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Mastering Leadership – A Roadmap for Personal Transformation

by Jennifer V. Miller

mastering leadership navigating complexity

Few would argue that “leadership effectiveness” is one of the most important elements of business success. Yet, how many leaders in their organizations make their own leadership development a top priority? Even fewer set out to make a monumental personal transformation along the way. Yet that just what’s needed in today’s complex work world: leaders…

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5 Ways to be a Leader – and Only One Requires a Title

by Jennifer V. Miller

  Everyone has the capacity to lead. Not everyone agrees with this statement. In fact, it’s a hotly contested debate on many leadership blogs. I believe it. I believed it when I helped co-author The Character-Based Leader in 2012. And I believe it more with each passing day, especially as I coach my kids in…

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Blueprints for Nine Essential Business Meetings

by Jennifer V. Miller

Let’s just put it right out there: pretty much everybody loves to hate business meetings. I’m on the record in support of meetings if they’re held for the right reasons and are run effectively. So, count me in the minority of people who think (some) meetings are OK. The problem is, we humans can muck…

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52 Messages for Becoming a Disciplined Leader

by Jennifer V. Miller

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As a leader, are you committed to “relentless self-control and positive work habits?” In the book The Disciplined Leader, author John Manning makes the case for discipline, writing that effective leaders employ “consistent application of certain mindsets and actions that are vital for [their] success.” Yet, as Manning found when he began conducting research for…

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The One Minute Manager – A New Leader’s Story

by Jennifer V. Miller

In 1984, as a college senior, I was employed by my university as an Assistant Residence Hall Director (AD). It was the first job in which I had a staff that (dotted line) reported to me. During the day, everyone answered to the full time Residence Hall Director. On the evenings and weekends, I rotated…

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