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Hi. My name is Remarkable House. At least that’s what Kevin and his family and team call me anyway. For the first 47½ years of my life I was a family home, which was great. But when Kevin bought me, moved some walls and removed the carpet down to my original hardwood floors, I knew [...]

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This is the ninth post in our series of guest blog posts from our ten finalists in this year’s Best of Leadership Blogs competition (make your pick here)  Bob Sutton is a researcher and Professor of Management Science at the Stanford Engineering School. The word ‘innovation’ best describes his way of exploring the connections between [...]

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This is the sixth guest blog post from our ten finalists in this year’s Best of Leadership Blogs competition (vote for any one of the finalists here) LeaderTalk is an up-and-coming leadership blog from Mountain State University that focuses on lifelong learning and strives to influence through insight. At LeaderTalk, knowledge is used to create [...]

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This is another in our series of blog posts by the nominees for the Best Leadership Blog of 2009 (you can see the list and place your vote here.)  In addition to being an executive coach, Scott is also a speaker and author. In his book The Next Level: What Insiders know about Executive Success, [...]

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This is the third of a series of guest posts from the ten bloggers nominated for Best Leadership Blog of 2009 (place your vote here) John Bishop is a person who never fails to bring forth discussions and insights that are not only thought-provoking, but informational and inspirational also. An evidence to this is his [...]

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This is the second in our series of guest posts from the ten bloggers nominated for Best Leadership Blog of 2009. (please vote for your pick now). With over 20 years of experience in the field of leadership development, Dan is no stranger to providing insights into leadership and helping others succeed personally as well as [...]

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A lesson that we all tend to forget and overlook in regards to leadership: You don’t always have to follow what people did before you. That should be simple right? But if you look at some examples, lots of people tend to follow in the footsteps of those before them. So maybe it’s not so [...]

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As a history major, I thought about writing a post about leadership skills from past business leaders, politicians etc. I thought about John C. Calhoun because of his determination, but he had so many flaws and is rather controversial. When I got to thinking about it, most of the great men and women I learned [...]

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Leadership Tidbits From Hollywood

by Kevin Eikenberry on June 12, 2009

in Guest Posts,Leadership,Learning

 In this post I’d like to try something new, something a little different from what I’ve done in the past. I am an avid movie watcher and I believe that there is leadership value to be taken away from every movie you watch; you just have to know how and where to look for it. I [...]

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 No, I am not talking about learning from the major motion picture starring Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott, as entertaining as it may be. I am talking about how important it is to learn and develop yourself based on the skills and attributes that others possess.  In addition to closing with a quote today, [...]

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