Weekly Roundup: Prime 5 Management Classes From 2020, Traits Of Excessive Performing And Profitable Groups, 7 Issues You Ought to Not Do In 2021, A Coveted Management Trait
Welcome to my weekly roundup of the best of the latest leadership and communication blog posts I've seen in the past few weeks. Given the current business situation today and how much has changed as a result COVID-19 I continue to advocate racial justice and continue to use the weekly round-up as a place to share some of the best resources I see to help leaders and communicators overcome these challenges with their teams.
This week's roundup of this week's leadership and communication blogs:
- Communication and Courage: The 5 Most Important Business Management Lessons From 2020
By Katherine Thompson via Fortune Magazine (@FortuneMagazine)
Business transformation and organizational change management expert Katherine Thompson shares her top five business management lessons learned in 2020."Even if the world prepared to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders would expect other insurmountable challenges to be faced – like an economic downturn, racial unrest, and one of the most important elections of our time… "
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- High performing teams have these 10 characteristics
By Eric Jacobson (@EricJacobsonKC)
Best-in-class organizations that quickly seize every opportunity and solve every problem do so because of their people and their collaboration. These properties help them with this."According to Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese, authors of The Collaboration Imperative, high-performing teams have the following characteristics: … "
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- Resolve to stop doing these things as a leader
By Art Petty (@artpetty via @SmartBrief and @SBLeaders), SmartBrief
Get 7 Great Things to Stop Leaving a Leader in 2021"The late great management thinker Peter Drucker once offered," We spend a lot of time teaching our managers what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching them what to stop. "If you're looking for resolutions and ideas to build and strengthen your leadership role over the coming months, here are seven things that I suspect Drucker would encourage you to stop …"
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- 7 reasons Humility is a sought-after leadership trait
By Harvey Deutschendorf (@theeiguy via @FastCompany), Fast Company
A survey found that humble leaders lead to better performing teams. Harvey Deutschendorf, an expert in emotional intelligence, explains 7 other reasons why humility is becoming a sought-after leadership trait."A survey of computer product companies published in the Journal of Management found that humble leaders lead to better performing teams, better collaboration, and flexibility. Other research has found that humble leaders listen better, are more flexible, and encourage more teamwork… ”
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– –David Grossman
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