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Jim Taggart Apr 6, 2021 · 4 min read

Are You a Smarty Pants?

Fill in the blank in the following quotation to see if you correctly identify the decade in question: Any company that aspires to succeed in the tougher business environment of the ______ must first resolve a basic dilemma: success in the marketplace…

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John Whitehead Mar 31, 2021 · 1 min read

Promises, Promises: Building trust in leadership

Following through on promises and commitments you make as a leader is Kouzes & Posner’s 3rd behaviour in their practice of Modelling the Way from the book “The Leadership Challenge”. In fact, doing what you say you will do is a critical leade…

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Jim Taggart Mar 29, 2021 · 3 min read

Are You a Spontaneous Leader? Some Important Lessons from Jazz

There’s no cookie cutter recipe for leadership. Each leader, or potential one, has a unique personality that has developed from the immediate world in which the individual grew up and matured. Our mental models (the tailored set of assumptions acquired f…

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John Whitehead Mar 24, 2021 · 1 min read

Are We On The Same Track?

Building off last week’s Vlog post where I spoke about as leaders, we are being watched by our direct reports on the standards we set, and how we also need to be demonstrating these same standards. What happens if we let some “off the hook” but other…

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John Whitehead Mar 16, 2021 · 1 min read

Who is Watching You?

As a leader in the organization, any organization, you are being watched, observed, and almost certainly being mimicked (hopefully in a good way). This week I dig into the 30 behaviours that are associated with Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices of E…

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John Whitehead Mar 11, 2021 · 1 min read

Leadership Coaching: How to start the process off right.

This week I begin a series of vlog posts on my interpretation and experiences on the work of Kouzes and Posner, specifically The Leadership Challenge (Wiley). I start this week by outlining how I approach my coaching process by engaging, not only the…

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Jim Taggart Feb 25, 2021 · 2 min read

Real Leaders Embrace Duality: The New 21st Century Leadership Competency

Our world is not black and white—the Manichaean view— when it comes to the wide array of interconnected issues and challenges facing those in leadership roles. Whether you’re a politician leading a developing country, the head of a multinational compa…

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John Whitehead Feb 23, 2021 · 1 min read

Epilogue: The Twenty Habits Are Not Just for Leaders

My posts over the last 21 weeks have been an exploration, my interpretations of the “Twenty Habits That Hold You Back from The Top” found in Marshall Goldsmith’s amazing book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”. If you are a leader, at any level, in a…

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