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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How Are You Showing Up as a Leader? | |
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| Where Have You Been?: Document Your Leadership Journey | |
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| Build a Spider Web: Evaluate Your Working Relationships | |
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| Spin Around in a Circle: Make 360� Feedback Work for You | |
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| Your Own Private Detective: Ask a Peer to Track Your Development | |
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| When the Student Is Ready: Find a Mentor | |
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| Just Like the CEO: Create a Personal Board of Directors | |
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| Get in the Weight Room: Identify and Leverage Your Strengths | |
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| Go Back in Time: Ask Past Colleagues about Your Leadership | |
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| Is There Another Way?: Confront Your Hardest-Held Positions | |
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| How Am I Driving?: Develop a Vision, Mission, and Strategy | |
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| Add Something New to Your Game | |
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| Break Out the Dictionary: Craft Your Own Definition of Leadership | |
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| Put It in Writing: Prepare a Leadership Development Plan | |
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| One Year at a Time: Develop One Leadership Skill a Year | |
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| What Is It That Only You Can Do?: Learn to Delegate | |
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| The Whistle and the Clipboard: Practice Your Coaching Skills | |
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| Hit the Books: Read Three Business Titles a Year | |
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| The Best Thinking Tools Ever Invented: Keep a Journal | |
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| I Have a Theory: Study Great Leadership Thinking | |
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| Once Upon a Time: Become a Great Storyteller | |
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| This Is Me: Share Your Leadership Foundations | |
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| Get Curious about the World Around You | |
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| Take a Trip Around the World: Learn about Other Cultures | |
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| So This Is What We Do: Learn the Business | |
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| Keep Tabs on Your Friends: Document Your Network | |
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| That Thing Called the Internet: Leverage Technology | |
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| Who Are These People?: Get to Know Your Team Members | |
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| Ask the Experts: Tap Vendors and Consultants for New Ideas | |
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| Scout the Enemy: Know Your Competitors | |
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| Go Back to School: Attend a Conference or Seminar | |
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| Road Trip!: Visit Innovative Companies | |
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| Bring It Home: Learn Something New—Outside of Work | |
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| Step Out of Your Comfort Zone | |
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| Get Outside the Circle: Practice New Leadership Behaviors | |
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| You're Right and I'm Wrong: Admit Mistakes and Limitations | |
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| Become a Member: Join a Professional Network | |
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| Share Your Story: Organize an Internal Speakers Bureau | |
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| Tell the Boss You're Bored: Take Charge of Your Own Career | |
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| Love the Numbers: Learn to Read Financial Statements | |
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| Build the Business Case: Give Great Presentations | |
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| A Healthy You: Bring Energy to Your Work | |
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| Write Your Own Screenplay: Imagine Yourself in Future Roles | |
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| Question Everything: Review Your Strategy Twice a Year | |
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| It's Not about You | |
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| It's All about Them: Showcase Your People | |
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| Give Something Back: Help a Nonprofit Organization | |
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| What the Boss Needs to Hear: Provide Feedback Up the Ladder | |
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| Extend Your Reach: Spend Time with Your Broader Team | |
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| Your Most Precious Resource: Set Priorities for Your Time | |
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| Step Up to the Podium: Teach a Course Inside Your Company | |
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| Talk to Yourself: Ask Three Questions Every Day | |
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| Join the Volunteer Army: Donate Your Leadership Skills | |
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| The Best Advice Ever: Become a Better Listener | |
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| Welcome the New Guard: Write a Letter to Your Successor | |
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| Where Do You Go From Here? | |
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| Figures | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |