
• 5 Ways to Remove Stress from Management by Mark Ellis
• From @JohnBaldoni Yes, You Can Decide What's Right For You
• From @WallyBock Embrace the grind
• If You’re Not Uncomfortable, You’re Not Leading by Jane Perdue @thehrgoddess
• 4 Things That Will Increase Your Optimism by Mick Ukleja
• 4 Secret Fears That Leaders Have That Kill Their Potential by @_TimParsons_
• Are You a Master of the Fine Art of Asking a Favor? by @MarySchaefer
• The Dangers of Power via Stanford Graduate School of Business
• These 7 Things Are Ruining Your Credibility as a Leader by Jordan Kasteler
• Coaching Tip: Instead of Feedback, Try Feedforward by @pauljsohn
• FT: Elon Musk’s masterclass in communication
• From @JohnBaldoni What Donald Trump's Infatuation With Vladimir Putin Says About Leadership
• 9 Ways to Challenge Your Assumptions by @scott_mautz

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2016 that you might have missed:

• 7 Questions the World's Top Executive Coach Asks Every Single Time by @pauljsohn
• 5 Things Insecure Leaders Wrongly Believe by @cnieuwhof
• 7 of the Hardest People to Lead via @RonEdmondson
• How to Create an Exponential Mindset by @MarkBonchek
• The Test Every Great Leader Must Pass by @LollyDaskal
• Seven leadership lessons from Brexit via @LBS
• Disciplined Thinking by John Smith
• Start Your Day Stress-Free by @SarahLandrum
• Q&A with Jesse Stoner on Challenges Facing Leaders Today by @JesseLynStoner
• What Matters to You? by @SteveTobak
• How to Remove Distractions From Your Working Life by Mark Ellis @BusinessFiction
• Trust in the workplace is in global decline. Why? And what's next? by @tedbauer2003
• Moments of Silence - How to Cultivate Gratitude in Life by @waldowaldman
• Focus: the ingredient that most companies and many employees miss via @LSEforBusiness
• Why Leaders Should Channel The Counterintuitive by @suzimcalpine
• 10 Leadership Lessons from John Quincy Adams by @tonymorganlive
• Two Realities Of Leadership That I Wish Weren’t True by @_TimParsons_
• 8 Practical Ways to Energize Yourself by @dbonleadership
• 22 Quotes From Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban On Being A Leader by @BrianKDodd
• Scott Rudin: Management Lessons From A Broadway Producer by @JohnBaldoni
• Juggling Machetes and Torches by @ChipRBell
• Losing Well: 7 Questions to Ask When You Don’t Get the Win by @LetsGrowLeaders
• 7 Poisonous Thoughts That Interfere With Your Success by John Unger
• 5 Questions to Surface Your Leadership Beliefs by @Jesselynstoner
• A Sobering Reality for Pastors and Leaders by @RonEdmondson
• Ten Key Behaviors of Good Operators in Business by @ArtPetty
• The Secret Respectfully Authentic Leaders Know by David Grossman
• Be Careful While You’re Trying to Change the World by @MarySchaefer
• How to Manage Yourself so Your Boss Won’t Have to by @GreatLeadership
• From @WallyBock 5 Ways to Learn like Ben Franklin
• Lead Change Group: 8 Ways to Grant Intelligent Autonomy
• The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten by Joshua Macht
• Understanding What Drives Us To Push Ahead by @TanveerNaseer
• How to Make Your Undeniable Mark as a Leader by JoAnn Corley
• Two Keys to Leading Healthy Teams by @scedmonds
• Five reasons why leaders fail via @lbs

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2016 that you might have missed:

• The Power of a Safety Net by @KevinEikenberry
• How to Silence Your Itty Bitty Committee by @scotteblin
• Decisions and the Least Bad Option by @ArtPetty
• Caught in Team Drift? Consider Honorable Closure by @JesseLynStoner
• Why Deception Is Probably the Single Most Important Leadership Skill by @JeffreyPfeffer via @FortuneMagazine
• 3 Critical Components of a Shared Mental Model by Chris Stricklin
• How to Lead During Times of Chaos by @PhilCooke
• From @JohnBaldoni Driving Passion To Fulfill Your Purpose
• How Smart Leaders Build Trust via @stanfordbiz
• Self-disclosure, Leadership and Trust by @JesseLynStoner
• 5 Reasons Why Leadership Development Should Be More Practical by Monika Götzmann
• Why We Must Hold Leaders Accountable by @SteveTobak
• 11 Reasons Fear Screws Up Your Leadership and What To Do About It by @davidmdye
• FT: Why you should accept your first public-speaking invitation
• FT: Staying power: Richard Solomons, CEO, IHG
• Lead Change Group: Servant Leadership Flies High from the Cockpit – United 757 by @macdarling
• Community Building for a Sense of Purpose in the Workplace by Gleb Tsipursky
• 10 Principles of Strategic Leadership via @stratandbiz
• Can Small Businesses Use Remote Teams Effectively? by Mark Ellis
• From @WallyBock The secret of great achievement
• The First Step in Self-Awareness Isn’t You
• Emotional Intelligence: Self-Awareness
• Do You Have What it Takes to be a Mature Leader? by Mary C. Schaefer
• 7 Reasons Why Small Churches Get Stuck by @tonymorganlive
• Encouragement is 51% of Leadership by @DanReiland
• They Don’t Get It, Do YOU? by @JonathanMoss
• 10 Valuable Principles That Will Make You Treat Your Employees Better by Nick Lucs
• 15 Practices Of Highly Successful Financial Leaders by @BrianKDodd
• How to Drive Productivity as a Leader by Lewis Humphries
• From @WallyBock 4 vital truths of team culture
• 5 Musts for Being Mindfully Present by @scott_mautz
• From @JohnBaldoni Mentors Matter: One Person At A Time

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2016 that you might have missed:

• How new CEOs can boost their odds of success via @McKinsey
• Give ‘Em Some Space (For Possibilities) by @Julie_WG
• Managers and Musicians: Leading By Being Present by @MarcellaBremer
• The 4 Dimensions of Trust by @JesseLynStoner
• Stop Trying to Grow Influence. Grow this Instead. by @ChadBalthrop
• VIDEO: You Don’t Need A Title To Be A Leader with @SkipPritchard and @Mark_Sanborn
• 18 Things Which Do Not Happen Without Quality Leadership by @BrianKDodd
• Lead Change Group: Three Characteristics Needed to Champion Change by Mark Rittmanic
• From @JohnBaldoni: Tom Hanks: Don't Let Self-Doubt Stop You
• From @WallyBock Commencement: 11 things I wish I’d learned sooner
• Lead Change Group: 3 Reasons You Should Listen to Those Pesky Millennials by @davidmdye
• How We Encourage Entrepreneurial Thinking within Virgin by @richardbranson
• Lead Change Group: The Character of Passionate Leadership by @ChipRBell
• Lessons from a Life Coach: Three Steps to Conquering Your Fears via @GuardianUS
• 12 Things that KILL Your Leadership Effectiveness by @Mark_Sanborn
• Why CEO style should contrast with culture via @WPCareySchool Research
• 10 Leadership Principles I Learned from Dosan Ahn Chang Ho by @pauljsohn
• The Single Most Important Ingredient for Maturity by @TimElmore
• Five Reasons Why Leaders Fail by Nigel Nicholson via @LBS
• Evolving Leadership in the Digital Age by Manfred Kets De Vries via @mgissues
• The Planning Doing Cycle by @JesseLynStoner
• 12 Powerful Lessons I’ve Learned Being a Leadership Coach by @LollyDaskal
• How to Move Beyond “You’re Either With or Against Us” by thehrgoddess Jane Purdue
• The 5 Times Leadership Is Guaranteed To Fail by @LollyDaskal
• 7 Damaging Facts About Dysfunctional Organizations by @BrianKDodd
• Getting to the Other Side of Discouragement by Caitiee Whelan
• The Difference Between Strategy and Leadership by @profkjmoore via @GlobeandMail
• From @WallyBock Don’t worry about being humble, just do it
• 5 Mistakes of the Hero Leader by Dan Forbes
• The Leader’s Opportunity by @scedmonds
• What Drives the Greatest Leaders? by @coachgoldsmith
• VIDEO: @profkjmoore on Introverts and Leadership Part 1
• 5 Things to Remember When You Feel Insecure by @LollyDaskal

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2016 that you might have missed:

• FT: Beware the inspirational boss
• Go Disrupt Yourself via @stratandbiz
• Digital strategy: Understanding the Economics of Disruption via @McKinsey
• Where Startups Lead, Corporates Follow – Why Co-Working is the Future via @GuardianUS
• FT: A stirring reminder of shared values
• 3 Ways To Avoid Being 'That Guy' by @JohnBaldoni
• The Second Machine Age by @WallyBock
• 9 Important Ways That Will Make You Treat People Better by @LollyDaskal
• Mindfulness and Vision are Complementary by @JesseLynStoner
• Criticism Is Not Feedback by @FSonnenberg
• How to Build a Great Reputation by @FSonnenberg
• What You Know That You Don't Know Can Hurt You by @RicherEarth via @stratandbiz
• Six Startup Lessons Every Founder Should Know via @StanfordBiz
• VIDEO: Effective People Think Simply via @StanfordBiz
• Reprogramming of Leaders by @will_lukang
• Creativity: An Undervalued Leadership Skill by Ron Burg
• #1 Sign Someone Isn’t a Great Leader by @coachgoldsmith
• Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion? by Jane @thehrgoddess
• FT: Intel’s Andy Grove and constructive fear
• Why this Wharton wunderkind wants leaders to replace their intuition with evidence
• The Quality That Destroys So Many Good Leaders via Fortune
• What Cereal and Coffee Teach Us About Millennials by @TimElmore I drift toward convenience because I’m lazy
• How did that person get to be a leader? by @MarySchaefer
• From @WallyBock One last time: how do you motivate people?
• The Other Face Of Your Brand by @paul_larue
• Staying one step ahead at Pixar: An interview with Ed Catmull via @McKinsey
• Four Bad Workplace Behaviors You Need to Stop Tolerating Now by @scedmonds
• What Type of Leader Are You? by Alison Brattl

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2016 that you might have missed:

• Max DePree: North America’s First CEO Design Thinker by Michael Graber @southerngrowth
• Do you serve your team or are you a self-serving team member? by @JesseLynStoner
• John Harbaugh's Unorthodox Approach — Football as Family by Kevin Van Valkenburg via @ESPN
• The Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Make: From Team Member to First-Time Manager by @JesseLynStoner
• FT: We prefer bad bosses to be 100% horrible
• The Cost Of Waiting by @scedmonds
• The Dilemma Of The Servant Leader by @LollyDaskal
• How technology is creating a new world of work via @McKinsey
• 3 Reasons Why Connecting is Essential to Progress by @SusanMazza
• 7 Things A Leader Must Do To Build The Perfect Team by @Terry.Starbucker
• 6 Ways to Stay Productive When You’re Completely Overwhelmed by Karin Hurt at @LetsGrowLeaders
• Digital Has Killed the Strategic Plan by @ChrisOutram1 via @INSEADKnowledge
• What’s Your Organization’s Values Operating System? by @scedmonds
• The Hard Work of Leading Is All In Your Mind by @ArtPetty
• From @JohnBaldoni Pat Conroy: A Final Lesson For Leaders
• 7 Tips for Improving the Quality of Your Feedback by @JohnRStoker
• Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher by Robert A. Burgelman via @HarvardBiz
• The Man Who Put Intel Inside via @TheEconomist
• From @WallyBock The State of Business Books
• Dysfunctional Leadership: 10 Thinking Habits to Avoid by @MarcelSchwantes
• From @WallyBock Decision Making: 10 Great Situation Analysis Questions
• How a Radical Shift to "Self-Management" Left Zappos Reeling - Fortune
• What to Do When It’s Hard to Get Things Done by @coachgoldsmith
• From @JohnBaldoni Baseball Lesson: How You Can Become A Better Manager By Keeping It Simple
• Farewell to Nancy Reagan, a Friend and Patriot
• When One Door Closes, Another Opens ... Sort Of by @SteveTobak
• From @JohnBaldoni Nancy Reagan: The Steely Protector Every Leader Needs
• Why Great Leaders are Uncommon by @dbonleadership
• The Increasing Importance of Organizational Structure by @tedbauer2003
• What Are Your Barriers to Applying Good Advice?
• 8 Practices Of Highly Successful Leaders by @BrianKDodd

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2016 that you might have missed:

• Why You Fall Off Track and 4 Tips to Get Back on Track by @JesseLynStoner
• Business Books: Getting the most from a business book by @WallyBock
• What Leadership Is Not by @LollyDaskal
• 10 Ways to Overcome Negativity at Work by Karin Hurt @letsgrowleaders
• World’s Most Admired Companies via @FortuneMagazine
• The Evidence for Mindfulness: A Research Summary for the Corporate Sceptic by @WinterTheo
• From @JohnBaldoni Temperament: A Leader's Salient Edge
• The Ultimate Podcast for Getting the Results You Want! Episode 1 by @Mark_Sanborn
• Pessimists Can’t Lead: 7 Ways to Find Optimism by @LeadershipFreak
• The One Thing Today's Leaders Need To Do by @TanveerNaseer
• Lincoln's Secret to Greatness by @JesseLynStoner
• 10 Times You Don't Need a Leader by @RonEdmondson
• 20 Ways to Know If You Are a Leader by @PaulJSohn
• We Like Leaders Who Underrate Themselves by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman via @HBSWK
• Feedback: When to Listen to it and When to Ignore It by @PhilCooke
• 10 Things Leaders Should Be Thinking by @BrianKDodd
• Check out The First 90 Days Online. Use it to accelerate everyone! Can be used with cohorts or virtual coaching too via @MichaelDWatkins
• The One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job by @AdamMGrant - NYT
• Six Fundamental Principles that Make it Difficult for People and Organizations to Change
• 8 Ideas to Help You Expand Your Field of View by @ArtPetty
• Cultivate the "I Trust You" School of Management by @JohnBaldoni - Reminds me of A Message to Garcia
• The Happiness Factor by @scedmonds
• Feedback: What are your Intentions? by @Julie_WG
• From @JohnBaldoni Super Bowl: Losing With Dignity Reveals True Character
• FT: The secrets of inspiring bosses
• Lead Change Group: What Millennials Need in a Leader by Margy Kerr-Jarrett
• A Myth That Thwarts Leadership by @SusanMazza via @toddbnielsen
• These are the world's top business schools in 2016
• From @WallyBock Do you want to read 100 books this year?
• 9 Strategies to Become a Fantastic Listener by @JohnRStoker

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2016 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2016 that you might have missed:

• 2 books that will help you to have a more meaningful and productive year.
• Why Most Change Efforts Fail and 7 Guidelines to Ensure Your Team Succeeds by @JesseLynStoner
• 11 Ways to Strengthen the Relationships That Will Lead You to Success by @LollyDaskal
• The Three Measures of Your Leadership Success by Eric McNulty @RicherEarth via @stratandbiz
• How to Raise Millennials in the Workplace by @scramm via @stratandbiz
• Refueling as a Leader by @ArtPetty Care and feeding of the leader’s spirit must come first or everyone suffers
• Physics of Change @JesseLynStoner An unbalancing force occurs when enough people realize the current situation isn't tenable
• Is your emergency brake on? by @scedmonds
• Is Your Firm Stuck Here? by @JanRutherford
• 5 Friends: How to Start 2016 via @Mark_Sanborn Good advice
• From @WallyBock 50 of the “best book I read in 2015″ recommendations
• Using your EQ to make your team stronger by @JohnBaldoni
• How to Make Your Company a Community via @stanfordbiz
• 12 Critical Competencies For Leadership in the Future by @tnvora
• A Deeper Dive into Developing Your People by Karin Hurt @letsgrowleaders
• The Unconventional Habits of Transformational Leaders via @INSEADKnowledge
• Sleep Deprivation Is Killing You and Your Career via @successmagazine
• 2016 - The Year of Connected Customer by @ValaAfshar Your future customer is never offline
• Mutually Assured Disruption via @stratandbiz
• Top 10 Leadership Strategies for the New Year by @Mark_Sanborn
• Video from @JohnBaldoni: The Art of the Sound Bite

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2015 that you might have missed:

• Validate your beliefs by @scedmonds
• The Founder of TOMS on Reimagining the Company’s Mission
• Emotional Awareness by @RCKahn
• Sometimes You Have to Look Back to Move Forward by @LollyDaskal
• Leadership Beliefs: Are Yours Helping You Lead? by @KateNasser
• I interviewed the most successful people alive — here’s what I learned via @FortuneMagazine
• How to Create a Dynamic Strategic Plan in an Unpredictable World by @JesseLynStoner
• Easy = True by @TomAsacker
• The Economist Films - The World in 2016
• From @JohnBaldoni 3 Questions To Help You Win Your Next Argument
• Good Read: 5 Daily Habits to Improve Your Quality of Life by @Mark_Sanborn
• 5 Mindset Shifts to Promote Connection by @DrToddWHall
• Executives, Protect Your Alone Time by @sbkaufman and @carolyn_greg
• From @WallyBock How to be successful even if you’re smart
• 20 Questions for Business Leaders via @stratandbiz
• 15 Qualities The Most Successful Leaders Have by @BrianKDodd
• How Entrepreneur Robert Mondavi Changed Wine Forever by @tracybyrnes via @Entrepreneur
• FT: How to deal with ‘toxic’ workers
• A Failure to Act: The Leader’s 5 Most Damaging Inactions by Scott Mautz
• How to Orchestrate Your Attitude by @SkipPrichard
• Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora
• From @JohnBaldoni Using Fear To Trump Reason
• I in Leadership by Nigel Nicholson via @LBS
• The Need for Entrepreneurial Leadership by Randel Carlock via @INSEADKnowledge
• You Might Have a Dysfunctional Team If... by @bradlomenick
• From @JohnBaldoni When You Present, Inform Don't Educate
• Here's How Leaders Create Healthy Organizational Culture by @PaulJSohn The importance of language
• MITSloan Mgmt Review @mitsmr: Evaluating your personal knowledge infrastructure
• From @WallyBock Improving those conversations about performance
• FT: Review: The Refusal of Work by David Frayne
• You always want to be the market leader. If you can’t say that, shrink the market segment until you can. @SteveTobak
• 20 Questions for Business Leaders via @stratandbiz
• Renewable Leadership by @StrategicMonk
• Lead Change Group: Four Pillars of Self Leadership by @AlanDUtley
• How to Increase Leaders' Moral Authority by David Dubois via @INSEADKnowledge
• Four Steps to Manage Your Crucial Conversations by Steve Knight, via @INSEADKnowledge

