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David Rabiner's Blog: Measured Assertiveness: The Unrecognized Leadership Ingredient
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Monday, July 5, 2010. Measured Assertiveness: The Unrecognized Leadership Ingredient. Like salt in a sauce, too much overwhelms the dish; too little is similarly distracting; but just the right amount allows the other flavors to dominate our experience. Just as food is rarely praised for being perfectly salted, leaders may somewhat infrequently be praised for being perfectly assertive.". What Breaks a Leader: The Curvilinear Relation Between Assertiveness and Leadership. Assertiveness counts. While a...
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David Rabiner's Blog: Building Trust: Why Competence Matters
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Thursday, July 1, 2010. Building Trust: Why Competence Matters. In an earlier post, I talked about the four components of trust:. Competence, transparency, predictability, and genuine concern. I'd like to get into a little more detail about each, and today, we'll focus on COMPETENCE. Simply put, people won't trust a leader who is seen as less than competent to get the job done. I was reading. The Speed of Trust. Elections is a very highly technical field. It was much more technical than I could even ...
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David Rabiner's Blog: Leading Groups in Solving Problems
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Monday, October 25, 2010. Leading Groups in Solving Problems. When faced with a problem, many of us jump immediately to finding a solution. That’s why some of our meetings end up in frustratingly-long debates over the best solution. Everyone comes to the table with his or her idea of what the problem is and what should be done about it. The discussion becomes a war of ideas with battlefield casualties. Sound familiar? Now you can talk about specific solutions — means, ploys, strategies, procedures ...
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David Rabiner's Blog: How Strong Leaders Deal with Resistance to Change
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Thursday, February 24, 2011. How Strong Leaders Deal with Resistance to Change. In my last blog, I drew the connection between dealing effectively with difficult people and working relentlessly on knowing who you are, where you are going, and who you want to take with you on that journey. Today I’d like to talk about another leadership challenge – resistance to change – and how focusing on self development matters there, too. Doing the following three things:. 2) looking at themselves (instead of the res...
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David Rabiner's Blog: Tips for Setting Goals in 2012
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Tips for Setting Goals in 2012. Just as Microsoft does with Windows, each year I attempt to upgrade myself. And, like Windows, some versions of my new self are better than others. I just finished programming Rabiner 2012 by setting my annual goals, and I thought I’d share the most important things I. Ve learned over the years about this process. 1 Believe in the power of incremental gains. 2 Focus on what you want. 3 Boil it down to two or three measurable goals for 2012.
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David Rabiner's Blog: Pinning Down The Elusive Quality of Leadership Presence
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Friday, August 31, 2012. Pinning Down The Elusive Quality of Leadership Presence. When I talk about leadership “presence,” I am referring to a personal manner or style that commands respect and influences thinking, decision-making, and action. Over the past 19 years, I’ve worked with thousands of leaders (and followers) who have helped me define what leadership presence is. I’ve boiled it down to the following three broad characteristics:. Draws them in like a magnet. In his book,. We are noticing more a...
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David Rabiner's Blog: Humility and Leadership
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Monday, February 3, 2014. In his book, Good to Great. Jim Collins lays out strong evidence that effective leaders possess a paradoxical mix of humility. And professional will. While driven to achieve, he says, successful leaders downplay their personal contributions and attribute their ultimate success to a combination of good luck and the invaluable support and great talents of the people around them. As important as humility. There is no test for humility and no 5-step program to develop it. Howeve...
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David Rabiner's Blog: Three Apps for Peak Performance in 2014
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Monday, January 6, 2014. Three Apps for Peak Performance in 2014. I thought I’d kick off the new year by telling you about a couple of apps that can help make 2014 your best year ever. Here’s what we know for sure: People who set goals achieve more than those who don’t. Setting goals works - it’s just not easy to stick with them after the first few weeks of January. The new hot topic in business literature is mindfulness and it's relationship to peak performance. What the heck is mindfulness? A Lesson in...
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David Rabiner's Blog: How Leaders Influence Ethical Decision-Making
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Sunday, February 27, 2011. How Leaders Influence Ethical Decision-Making. Ethical decision-making is, of course, a personal choice. Influencing employees to make every-day decisions that are consistent with organizational values and purpose means getting personal with them – getting into their heads and hearts – so their choices are more likely to be consistent with yours. 1) Be clear about your organization's values and purpose and set high expectations for ethical decision-making. 4) Recover with grace...
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David Rabiner's Blog: A Lesson in Change Management: Getting Them On Board Your Bus
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011. A Lesson in Change Management: Getting Them On Board Your Bus. I like to analogize organizational leadership with being a bus driver. For the moment, consider that management in your organization is asking you to buy into a change. It might be a fundamental change in direction, it might be an operational change, or it might be just a technology change. The change is a bus, and management (the bus driver) is asking you to get on. And are likely to take on any initiative with a se...
