Human Resources: HR.com's Thought Leaders for March 6, 2008

Welcome to Thought Leaders for March 6th, 2008

Each week this newsletter features the most inspiring, educational and powerful stories from some of the world's greatest business leaders. Each five-minute video will give you the courage, energy and know-how to accomplish your tasks and motivate your team to do the same.

This week's free video is from our partner Fifty Lessons. Be sure to check out what today's thought leaders have to teach us about managing people, our careers and our lives.

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The Confidence Factor
A strong leader must be self-confident. Too many people are intellectually or technically brilliant, but don’t have the confidence to carry that through into real leadership. Encouraging self-confidence in your people will make them more assertive in their actions, presentations and analysis.

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See The World From Other People’s Perspective	The Transition From Management To Leadership	The Virtuous Circle Of Competence And Confidence

Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University	Dina Dublon Director, Microsoft, Accenture & PepsiCo.	Gill Rider Director General, Leadership & People Strategy, Cabinet Office

One of the most important skills a leader can grasp is how to see the world from other people’s points of view, to think about the issues and demands others are facing, and not take an egoistic perspective. By putting themselves in another’s place, leaders will make deeper and more effective connections with those people.	It can be some time after making the transition from management to leadership before other people feel comfortable treating individuals in a way that reflects their new responsibilities. However, once this transition has happened, those people will be sought for their opinion and listened to in a very different manner than they had been before.	If a person appears to lack confidence, other people can wrongly assume they are lacking in competence too. Therefore it is important to project confidence at all times.

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			Lessons from the Top: The Search for America’s Best Business Leaders Who are the best leaders in America? What makes them great? And, what can be learned from them? Lessons from the Top answers these questions. Using a rigourous methodology, the authors identify and profile 50 highly successful top executives, who, in their own words, explain how they make their companies great. They then draw lessons in leadership that executes, managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone else looking for patterns of success, can apply to their careers and personal lives.

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Making a Difference: Twelve Qualities that Make You a Leader

Leading Your Team: How To involve and Inspire Teams

Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top


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