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2015 that you might have missed:

• Do You Have a Contrarian on Your Team? via @StanfordBiz
• 10 Winston Churchill Leadership Lessons by @JamesStrock
• You Might Have a Dysfunctional Team If... by @bradlomenick
• This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University! by @dreverettpiper
• Give Thanks For The Circles Around You by @LollyDaskal
• Ignorance: The Bliss Of The Foolhardy by @JohnBaldoni
• The Most Cost Effective Way To Engage Your People by @paul_larue
• 7 Times I Submit to People I Should Be Leading by @RonEdmondson
• Be Prepared for Opportunity by @will_lukang
• Interwoven in our stories are our ego's insecurities and identities
• Leadership is a "Fact Free" Topic -- Which is Why Nothing Improves by @JeffreyPfeffer on @LinkedIn
• A look at Leadership BS by @JeffreyPfeffer
• Leading With Grace by @StrategicMonk
• The Signs of Provocative Leadership by @ChipRBell
• What’s Happening to College Students Today? by @TimElmore
• How Great Leaders Respond When the Pressure is On by @WScottCochrane
• Why Sleep Is a Strategic Resource from @mitsmr
• A Framework of Organizational Tensions developed by @BobQuinnUofM
• Be a Leader People Choose to Follow by @JesseLynStoner
• Become a careful observer of “how things happen” in your workplace by @ArtPetty
• Only 55% chose the most expert person. Instead, they chose people who were taller, louder, or more confident.
• Great! > If You Are A Jerk Should You Still Be Authentic? by @johnbaldoni
• Good Read: Here's How You Actually Build Long-term Influence by @pauljsohn
• How To Create An Optimistic Workplace by @SkipPrichard
• 22 Leadership Lessons From Surviving A Plane Crash by @BrianKDodd
• “Leadership Qualities” vs. Competence: Which Matters More?
• Good Read: 30 Questions Every Leader Can Ask to Become a Better Coach by @PaulJSohn
• What is the most powerful question a leader can ask? by @JohnBaldoni
• 10 Ways to be a Life-long Learner
• The Inspiring Truth about Leading and Losing by Scott Mabry @soul2work
• The Practice of Gratitude by @WallyBock
• Three Ways for Non-Beginners to Keep a Beginner’s Mind by @ScottEblin
• Finding Balance In Business Education by Manfred Kets de Vries via @INSEADKnowledge
• The Promise of Leadership: Clear the High Bar of Expectation by @LeadershipCir
• Can Women be Strong Leaders Without Being Labeled “Bossy”? via @StanfordBiz

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2015 that you might have missed:

• 12 Simple Steps for Making Yourself Indispensable by @LollyDaskal via @Inc
• 20 Behaviors Even the Most Successful People Need to Stop by @coachgoldsmith
• The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs via HBR
• Transforming Organisations for Sustained Innovation by Hubert Gatignon via @INSEADKnowledge
• From @JohnBaldoni 5 Ways Jim Harbaugh Inspires His Team
• Interview between @DanielGolemanEI and @Bill_George about the importance of self awareness and reflection.
• You know about silos. Well, how about slabs?
• What makes a great leader? by Chris Patten via @wef
• 5 Ways Listening Like an Anthropologist Will Make You a Better Leader by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders
• How to Manage Your Ego by Anne Perschel @bizshrink
• MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation
• The missing link between a promising businessperson & a successful one by @richardbranson
• 18 top CFOs share their best piece of financial advice by By James Kosur via @wef
• 5 Feedback Hacks That Will Change Your Work Life Forever by John Tabis
• Mark Leslie: Putting the “We” in Leadership via @StanfordBiz
• Top Twelve Trends in Leadership Today by @bradlomenick
• 29 Lessons from the Past 29 years by @pauljsohn
• Millennial Parents Cover Story: This Generation Is Different via Time Magazine
• What Is Collaboration and Where Does It Begin? by @JesseLynStoner
• What Legacy Are You Leaving? by @LollyDaskal
• Look for the underlying reasoning. Five Ways to Sharpen the Mental Pencil by @Mark_Sanborn
• Don’t Manage Time – Manage Your Values, Priorities, & Habits by @scedmonds
• Why Being a Self-Aware Leader Is Not Enough by @DovBaron
• How to Promote Yourself Without Being Annoying by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders
• 5 Things You Need to Succeed by @LeadersServe
• 3 Signs Your Leadership Requires a Self-Awareness Tune Up by @WScottCochrane
• Lindred Greer: Great Leaders Understand the Fundamentals via @StanfordBiz
• From @WallyBock 5 Praise Pitfalls

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2015 that you might have missed:

• Stop Providing Too Much Information @EdBatista
• The Truth About Courageous Leadership by @LollyDaskal
• Role Models from Dangerous Situations by @ArtPetty
• 10 Habits of Highly Effective Small Group Leaders by @pauljsohn
• From @JohnBaldoni If You Are A Jerk Should You Still Be Authentic?
• The Two Sides of Pope Francis
• The Two People Every Organization Needs by @mlukaszewski
• Through Thick and Thin by @scedmonds
• The Alternative to Fixing Poor Performance by @SusanMazza
• 24 Habits that Will Boost Your Intelligence via @Inc
• Business Creativity: Recreate the Image to Include Everyone by @KateNasser
• The Genius of Opposites: Extroverts and Introverts by @SkipPrichard
• From @JohnBaldoni Pope Francis Is What We Want Him To Be (Even If He's Not)
• How to Handle Audience Skepticism via @stanfordbiz
• 25 Practices Of Highly Successful Leaders by @BrianKDodd
• Eight Ways the Military Manages Uncertainty by Gilles Hilary via @INSEADKnowledge
• What To Do When Your Personal Growth Stalls via @HarvardBiz
• Why the Leadership Industry Has Failed by @JeffreyPfeffer
• What It Takes to Be a Crazy Successful Entrepreneur by PaulAngone
• The Leadership Playbook: What I Want in a Leader by @iannarino
• How to Avoid 3 Big Mistakes About Being Biased by Jane Perdue @thehrgoddess
• 20/20 Foresight by Ram Charan via @stratandbiz
• 9 Ways Great Leaders Communicate by @charlesstone
• How to Avoid Crushing the Self Confidence of Others by @scott_mautz
• From @WallyBock Your questions could be the answer
• The Most Attractive Quality A Leader Can Have by @BrianKDodd

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2015 that you might have missed:

• 90 Powerful Ways to Become a Highly Successful Leader by @LollyDaskal
• 3 Situations Where Leaders Should Keep Their Mouth Shut by AJ Agrawal via @Inc
• Words that Heal, Words that Steal by @JeremieKubicek
• Why People Are Drawn to Narcissists Like Donald Trump by Michael Maccoby via @HarvardBiz
• Fake It Til You Make It? Not So Fast via @KelloggSchool
• Stuck In The Middle With Me by @StratLearner
• From @JohnBaldoni Does It Take Courage To Run For President?
• Dynamic Duos: How Introverts and Extroverts Create Breakthrough Results by @JesseLynStoner
• Mind the trap: three mistakes managers should avoid via @lbs
• What Business Leaders Can Learn from Generals from @INSEADKnowledge
• Trust From the Inside Out by djgreer
• Do you want a “bruising” workplace? by @scedmonds
• 5 Approaches To Connecting Your People by @paul_larue
• People Challenges Can Sink Startups via @StanfordBiz
• 20 Practices Of Leaders Who Become Cautionary Tales by @BrianKDodd
• 60 Resources for Getting the Career You Want via @KentStateCOBA
• 20 Ways to Know If You Are a Leader by @pauljsohn
• 7 Questions to Improve Your Team’s Communication by Karin Hurt
• Cultivating A Constructive Response to Momentary Failure by @artpetty
• Four Ways to Stimulate Growth in Others by Mark Miller @LeadersServe
• The Surprising Benefits of Being More Fully Present at Work by @ScottEblin
• The Key to Greater Impact by Mark Miller @LeadersServe

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2015 that you might have missed:

• At the Intersection of Must And Want We Find Ourselves by @LollyDaskal
• 10 Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Talent Hotbed by @PaulJSohn
• Disrupting beliefs: A new approach to business-model innovation from @McKQuarterly
• 30 People You Want On Your Team by @BrianKDodd
• Decisions and Timing by Ahmed Mujtaba
• Changing change management via @McKinsey The power of digital to drive change.
• Lack of Sleep Impairs An Essential Social Ability by @PsyBlog
• 15 Ways NOT to Lead Well by @bradlomenick
• Leading Difficult People by @DanReiland
• 10 Remarkable Qualities Of A Truly Proactive Leader by @dbonleadership
• Hostages to Fortune by @jamesstrock
• 7 Reasons Why Traditions Are So Important by @FSonnenberg
• How Conflict Makes Us Better by @paul_larue
• The Power of Gratitude by Manfred Kets De Vries from @INSEADKnowledge
• Developmental Assignments are Vital: Don’t Squander their Potential from @DDIworld
• Why Leadership Programs Fail: It's Not What You Think from @KotterIntl
• 29 Employee Engagement Ideas You Need to Know About via @snacknation
• Three Responses to Conflict by @mikehenrysr
• Simple Steps to Embrace Ambiguity and Lead Significant Change by @kellihinshaw
• 3 Ways to Ignite Inspiration by @SusanMazza
• 3 Approaches to Culture Change: What Works by @JesseLynStoner
• The Soft Underbelly of “Hard Data” by @Mintzberg141
• From @WallyBock: Being a good boss means doing the whole job
• 5 Surefire Ways to Make Conflict Worse by @MarySchaefer
• Top 10 Mistakes Leaders Make by Mark Miller @LeadersServe
• Best 50 Leadership Blog Sites in 2015 from Jon Warner @ReadyToManage
• 5 Early Leadership Mistakes I Made (That You You Don't Need To) by @cnieuwhof
• From @JohnBaldoni I Want To Be A Hologram Like Tony Robbins
• Video: Confident Leaders Invite Dissent by @JohnBaldoni

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2015 that you might have missed:

• Leadership is Not Something We Accomplish by @StrategicMonk
• From @WallyBock Becoming a great boss: where to start
• From @JohnBaldoni LeBron James: Confidence Does Not Negate Humility
• The Inner Game of Leading by @artpetty
• Leadership Success: Think Balance Beam Not Mountain Top by @KateNasser
• True Wisdom… and False Lessons by @BobBurg
• To Brag or Not: When It Pays, When It Backfires via @whartonknows
• 10 novels that will make you smarter about business via @wef
• Ready or Not, Here Comes Algorithmic HR by @watkinsmichael
• Face Your Fears With New Challenges by paul_larue
• Becoming an Enterprise Leader: The Seven Seismic Shifts by @watkinsmichael
• The Most Important Career Decision of Your Life: Stepping Up to Leadership from @DDIworld
• From @WallyBock The hardest thing for a manager to learn
• From @JohnBaldoni President Kennedy: One-Two Punch In Speechmaking
• The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis by @profhamel
• The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company by @profhamel
• Sustaining an Organization in the Midst of Chaos via @GraziadioSchool
• Six Characteristics of Virtuous Organizations via @GraziadioSchool
• When to change how you lead from @McKQuarterly
• Excellence Comes From Saying No from @HBSWK
• Jesper Sørensen: How to Be a More Strategic Leader via @StanfordBiz
• Henry Mintzberg, the Anti-CEO, on The CEO Series radio show via @profkjmoore
• Can You Manage Up? Eight Questions for Increasing Your Influence by @JohnRStoker
• New Tools Needed for Managing Uncertainty via @INSEADKnowledge
• The Most Important Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves by Henrich Greve via @INSEADKnowledge
• Critical Periods for Leadership Growth via @ddiworld
• From @JohnBaldoni Do You Have A Top Five List Of Mistakes You Have Made In Your Job?
• The Man Who Invented Scotch Tape from @priceonomics
• Becoming Agile and Adaptable is THE Leadership Issue by @ArtPetty
• A Powerful Way to Gain the Trust of Your Team by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders
• Dueling Dualities | False Binaries by @jamesstrock
• Seven Paradoxes of Nurturing Leadership by Jane Purdue @thehrgoddess
• 10 Reasons Why Humility is Vital to Great Leadership by @brandonacox
• Choosing a Path in the World Ahead
• Evil but Effective: Leadership Lessons From FIFA's Ex-Boss Sepp Blatter by @bilsap via @inc
• Why Creativity Isn’t Always Sweetness and Light by @PhilCooke
• Are You a Coaching or Mentoring Ninja? by @scotteblin
• From @JohnBaldoni Pope Francis: The Power Of A Smile
• Lead People to Believe in Themselves @LollyDaskal

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2015 that you might have missed:

• Reconsidering the Charismatic CEO by Eric McNulty
• Vision Requires Action: 7 Tips to Move and Keep Moving by @JesseLynStoner
• Can your diet shape your mental health? via @Globe_Health @LeslieBeckRD
• Leadership. All welcome. from @ddiworld
• Ten Ways to Become a Great Mentor from @INSEADKnowledge
• Global Leadership Forecast 2014|2015 from @ddiworld
• The Future IS Now for These Critical Leadership Skills from @ddiworld
• 10 Proven Ways to Build and Manage Great Teams by @jeff_haden
• Can Exercise Really Make You A Better Leader? by @circlemakersco
• 7 Habits of a Successful Leader by @RonEdmondson
• From @JohnBaldoni Mike Matheny: Servant Leaders Know How To Play Ball
• On Leadership, Fear and Weakness by @tomschulte
• Humility "They'll come sliding in and tell you you're the greatest man alive—but you know and I know you ain't."
• What's The Truth About Your Leadership? by @TanveerNaseer
• A Cog in a Wheel by @SCEdmonds "No one is paying any attention to us."
• Wow! 99 simple ways to gain the respect of others by @LollyDaskal
• Am I missing something? by ‏@TomAsacker
• 3 Reasons Your Team Won’t Follow You by @davidmdye
• The 3-Letter Word That Will Help You Find Your Passion by @erinaceously
• Let’s Get Rid of Management by @ChipRBell
• From @WallyBock Feedback: 6 Tips for Giving It Well
• From @JohnBaldoni Ike At War: Velvet Touch, Firm Grip
• Let No Man Pull You So Low by @PageCole
• FT: Kill the passion for work
• Do We Need Bosses? Like it or Not, Yes by @SteveTobak Amen!
• From @WallyBock Lessons from my father
• At Zappos, 210 employees decide to leave rather than work with 'no bosses'
• 10 Tips On Picking A Great Leader For Your Church Or Business by @BrianKDodd
• Avoiding Leadership Burnout - The Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center via @dianaoreck
• Do You Have What It Takes to Be Inspiring? by @MarySchaefer
• Testing Your Character Habits can reveal what strengths and weakness you have.
• Hey, Kids, Look at Me When We’re Talking As technology expands, our fundamental skills tend to diminish.
• Overcoming Inconsistency by Scott Mautz
• How to Pull Yourself Back from the Brink of Your Caffeine-Driven, Smart Phone-Addicted Life by @ScottEblin
• Improbable Libraries Beautifully Depicts The Fun Side Of Libraries
• Restoring Humanity to Leadership from @INSEADKnowledge
• Is the why greater than the how? by Nayeem Syed via @LBS
• Great interview with Diane von Furstenberg by @nytcorneroffice

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2015 that you might have missed:

• "The path from strategy to execution should be energizing and inherently inspirational." by Ken Favaro
• Focused Or Flailing? by @CABachelder
• Lead Change Group: The Power of a Leader
• Are You Drowning Your Team? by @SkipPrichard
• If you can't be interesting without profanity, then let's face it: you're not that interesting. By @michaelhyatt
• If You're Not Learning Something New, It's Time to Move On by @HamzaK
• Lead By Thoughts, Not Feelings by @paul_larue
• From @JohnBaldoni Jon Stewart Taught John Oliver To Rise To The Occasion
• From @WallyBock Leading yourself: A Baker’s Dozen of Things to Master
• 8 Transformational Characteristics All Leaders Share via @pauljsohn
• 3 Ways to Avoid the Slippery Slope of Inconsistency by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders
• 4 Ways Leadership Drift Can Catch You Unaware by @JesseLynStoner
• Who are you really helping? by @mjasmus
• 7 Ways to Unlock Your Hidden Emotional Intelligence by @LollyDaskal
• Are you paying attention? by Julian Birkinshaw via @LBS
• The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life via @nytimes
• How Perfectionism Is Secretly Holding You Back by @LollyDaskal
• Why You Must Avoid the Deadly Logic Trap by John McClenahent from @IndustryWeek
• The Importance of Seeing the World in Shades of Grey by Manfred Kets de Vries
• Deal with Workplace Bullying by @scedmonds
• FT: Driven to distraction by social media
• 5 Reasons People May Not Be Following Your Leadership by @_TimParsons_
• How to Stage a Revolution
• The Acquisition That Got Away by @hmikitani_e
• How Are You Committed to Everyday Leadership? by @MarySchaefer
• The Naked Truth: How To Uncover An Insecure Leader by @LollyDaskal
• 12 Signs of Un-Leadership by @mikehenrysr
• @Bill_George: An outstanding article on the importance of EQ: EQ can be developed & improved, but IQ remains relatively constant.
• From @WallyBock You and your assumptions
• From @richardbranson > I got almost no guidance on relationships at school – 50 years later children should be getting a helping hand
• 4 Reasons You’re Not Getting the Feedback You Need by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders
• From @JohnBaldoni Mandy Patinkin: You May Be Your Own Worst Enemy
• 7 Ways to Unlock Your Hidden Emotional Intelligence by @LollyDaskal

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2015 that you might have missed:

