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Does Your Leadership Suffer from the Bandwagon Effect?

Patti Cotton — Wed, 19 May 2021 11:00:06 +0000

Are you following the crowd when it comes to the way you lead? You may not think so. However, if you are like most leaders, you may unwittingly suffer from “the Bandwagon Effect” without knowing it. The Bandwagon Effect is a cognitive bias that can cause us to think and act in certain ways if […]

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The Untapped Potential of Your Middle Management

Patti Cotton — Wed, 13 May 2020 11:00:21 +0000

You can quickly improve the organizational health of your company by focusing on the potential of your middle management. But if your culture doesn’t recognize this as important, you are headed for trouble. How do you redirect so that you strengthen your future? Three steps. Make leadership development a high priority. Know how to develop […]

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Leading with Greater Inner Agility

Patti Cotton — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:00:59 +0000

You are moving an entire business through uncharted waters right now. A lot of people are depending on you. Grit isn’t enough to meet the challenges you are facing. You need to increase your inner agility in two ways to deal with the complexity occurring right now. Owen, president of a manufacturing firm, reached out […]

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Lead or Manage? Why You Need to Do Both

Patti Cotton — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:00:08 +0000

Part I. Making Your Leadership Work To lead or manage? This is the wrong question – you need to do both. The differences between managing and leading are crucial, and you will find a lot of material on the subject. But the comparisons imply that leadership is preferable to management, and that in order to […]

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Asking for a Favor Can be a Powerful Tool

Patti Cotton — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:00:16 +0000

Do you hesitate to ask for a favor when you know you already need a bigger one from that same person? You’d be surprised that this is indeed the best time to ask! And it’s especially helpful as you seek to influence that person toward a larger, more important goal. Does that feel counter-intuitive? Many […]

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Do You Have a Business Bucket List?

Patti Cotton — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:00:49 +0000

An interesting movie came out in 2007 called The Bucket List. It is a movie about two men coming to grips with the reality of cancer and then making the conscious decision to focus on living life fully in whatever time they had left. Together, they formulated a bucket list. The rest of the movie […]

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