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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

CIO

Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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7 ways CIOs can build a high-performance team

CIO

Many CIOs know that a high-performance team is usually greater than the sum of its parts, comprised of talent with highly complementary skills, a broader set of objectives than other teams, and fine-tuned approaches to collaboration and communication. That’s when a high-performance team takes shape.

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Enhancing Board Performance: Strategies for Effective Board Evaluations

N2Growth Blog

By conducting regular evaluations, companies can gain valuable insights into the performance and effectiveness of their board members, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary changes. Without a clear purpose, these evaluations can become ineffective exercises, lacking direction and focus.

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How to Overcome Negative Perceptions for a Better Leadership Brand

Let's Grow Leaders

Overcoming an Outdated Leadership Brand. You’ve worked hard to build your leadership brand, but the negative perceptions linger. You can improve your reputation and your leadership brand with this proactive approach. What is a leadership brand? Imagine a meme or a billboard on the highway describing your leadership.

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Build Your Own Competency Model- A Team Exercise

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ve spearheaded many such initiatives over the years, including the modeling of all the leadership jobs that were used in merger selection of the executive team. Such an exercise gets people really thinking about what it takes to be successful in their role. Invests deeply in developing her leadership team.

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The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Experience to Lead

This is exactly why I don’t believe there’s an exercise or technical skill out there that can make you a more emotionally intelligent leader. Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Leadership What Is Emotional Intelligence? What is the Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership?

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PEAK Leadership

CO2 Business Leadership

Questions that sound stylistically dissimilar can be, at their core, the same type of question. Towards the end of a multi-day strategic planning session for our leadership team last year, our facilitator asked, “Can we really do all of this?” People get promoted for having good answers. Since then, I’ve expanded upon my conclusion.