• Who are the greatest business pioneers of all time?
• 7 Practices Of Your Organization’s Top Performer by @BrianKDodd
• Holawhat? Meet The Alt-Management System Invented By A Programmer And Used By Zappos by @rzgreenfield
• Stanford's Most Popular Class Isn't Computer Science--It's Something Much More Important via @FastCompany
• Learning from the Persuasive Genius of Great Leaders by @Elizdo
• Are You Emotionally Intelligent? Here's How to Know for Sure via @Inc
• From @WallyBock “Fail fast and often” is really dumb advice
• Start Today: 20 Habits That Will Help You Be Your Best in 2020 by @LollyDaskal
• From @JohnBaldoni When Leading Peers, Value Is Power
• Leaders: 5 Warning Signs That You’ve Lost Your Influence by @PhilCooke
• 10 Tips to Create Better Life Balance by @FSonnenberg
• 5 Tips to Master the Art of Power Listening by @SkipPrichard
• Advice for High Potential Leaders by Mark Miller @LeadersServe
• A culture of continuous improvement by @DrDanNicholls
• Can You Design an Organisation? by Phanish Puranam via @INSEADKnowledge
• 10 Easy Ways To Keep Me Engaged During Your Message by @tonymorganlive
• 18 Things Respected Well-Liked Leaders Consistently Do by @KateNasser
• From @WallyBock My “Mount Rushmore” of Leadership Books
• Beyond brilliance: gaining wisdom by @mjasmus
• How to react to a provocation via @LBS
• Leadership to Reverse Hostile Workplace by @KateNasser
• Lead From Where You Are And With All That You Have by @LollyDaskal
• 31 Leadership Experts Reveal Top Leadership Skills & Traits by @eliv8group
• 4 Reasons We Settle for “Good Enough” via @coachgoldsmith
• How to be More Confident in 13 Steps
• From @JohnBaldoni Smackdown: Feedback Works Best When It Stings!
• Lead Change Group: The Most Important Thing by @scedmonds
• FT: A golden age for young founders

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2015 that you might have missed:

• Insight: Do You Have What It Takes To Be President? by @_peterlegge
• My Advice to 22 Year-Olds by @GuyKawasaki
• Best Advice: You Can Do Better by @DougConant
• What You Need to Know About Change by @Mark_Sanborn
• 25 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From McFarland, USA by @BrianKDodd
• Managing to Lead by @Mintzberg141 Managers are important to the extent that they help others be important.
• Six Questions To Improve The Power Of Your Message by @JohnRStoker
• From @WallyBock Love the work
• 100 Leadership Quotes I'm Memorizing by End of 2015 by @pauljsohn
• If You Can’t Communicate, You Can’t Lead (Part 2) by Mark Miller @LeadersServe
• Are You Adding Value Or Subtracting Value by @LollyDaskal
• FT: My job bores me, should I quit?
• Remarkable TV: The First Leadership Habit to Nurture by @KevinEikenberry
• Washington's Lessons: It’s Never too Early to Choose to Lead
• FT: The perils of to-do lists
• How to Create a Learning Environment by @jurgenappelo
• Excellent thought! > Enough Leadership. Time for Communityship by @Mintzberg141
• Great leaders don't need to pull rank by @FSonnenberg
• Lessons from RadioShack: To Stay on Top, Figure Out What Got You There via @whartonknows
• Is Your Leadership Style Right for the Digital Age? via @whartonknows
• The Innovative Organisation: Learning From Design Firms by @msosa_innovate
• Finding the Mango Tree Inside of the Seed by @EtienneT_Esq
• 14 Questions Every Christian Leader Should Ask Themselves by @pauljsohn
• How to Lead in Ambiguous Times from stratandbiz
• How Trust Can Unlock Superior Performance by @DougConant
• 21st century leadership lessons from The Great Communicator. 15 Reagan Leadership Lessons by @jamesstrock
• From @wallybock: Shorter books and short attention spans The distracted lifestyle may be the culprit
• From @JohnBaldoni Trust Your Gut When Making Decisions
• How Human-Centered Leaders Follow Principles that Matter by Jon Mertz @ThinDifference
• Apple’s Big Lesson for Business Leaders by Steve Tobak

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2015 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2015 that you might have missed:

• Some of the Things I've Learned - What Will Matter by @Josephson0
• Why Culture and Leadership Matter for Disruptive Innovation by James daSilva via @SBLeaders
• From @JohnBaldoni Presence: Your Key to Stronger And Bolder Leadership
• Roderick Kramer: How Do Trustworthy Leaders Behave? | Stanford Graduate School of Business
• From @WallyBock You’re the boss. Make a difference.
• How to Develop a Lifelong Learning Habit by @dorothydalton
• 5 Tips for Building Creative Communities by @HeidiOran via @thindifference
• Where Does The Next Generation of Leaders Come From? by @GordonTredgold
• 7 Ways to Increase Trust by Creating Stability by @StopYourDrama
• 10 Suggestions to Handle Conflict in a Healthy Way by @RonEdmondson
• BBC News - What makes a good business leader? by Emily Young
• 12 Things That Successful Leaders Never Tolerate by @LollyDaskal
• From @PaulJSohn How Does Emotional Intelligence Affect Your Career [Infographic]
• 10 Winston Churchill Leadership Lessons by @JamesStrock
• Why We Fail At Leadership by @TanveerNaseer
• Behaviors Matter by @SCEdmonds
• Guidelines to Create a Compelling Vision by @JesseLynStoner
• 3 Hard But Powerful Truths about Likeability and Leadership by @cnieuwhof
• The Small Steps That Have a Big Impact on Achieving Goals by @Katy_Milkman via @whartonknows
• Who Are You When You Go To Work? by @StrategicMonk
• Why Better Tests = Better World by @anya1anya How to stop testing madness - test what's important
• Important topic: Consider How You Want Them to Feel by @ScottEblin
• 10 Ways You’re Making Your Life Harder Than It Has To Be by @thoch
• How’s Your Leadership…Positive or Polluted? by @GenLeadBlog
• Why We Need a Management Shift by @VlatkaHlupic
• Your online bio may be hurting you. Here’s how to fix it by @PhilCooke
• Your Next "Aha!" Is the Beginning, Not the End by @steveroesler
• Moderation Doesn't Mean Mediocrity by @KateNasser
• From @WallyBock The Five Best Business Books I Read in 2014

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2014 that you might have missed:

• 50 Crazy Ideas To Change Education via @teachthought
• Steering Clear of “Flailure” by @ArtPetty
• Dealing w/ Toxic People: Pleasures That Calm by @KateNasser
• How to Maximize Your Energy When You Don't Have a Lot by @JesseLynStoner
• The Best of Marshall Goldsmith 2014 by @coachgoldsmith
• FT: Thirteen traits of true innovation
• 50 Signs You Are Married to an Entrepreneur
• Ego serves leaders well when self-interest drives service by @Leadershipfreak
• How To Increase Self-Awareness In Our Leadership by @TanveerNaseer
• Testing Your Leadership Vision by @MarkSanborn
• The Neuroscience Of Being A Good Leader by @jacobshriar
• From @JohnBaldoni Broadway Lesson: Find Success With Your Opposite Number
• Practice improving your relationships to become a better leader by @mjasmus
• Sony’s email hack: 3 critical lessons on power by @JeffreyPfeffer
• 11 Questions Leaders Should Ask Themselves by @ArtPetty
• VIDEO: Charles O'Reilly: How to Be a Chief Culture Officer via @StanfordBiz
• Business Leaders Should Not Avoid Competition by @BarnettTalks via @StanfordBiz
• How To Become the Most Compelling Person You Know @LollyDaskal
• American teachers: As mediocre as American students? via @FortuneMagazine
• 3 Ways Social Media Can Improve School Culture
• From @JohnBaldoni Brady Hoke: What You Can Learn About Leadership From A Football Coach Who Was Fired
• HBR: The Big Lie of Strategic Planning by Roger Martin
• The Importance of Character and Trust via @skipprichard
• Top 101 Leadership Speakers List by @Kruse
• Unfiltered Leaders: Making the New Year About Real Change, Not More Polish
• A Simple Way to Manage the End Of Year Rush by @ScottEblin
• How a lack of sleep affects the brain
• The Civility Standard by @scedmonds
• From @JohnBaldoni Sometimes It's Better To Lead With Your Heart Rather Than Your Head
• On Leadership and Next Gen Growth: Why Developing Young Leaders is Critical by @LeonLeeEllis
• Five Ways Gratitude Will Change Your Life by @KevinEikenberry
• The 4 Biggest Myths About Leadership from @LollyDaskal
• Lead Change Group: Leaders Are Made To Be Born

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2014 that you might have missed:

• FT: Overworked and uninspired - the misery of the middle manager
• Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation by @JamesStrock
• Why are idiots SO CONFIDENT? Fascinating article on supposed “experts” via @PacificStand
• Are you Leading Well? 13 Questions to Ask Yourself by @charlesstone
• 7 Tensions You Can Expect in Fast Growth by @RonEdmondson
• So How Will You Ever Get Off the Desert Island? by @DPForrester
• 9 Positive Ways Leadership Development Impacts Your Church by @richbirch
• 5 Signs You’ve Taken Your Eye Off the Leadership Ball by @WScottCochrane
• Leadership Trait to Ponder: Respect via @toddbnielsen
• Want to generate great ideas for your business? Don't hide your knowledge, share it. by @phylliskorkki
• From @WallyBock Learning about innovation from Mr. Edison and his phonograph
• What is the difference between good leadership and great leadership? via @DisneyInstitute
• Learning Something New? by @missafayres Remember These 3 Things
• Behind the Curtain of Leadership by Terry L. Price via @RichmondMag
• 9 Things That Define Great Leadership by @LollyDaskal via @inc
• Creativity: Capturing your ideas by @wallybock
• Put MOXIE into your leadership ... and show others the way.
• The Best Leaders Are Critical Thinkers by @LollyDaskal
• 5 Great Questions The Best Leaders Ask Themselves by John Kramp via @bobtiede
• The Trickle-Down Effect of Deceptive Leadership by @James_M_Kerr
• From @JohnBaldoni Herbie Hancock: Get Out Of The Way When Your People Are Learning
• Five Questions for Leaders Who Would Rather Be Effective Than Right by @ScottEblin
• Caring Words Cost Nothing & Bring You Everything by @KateNasser
• 5 Reasons Why Leaders Must Sometimes Take A Back Seat by Matt Driscoll via @SkipPrichard
• 25 Lessons Learned (or Reconfirmed) in Year Five Away from Corporate Life by Mike Brown @brainzooming
• Why Monster.com Is Failing And Others Will Follow by @lisaearlemcleod
• What Most Parents Want to Teach Their Children by @KRConnect
• Lead Change Group: 7 Habits Of Highly Inept Leaders
• Think Time Should Not Be Measured In Minutes by @JohnBaldoni
• Humility doesn’t come from insecure people, it comes from people who see the big picture. @PhilCooke
• Leader, Know Yourself by @scedmonds
• Charismatic Leadership: Style or Substance? by @JohnRichardBell
• Three Things Every Leader Should Do by Mark Miller @LeadersServe
• NANO TOOL: Confidence When you Need it Most from @Wharton
• NANO TOOL: Five Steps for Managing Culture Change from @Wharton
• The Importance of Mindful Leadership by Chris Maxwell via @Wharton

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2014 that you might have missed:

• How to Encourage the Lazy and Disengaged by Karin Hurt via @letsgrowleaders
• 5 Times When it Pays to Focus on the Negative by @Mark_Sanborn
• The best advice in business: 40 execs reveal their secrets to success via @FortuneMagazine
• Six Reasons Why Boundaries Help Everyone Be More Successful by @KevinEikenberry
• Mindful Mondays: Take the Time by @ScottEblin
• FT: A 1964 masterclass from Ronald Reagan
• FT: The spy tale all bosses should read and BBC News Are we overlooking genius leaders?
• FT: Feedback: Can you hear me?
• Why I regret being a nice boss: Setting boundaries with employees by Laura Smith via @Slate
• Prof. Richard Shell offers 5 techniques for building confidence in challenging times. The key? Do what works for you
• It Is What You Do After You Get Knocked Down That People Remember by @JohnBaldoni
• @tom_peters Totally 100% agree. My view is the Millennials stereotype is a red herring for avoiding discussion about poor leadership!
• FT: The quiet art of being a good listener
• Insights for Transformative Leaders by Cam Caldwell via @graziadioschool
• 21st Century Leaders List by @JamesStrock
• The Approachable Leader by @LeadToday Steve Keating
• The 4 Biggest Myths About Leadership from @LollyDaskal
• 6 Small Changes to Your Morning Routine Will Transform Your Entire Day via Inc
• Don't panic! How to deal with disruptions to your business via @idealogmag
• Think small, move fast: Simon Wedde on why big businesses need to embrace start-up culture via @idealogmag
• What if we chose leaders differently? by @WallyBock
• 10 Indicators You Have no Margin in your Life by @charlesstone
• 10 Things I Hate About Leadership by @josephlalonde
• FT: Can you be a good dad and businessman?
• Roderick Kramer: How Do Trustworthy Leaders Behave? via @StanfordBiz
• David Ogilvy’s Contrarian Management Advice by @GregoryCiotti
• Drive Change Towards Your Desired Culture by @scedmonds
• The New Bureaucratic Brazenness
• Leadership in VUCA World: Perspectives on #IndiaHRChat by @tnvora
• 10 Things that will help you in business and you didn’t learn in school by @WallyBock
• Humility in Leadership by @will_lukang
• How We Overlook Hidden Talent by @paul_larue
• Boarding school: becoming a leader – or faking it? via Globe and Mail

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2014 that you might have missed:

• How Do Trustworthy Leaders Behave? by Roderick Kramer from @stanfordbiz
• Do Workplace Hierarchies Still Matter? by Jeffrey Pfeffer from @stanfordbiz
• What to Look For In Future Leaders by @KevinEikenberry
• 10 Great Leadership Quotes (And How To Use Them To Inspire Your Team) by @Starbucker
• 7 Commandments of Leadership by @RonEdmondson
• Why The Best Leaders View Vulnerability as a Strength by @JHaudan
• How To Be A Horrible Leader - 50 Bad Leadership Traits by @toddbnielsen
• A Recipe for Air Rage from the NYTimes
• 8 ways perfectionism holds you back by @LollyDaskal via @Inc
• The Marshmallow Test for Grownups by @edbatista via @HarvardBiz
• 16 Reasons People Don't Listen When You Talk by @Leadershipfreak
• Good Advice from by @WallyBock: 3 Things I wish I had learned sooner
• Great Read: 10 Theodore Roosevelt Leadership Lessons by @jamesstrock
• VIDEO by @scottmckain: What the NFL's Problems Mean To YOUR Business: Daily Dose of Distinction
• Scientists Cannot Explain This Crazy Ant Behavior from The Atlantic
• You Don’t Have to Go it Alone by @MarySchaefer
• FT: Commerce summer camps for teenagers
• No shame in taking a fresh approach to an old problem New for @Forbes Lesson from @RobertPlant
• Video: by @Mark_Sanborn - Effective leaders create commitment, not compliance.
• 7 Steps to Living a Bill Murray Life from @Vulture
• The Difference Between Great Leaders And Posers by @MikeMyatt
• 4 Core Elements to Winning Teams by @dbonleadership
• How Do You Check Your Leadership Intentions? by Jon Mertz @ThinDifference
• “If Risk Knocks At The Door: Will You Answer It?” by @LollyDaskal
• Great Work is Hard Work by @WallyBock
• Why the Robots Might Not Take Our Jobs After All: They Lack Common Sense by @Neil_Irwin
• Leadership is Built One Brick at a Time by @StrategicMonk
• FT: An itch to check the inbox is only human

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2014 that you might have missed:

• Good read > @jamesstrock 's take on Jonathan Darman's Landslide
• The 6 R.E.A.L. Questions Every Leader Should Be Asking by @lollydaskal via @Inc
• Leadership Vertigo – Understanding Why Leaders Go Off Course by @TanveerNaseer
• Mike Henry Sr: The Day I Got Schooled on Respect. Again.
• Make It A Habit To Ask Your Employees These 6 Questions by @EricJacobsonKC
• 7 Indicators That You're Not Leading Anymore by @RonEdmondson
• Kryptonite: The Thing That Weakens Leadership by @leadershipfreak
• Mike Henry Sr: Why Nobody Wants To Be A Hero
• Good Luck or Bad Luck? Who Knows! by @LollyDaskal
• Writing a Book: Schedule your writing time
• Why saying no gets you ahead via @FortuneMagazine
• Question For Leaders: What's Your Value? by John Baldoni via @forbes
• FT: ‘What-if’ musings that drive leaders mad
• Coaching Young Leaders by @DanReiland
• Schumpeter: Leading light from The Economist
• The Story Behind "You Must Be The Change You Wish To See In The World" by @LollyDaskal
• FT: Business has lost its community role
• As a leader, are you a change-maker, or a change-breaker? 6 ways to know by @recoveringleadr
• What will your verse be? by David Taylor's Blog @thenakedleader
• 10 Questions Your Team Is Afraid to Ask
• BBC News - Body Clock: What makes you tick?
• Why the best entrepreneurs and creators are humble by@herbertlui via @TheNextWeb
• 13 Leadership Lessons World War I by @jamesstrock
• FT: The movie playing in your colleague’s head
• The World the Great War Swept Away
• Great article on the values of teacher leaders via @educationweek
• What Privacy Online Really Means to Teens — K@W
• FT: From hacking to fracking: 2014’s must-read titles
• What you should-& shouldn't-sacrifice to achieve your goals. 5 successful speakers and friends share
• Leadership is about Influence by @dbonleadership

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2014 that you might have missed:

