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Dr. Kim Cameron on Positive Leadership
Kim Cameron, professor and author of Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance, shares how to achieve extraordinary effectiveness and spectacular results. Dr. Cameron describes his four positive leadership strategies and how to implement them:
- Enable a positive climate
- Develop positive relationships
- Promote positive communication
- Create positive meaning.
Positive leadership is not about ignoring or minimizing problems and obstacles, but about engendering that which is life-giving, elevating, and virtuous in organizations, and Dr. Cameron demonstrates how a leader’s attitudes and behaviors dramatically impact individual and organizational performance.
For more from Dr. Kim Cameron, listen to the entire show here on April 26, 2010, at 12pm EST/9am PST.
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Barry Smotherman: Managing A Successful Career When You’re a Financial Executive
Barry Smotherman has an extensive career in energy and entrepreneurial organizations, both as a CFO and consultant. Barry exemplifies the core values that enable any employee to succeed: excellence, innovation, integrity, and teamwork. He addresses ways to tap the job market for the best opportunities and how to navigate organizational transitions. His philosophy is get organized, have a plan and execute it. Some of the lessons he highlights:
- Prepare ahead of time and think through the eventual process
- Have a real sense of urgency
- Listen and then listen some more
- Don’t be intimidated by difficult odds
- The best people get things done with A players
For more from Barry Smotherman, listen to the entire show.
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