Reflections on Leadership — September 2024 Recap


Reflections on Leadership — August 2024 Recap

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Here’s a recap of leadership articles, tips, and merch. Karl Bimshas Consulting shared in September. If you’re a frequent reader, please share your thoughts via the Content Satisfaction Survey. We’d love to know what you think so we can make the content we produce valuable to you.

August Articles

​Align Your Skills and Purpose​

​Essential Leadership Skills​

​Detect | Address | Prevent: An Approach to Leadership Success​

​The Cost of Control: Leaders Sacrificing Integrity for Power​


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​The Point of Leadership: It's About Them, Not You​

​Competence Versus Dysfunction: Bridging the Leadership Gap​

​No Accountability, No Leadership​

​Elevate Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence; ​

​The Greatest Leaders Serve​


LEAD WITH HEART

​Lead with Heart (Archive)​


OPINION

Project 2025: A Threat to Modern American Leadership and Values

Rather than promoting unity and collective progress, it risks deepening divisions and weakening the social fabric that holds us together.

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VIDEO

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In this Reflections on Leadership podcast episode, NotebookLM discusses our newest product, “Disposable Journal Weekend Edition.”


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Essays On: Anti-Authoritarian Leadership

Packed with insights to challenge your style and inspire a more humane approach to leadership


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