• 13 Elements of a Great Strategy by @FSonnenberg
• Excellent: Why TED Talks Don't Change People's Behaviors by @TomAsacker at TEDxCambridge
• Want a Better Agency Culture? Do Better Work by @wadeforit Some clear thinking about culture.
• VIDEO: Exude Confidence When Speaking to Your CEO, Part 2 by @johnbaldoni
• Why Followership is the New Leadership by @RedBaronUSA
• Leadership Ethics: It Doesn't Depend by @tedcoine
• Influence: Do You Know the Value of a Single Dissenting Voice? By @LizStrauss
• 4 Ways To Embrace Adaptability by @JeffBoss9 via @forbes
• Become The Leader Worth Following by @LollyDaskal
• Pat on the Back or Kick in the Pants by @leadershipfreak
• WSJ: The War That Broke a Century
• We should work fewer days & longer hours to be more productive. Here’s why it’s not as crazy as it sounds by @richardbranson
• What are your morning rituals? by @JasonWomack
• Know yourself! This worksheet helps you identify your personality traits.
• Are You Wired to Lead? by @SusanMazza
• Master Delegation—The Secret Ingredient by @DavidMDye
• Leadership: Persistence vs. Distorted Resistance to Change by @KateNasser
• Don’t Let Insecurity Infect Your Business via @stratandbiz
• The Three-Word Problem That Can Destroy Your Life by @GregoryMcKeown on @LinkedIn
• The Real Battle of Leadership by @jeffdharmon74
• Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership? — HBS Working Knowledge
• The Side Effects of Hierarchy and Other Perils by @DanOestreich
• Say "Thank You" To Those Who Push Our Buttons by @LollyDaskal via Psychology Today
• Defining Presence as a Leadership Behavior by @JohnBaldoni
• 6 Ways to Connect with Really Important People by @bizzwriter in @Inc
• 7 False Beliefs of the Leadership Vacuum by @RonEdmondson
• 20 Tips from the Entrepreneur's Bookshelf for Entrepreneurs, Startups & Business Owners
• The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read by @billgates
• 3 Things That Kill A Leader's Leadership by @artiedaivs
• Extroverts - Tapping Your Inner Introvert Is A Key To Excellent Leadership on @forbes
• Excellent > What Nobody Tells You About Being an Entrepreneur by @LollyDaskal
• Fascinating map of the biggest company, by revenue, in each state
• The Economist: It is hard to predict the present
• The Public Face of Leadership via @toddbnielsen
• 23 Entrepreneurs Share Their Biggest Lessons Learned from Failure via @businessinsider
• FT: How to win at work when you face defeat

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2014 that you might have missed:

• All Our Patent Are Belong To You by @elonmusk Technology leadership is not defined by patents. @TeslaMotors
• Ten Things You Will Learn from Writing on LinkedIn by @briansooy
• 30 Things You Need To Know To Be Successful via @Inc
• Learning organizations are less about IQ and more about EQ
• What it Takes to be Excellent
• Those who AREN'T committed find fault. Those who ARE find a way. Creating Happiness by @Leadershipfreak
• Developing your leadership presentation by @JohnBaldoni
• Increase Your Awareness by Predicting Results in the Planning Stage by @Bi11Fox
• Interesting infographic. Where's Silicon Valley talent from?
• Airstream: One of America's Most Iconic Brands
• From @nytcorneroffice with @AreTraasdahl, #CEO of @Tapad - "That Monkey on Your Shoulder Isn't Mine"
• Important to factor in! Writing Your Book: The Ten Year Test by @wallybock
• Busting Up Career Plateaus: How to Avoid Complacency and Remain Engaged in Your Work via @shawmu
• Good Luck or Bad Luck? Who Knows! by @LollyDaskal
• How to REALLY Listen by @JesseLynStoner
• Emotional Intelligence: Ten Things You May Not Know by @Lyn_Boyer
• Leading From the Middle by @danatheus
• FT: Rules alone will not stop bad behaviour
• How to Crush Departmental Silos by Deborah Wipf
• Good character isn't enough! 20 Habits of Untrustworthy Leaders
• From @Salon: The world needs “invisible” people: Why fame-seekers and attention-cravers have it all wrong
• 5 Leadership Mantras For Building Better Partnerships
• Leadership at the Speed of Change by @JamesStrock
• Success Requires Change by @faisal_hoque
• Tear Down The Walls So Trust Can Get In by @LollyDaskal
• FT: The dangers of passion for your work
• Creating the emotional culture of your workplace by @mjasmus
• Leadership Rituals that Make Each Day Count by @Lolly Daskal
• FT: The managers who fear conflict
• 5 Leadership Mantras For Building Better Partnerships by @faisal_hoque
• How To Speak In Sound Bites by @JohnBaldoni

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2014 that you might have missed:

• Are You Leading with Value in Mind? by @monedays
• Your Job is to Clear the Path by @ArtPetty
• Master Time Management From Inside Out by @LollyDaskal
• Today's Challenge: Developing Leaders by @LeadersServe (Mark Miller)
• Leading Change – It’s Not About You by @paul_larue
• 10 Reasons I Have Come To Admire Christian Senior Adults Who Resist Change by @BrianKDodd
• 9 Qualities of Remarkably Confident People via @Inc
• Are Bosses Becoming Extinct? from @inseadknowledge
• Looking for a leader? Here are some things to look for by @wallybock
• Noonan: Bring Back the Girls—Quietly
• FT: My response to the fad of meditation
• Everything we do today is being re-invented @stevedenning explores challenges of creative economy
• Stop The Compliments and Show Me Some Gratitude by @lollydaskal
• The Trouble with Leadership Theories by @DougSundheim
• From @genleadblog : What Great Leaders Know That Good Leaders Don’t about Self-Regulation
• 20 Habits of Untrustworthy Leaders by @LeadershipFreak
• What office layout is best? by @wallybock
• 9 Career Lessons I Wish I’d Learned Sooner by Karin Hurt @letsgrowleaders
• 25 Ways To Be A Better Leader by @EricJacobsonKC
• Can You Delegate Leadership? by @MarySchaefer
• 5 Ways to beat a Leadership Funk by @VinceMolinaro
• Learn how to give genuine gratitude and not just simplistic compliments from @lollydaskal
• Create Your Own Luck by @dscofield
• Berkshire’s Radical Strategy: Trust by @andrewrsorkin
• What Skills and Abilities Are You Over-Relying On? by @SusanMazza
• Exploring provocative ideas for undergraduate education at Stanford
• The insatiable desire to control by @mjasmus
• 5 Ways to Show Empathy as a Leader by Dan McCarthy @GreatLeadership
• The Impact of Personality on Leadership from @ddiworld
• Becoming a Capable Company from @stratandbiz
• Are You Ready to Lose Control? by Eric McNulty @richerearth from @stratandbiz
• Managing Risk: A Checklist for Leaders from @wharton
• 3 Ways to Innovate in a Stagnant Environment with @RosabethKanter HBS
• Great business teams by @wallybock

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2014 that you might have missed:

• The 4 Practices of Successful Flat Organizations by @JesseLynStoner
• Understanding The Needs of Your Employees by Georgina Stewart
• 4 Tips to Engage Your Employees by Piera Palazzolo
• Bob Mankoff: Management Is A Laughing Matter by @JohnBaldoni
• The Untold Story of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback | Inc
• How to Be More Confident: 13 Simple Tips | Inc
• From @GreatLeadership: You Can be a Tough Leader and not be an S.O.B. by Dan McCarthy
• @Leadershipfreak: "Why Young Leaders Drive Old Leaders crazy"
• Career, Leadership Lessons from Michael Phelps' Return | Fox Business
• As A Leader, Do you Fulfill Dreams or Create Nightmares? by @toddbnielsen
• FT: A stretch to treat back pain
• FT: The praise sandwich is stale but edible
• From @LisaHaneberg My New Book, Double the Love
• How Leaders Can Successfully Champion Change by @TanveerNaseer
• From @tom_peters - You will never get anywhere with "listening" until your body language screams: "I am so thoroughly delighted to be here with you."
• Ten Leadership Lessons from Mozilla CEO Firing by @JamesStrock
• The Strength to Change Ourselves by @LollyDaskal
• FT: An ego-free way of selling yourself
• What Every Leader Should Know About Organization Culture by Mary C Schaefer
• Creating Movements Replaces Brand Building: with Kevin Roberts: Video - Bloomberg
• How to make a brilliant first impression via @SallyHogshead
• From @StnfrdLeadrship: 2/3s of CEOs feel isolated but nearly 100% are open to outside help from trustworthy sources
• Challenges Can Help Us Learn and Grow by @LollyDaskal
• How to Build Culture Deliberately by Jamie Flinchbaugh via @IndustryWeek
• 3 dueling paradoxes leaders embrace by @thehrgoddess
• 7 Habits of Highly Emotionally Intelligent People by @theeiguy
• Five Ways to Build Distrust by @ThinDifference
• In Search of the Perfect “Boss” by Karin Hurt
• The Portrait Of A Leader Must Be Painted In Genuine Strokes by @LollyDaskal
• What robots mean for us in the future by @wallybock
• Engaging Employees to Succeed at What, Integrity? by @KateNasser
• 10 Ways Leaders Build Trust by @CharlesStone
• Leading, When You Are Not The Leader by @toddbnielsen
• 13 Stupid Sentences That Will Derail Your Career via @LetsGrowLeaders
• The evolution of @BlakeMycoskie via Fortune
• Fortune ranks the World's 50 Greatest Leaders via @FortuneMagazine
• Why Fostering a Culture of Compassion in the Workplace Matters from @WhartonKnows
• @danariely on ‘The Honest Truth About Dishonesty’ from @WhartonKnows
• The first of the three critical aspects that fail to create distinction by Scott McKain
• Don't fool yourself by @TomAsacker
• How to Decide If You Can Trust Someone by @maurilio

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2014 that you might have missed:

• 7 Ways You’re Missing Opportunities with Millennials by Jon Mertz
• 3 Tips on Building Good Relationships by Piera Palazzolo
• The Language Of Leadership by @TanveerNaseer
• When should you respond immediately to a negative online review or complaint?
• 7 Important Personal Qualities that Build Power
• We need more dots by @TomAsacker
• Key Performance Indicators of Good Leadership via @greatleadership
• Make A Difference With Differences by Steve Roesler
• How to behave like a leader by @mjasmus
• When Did Everyone Become a Leader? by @LesHayman
• To Connect, be a Servant Leader by @MichaelStallard
• Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone is Very Comfortable Driving A Dented Old Volkswagen from@VanityFair
• From @DebbieLaskey Leadership Is All About Serving Others - Interview with @jamesstrock
• The Resilient Leader by @LollyDaskal
• FT: Warning signs of workplace burnout
• FT: Why we see bosses as parents
• 8 Leadership Lessons from Billionaires by @meghanmbiro
• Live and Lead Without Regrets by @LollyDaskal
• FT: My ideas get stolen
• Which Comes First? by @julie_wg
• 3 Ways To Steady Your Leadership in a Changing World by Paul LaRue
• FT: Have you heard that gossip is good?

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2014 that you might have missed:

• My 12 Rules for Success by Bill Marriott
• Keys to Success in Business and Personal Success by @kristakotrla
• Your Greatest Source of Influence by @JesseLynStoner
• Personal branding strategies for introverts: connect one person at a time; blog often; and more
• Develop Emotional Intelligence: Are You Using These Steps? by @KateNasser
• 10 Major Causes for Failure in Leadership from Project Eve
• Everything in the school is going wrong.’ ‘In that case’, I replied, ‘find something to celebrate. from @rabbisacks
• CAUTION: A well-crafted rationalization will take you anywhere you want to go.
• An Appetite For Leadership by @LollyDaskal Excellent post.
• What can business leaders learn from ancient philosophers? from The Guardian
• FT: How Lego took to anthropology
• How Thinking About Others Improves Our Creativity by David Burkus
• Presidential Leadership from Lincoln to Reagan > A Speech from @JamesStrock
• The efficient ineffectiveness of control by @dscofield
• Seeing the Big Picture in Sochi by @TimElmore
• How to Develop a Leadership Philosophy? by @ThinDifference
• Five things even the best leaders can do more of by @mjasmus
• Your Bad Boss Didn’t Intend to Be Bad (and How You Can Avoid the Same Fate) by @davidmdye
• The Critical Few: Components of a Truly Effective Culture from @stratandbiz
• The Leadership Life Cycle by @ExecCoachJeff
• 5 Things I Have To Do, But Don’t Like Doing…as a Leader by @RonEdmondson
• Does branding matter? by @TomAsacker
• Leadership and Juggling – the Unlikely Lessons by @KevinEikenberry
• 3 Ways To Steady Your Leadership in a Changing World by Paul LaRue
• FT: A Stanford recipe for bloat-free growth
• What’s the point of all that data, anyway? It’s to make decisions. @TechReview
• At LinkedIn students can pinpoint schools w/best track records of sending grads into fields they're interested in
• The Future of Multigenerational Leadership by @KarenSands @WorldFutureSoc
• How I Almost Died: A Cautionary Tale for Entrepreneurs by @figliuolo Take care of yourself
• Are you a selfless leader, or are you being held back by your own selfishness?
• FT: Five apps for unfocused minds
• Meet people where they are by @thehrgoddess
• 8 Storytelling Tips for Business Leaders from@Stanfordbiz
• Are you called to leadership? by @davelogan1 Good read!
• 100 Day Plans are much more effective than annual ones.
• The ‘Moneyball’ Approach to Hiring CEOs from @knowledgwharton
• SIX things to do do get your day off to a great start!
• Jay Leno: How To Say Goodbye by @JohnBaldoni
• FT: Branson: Behind the Mask by Tom Bower
• 3 Steps to Elevate Your Purpose and Maximize Your Impact by Mike Henry Sr
• Leadership Trait to Ponder: Respect by @ToddbNielsen
• Leadership and the Art of Confrontation by @wallybock
• Is Efficiency Undermining Your Success? by @susanmazza
• Reputation Matters But Character Leads The Way by @LollyDaskal
• The Death Of Expertise via @Mark_Sanborn: This is one of the most important articles I've read in a very long time.
• The art of delivering bad news by @gingerconsult
• The Enemy of Trust and 6 Ways to Defeat It by @RandyConley
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter: An interview by @robertmorris313
• Will This Be The Year Leaders Put Employees First? by @TanveerNaseer
• Habits of Strong Leaders by @peterbstark

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2014 that you might have missed:

• 10 Trends Change Leaders Can’t Ignore in 2014 by @PattiBJohnson
• Ernest Hemingway's Lost Manuscripts by @wallybock Old Classic!
• The purpose of pain by @TomAsacker
• The power of gratitude – “I GET to”
• 30 January 1933 | Why Leadership Matters by @jamesstrock
• From @ddiworld : Are We Missing the Mark on How to Develop Leaders?
• 10 Communication Secrets of Great Leaders by @MikeMyatt
• A Myth That Thwarts Leadership by @SusanMazza
• Advice for Leading Your Peers by @Figliuolo
• The 10 Types Of Toxic People That Mentally Strong People Avoid from @EliteDaily
• How Companies Can Manage Power Struggles: Think King Arthur, not Napoleon. @stanfordbiz
• The role of a leader in an adaptive organisation by @adigaskell
• De-Clutter Your Leadership by Mark Miller
• Is Your Way The Only Way? by @beckyrbnsn
• Leadership Gone Viral via @stratandbiz
• What can we learn from Zappos bossless initiative? by @wallybock
• Which Is a Better Leader? A Conversation on Results and Respect by Jon Mertz
• "Your future rides on those who haven’t joined the team yet." Finding the Key to Success by @Leadershipfreak
• Noonan: Our Selfish 'Public Servants'
• From Kevin Roberts Inner, Outer, Other – The Focus of a Leader
• Accountability: If It Is To Be, It’s Up To Me by @LollyDaskal
• Leadership: A Career Choice or a Constraint?
• Leadership: Developing Better Bosses at Google by @wallybock
• Organizations can become incredibly effective when the sovereignty of the supervisor is diminished. ~@collinsrod
• So often when we get into an argument, we don’t even stop to listen. Instead, we simply reiterate our position.
• Hayagreeva Rao and @work_matters: How Do You Scale Excellence? from @stanfordbiz
• Graphic: 10 Things You Must Give Up In Order To Move Forward
• “Your Leadership Mentor is Not Yoda” (and 5 other Mentoring Myths) by @WScottCochrane
• The Humanity Of Leadership
• Self-Control at Work
• My Loss of Entitlement Saved My Life by @maurilio
• Four questions every young leader should answer.
• Tough Conversation: What To Do When Your Star Hits The Wall by @JohnBaldoni
• Why Your Employees Want to Leave by @shawmu
• The Examined Life by @wallybock Taking stock of your life
• How to peel a banana by @TomAsacker
• FT: The collapse of corporate hierarchies
• FT: When to go with your gut instinct
• Take teams from to low to high trust by Michelle and Dennis Reina
• Questions That Make A Difference by @LollyDaskal
• Millennials will make up nearly 75% of the workforce by 2025. Are you reaching across the generations? by @ThinDifference
• Why does culture matter to innovation? by @MaxMckeown
• From @wallybock > Looking Back at 2013 and Ahead to 2014

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2013 that you might have missed:

• Top Themes to Pull Forward from 2013 by Jon Mertz @ThinDifference
• 10 Reasons why Managers are Clueless about Leadership by @greatleadership
• Leading, When You Are Not The Leader by @toddbnielsen
• 7 Characteristics of a Good Leader by @RobertCordray
• Mike Henry Sr: Humility: The 5th Sense of Character-based Leadership
• @NYTimes: Underdog Against Amazon, Best Buy Charges Ahead
• From @TalentCulture : Becoming A Leader Others Want To Follow
• Be aware in 2014 by @TomAsacker
• The One Leadership Responsibility You Must Accept by @Starbucker
• Leading in the 21st century: An interview with Ford’s Alan Mulally | McKinsey & Company
• Noonan: The Most Memorable Words of 2013
• Four Senses of Character-Based Leadership by Mike Henry Sr
• How leaders seek the best in others? http://bit.ly/JAWlV2 by @tshnall
• Two Things All Good Leaders Do by @RonEdmondson
• 10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Servant Leader by Mark Miller
• 5 Topics Your Board Should Discuss
• Busy vs. Productive: 5 Ways to Focus on the Right Things via @katytynan
• 5 Things Successful People Do Before 8 AM by Lifehacker
• Words Can Change Your Brain on @psychcentral
• Great Clip from @scottmckain: "Taxi Terry"
• Maturing as a leader includes shedding your mask of certainty by @recoveringleadr
• The 5×5 Trick To Make Life Better by @jaltucher
• Are You Listening Like a Leader? by @DougConant
• Win When You Lose: A Lesson From Joe Torre : Leaders who know how to lose…as well as win…are worth following by John Baldoni
• Mike Henry Sr: Inclusion: Boldly Go into the Discomfort Zone by Jane Purdue @thehrgoddess
• FT: Five Twitter bio clichés to avoid by @lucykellaway
• Leon Festinger, the social psychologist that coined the term “cognitive dissonance” in 1957, makes this observation.
• To Lead Boldly Embrace Your Inner Loser by @hennainam
• How Leaders Can Ride the Storm by @LaRaeQuy
• Wisdom For Your Future Self by Karin Hurt
• If Risk Knocks At The Door. Will You Answer It? by @LollyDaskal
• Smoothing the Creases: 5 Ways to Manage Conflict in the Workplace by Eunisse De Leon
• Bosses: People work is the real work by @wallybock
• Leaders Build Leaders by @LesHayman
• 4 Reasons Why Questions are a Leader's Best Friend by @ArtPetty
• Lacking inspiration? Exercise found to boost creativity - Telegraph
• FT: The need to rein in perfectionism
• It wouldn’t be so bad if the pace of change was accelerating along some completely predictable path. The Dark Side of Technology by John Hagel
• FT: Marriages can survive start-up pressures
• From @Forbes > Why Leaders Should Still Pay Attention To Charles Handy's Quiet Wisdom
• Mike Henry Sr: How Do You Hone Your Leadership Craft?
• Lesson from FDR: Character Is Revealed by @JohnBaldoni
• @AMAnet: Quiz: What Type of Thinker Are You?
• FT: Advice for stalled graduate recruits

