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Leadership Lessons from Times of Crisis

Association Leaders

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last three days, you are aware of the terrible tragedy that struck an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday. However, are there leadership lessons that can be learned from tragedies like this? This was an unthinkable tragedy carried out by a monster.

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Innovation for Association Executives

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I saw this book on a friend’s home office desk this summer in Connecticut. Uncategorized Association Leadership Competition Innovation' But despite the excitement, Adner says that successful innovation remains the exception rather than the rule. My friend works in corporate strategy for a major telecommunications company.

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Monday Buzz: Take Advantage of Google’s Management Resources

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Looking for more leadership development resources? ” As you can imagine, Google has spent years developing internal leadership development resources to help train its managers. ” As you can imagine, Google has spent years developing internal leadership development resources to help train its managers.

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Association Brain Food: 7.21.23

Reid All About it

Diversity Discussion: 4-Gen Leadership: Thriving in a Multi-gen Workforce Learn about the characteristics of the four generations, how the generations formed, and the new generation gaps that have emerged with the advent of the internet-based society. More info/register. Host: Black In Events Network Fri 7/28 at 4 p.m. More info/register.

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We Lost A Valiant Leader

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Dawn Hochsprung, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut died in a school doing … Continue reading → You are reading We Lost A Valiant Leader from the Wired 4 Leadership blog. When gunfire erupted at her place of work, she instinctively ran toward danger and risk.

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After Sandy Hook, Why a Newtown-Based Gun Group Stayed There

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The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which has called Newtown, Connecticut, home for two decades, says it considered moving its headquarters after last year’s school shooting, but staff members urged the leadership to stay in town. Here’s why. The gun control debate hadn’t had a flash point quite like Newtown before.

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Groups Focus on Health and Safety as Students Go Back to School

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School safety remains a hot-button issue after the shootings in Newtown , Connecticut, last December and other gun-related incidents, including one at an elementary school in Georgia just last month. NASSLEO will host the first annual School Safety Leadership Symposium in November. After Newtown.