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Community is the new infrastructure where character-based leaders thrive. Communities are loose groups of people who share a common interest. Community is rapidly replacing heirarchy as the default organization structure.

6 awesome ways that companies have rewarded their employees

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LinkedIn recently rewarded all of their employees’ hard work by giving each of them an iPad mini on Valentine’s Day. Not only was this a great way to reward their employees for their hard work, but this provided LinkedIn with a lot of free publicity, as well as no doubt encouraging more people to apply » Read More

Meet Instigator Chery Gegelman

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Each month in our newsletter, we feature an interview with one of our Instigators. The interview for May was with Chery Gegelman, president of Giana Consulting LLC.  Chery is a speaker, author, consultant, and first-time expat. Get in touch with her at www.consultgiana.com. What is your background in leadership? I am an ordinary person that has » Read More

Teaching is Leading

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In the Lead Change Google+ community, we host a Question of the Week. It is a time for people to stop, think, write, and exchange ideas and insights. It is an amazing community thing! A recent question was: “In looking back, which teacher or professor made the biggest difference or impact in your life? It » Read More

Meet Instigator Bill Treasurer

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Each month in our newsletter, we feature an interview with one of our Instigators. The interview for May was with Bill Treasurer (@btreasurer), Chief Encouragement Officer of Giant Leap Consulting from the Asheville, NC area. What is your background in leadership? I became interested in leadership after I did a bad job of leading. I discover » Read More

Willing to Exchange Our Lives for Your Freedom (Part 2)

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Have you ever considered this…?  “A Veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America, for an amount up to and including his or her own life.“  Unknown  Did you know that many studies » Read More

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Dallas Lead Change Meetup

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About a year ago, we started a local lunch group to discuss character-based leadership topics. It takes time to gain momentum and patience helps. As we look to our meeting next week, the group is really starting to take shape. Erin Schreyer (@ErinSchreyer) and I met through Lead Change and started the group. We call » Read More

Everything I Learned About Collaborative Leadership

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Over the last few weeks, I have been working together with a team to prepare a proposal in response to The Children’s Trust (TCT) Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) “Safe and Supportive Communities: Place-Based Service Partnerships for At-Risk Populations.” The purpose of this competitive solicitation is to identify 16 place-based service partnerships to address child abuse prevention, » Read More

Everything I Learned About Servant Leadership

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On March 6 and 7, I attended the World Leaders Conference 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. This was my second time attending this dynamic conference focused on defining the philosophy and practice of servant leadership. As I listened to the speakers discuss their experiences in servant leadership, I realized that everything I had learned about » Read More

Trust and Distrust – Contrasting Outcomes

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For two weeks in March I had the good fortune to visit five senior secondary schools in Shanghai, China. It was wonderful to be immersed in a different culture and educational system. The expectation going into this excursion was that I would observe contrasts in our cultures and that indeed occurred. However, I was also » Read More

It Takes Leaders to Be a Community

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Yes, it takes a community to be a leader. There is another side to the equation, too. It takes leaders to be a community, to empower a community. A community is a group of people. When leadership is mixed in, the community begins to bloom. It enlivens people to show empathy, act for broader goodness, » Read More

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