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JOHN BALDONI

 
JOHN BALDONI

John Baldoni is a leadership communications consultant who works with Fortune 500 companies as well as non-profits including the University of Michigan. He writes On Leadership for CIO.com, and is a frequent keynote and workshop speaker. He is the author of six books on leadership; the latest is How Great Leaders Get Great Results. Readers are welcome to visit his leadership resource website at www.johnbaldoni.com.

Why Leaders Need People Skills

Leadership expert John Baldoni explains why today's leaders need to hone their people skills. He also offers tips for building key leadership attributes such as assuredness, confidence, and likability.

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How To Succeed At Succession Planning

Managers may have little input into succession at the top, but they can have plenty of input into their own successors. Leadership columnist John Baldoni outlines what you need to do to develop your staff and yourself.

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Coaches Do Not Play the Game

Executive coaching is growing in popularity. But before you engage a coach, you need to understand what they can do. Leadership expert John Baldoni explains.

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Why Leaders Must Evolve

Leaders who can adapt themselves to change have a competitive edge in a world in which the traditional model of management is in danger of becoming obsolete.

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Great Leaders Build Off Great Relationships

Building relationships and the ability to collaborate are key to leadership effectiveness. But today's leaders are not adept either one. Here's how to hone your own skills.

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Situational Awareness 101

Fighter pilots have it. CIOs need it. Without a sense of situational awareness--knowing where you are, what you can do and how to do it--a leader is flying blind when it comes to decision making.

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Beyond Benchmarking

Benchmarking is standard practice. But to make a great leap forward, you need to break out of the benchmark to study something completely different.

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Ingenuity: The Spark That Belongs to Everyone

Promoting and supporting ingenuity may not be second nature for corporations, but columnist and consultant John Baldoni finds compelling examples to guide us—from the Jesuits to Google.

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Questions to Make You a Better Leader

Columnist John Baldoni takes a cue from leadership consultant Ram Charan to ask the core questions that'll help bring you success.

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Leaders in Trouble

Paul Wolfowitz, former president of the World Bank, waged a public and ugly battle to save his job over a pay scandal involving his girlfriend. Improper behavior? Maybe. Bad for the organization? Definitely. When a leader's behavior becomes larger than the performance of the company, it is time to go.

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Enterprise content management (ECM) has become an important competence and infrastructural technology, particularly for large and medium-sized organizations. Hear about industry trends for ECM and why standardizing your ECM platform is so critical to your success during this roundtable discussion.

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Get Rich or Get Thin: The Secure Client Webcast

Malcolm Harkins, General Manager of Intel's Information Risk and Security group, looks at the increasing sophistication of attacks. He also talks about he pros and cons of thin and rich clients in fending off those attacks.

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Publisher Emeritus at CIO magazine, Gary Beach, talks to Accenture Chief Architect, Paul Daugherty, about where software is going, and in particular about the emerging concept of software as a service and its contribution to high performance.   Read More »

 

Business Service Management: Delivering Value Throughout the Service Lifecycle

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Crossing The Data Divide: The Case For Complex Data Exchange Technology

Hear the results of a new study conducted by IDG examining how to maximize the value of your enterprise information assets by automating the data exchange process. Join now and learn how technology can help you Cross The Data Divide.   Read More »

 

Collaborative Resiliency: A Unified Approach to Risk Management

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The Great Escape: Contact Center Applications Are Moving into the Enterprise

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