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2013 that you might have missed:

• From @TomAsacker : The Paradox of Success.
• The Value of Vulnerability by julie_wg
• Great list of 20 Tips For Leaders During Turbulent Times by Dan McCarthy aka @greatleadership
• The Power of Gratitude by @susanmazza
• Jeff Bezos Reveals His No. 1 Leadership Secret - Forbes
• The grateful heart holds the release from the roots of our suffering and the liberation of our pain by @LollyDaskal
• From @Inc: Does your company have an attitude problem? 4 ways to change it @WillYakowicz
• Leaders who don’t seek wisdom lack character by @Leadershipfreak
• 20 Things the Rich Do Every Day - Dave Ramsey
• Is It Time to Close Your Facebook Account?> by @PhilCooke
• David L. Bradford: How Do You Manage Up in the Workplace? from @stanfordbiz
• FT: End of the imperial corporate leader
• How to Become a Manager No One Will Work For by @tedcoine
• Leadership development at Facebook tells us about the future of leadership
• What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur?
• When CEOs Should Let It Be from @inseadknowledge
• Ballmer on MSFT: "At the end of the day, we need to break a pattern. Face it: I'm a pattern."
• Truth: The Lynchpin of Good Leadership by @toddbnielsen
• Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by @farnamstreet
• Are Computers Making Society More Unequal? from The New Yorker
• The importance of Gentle Honesty by @wallybock
• Why Stress Builds Great Leaders by @SteveTobak
• The No. 1 Way to Learn to Lead - from @CCLdotORG
• From BBC News - The brutal world of the Nelson-era Navy
• @LollyDaskal: It’s important to resist the clamor for fast answers and learn instead to lead with questions
• Leadership Hubris – What it is and How To Overcome it by @KevinEikenberry
• Listening: The Most Important Skill You Are NOT Doing by Julia Winston @BraveCommLLC
• From @stratandbiz The Management Stylings of Harvard Business School
• The Source of Organizational Dysfunction, Revealed! from @stratandbiz
• Sometimes You Have To Say “NO” To Get To “YES.” by @BruceTurkel
• McCartney Success Secret by @JamesStrock
• The art of 'minimally invasive management' by @WillYakowicz
• Changing Perception, One Snack at a Time by @DaveKerpen
• Vulnerability: The Core of Trust by Mike Henry Sr
• To be kept in solitude is to be kept in pain writes E.O. Wilson by @EmEsfahaniSmith
• A Myth That Thwarts Leadership by @susanmazza
• From @DPForrester Becoming Greater Than the Sum of Your Parts: In Three Steps
• The 8 Fundamentals of Extreme Achievement by @_robin_sharma

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2013 that you might have missed:

• 20 Tools for Coaching and Teaching by @edbatista
• Respond vs React by Jon Mertz @ThinDifference
• The Language Of Leadership by @lollydaskal
• Your career will soar if you avoid leaders’ #1 blind spot by @MichaelStallard
• 8 Communication Barriers in Business by @FSonnenberg
• Ten Annoying Habits that Irk Your Employees by @ArtPetty
• From @stratandbiz Where Does Leadership Live?
• 8 Ways To Spot Great Leadership by @MikeMyatt
• You Can’t Coach Attitude by @KevinEikenberry
• Community of Practice by @wallybock
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Mediocrity: A-B-C-D-E-F-G
• From @WhartonLP > Building Resilience: 'Real' Ways to Thrive During Tough Times
• What you are doing right now determines how you will be remembered by @Jim_Kouzes
• The Five Rules Every New CEO Should Follow by Roger Martin
• Which Comes First: Organizational Values or Personal Values? by Jon Mertz
• How Leadership Can Make or Break Classroom Innovation from @MindShiftkqed
• Michael Epperson, RIP by @JamesStrock I think of his impact on others through relationships.
• 7 Unconventional Reasons Why You Absolutely Should Be Reading Books
• "I’m not looking for a policy that suppresses your opinion." ~From George Shultz: "Issues on My Mind"
• What Brain Science Can Teach Us About Leadership by @JesseLynStoner
• From @TomAsacker > You are who you choose to be.
• What Bill Gates learned from Thomas Edison by @BillGates
• From @michaelaroberto: Leaders ought to care about fairness - being fair (in certain ways) enhances effectiveness
• FT: The best advice can come from anywhere
• Four Things to Get Right in Fast Growth Markets from @ChiefExecGrp
• From @StratandBiz It’s not change that we’re looking for, but rather a kind of collective virtue.
• If you want to have strong relationships, you have to cultivate them. Reach out. ~@wallybock
• Read "Leadership: A Sense of Purpose" by @LollyDaskal
• From @TomAsacker A brand choice is a feelings choice
• A New Level of Leadership Thinking by Mike Henry Sr
• Where Leadership Begins by @LeadToday
• Bill Gates: Dawn of a revolution in Harvard Gazette
• Noonan: To Lead Is to Negotiate
• One Gigantic Predictor of Success for Students by @timelmore
• Why your employees aren't following you
• Business Growth and Social Influence by @PatriciaRossi [Everyday Etiquette] It's the little things
• We Succeed When We Give Recognition by Extraordinary Thinker @RoySaunderson
• FT: Manage your time as well as your staff
• Values: Live Them And Others Will Follow by @johnbaldoni
• Mike Henry Sr: Teams Need Vision Too
• The Human Side of Leadership by Bob Chapman

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2013 that you might have missed:

• Podcast with @scottmckain : A key to creating distinction: Commitment to awareness
• When You Need a Coach: Blind Spots Are Less Obvious When Things Are Going Well from @ChiefExecGrp
• Culture of conflict avoidance is powerful way to destroy an institution in rapidly changing times by @LisaBodell
• Passion and belief are what move people. - @tomasacker
• 3 Things You Can Read To Become A Better Leader by @CraigJutila
• Here is what I have learned about generating influence by @tnvora
• Speak From The Heart by @LollyDaskal
• Are You Effectively Engaging Your Team? by @SusanMazza
• Six Key Elements of Strategic Thinking for CEOs
• What Personal Characteristics Do You Need To Become an Executive? by @MarbleHillLtd
• @wallybock says, "Being a boss is a team sport."
• FT: Zen and the art of management by By John Paul Rathbone
• Read The Wisdom Of Insecurities by @LollyDaskal
• From @stratandBiz > Don’t Reengineer. Reimagine.
• From @ddiworld : Are Leaders Prepared to Meet These Challenges?
• How Ready Are You for Growth? from @stratandbiz
• Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs from @jamesstrock
• Always Be Building by @artpetty
• Don’t be afraid of personal power by @thehrgoddess
• Mentoring as Part of the Leadership Role by @gfeiste
• FT: Why are good managers so rare?
• FT: Games that make us better at work
• A Leadership's Judgment by @LollyDaskal
• Reprise from @wallybock > The Alchemy and Mystery of Leadership
• Joseph Sugarman: Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
• You see what you look for by @TomAsacker
• FT: The limits of networking

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2013 that you might have missed:

• The Future of Work Part II: 10 Tips For Professionals by @odesk
• Bloomberg's Peter Grauer: How the 'And Factor' Defines Leadership - Knowledge@Wharton
• Getting things done with authority with @johnbaldoni
• Keep asking, "What's the opportunity here?" from @wallybock
• Mike Henry Sr: Managers: How well are you connecting?
• Martin Luther King Jr. and Adaptive Change
• The Leader’s Pocket Guide
• FT: The mental cost of money worries
• Bob Lutz: 'Straight Talk On Leadership' by @JohnBaldoni
• We need to MAKE time: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking
• The Benefits Of Being A Social Leader For Today's Organizations by @TanveerNaseer
• The Unmasking of Ego by @LollyDaskal Good read!
• A Personal Confession by @LeadershipFreak • Can you relate?
• 11 Key Attributes Of Great Leaders by @scottwilliams
• Kevin Roberts: The biggest constraint on what students can do is what they think they can do.
• FT: Can bosses force their opinions on workers?
• The Economist | Schumpeter: In praise of laziness - love it
• Focus on the Fundamentals by @ArtPetty
• FT: How to manage the mediocre
• The movie "Jobs," Reviewed by Steve Wozniak
• 8 Ways to Boost your Emotional Intelligence by @peterbstark
• From @WrldLEADERSConf: 5 Things Strong Leaders Do
• Mindful Mondays: Three Things Mindful Leaders Do by @ScottEblin
• How would you behave differently if you OWNED the outcome? by Mark Miller aka @LeadersServe
• From @KevinEikenberry Innovation Requires Structure
• 5 Changes I Made to Improve My Productivity While Traveling by @JasonWomack
• Lift Your Leadership With These Top CEO Secrets
• For a leader - listening is a crucial skill. @Forbes
• Great Read: Why You Need Mental Toughness by @LaRaeQuy
• Be Humble: Don't Let Success Go to Your Head by @FSonnenberg
• The Big Question: What does it take to lead? by @JohnBaldoni
• Millennials, How to Get Your Work Noticed by @shawmu
• How Super-Successful Millennials Think Differently About Money - DailyFinance
• From @TomAsacker : Necessary but not sufficient.
• The Secret to Feeling Energized at Work? Autonomy. via @DanBenoni
• Are you a Success? by @LeadToday
• The Leadership Virtues of Saying Nothing by @recoveringleadr
• Improving health is the greatest social and economic challenge of our time, all wrapped into one.
• Do Things that Don't Scale by Paul Graham
• NYT: Why Men Need Women
• FT: Ambition is not served on a silver spoon
• Clarity Brings A Leader’s Vision to Life by Jennifer Olney
• Training Tomorrow’s Leaders: The Next Generation of Workplace Thinking by @OCTanner
• "Executive Presence" = "Gravitas:" is savvy about what you say, & how/when you say it.
• "So, quick, end-of-speech advice: Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming
• It's never over. You're never done. Serious culture change takes time and unremitting effort. ~ @wallybock
• From @HarvardBiz Three Differences Between Managers and Leaders by @vineetnayar
• Read: Who Sets Your Standards? by @jamesstrock
• Are you being played? by @TomAsacker
• In this chat w @RandyPennington what a dodo bird & a coyote tell us about change. Powerful!

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2013 that you might have missed:

• INFOGRAPHIC from @ddiworld The Leadership Generation Gap
• From @knowledgwharton Bloomberg's Peter Grauer: How the 'And Factor' Defines Leadership
• From @stratandbiz : The Wise Leader
• Why Honesty Is the Secret Ingredient of Successful Organizations by Halley Bock
• Need to get focused? Write by hand. "Handwriting Trains Your Brain" says this @FastCompany article
• 30 Outdated Leadership Practices Holding Your Company Back by @mikemyatt
• What Do You Need to Surrender? by @KevinEikenberry
• The Anatomy of a Leader by @KevinEikenberry
• The basics of influencing people by @mjasmus
• 7 Things Leaders Must Do To Be Effective Today by ronedmondson
• 3-Step Approach to Simplifying Your Life by @EntryLevelRebel
• The Francis Effect by @wallybock
• INFOGRAPHIC: Many teens want more face-to-face interaction and communication
• Nothing Personal It’s Strictly Business by @LollyDaskal
• Follow, Feel and Flow: Integrating Leading and Following by Karin Hurt
• How Leaders Create The Right Environment To Resolve Team Conflicts by @TanveerNaseer
• How Interval Training Can Make You Incredibly Efficient at Work by @tonyschwartz
• The Power of the Word "Yet" by @bencasnocha
• 20 Fundamentals: What Every Teacher Should Know About Learning
• 7 Ways To Create A Boring Senior Leadership Team by Tony Morgan
• Feel and Grow Rich: 5 Ways to Learn Empathy by @LetsGrowLeaders
• The Good and Bad of Collaboration by MikeHaberman
• The Honest Truth About Teams by @LollyDaskal
• The Only Real Feedback Is Negative Feedback by @theJimmyCollins
• Leaders, Choose Your Words Wisely by @DougConant
• 4 Words I Say to Jerks by @JonAcuff
• From@wallybock > Marissa Mayer breaks the Curse of Yahoo
• Rethinking the Work of Leadership by @DPontefract
• Everyone wants to make a difference by @tshnall
• Moving Beyond the Impacts of Destructive Workplaces by @DouglasLaBier
• Mindful Mondays: Five Ways to be a Human Being Instead of a Human Doing by @ScottEblin
• Manfred Kets de Vries: Leaders who can tolerate mistakes are those who create a great corporate culture
• Humility Matters by @JohnBaldoni Humility is not an act; it’s a process.
• Curing the Leader’s Communication Conundrum by @ArtPetty
• Measuring Leadership Competence – The Coin Toss by Ken Nowack @Envisia
• FT: Dispelling myths about entrepreneurs
• From @inc > Jim Collins: Good to Great in 10 Steps
• On Stupid Ideas by Mike Henry Sr
• Discover the 5 Most Critical Skills for Mid-level Leaders by By Jim Kauffman
• A lesson for all leaders and all businesses from the terrible tragedy of the plane crash at #SFO by Scott McKain
• WSJ: The Writing of a Great Address by Peggy Noonan
• From @Jerusalem_Post > Leadership is the action of moving followers to reach a desirable goal.
• Leaders Under Construction by @SusanMazza
• The Wisdom Of Uncertainty by @LollyDaskal
• From @stratandbiz > Are You Leading Like It’s 1980?
• Perfectionism vs. Persistence by Julie Winkle Giulioni
• From Outraged to Open-minded by @tom_peters
• Would You Have Signed Declaration of Independence? by @jamesstrock

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2013 that you might have missed:

• The Gift Of Being Present by @LollyDaskal
• Culture and the Chief Executive CEOs are stepping up to role as leaders of their company’s thinking and behavior
• 5 Signs You Lack Integrity by @cnieuwhof
• How to Overcome the 3 Organizational Barriers to Leadership Development by @greatleadership
• Change: The Sixth Sense by @LollyDaskal
• Creating the right conditions for others to flourish and grow by @mjasmus
• From Mike Henry Sr: 5 Ideas To Direct Your Best Energy Toward Your Greatest Purpose
• Emotional Intelligence ~ 20 Years On by Louise Altman @intentionalcomm
• Emotional Intelligence ~ 20 Years On ~ Part 2 by Louise Altman @intentionalcomm
• Failure: The Competitive Advantage by @LollyDaskal
• To Lead with Authenticity, Embrace Struggle by @Steven_J_Snyder
• From @TomAsacker > Is your brand broken?
• Leadership Caffeine: Beware Leadership Drift by @artpetty
• Eisenhower, Kennedy & The Power of Vision by @jamesstrock
• Advice: Manage Well by Leading Better by @JohnBaldoni
• Knowledge@Wharton: The New Model for Innovation Is Social—and Mobile: But Are Companies Ready?
• Video: The two most underrated leadership skills, a great leadership model from MIT
• Mike Henry Sr: 4 rules for making sure you deserve the credit by @thehrgoddess
• Your Words Have Power by @LollyDaskal
• Teaching is Leading by Jon Mertz
• CEOs are stepping up to a new role, as leaders of their company’s thinking and behavior from @stratandbiz
• "You are always on parade" by @wallybock
• FT: A classic recipe for business success
• Mike Henry Sr: OCD: The Unexpected Trait that Employees Want (and Organizations Need ) Most in a Leader
• From @TomAsacker: One way out

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2013 that you might have missed:

• Why Managers Haven't Embraced Complexity by Richard Straub - HBR
• Leadership Lesson: The Difference Between Google and Apple by @mikemyatt
• Good advice from @wallybock: Ideas are like the rain
• Seven Tips for Taming Your Calendar by @scotteblin
• Making The Case For Creating Meaningful Work by @TanveerNaseer
• From @stratandbiz: Neuroscience insights into Decision-Making & Self-Awareness. A Mind-Set for Success
• From DDI > When It Comes to Leadership, All Conversations are Crucial by Mark Busine
• Why Your Team Matters More Than You - Forbes
• @edoakley: "What Managers Must Do" by @JohnBaldoni
• What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know by @LollyDaskal
• Mike Henry Sr: Innovation: a Case for Entitlement (really!)
• Knowing Yourself: Do you have the right (leadership) stuff? by @MartinaMcGowan
• FT: Walking away is often the best option
• What Do You Talk About With Your Team? by @stevefarber
• The Duality Of Leadership by @LollyDaskal
• From @wallybock: Leadership might be a bad choice for you if ...
• From @tomasacker: Do you want to succeed?
• How to Get Past Conversational Smoke and Mirrors by Susan Mazza
• 6 Things Exceptional Leaders Do Better from Inc.
• From @jamesstrock: Churchill's Leadership Moment May 10 1940 | One Day, One Man
• Dealing with Your Incompetent Boss
• Entrepreneurs: Step Away from the Energy Drinks by @BarbaraMendez
• Good Read > 10 Things I Learned the Hard Way About Leading by @artpetty
• Honor Yourself by @LollyDaskal
• Leadership Insights from 30 experts by @DebbieLaskeyMBA
• The Top 25 Most Engaged Brands On Twitter Today
• Nine of the Best Ways to Boost Creative Thinking
• So what defines global companies and leadership in the 21st century? by kjaerglobal
• How to be an Encouraging Leader? by @tshnall
• Don't Go with Your Gut by @leadershipfreak
• Don't Solve Your Problems by @LollyDaskal
• GE's Jeff Immelt on Leadership, Global Risk and Growth - Knowledge@Wharton
• 11 Profiles in Bad Leadership Behavior from @CIOonline

