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Leadership Mints Sampler: COLLABORATING Like a Leader

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Developing and growing a productive collaborating climate is a key theme in THINKING Like a Leader, one of three books in The Leadership Mints Series. Here is a quick peek at the 24 Leadership Mints (short stories on leadership principles) that focus on Collaborating in Part III.

This overview is excerpted from the 280-page book that is now available at Amazon.com. in both print and e-book versions.

COLLABORATING-Part III

In thinking like a leader, you depend on others (Mint 53).

You partner with others (Mints 54-55).

You adapt to others (Mint 56).

You conduct your meetings with a premise for and about others (Mint 57).

You wear your name tag the right way (Mint 58).

You slow down (Mint 60).

You take a time out (59).

You get a peace of the action (Mint 61).

You free others (Mint 62) to work better together (Mint 70).

You light the way (Mint 63).

You fill-in the gaps for others (Mint 64).

You consistently prepare (Mint 76).

You coach others (Mint 65) and rally your rivals (Mint 66).

You earn the permission of the public (Mint 67).

You guard against your own ego blinding you (Mint 68).

You project the face others expect of you (Mint 69).

You champion diversity (Mint 71).

You leverage diversity (Mint 77).

You praise thoughtfully (Mint 72).

You accept criticism responsibly (Mint 73).

And you maintain self control (Mint 74) especially in reprimanding others (Mint 75).

THINKING LIKE A Leader is the first book in The 3-book Leadership Mints Series designed to help leaders refresh their feeling for leading on-the-go with stories on leadership principles called Leadership Mints that like the candy are easily accessed, quickly digested and immediately refreshing.

The other two books in the Leadership Mints Series focus on leading with empathy (LOVING Like a Leader) featuring 77 more Leadership Mints (stories) and leading with civility featuring 52 Leadership Mints (stories) (SPEAKING Like a Leader)

Stress Test: Bringing Out The Best With Respect

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By Peter Jeff
The Leadership Mints Guy

Here’s an idea to help you better cope with stress. Reading time: 2:44.

I was walking along a corridor at a Juvenile Delinquent Center with Darlene, one of the staffers, when we were verbally assaulted. “You bitch!” blurted the angry teenager. Darlene, poised and confident, paused. She looked deep into the glowering eyes of the teenager. His pulsating veins danced frantically in his neck. His voice grumbled and rumbled with anger.

“Now just a minute,” Darlene shot back, firing her words like bullets between the eyes of the teenager. “Have I ever called you anything but your given name? Have I ever shown you any disrespect for who you are as a person? What gives you the right to call me anything but my given name?”

The teenager lowered his eyes and lower his voice. “Yeah, Yeah,” he mumbled more to himself than anyone else. The veins in his neck slowed their dance from a reggae to a ballet . “Yeah, Yeah,” he repeated, as Darlene’s eyes beamed a warm glow on him that he felt more than he saw.

He walked out of the gymnasium at the detention center, leaving behind his anger. He thought to himself that this might have been the first time that someone really did respect him as a person.

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