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2013 that you might have missed:

• Ariens CEO outlines Seven Skills of a Lean Leader
• How Do You Show Up As A Leader In Your Organization? by @TanveerNaseer
• From Fortune > Is there really such thing as a 'global CEO'?
• When do you need to show more support when presenting ideas? @JohnBaldoni shares the answer with #AMAPlaybook
• People Skills: Responding With Dignity by @katenasser
• 6 Types of Bosses by Dan @greatleadership
• Read about this crucial issue > Strangers Unto Ourselves by @LollyDaskal
• Leaders correct too much & affirm too little. "Six Steps to Energy" Dan Rockwell ?@Leadershipfreak
• The Poisoning of Our Minds by @FSonnenberg
• From @Leadershipfreak >Top Ten Qualities of Exceptional Leaders
• Bosses Don't Get Do-Overs from @wallybock
• How To Schedule Your Day For Peak Creative Performance by @heyamberrae
• 4 Mindful Steps to Respond Rather Than React by @ThinDifference
• How to communicate when you don't have much to say. New @Forbes [A lesson from Boston]
• Leadership: Turn Mistakes into Lesson by @LollyDaskal
• Is that Development Goal Really Worth it? by @greatleadership
• Harvard Business Review: Find Your Moment of Obligation
• FT: Charles Handy: Management Writer
• Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew the Day I Became a Leader by @recoveringleadr
• Decide, Learn, Adapt – A Mantra for Avoiding Analysis Paralysis by @RandyConley
• Economists know a lot about efficiency but almost nothing about innovation–yet innovation drives growth @mattyglesias
• Read "Before asking for change, take a look in the mirror" by @JohnBaldoni
• From @tomasacker > Heart First
• The Disease of Me by @wallybock
• From @philvanhooser > Do you know one of the most common leadership pitfalls? Do you know how to avoid it?
• Ridicule is the price of ambition. Read the remaining 50 Tips to get to World-Class Fast by @_robin_sharma
• @KristaKotrla: Intriguing list! >> 6 Non-Business Books That Will Make You Smarter by @jeff_haden
• Learning to make the tough call—a leadership lesson by @johnbaldoni
• Hardest Leadership Skill You'll Ever Learn by @lesmckeown
• 6 Secrets to Building Teams in a Stack Ranked World by @LetsGrowLeaders (Karin Hurt)
• The Power of a Well-Placed “No” by @ArtPetty
• FT: Touched with ‘madeness’
• You're Probably Wrong About How Others Really See You by @dorieclark
• The Social Business Imperative by @BrennerMichael
• 14 Signs of an Unhealthy Organizational Culture by @JohnBossong
• 6 Ways To Conquer Leadership Pressure by @mikemyatt
• Humility in Leadership: Myths, Fears, and Truths by @KateNasser
• Set Your Priorities, Find Your Balance by @LollyDaskal
• Coaching is Not Kleenex by @julie_wg
• The Leader and the Boss by Kristina Lacida

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2013 that you might have missed:

• 6 Distractions Leaders Need To Resist by John Bossong
• 9 Leadership Lessons from the Best Boss I Ever Had by @ryanestis
• Managers: How well do you listen? by Peter E. Friedes
• The 12 habits of highly collaborative organizations by @JacobM
• From @TomAsacker : A brand is Not a Separate Thing
• RT @theNSLS: 12 Reasons You Will Be a Better Leader this Year
• Mike Henry Sr: Go to 3,000 ft. to Get a More Reflective Big Picture Perspective
• Art of Managing: Beware the Pursuit of False Precision in Planning by @ArtPetty
• From @Bill_George Resilience Through Mindful Leadership
• @profkjmoore: In Mindfulness, a Method to Sharpen Focus and Open Minds - a good practice for myself at least
• From @LeaderMintsGuy Pacing Yourself on the Podium. Speak so they will listen.
• Read Disappointed To The Core by @LollyDaskal
• Quietly Creative by Kevin Roberts
• How to develop a flexible leadership style by By Jane Perdue
• @JohnBaldoni: Organizations expect their managers to lead and their leaders to manage. @Forbes
• Leading from Character Strength from the Graziadio Business Report
• 4 Questions to re:Shape Everything by Chad Balthrop
• @JohnBaldoni: Advice: Manage Better by Leading Well - Forbes
• Chief Executive How Walmart Trains Better Leaders
• @scottmckain: Distinction must be based in authenticity—if it's not...it's just cheesy, as our video hoax proves
• FT: Be wary of promises of a success formula
• WSJ: The Unsung Beauty of Bureaucracy
• The Path to Leadership by Bill Fox
• Tom Peters has posted an education "manifesto/polemic."
• Read > Xerox and the Personal Computer by @wallybock
• Decision making for the indecisive
• Vision of Change by @LollyDaskal
• Everything you think you know about staying competitive doesn't work anymore from @geoffcolvin
• FT: Work-life balance is not just for women
• Bill Gates: 'If I get less than 7 hours [of sleep], my IQ starts to drop."
• Good advice from @wallybock: Get ‘er done!
• Why Men Should Read Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In by Scott Eblin
• From @briansolis : Digital Darwinism: What Killed Borders, Blockbuster and Polaroid and How to Survive
• @MGMTKnowledge: Our 101 Must-Bookmark Sites for Managers
• Read: Just Trust Me a post by @LollyDaskal
• @profkjmoore: Fun, Fun, Fun - Millennials Want To Have Fun At Work - Forbes

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2013 that you might have missed:

• From @GECoachingGroup: Do organisations limit leadership development to 'hi-potentials'?
• Are You a Leader When No One is Watching? by @toddbnielsen
• Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's work-from-home memo is childish by Emma Gilbey Keller at The Guardian
• Yahoo Marissa Mayer | Management Misstep by @jamesstrock
• From @JohnBaldoni: Does free food make for a happier workplace? @Forbes
• Are you willing to mentor the Litter Czar? from @tonymorganlive
• Beyond Thank You: 5 Keys to Attracting & Keeping Great People by @cnieuwhof
• 7 Lessons From The Beatles' Biggest Failure from @inc
• From @tomasacker: Make more mistakes
• 5 Ways to Tell If You're Getting Great Advice by @SteveTobak
• Closing the Nation’s Skills Gap: Making Higher Education Achievable - PDF report
• Read Change: Am I Ready? by @LollyDaskal
• For Good, Against Evil by @wallybock
• From @LaphamsQuart: CHART: The 14 men who were president before George Washington.
• Pope Benedict: Leadership Lesson for People in Power by @JohnBaldoni
• How many leaders have you seen hang on to their jobs when they were clearly past their “sell by” date? @ScottEblin
• Three Red Flags that Signal Your Leadership Interactions are Floundering by @MarySchaefer
• Do you do what you love? Here are 10 lessons we've learned in 10 years of helping people successful do what they love
• Catch Them In the Act by @susanmazza
• "I think Steve Jobs' approach usually does not work" from @Inc
• @GoodEthics: Great piece on personal ethics in the workplace: "The IRS Just Sent Me $160,000. Can I Keep It?"
• From HBR.org Flattering the Boss Can Set Him Up for a Fall
• Personal Leadership: It's All About the People, Stupid! by @toddbnielsen
• Communication: Four occasions when it's best to keep quiet from LeadingCompany
• Who Pays for Your Customer Service Fail? by @jamesstrock
• From @wallybock: Poof! You're a boss.
• Mike Henry Sr: 7 Uncommon Ways To Be A Positive Influence On You and Your Team
• Change: The Sixth Sense by @lollydaskal
• @JohnBaldoni: If You Don't Speak Up for Yourself, Who Else Will? - Forbes
• Mike Henry Sr: An Argument for Conflict
• From @stratandbiz: How Leaders Mistake Execution for Strategy (and Why That Damages Both)

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2013 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2013 that you might have missed:

• 4 Attitude Choices Every Leader Must Make by @leadersbeacon
• 10 Choices You Will Regret in 10 Years via @donhornsby
• Leading Change by @LollyDaskal
• @TheAtlantic: Why parents need to let their children fail
• Building the Skills of Insight from @stratandbiz
• The ability to experience negative emotions w/o falling through the floorboards is vital to leaders.
• What Happens When Executives Freak Out by @ScottEblin
• When Leaders Flame Out by Brian Evje
• Fake Amazon Page Is Best Online Resume Ever
• FT: From failure can come success
• Mike Henry Sr: 5 Harsh Truths Every Aspiring Leader Needs to Know
• Leading With Love: Just Say It by @LollyDaskal
• Why You're Not A Leader by @mikemyatt
• Ten Resolutions The Most Successful People Make And Then Keep by @theideamonkey
• What Does Success Really Look Like? by @TanveerNaseer
• How Multitasking Hurts Your Brain (and Your Effectiveness at Work) - Forbes
• Good resources from @MaxMckeown: If you want innovation, here's a mountain of creativity
• @GoodEthics: Marines piloting training prog using non-religious mindfulness practices for stress reduction @USMC
• 7 Simple Ways to Be a Positive Influence As a Leader by Christina Lattimer @pdiscoveryuk
• How People Learn by @farnamstreet - Shane Parrish
• Ideas are the Core of a Leadership Philosophy by @GeorgeAmbler
• Tyler Brule thinks people should pay to comment on columns.
• Building the Skills of Insight from @stratandbiz
• You're an Example, Like it or Not by Steve Keating @LeadToday
• The Introvert’s 2013 Business and Leadership Success Pledge @by lisapetrilli
• Read > The Leadership Gap by @LollyDaskal
• 10 Leadership Lessons for Gen-Y from Inc
• @MargieTrains: INFOGRAPHIC: Sittng is a Death Trap
• Hmmmm, that's interesting by @wallybock
• Nine Rules for Stifling Innovation by @RosabethKanter
• Richard Branson makes a case for leaders at all levels: “While it’s true that every company needs an entrepreneur...
• @adiversal: VIDEO - Funny Volkswagen commercial from Spain
• What Is Executive Presence? by @ScottEblin
• @harvardbiz: Your Employees Are Not Mind Readers by @DougConant
• Are Your New Year Resolutions Big Enough? by @jamesstrock
• As Augmented Reality Blurs Lines, How Will Companies Respond? by @jhagel and @jseelybrown
• Good rebels vs. bad rebels @LoisKelly
• @jhagel: Icarus myth warns us of dangers of standing up standing out making a ruckus-or does it @justinemusk on Godin
• The real definition of insanity by @TomAsacker
• David Brooks - those who don't suffer fools are just ill mannered. NYTimes - Suffering Fools Gladly
• @_robin_sharma: 50 Business + Life Lessons for Giant Goal-Getters
• How We Learn from @ucdavisexeced

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2012 that you might have missed:

• Curated by @wallybock: 13 Sets of Predictions for 2013
• Three Ways to Behave Yourself to Better Leadership by @scotteblin
• Chief Executive: Are Leaders Born or Made?
• The Illusion of Effectiveness (Doing vs. Leading) by @edbatista
• BusinessWeek: The Worst CEOS of 2012
• FT: Working for a boss who didn’t hire you
• Introverts No Longer the Quiet Followers of Extroverts on Forbes by @profkjmoore
• The Secret Ingredient of Brilliant Leaders and Managers by @pdiscoveryuk
• Three Star Leadership Blog: Lessons from the Stupid File by @wallybock
• In Praise Of The Open Mind: A Year-End Meditation on Leadership by @Starbucker
• Four Ways to Avoid the “Leadership Cliff” in 2013 by @RandyConley
• The Poisoning of Our Minds by @FSonnenberg
• Expect The Best by @LollyDaskal
• @donhornsby: What’s Your Leadership Legacy? by scedmonds
• @MaxMckeown: Fear not... Fear makes bad decisions. It stops people working.
• Good read from @SteveRoesler: When we hide behind Strengths as an excuse for bad behavior...
• Imperfect leadership by Mike Henry Sr
• The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails by @mikemyatt
• FT: The benefits of workplace levity
• Mike Henry Sr: Change: 5 tips to improve communication and accelerate execution
• @BoozCompany: There Are 5 Core Myths That Mess Up Our Decision Making
• @RosabethKanter: Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline New @HarvardBiz column
• @BoozCompany: Why bosses should find their "off button"--and how to do it!
• Leaders are delusional if they think they no longer need any development or coaching once they reach the C-suite
• Leadership: Be Approachable by @LollyDaskal
• Three Ways to Behave Yourself to Better Leadership by @scotteblin
• Hiring? Stop with the stupid questions by @JohnBaldoni New on @Forbes
• @jamesstrock: End of Year Thought: What Did You Learn? S2L blog
• Excellent read> Needed: simple human kindness and consideration… by @scottmckain
• From @wallybock : This is not Reality
• Great Leaders Move Us by @mjasmus
• Learn From Others by @LollyDaskal
• Mike Henry Sr: 5 Tips to Avoid a Critical Leadership Mistake
• From @tomasacker : What ever happened to dreams?
• Lincoln and leadership: Outsiders can make the best leaders—and also the worst

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2012 that you might have missed:

• A Great Leader's Year-end Checklist by @lesmckeown Making time to reflect
• Move Over Economists: We Need a Council of Psychological Advisers by Barry Schwartz - @TheAtlantic
• Doing Leadership. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn
• Read "The Art of Receiving" by @LollyDaskal
• The Many Faces of Greed by @FSonnenberg
• Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore
• @jamesstrock: Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation
• 3 Ways to Deal with the Expectations vs Reality Gap by @SusanMazza
• Mike Henry Sr: Un-Acts of Leadership
• @Mark_Sanborn: A serious look at how service and values can guide leaders: Leaders must stay close to principles of service
• @JonGordon11: How Much is Negativity Costing You and Your Company?
• From @CharlesSpecht: A list of top 50 leaders on leadership
• Is Too Much Expected Of Me? by @LollyDaskal
• Mike Henry Sr: 8 Reasons Why Pride Is The Core Of Leadership Failure
• Seven Tips For Better Coaching by @steveroesler
• Cultivating Peace at Work by @mjasmus
• @Bill_George: Resignation of CIA director Petraeus is situation of great leader who made mistake (From @post_lead)
• @hackmanagement: Very interesting post from Gary Hamel: What is Adaptability?
• Good read from @wallybock: The instant you become a boss
• Mike Henry Sr: Diminish Your Self-Critic
• Why Most Leadership Development Efforts Fail by @KevinEikenberry
• We need leaders to build relationships instead of issuing orders by @markbonchek and @mcchrystalgroup
• How to Change Your Thoughts and Why You Must by @ducttape
• 3 R’s of Service-based Leadership by @managemntmoment Service-based leadership begins w/fundamental shifts in attitudes
• Sweating the Small Stuff? Overcoming Is Simpler Than You Think by @GarretKramer
• Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader by @Bill_George
• Find Your Blind Spot: A Self-Reflection Activity for Managers by @petefriedes
• When Trouble Hits—8 Ways to Develop Resilience, Options and “Falling Up” by @pdiscoveryuk
• McKinsey talks with 7 leaders and Michael Useem about the new fundamentals of leading in the 21st century.
• From @JimClemmer: Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on...Making Strengths Productive (Peter Drucker)
• 7 things leaders should learn to say by @SteveTobak

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2012 that you might have missed:

• Story vs. Storytelling by @tomasacker
• NPR Decision Time: Why Do Some Leaders Leave A Mark?
• Are You Prepared for Your Moment of Truth?by @jamesstrock
• @RobertHThompson: What Moderation Means
• What Do Managers Do at Work? by @HalGregersen
• @donhornsby: 5 Ways to Lead with Emotional Intelligence—and Boost Productivity
• Ten Steps to Building Employee Engagement from Switch and Shift
• From @LisaHaneberg: Real is Rare
• New research shows exercise protects aging brain more than mental efforts. Mind-body connection is real & effective.
• From @LollyDaskal: The Art Of Listening
• From @Leadershipfreak "The 12 Toughest Challenges of Leadership"
• INFOGRAPHIC: Return on Relationship created by @MillionYou for #SocialEnterprise2012
• 65% of Americans Choose a Better Boss Over a Raise—Here's Why Compelling information for motivation By @tykiisel
• Begin Leadership Development on Day One by @FaKalman
• Is Gen Y Sick of Tech? via @mediapost
• 3 Ways to Actually Help Your Team (and Yourself!) by @davidmdye
• @MaxMckeown: "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste..." ~ The Truth About Innovation cc: Larry Page, Google
• Is it Time to Re-examine the Leader You’ve Become? from @artpetty
• Read "Mitt, Barack, Felix and Jennifer" by @tomasacker
• Lead From Anywhere by @drbret
• 10 Barriers to Great Leadership Beware of the pitfalls before they come by @bevje
• Shall I Dare Say I Care? by @LollyDaskal
• Personal transition for better leadership by @mjasmus
• Infographic: The Benefits Of A CEO Coach
• Big Data – Not All Metrics Are Created Equal by @mikemyatt
• Foundational Question of 21st Century #Leadership – Part 1 by @jamesstrock
• @DougSundheim: What motivates you at work? Here are six possibilities « Blanchard LeaderChat
• “Too Little” is all You Need to Fail by Steve Keating aka @LeadToday
• @Bill_George: Managing different generations can be tricky. Each generation has different learning and work styles.
• From @wallybock : Let's hear it for the followers
• FT: Wanted: fresher fables for business
• Positive Leadership. Finding meaning in work - everywhere. by Umair Hague
• 3 Principles For Creating Team Harmony In Today’s Fast-Paced Workplaces by @TanveerNaseer
• Are You an Expert? If Not, Forget the 4-Hour Work Week | HBR Blog
• @RosabethKanter: Why charisma matters - and how to develop it
• @SHRM_Research: In case you missed it, our 2012 Job Satisfaction and Engagement report is now available
• You Don’t Need to Solve for 100% by @scotteblin >Try solving for the next few steps.
• 5 things character-based leaders do via @thehrgoddess
• 5 Benefits of Admitting You’re Wrong by @GeoffreyWebb
• NYT: Luck vs. Skill: Seeking the Secret of Your Success
• How to Say “NO” to Your Boss When Appropriate – 5 strategies by @Leaderchat
• FT: Is it OK to take time off for stress?
• Mike Henry Sr: Top 10 Reasons You Won’t Like The Character-Based Leader
• @Envisia: Can Resilience be Developed?
• Mike Henry Sr: 3 Things Great Leaders Do To Set People Up For Success

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2012 that you might have missed:

• @davidrock101: 3 ways to think deeply at work.
• 10 unexpected ways to show your staff that you value them by @mjasmus
• World's top brands of 2012
• The Process is as Important as the Product: 7 Tips to Manage Both by @JesseLynStoner
• The Power of Genuine Commitment by @TimElmore
• @_robin_sharma: Key: We don't procrastinate because we're busy. We procrastinate because we're scared.
• "Assuming responsibility for yourself is your foundational act of service toward others" says @drbret
• How to Stand Out in a Sea of Words by @mjasmus
• From @steveroesler > Five Real-Life Tips For Leading
• The Future of Leadership is Already Here by @micahsolomon
• Love Leads from @LollyDaskal
• Moderation Doesn't Mean Mediocrity by @KateNasser
• Leadership Isn’t About Checking Boxes by @mikemyatt
• 5 questions to turn a bad day into a great day via @kenblanchard
• @RosabethKanter: Ten Reasons People Resist Change
• Five Backcountry Leadership Lessons for the Boardroom via @ngadventure
• @RonEdmondson: 8 Most Dangerous Leadership Traits
• The True Measures of Success - @HarvardBiz
• Mike Henry Sr: Building A Trusted Brand For Your Organization? Consider The 4 Cores Of Credibility
• FT: Dawn of the devoted all-rounder
• @_robin_sharma: Tool I use to plan my week: Weekly Design System
• Mike Henry Sr: Absorbed by Day-to-Day Challenges, Leaders Are Failing to Go to the Balcony Robbing Themselves
• The top 5 ways NOT to praise people at work by @alexkjerulf
• FT: Why is there so much mediocrity?
• 5 Characteristics of an Excellent Team Member by @RonEdmondson
• Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs from @jamesstrock
• From @ScottEblin How to Keep Your Competitive Drive From Making You Lose
• Mark Twain on self-improvement: “Why bother? I’m good enough as I am.”
• A Labor of Love by @tomasacker

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2012 that you might have missed:

• @profkjmoore: Who Can Teach Leadership? @HarvardBiz
• I love and use this perspective on flipping the script when I find myself stuck in a tunnel vision thought. - ‏@nicolerawski
• Comical: Doctor’s Typeface by Orion Creatives.
• 50 Famous Leaders and Career Advice That Shaped Them
• Seven Ways to (Really) Engage People by @KevinEikenberry
• The Weakness of Positive Thinking from @stratandbiz
• Stressed Out? You're Not Alone by @ToddiGutner for @businessonmain
• Read "A boss by any other name" by @wallybock
• @FSonnenberg: Counterfeit Leadership vs. REAL leadership
• From @RyanEggenberger : Gen Y’s Resignation Letter to Bosses
• Five Leadership Lessons From The Life of Neil Armstrong by @RandyConley
• Read "Stay Vulnerable Even When It Hurts" http://bit.ly/P2kbIx by @LollyDaskal
• 3 Ways To Make Everyone Around You Smarter by @Jim_Kouzes
• @RosabethKanter: The best leaders convene conversations and set the stage that enables others to develop solutions.
• @mikemyatt: Leadership and office politics - survival tips you need to know
• The real purpose of pain is to get us to reevaluate our beliefs from @tomasacker
• Caffeine: The Silent Killer of Emotional Intelligence - Forbes
• @profkjmoore: NYTimes: The Mind of a Flip-Flopper, about the two presidential candidates, interesting for leaders to read.
• @mitsmr: Research shows: Simply being seen at the office has great power
• Try a vacation from whatever work is already scheduled suggests @jasonfried
• Stop Shooting Yourself in the Foot by @LeadershipFreak
• @Jim_Kouzes: The best leaders are self-aware and know who they are, says James Hackett, Steelcase CEO—in @nytimes
• Business's real problem: Uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty by @geoffcolvin
• A Study in Leader Humility By @GwynT
• @keithferrazzi: Never too soon to build relationships to support your success (& success of others) by @richardbranson
• @HarvardBiz: Sometimes failure is a good option
• TEDx talk by Jullien aka @PurposeFinder on being the driver in your own life
• Leadership is not what most people think, and it is certainly not just about the person at the top.
• For fun: Very, very close calls.
• 12 Most Irrefutable Laws of Business Heresy by @tedcoine
• What Do You See? A Lesson in Coaching by @KevinEikenberry How you might handle this situation is important.
• From @wallybock Why don't managers do better?
• 4 Actions When You Put Your Foot In Your Mouth by @RonEdmondson
• @PhilGerb: A Personality Test for Entrepreneurs Interesting - mine turned out to be heart. What's yours?
• FT: Art still trumps science when picking future leaders. ~ @andrewtghill
• @hulmevision: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Work on Vacation via @usnews

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2012 that you might have missed:

• "Leading in the 21st century"
• 31 Days of Twitter Tips from @beckyrbnsn Kindle version free for the month of August. Get your advance copy
• What the London Olympics Really Mean: Victory over Austerity - HBR
• @RosabethKanter: Doing the job well is just the start. Six Extras that build influence & leadership
• @MarkDMcKinney: How sales people really feel!
• @Bill_George: Fellow HBS professor Clay Christensen shares 15 business theories to improve your life
• Find out when your creative and productive geniuses are at the best during the workday. Genius Log From @davelogan1
• @mikemyatt: 4 Leadership Lessons From The Olympics on @Forbes
• INFOGRAPHIC: Why We Shouldn't Work More Than 40 Hours Per Week by @MichaelBKelley
• Read "It’s Okay To Say…" by @LollyDaskal
• @Leadershipfreak: Selfish superstars are hogs. "When Talent Defeats"
• Ideal leaders possess more than just competencies by @mjasmus
• Motivating Teams: What You Can Learn from Science by @Inc @M_Heffernan
• Mike Henry Sr: Team-working: 5 Ego Traits to Leave at Home
• Check out @porrojd 's blog "Tough Talk for Hard Times" for improving your communication skills
• What Makes a "Real" Leader Today? by @steveroesler
• From @LollyDaskal: You Matter
• Their Perception is Your Reality by @scotteblin
• As A Wise Man Once Said . . . by @crozwell "every single employee is capable of doing poor, average or great work."
• Nearly Half of Managers Say Coworker Competitiveness Has Increased in Last Decade
• Agility: The Ingredient That Will Define Next Generation Leadership - Forbes
• How to Remember You're a Manager and Not Royalty by @scotteblin
• Which Habit is For You? By @KevinEikenberry.
• The Power of Really Listening: A tribute to Stephen Covey from @leaderchat
• Who have you astonished today? by @TomAsacker Astonishment is the way out of the downward spiral.
• Work skills you'll need to survive the "conceptual age" - CNN
• @StrategicMonk: Leadership is Not Predictable
• Motivational speaker Stephen Covey, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” author, dead at 79 - Washington Post
• MoralDNA personality test on moral values & the way we prefer to make decisions abt what’s right.
• Developing Trust by @LeadingSolution
• @KateNasser: Lessons in disrupting your business: Lego goes gaming via @workforcetrends
• The Inspiring Power of Creating Possibility by @mjasmus Facilitate the conversation of tomorrow
• Self-awareness - @ScottEblin asks Would You Want to Work for You?
• Mike Henry Sr: The Most Important Question to Ask to Get Great Results http://bit.ly/NtA9Zn
• We need a way to prepare for worlds that are implausible. Excellent. By @Grant27
• Seizing Second Chances At UVA by @DPForrester
• The Un-Education of a Nation: Where We Went Wrong by @mikemyatt
• @BuckheadLeaders: Here are eight reasons why ongoing training is essential to professional growth

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2012 that you might have missed:

• Engines of Innovation by @wallybock
• Two Words of Wisdom that will Change Your Life by @RonEdmondson
• Do you make these body language mistakes? What you do that impact relationships even more than what you say.
• @rosasay: not always easy to see change you're in the middle of. Then a post like this gets you saying "of course!"
• You look weak when you make excuses. "5 ways to Get Good at Mistake Making" by @Leadershipfreak
• The Value of Failing a Little Every Day by @MJAsmus
• @work_matters: In truth, your friends aren't as happy as you think. Most of us act happier around others.
• Leadership and Followership
• @Bill_George: Integrity, perseverance and compassion are three things that set successful leaders apart.
• Trust is a risk...worth taking. >3 Ways To Demonstrate Trust On Your Team by @timage
• The 5 Commandments for Saving Time & Reducing Stress - by Dumb Little Man
• 8 Most Dangerous Leadership Traits by @RonEdmondson
• Read the excellent "Choices" by @wallybock
• Faith, Hope and Charity in Leadership by @mjasmus
• Leaders' character more important than résumés by @Bill_George
• @Leadershipfreak: The challenge of delay is choosing when to step in. Leadership's Most Perplexing People Decision
• An archive of interviews with men and women who’ve led freedom movements against oppressive regimes.
• @wired: In order to prevent dishonestly, Dan Ariely says we need to first understand why people lie, cheat & steal.
• Make reflection a habit says @wallybock
• Encouraging Dreams by @MarkDMcKinney
• Project M: Thinking Wrong, Doing Right | Metropolis Magazine
• We are all put to the test but it never comes in the form or the point we would prefer, does it —A Hopkins
• Read why this writer considers these the "12 Essential Traits of the Modern-day Leader"
• @Bill_George: What Makes a Good Leader? Henley Centre's Patricia Bossons describes evolution of good leadership.
• @MarkDMcKinney: Post your favorite joke, picture, and more on Comical! Help us grow! Sign-up or just browse!
• @SonyaShelton: SAP's CIO: You're Putting Your Executive Career at Risk if You're Not Social - Forbes
• Leadership Caffeine: Coping with a Personal Leadership Confidence Deficit by @ArtPetty
• From @TomAsacker: Your armor is your enemy.
• Science shows that closeness with others doesn't just help us cope with pain - it makes us live longer - @salon
• If You Don't Like Your Future, Rewrite Your Past by @RosabethKanter
• The Leader’s Guide to Popularity by @KevinEikenberry
• Mike Henry Sr: Are We Completely Honest Leaders?
• Amgen CEO Kevin Sharer on Listening: "As you become a senior leader, it’s a lot less about convincing people...
• Inspire People to Follow: Practice Humility by @JohnBaldoni

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2012 that you might have missed:

• Fast Company: 6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them
• Recognizing The Perception Gaps In Your Leadership by @TanveerNaseer
• Walt Disney’s Creative Organization Chart
• Do You Use These Conversation Stoppers? by @SusanMazza
• Why Alternative Education Should Become Mainstream from GOOD
• How To Stick With It When Your Ideas Are Ahead Of Their Time by @Kaihan
• The Economist: The Wheel of Fortune: The latest crop of bosses will have short and troubled tenures
• Breaking Down Coach Popovich’s Perfect Pep Talk by @ScottEblin
• 7 Signs You Don't Have What It Takes To Become An Entrepreneur
• How Tim Cook is changing Apple
• Infrographic: Top 10 Most Read Books in the World
• @mikemyatt: Great Leaders Are Interesting – Are YOU?
• @wallybock hi-lights mini-case studies that show you an actual leader in a real situation.
• Taming Your Shrew by @mjasmus A show of anger is often the ego trying to cover up feelings of fear.
• FT: How should you handle a reputation crisis?
• Imagination Igniters: Dare, Dream, Do by @wallybock >Have you ever, with good intentions, destroyed someone's dream?
• Barrons: Who Are the One Percent?
• LeadChange: What Type of Leadership Personality Do You Have?
• Leadership Lessons from George Carlin via @wallybock
• Mike Henry Sr: 7 Saboteurs of Business Success
• BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep
• Homeboy Industries: The Story of Father Greg Boyle by @michaelaroberto
• The Next Version of Yourself by @mjasmus
• Create a Rock Star Team by @KevinEikenberry
• Please Criticize Me – Hearing criticism is a desirable thing by @Michaelbaer1
• @RosabethKanter: Can Good Corporate Citizenship Sustain Society Through Changing Times? Yes says IBM VP Stanley Litow
• @jamesstrock: Just One Thing: Silence is not Assent
• Leaders, Are We Learning or Proving? by @KateNasser

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2012 that you might have missed:

• The Yin and Yang of Business by @TomAsacker
• @Leadershipfreak: If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. "8 Ways to Find Freedom"
• lead:ology - Leaders vs Managers: A False Dichotomy
• Choice Point: Do Not Let Your Culture Kill You by Robert Quinn @LeadWithLift
• @KevinEikenberry How Leaders Can Use Pinterest
• A Silent Leadership Killer by @mjasmus
• Read: Inspire People to Change by @greatleadership
• @Jim_Kouzes: People are most likely to be creative when intrinsically motivated say Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer
• It’s time to diversify diversity. By @INSEAD @HalGregersen.
• The Steve Jobs Way Leaders can learn a lot from the late Apple CEO, but not all of it should be emulated. @stratandbiz
• Stedman Graham asks, “Would your behavior in working with others change if you knew in advance that your...
• @tom_peters: "Human Touch Saved JAL." Superb interview with interim CEO Kazuo Inamori. Key words: "Kind, gentle, caring."
• Read The Source Of Integrity? by @LollyDaskal
• @TheStyleGent: The true indicator of elegance is the way we act each and every day.
• To John W. Gardner, "Judgment" was the #1 attribute of a leader. By @DennyCoates
• The Surest Way to a Positive Attitude by @KevinEikenberry
• @johnmaeda: White paper on the future of learning by Lego folks.
• Give away which you most wish to receive by @LollyDaskal
• Who knew? A person's life span can be predicted by the size of their smile.
• a href="http://bit.ly/I2FVPv" target="_blank">The Myth of Potential by @mikemyatt Potential is unrealized attainment – nothing more and nothing less.
• Robert Fry, Chairman at McKinney Rogers in London wrote in a letter to the Financial Times, that “to be average...
• @wilsonquarterly: Thought-provoking read from Gertrude Himmelfarb on the decline of civil society
• Change versus Transformation. Change requires that you become more familiar with the current situation to make...
• The Experience of Being Coached by @mjasmus >How you can profit from it.
• FT: Make the most of dead time
• @Bill_George: Using True North Groups with patients Enhance healing in mind, body & spirit & reduce costs
• Good read from @tomasacker > A brand is energy made visible.
• TEDx Eugene Lee - Breathing Together - Leadership Lessons from Musical Ensembles
• Good read from @KateNasser >Leaders, Are We Accomplices to Passive Aggressive Team Members?
• Self Made? No. Self Created? Yes by @JamesStrock
• Is Goldman Sachs filled with rogue tribes? by @davelogan1
• @jamesstrock: To Best Serve Others, Keep Promises to Yourself
• How to Criticize — and Be Loved for it. By @workawesome
• @RosabethKanter: Doing nothing is easy. Acting requires courage - and it is courage that makes change possible
• Why Were You Not? by @LollyDaskal
• Why School Principals Need More Authority by Chester E. Finn Jr.from @TheAtlantic
• @Envisia: Download your free chapter of "Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don't Get It"
• A Lesson on Doing Good Work by @wallybock
• Excuses . . . They Are Worse than You Think by @KevinEikenberry
• @TLCTalk: Leadership is not about I or me. It's about we and us.
• @wallybock: Boss's TOTD: Your pace is not their pace
• The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs - HBR

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2012 that you might have missed:

• Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply
• Who or what is leading your life?
• FT: The outsider who pulled Ford back from the brink
• FT: Time to fire up the cauldrons of creativity
• Leadership and Self-Awareness by @mikemyatt
• Taking Timeouts to Decrease Stress and Increase Creativity
• The Cost Of Creativity - Wired News
• Beware The Self-Righteous Fool by @drbret
• Mike Henry Sr: 5 Steps to Consistently Make Good Decisions
• The Art of Letting Go by @wallybock
• Just One Thing: Encourage without Discouraging by @JamesStrock
• @DPForrester: The “Big Ten” Questions That Really Matter for Penn State
• There are no objective truths in today’s modern marketplace. PDF from @TomAsacker >The Business of Belief
• @profkjmoore: Transcript: BMW's approach to environmental responsibility via @globeandmail
• @RosabethKanter: Evolve (again). The tools are changing, but not the rules about change
• Mike Henry Sr: 7 Most Powerful Lessons From Life & Leadership
• Leaders, Engage Employees Through Entrepreneurial Spirit By @KateNasser
• Read Don't Throw The Bear In The Road by @LollyDaskal >On self defeating attitudes
• @profkjmoore: The Go-Nowhere Generation. My research suggests they are much too negative about this generation
• The Materialist Fallacy by David Brooks
• The Decay of Command-and-Control Leadership by @shawmu
• To Be Of Service via @donhornsby
• Excellent read from @wallybock: Reprise: What if we chose leaders differently?
• @tom_peters on the essence of leadership. TLBT video #74
• Read: Trust Your Inner Wisdom by @LollyDaskal
• FT: The careerist: Coping with idea thieves
• Great interview w/ Jim Whitehurst, founder of Red Hat on merits of meritocracy & open communications to engage employees
• @LisaHaneberg: Fear of, and Anticipation for, Human Tipping Points
• 4 Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By by @HarvardBiz
• @rosasay: Most things in management aren't that difficult; they're ignored... What happened to On the Job Training?
• Kids Don't Come with an Instruction Manual by @FSonnenberg
• Why Introverts Make the Best Leaders

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2012 that you might have missed:

• @LeaderChat: 7 Ways to Build Accountable Organizations @Forbes
• Joe Folkman: Thoughts and research on how to keep your strengths from becoming weaknesses
• Mike Henry Sr: 4 Steps to Building an Emotionally Intelligent Culture
• Stop peddling the status quo by @tomasacker
• Influence Begins on the Inside by @mjasmus
• A brilliant and meaningful idea, even if placed directly in people’s paths, is simply not enough to engage them today. ~ @TomAsacker
• Just One Thing: Don’t Presume You Know by @JamesStrock
• FT: The careerist: Managing the clever but lazy
• @wallybock 's 2/17/12 Weekend Imagination Igniters: How has information and transparency changed the way you work?
• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our...
• Are You Too Shy to Lead? by @DanielGolemanEI
• @DougSundheim: Introverted Leaders: The Right Mentors for Millennials - AMA Shift
• @Bill_George: A new Era for Global Leadership Development
• An Awesomely Simple Formula for Business Success by @AwesomelySimple
• @greatleadership: Top 10 Excuses for Being a Lousy Manager
• How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation by @Bill_George
• @chesterelton: What to do about monsters at work?
• FT: All great leaders need great lieutenants - You can’t do your job if you are buried in ...
• Leaders: Replace the No Whining Sign by @KateNasser Lead by example.
• @walllybock 's Boss's Tip of the Day: Ben Franklin's Two Questions
• Leadership Is A Choice by @drbret
• @Archifilter: Should you Listen to your critics and seek feedback or Ignore your critics & follow your intuition?
• @Jim_Kouzes: Leaders can learn a lot about being authentic & handling adversity from Meryl Streep says @JohnBaldoni
• @DPForrester: No surprise, but a very interesting new study that there is no time to think as a leader.
• The Truth About Leadership by @LollyDaskal
• From @stefanstern: Stars vs drones: Workers of the world are divided (FT.com's future of the company series.)
• From @KevinEikenberry "Five Love Affairs Every Leader Should Have"
• "Failure Week" a festival designed to accustom students to the possibility that they won't always come out on top
• I don’t think you can hit purpose enough as a senior leader. You cannot oversell “Here’s why we’re here.”
• Read Never and Always by @drbret
• We Need A Courageous Conversation by @LollyDaskal
• Authentic Service is Built on Humility
• You Can't Run from Your Shadow by @FSonnenberg
• Conflict can happen when other people misinterpret our strengths.
• Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms? LA Times
• HBR Video: Get Your Employees Engaged with @DougConant
• Read: What if leadership wasn't a promotion? by @wallybock
• Via‏ @Bill_George Can introverts succeed in business? | Not the right question, it's about vision and investment in leadership dev.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2012 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2012 that you might have missed:

• Video: President Abraham Lincoln and Leadership via @jamesstrock
• Lonely at Work by @wallybock "Relationships grow through communication."
• 7 Marks of a Great Leader by @RonEdmondson
• @mjasmus asks "What Do You Need to do More Of?" >Key question
• Mike Henry Sr: You Can’t Learn Anything with Your Mouth Open
• We handicap our potential when we think we have to exploit others to get ahead. Succeeding is not a zero-sum game. More
• @DPForrester: Gotta Have It Now, Right Now
• @PeteThePlanner: Would you agree that Kindness is the most important business skill? (Terrific post!!)
• Do first impressions really matter? by @mikemyatt
• The test of a foreman is not how good he is at bossing, but how little bossing he has to do. ~Mary Parker Follett
• Daniel R. Murphy: A Leader’s Library
• Mike Henry Sr: Women and the Paradox of Power
• Leaders inappropriately cry "be innovative” when what they really mean is “be resourceful" says @tomasacker
• @AngelaMaiers: How Many Times do You Get Up to Succeed? via @ronkarr
• "Ten skills every student should learn" say educators
• 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer
• The easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am. ~Andy Rooney
• Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson
• The Uncertain Leader by @LollyDaskal
• How can you turn victimhood around? by @mjasmus
• @DougSundheim: Why leaders need a sense of humor - CBS News
• @ScottEblin: How to Get Your Leadership Resolutions on Track w/ free self assessment and video coaching tips
• Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. ~Edward O. Wilson
• We are all going to hell in a shopping basket by @RBReich
• 12 Reasons You Will Be a Better Leader this Year
• NYT: The inhabitants of earlier eras might have been wracked by nerves, but none fixated like we do on the condition.
• Solitude is out of fashion by @susancain
• Read Are You Being Born–or Busy Dying? by @jamesstrock
• Ten Morning Habits that Promote Greater Success by @KevinEikenberry
• @MarkDMcKinney: If you are stuck figuring out how to create distinction, ask What’s the WORD? @scottmckain
• How to Choose the Ideas Your Company Should Invest In - Scott Anthony - HBR
• @MarkDMcKinney: Video: Five Musicians, One Guitar
• @everbeke: I've never heard of True North Groups until this post. I'm very interested.
• Team-building Activity?? The Post-it Wars - Businessweek
• @scottmckain: Being DISTINCT is not about how much money you have to spend. It's about YOU. Project Distinct 2012
• @michaelaroberto: Can Sears be saved?
• @DougSundheim: Dear CEO: Who Tells You When Your Baby Is Ugly?
• @wallybock reminds us to Make time to read
• Remember the "Stripes Rule"
• @wallybock: Wally Bock's Pointers and comment on the coming year

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2011 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2011 that you might have missed:

• The Most Popular Offices of 2011 - Office Snapshots
• @wallybock >> Imagination Igniters: Books for Leaders
• @KevinEikenberry Valueable Distinction >> Achievement vs. Success
• @steveroesler: 6 Important Marketing Trends to Watch in 2012 : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum
• Gallup Poll: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Again Top Most Admired List
• Read >> Leaders Are Master Learners by @drbret
• @alanmwebber: Six Two-Word Terms For the Future: "Keep learning new skills and crossing old boundaries."
• @mjasmus: Most read in 2011: 30 Overlooked Acts of Leadership Courage
• Leaders show up for people before asked. Compassion builds support, loyalty. Among 5 powers leaders need.
• Why Strong Women Don’t Get Respect: It starts with what we say about ourselves by @gflblog
• @BrianBacon: If your intention is clean, a small adjustment in your tone of voice and the words you use can make a big difference in a relationship.
• @davidrock101: People don't know when lying to themselves
• @drbret: Richard Winters on: How I lost my credibility in 5 minutes
• The trick is to showcase your strengths without letting your weaknesses steal the show.
• Simply put, trust means confidence. The opposite of trust—distrust—is suspicion. ~Stephen M.R. Covey
• @tomasacker: Times change. Used to be, "I feel like a kid in a candy store." Now, "I feel like a kid in an Apple Store."
• Why Sugar Makes Us Sleepy (And Protein Wakes Us Up)
• @TomAsacker: Predictions for 2012 "The more things change, the more they stay the same"
• The worst leadership moments of 2011 - The Washington Post
• I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. ~Pearl Buck
• Oliver Wendell Holmes: Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.
• @Bill_George: Essay on the "Iron Lady" | visionary “hard line” leader needed at that time
• In an oppressive, controlling culture, your vision is DOA. The vision becomes all about you. Work on the culture first.
• Mercer: US employees hold more favorable views of both top management and direct supervisors today, compared to 5 yrs ago
• @KevinEikenberry: My list of top leadership tweeters
• The 50 Best Blogs for Future Leaders - Online Colleges
• A life of resentment is a life wasted. But how fast can a human being recover from grief, betrayal, anger?
• How to Lead: Discovering the Source of Power From W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
• “For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again...
• Mike Henry Sr: Character vs. Charisma in Leadership
• @RobertHThompson: Why Great Entrepreneurs (Leaders) Take Big Risks And Sometimes Get Fired | AlwaysOn
• @ScottEblin: FT offers some sage perspective on why most training doesn't work.
• Gary Hamel: "Give someone monarch-like authority, and sooner or later there will be a royal screw-up." From What Matters Now
• What are your core in-competencies? In a world of dramatic change they can begin to take over.
• @_robin_sharma: Here's an article called, "The 8 Faces of Exceptionally Creative Leaders"
• From @KevinEikenberry: Five New Habits to Help You Reach Your Goals Faster
• @mjasmus: Develop yourself as a leader: How to Move Through the Leadership Gap
• @ronkarr: Your influence and power comes from other people! Free download from Ron Karr.
• @tomasacker: The paradox of success. "In a turbulent environment, control is your enemy."

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2011 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2011 that you might have missed:

• @LollyDaskal: Reflections! Look In the Mirror
• @LisaHaneberg: When they won't comply - rejoice! >How often do we squelch ownership ...?
• @Archifilter: "those who excel beyond the pack are pushing themselves continually so that they are never on autopilot"
• Sharon Daniels: There's no hiding from being judged because a manager's shortcomings are on full view for everyone.
• Self-pity is a losing strategy. It repels others and weakens you.
• The virtue of weak leadership « @curtrice
• There is a big difference between seeing what is wrong and what could be better. It’s a difference in approach.
• Leadership & Discipline by @mikemyatt
• From @wallybock: A Future without Managers
• @LeadersCoach: Avoid dangers of being trapped by narcissistic bubble: Five steps to keep grandiosity in check!
• Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman, filtered every decision through, "Will it make the boat go faster?"
• @Bill_George: Fantastic video on Leadership Development Groups or True North Groups in the HBS Leadership Dev course
• There is no such thing as best practices. by @mikemyatt on @Forbes
• @simpletonbill: Views on Personal Change from Someone in Springtime of Life via @MarkDMcKinney
• From @JamesStrock: When service is the basis of leadership, everyone can be a leader.
• @SirKenRobinson: The revolution in education is possible, urgent and happening.
• Are You Following These 3 Rules For Giving Effective Feedback? by @TanveerNaseer
• From @GOOD: Why is it so hard to put imagination back into schools?
• From @TheAtlantic: How much do business chops really matter for the presidency?
• @ronkarr: 12 Characteristics of a Bad Boss.
• Why You Can’t Motivate Workers by Larry Kahaner
• Actions Speak Louder by @mjasmus
• @ryancvet: To conjure up an incredible idea, you must first be willing to come up with a thousand subpar ideas.
• Mike Henry Sr: Leadership Is a Choice
• Picks For The Best Ads Of The Year, So Far - Forbes
• FT Columnist Tyler Brûlé asks, “Could it be time for the charm school to make a return? Rather than spending...
• Good read! 10 Principles of 21st Century Leadership @JamesStrock
• @Bill_George: Leadership means being visible among the troops; hiding in a corner office won’t cut it
• When a leader makes it about them, it says “You don’t matter.” They create a culture lacking in accountability.
• What Do Workplace Pit Bulls Do to Accountability? by @KateNasser
• @Bill_George: Research finds that helping employees start their day in good moods improves quality and productivity
• Mike Henry Sr: Leadership Is Not An Entitlement Program
• Leo Tolstoy: Nobody knows where the human race is going. The highest wisdom, then, is to know where you are going.
• @Jim_Kouzes: In her eulogy to her brother, Steve Jobs, Mona Simpson said "He had surprises tucked in all his pockets."

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2011 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2011 that you might have missed:

• @mikemyatt: The biggest leadership blind-spot and what to do about it: Leadership & The Expectation Gap
• @RonEdmondson: The Encouragement Folder: Every Leader Needs One
• From @MJAsmus: Letting Go of Your Need to be Right
• Servant Leader Quiz: Servant Leadership Assessment
• From @drbret: Inner Work Life
• 6 Reasons You Don’t Dream Big Enough | Time Management Ninja
• @JohnBaldoni: When it comes to leadership, understanding context is critical.
• From @wallybock - Boss's Tip of the Day: Read book reviews
• @MarkDMcKinney: Nat Geo The Perfect Airport
• We have entered an extended period of uncertainty and turbulent disruption that might well characterize the rest of our lives.
• @KevinEikenberry: Do You Ever Do Nothing?
• @Bill_George Another powerful message from Tom Friedman. We would be well advised to focus on genuine innovation & job creation.
• @sepher: Could science prove that we don’t have free will? Science and Free Will - NYT
• @DougSundheim: Take a trip to the Idea Store | Daniel Pink
• Leadership Bit by Bit by @wallybock
• Making New Connections: How the Brain Can Develop Into Adulthood @TheAtlantic
• FT: New devices often provoke moral panics.
• The Must-Have Leadership Skill - Daniel Goleman - HBR
• Linked Leaders: The Beatles | Apple | Steve Jobs by James Stock
• @tomasacker: What is branding?
• @Bill_George : Remembering the Greatest Innovator of the Past Fifty Years
• @ScottEblin: What Do You Make of This?
• @stevefarber "Keep a Journal of Gratitude, take a little notebook & write down the things you’re grateful for."
• @profkjmoore: People Stop Texting Me and Give Me a Call Once in a While!
• Interview with Joseph Jimenez, chief executive of Novartis
• Steve Jobs: A Life - Forbes
• @stevefarber: "Creativity, the wellspring of innovation, starts with something very simple — a choice."
• @ronkarr: 11 Things You Should Never Say When You Fire an Employee
• How Did the Robot End Up With My Job?: Excellent column by Thomas Friedman on how globalization is once again morphing
• @JohnBaldoni: All growth is not good. CEOs need to discern what is good and what may not be good for the business.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2011 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2011 that you might have missed:

• @stevefarber: Want to solve the leadership crisis? Make a commitment to helping each other to help each other.
• @TheEconomist: How good are business schools at teaching globalisation? Not very, says one IESE professor
• “Power may corrupt, but absolute power corrupts a lot less than partial power,” says Lucy Kellaway.
• @jamesstrock: Powerful Concept for Service: Everyone Can't Be In Your Front Row
• @tomasacker: How do people respond to your brand?
• Learning from Great Leaders by @mjasmus
• @BobBurg: Positive Persuasion And That All-Important 1/4-Inch Hole
• We need “professional” responsibility as much as “personal” responsibility by @scottmckain
• Matthew Kelly writes in “Off Balance: “An organization can only become the best-version-of-itself to the extent...
• Training Isn’t Dead – But it Should Be by @mikemyatt
• From @michaelaroberto > Leaders, Explore outside your domain!
• Leadership Caffeine - Always Lead with Context by @artpetty
• Develop habits that free your mind to concentrate on the new, the novel, and the dangerous. @wallybock
• Mary C. Gentile on Ethical Leadership: Asking the Wrong Questions | @YalePress
• Being Lucky isn't Enough by @wallbock
• @keithferrazzi: People appreciate being known - details matter from @thoughtleaders
• From @wallybock: A Legendary CEO for the Rest of Us
• @tomasacker You can't find yourself in this chaotic, dynamic environment. You must create yourself.
• @36dollar360: The use and misuse of 360-degree assessments.
• DougSundheim: Managing Modesty > Embracing criticism to adapt leadership style to a company’s changing needs.
• What happens in a workplace with healthy relationships? by @mjasmus
• Do you have a True North Group? Vital to leadership survival.
• @Archifilter: Opinion - Fantastic graphic clarifies our current economic situation - NYTimes
• I’m a sucker for organizational tools. I can’t walk into a stationery store without getting giddy.
• Marc Andreessen in The Economist: “All this bubble stuff is people fighting the last war."
• @donhornsby: Rules for The Remarkable | Robin Sharma's Blog
• @TheAtlantic: What's your productivity secret? Readers share their methods
• Seth Godin: If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
• The Power of Small Steps by @jamesstrock
• Is information filtering all bad? How does one handle it? A podcast interview of Michael Roberto by @andy_kaufman
• Good Observations >> @simonsinek: The beauty of the lasting relationships (video)
• Good interview with Robin Sharma

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2011 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2011 that you might have missed:

• From @wallybock: Grading Steve Jobs: A+, A, and Incomplete
• @TheAtlantic: At least 25 CEOs earned more than their companies paid in income taxes in 2010
• Change Your Tune - Important read brought to you by @MJAsmus
• @sciam: The Pitfalls of Positive Thinking: How rosy thoughts can lead to negative outcomes
• @BrianBacon: Napping Gets a Nod at the Workplace
• The Golden Rule and Self-knowledge by @feistycoach
• INFOGRAPHIC: 7 Habits of a Highly Ineffective Manager by @mindflash
• Deseret News: The age of entitlement
• In appreciation of Steve: Think different, remixed
• Steve Jobs Broke Every Leadership Rule. Don't Try It Yourself - Forbes
• Preparing For Tomorrow’s Leaders Today by @TanveerNaseer
• @tomasacker: The fog is here to stay.
• From @ScottEblin What Happens After a Legend Leaves?
• In Pursuit of Happiness @BoozCompany
• @michaelaroberto: Popular past blog post: Capitalizing on a recession / very relevant still today!
• Five Characteristics of a Successful Leader by @markdmckinney
• @ronkarr: The Best Type of Leader
• @profkjmoore: Video: Refining the leadership vision This week's video interview with Wharton's Stew Freidman
• How Do You Serve Those Who Wait in Line to be Served? by @jamesstrock
• Fortune: Why McDonald's Wins in Any Economy
• Guidelines of Passion-Based Learning by @AngelaMaiers
• @BoozCompany: From strategy+business: How to Prevent Self-Inflicted Disasters
• @tom_peters: Re volatility—my greatest fear: In volatile times citizens turn toward extremists who offer apparent solutions that are literally insane.
• 8 Dangers Every Leader Must Face and Overcome
• This article holds many links to all the big themes within "Consider." NYT: The Elusive Big Idea via @DPForrester
• Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for days - Eric Schmidt
• @BloombergTV: Harvard's Kaplan on Leadership Techniques - Video
• From @wallybock : Who is that leader in the mirror?
• How to Lead With Courage from @TalentMgtMag
• @Archifilter: Always keep learning - "anyone who is still doing only what he or she was trained to do is obsolete"
• Howard Schultz: “The fundamental problem is that the lens through which Congress approaches issues is re-election."
• 7 Reasons Why Many Smart People Fail to Lead by @RajSetty
• Maslow 2.0: A New and Improved Recipe for Happiness
• via @mitsmr: Rotman Mag Q&A - How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci (pdf)
• FRIEDMAN: A Theory of Everything (Sort Of) - The power pyramid is being turned upside down
• In economic turmoil, U.S. needs a leader like Churchill by @David_Gergen
• @TimElmore: 4 tips for adults to help students limit screen-time
• @blogging4jobs : There’s No Such Thing As Casual Sex (or Leadership)
• INFOGRAPHIC: The Evolution of Knowledge Management
• From @RosabethKanter: Separating enduring strategic lessons from the hype can help avoid a new crash
• @keithferrazzi: 70% of business failures come from not asking for help - Wow - You REALLY need someone to have your back!
• @stevefarber: The Love Practicum
• Do you know your F-score? Find out free from @SallyHogshead
• The Value of Knowing Exactly Who You Are by @mjasmus

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