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Citizen Leadership

Citizen Leaders: Grade School Boys Band Together to Stop Bullying

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Peter Alduino in Action Reveals Values, Among Us: Citizen Leaders, Citizen Leadership, Community, Courage

Congratulations to these young grade school boys who banded together to show their support for a first grader who was subjected to bullying and teasing from other pupils. These youngsters rock! In the words of American anthropologist Margaret Meade: Never doubt that the actions of a small group of committed citizens can change the world. […]

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JUST RELEASED: The Engaging Leader

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Peter Alduino in Citizen Leadership, Leadership, The Engaging Leader

I am delighted to announce the release of my new series of leadership development tutorials: The Engaging Leader: Be the Person They’d Want to Follow               The Engaging Leader prepares and prompts you to step into five essential roles of a leader, and be the person others would want […]

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Citizen Leaders’ Success: You Can Play Project and the NHL Team Up to Eradicate Homophobia on the Ice

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Peter Alduino in Action Reveals Values, Among Us: Citizen Leaders, Citizen Leadership

Citizen Leaders are the men, women, young adults and teens who take stock of the kind of world they want to help shape for the people they care about and act to make it so. —Peter Alduino, Author, The Citizen Leader In a blog post 9 months ago, I applauded Patrick Burke, Brian Kitts and […]

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Corporate Citizen Leadership

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Peter Alduino in Citizen Leadership, Citizenship, Peter's Perspective

The broader implication of Citizen Leadership for a corporation is captured in this question: As we pursue our goals, are we operating in a way that serves the common good? I believe we earn the right to call ourselves citizens because we are willing to actively participate in, serve in and lead efforts that better […]

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The Broader Implications of Citizen Leadership for Organizations and Corporations

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Peter Alduino in Citizen Leadership, Culture, Importance of Citizen Leadership, Today!, Peter's Perspective

Citizen leadership has a direct bearing on the organizations and corporations that are the driving force of much of our society and culture. Among the broader implications of citizen leadership for these organizations, large and small, is this: corporate character counts. In more familiar terms — corporate “culture” counts. Despite what might be printed, published […]

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What is a Citizen Leader?

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Peter Alduino in Citizen Leadership, Peter's Perspective

A citizen leader is each one of us, the man, the woman, the young adult, even the teen who pauses to take stock of the kind of world that they — that we — want to help shape for the people we care about, and then acts to make it so. A citizen leader is […]

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The Citizen Leader: Why she/he is so important today!

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Peter Alduino in Citizen Leadership, Peter's Perspective

Over the past 25 years, leadership experts Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have been collecting millions of data points seeking to identify the qualities that people look for most in a leader — that is, in someone they would willingly follow. The operative word here is willingly. For 15 of those years, I’ve led a […]

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Key Themes of Citizen Leadership

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Peter Alduino in Character, Citizen Leadership, Citizenship, The Citizen Leader book/chapters

Character counts We are all co-creators of the world we live in. Through our actions and words and choices, we help shape our immediate communities, be that home, school, work, club, church, etc. As such, it is incumbent upon each one of us to explore and respond to the questions: Who and I? and How […]

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Peter’s Perspective: When all is said and done, we live in a world we create by our actions and words (Repost)

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Peter Alduino in Citizen Leadership, Peter's Perspective

We are all witness to the torrent of fabrication, lying, maligning, intimidation and fear mongering that are being used (and all too often condoned or lauded) by people in all of our institutions – government, business, media, sports, religion – to pursue their ends. Hiding the truth, if not outright lying, seems to be emerging as […]

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Active Citizens Have the Foundation to be Engaging Leaders

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Peter Alduino in Citizen Leadership, Peter's Perspective

I am of the mind that the person who has experience as an active citizen will possess the unique capacity to engage others as a leader. By the same token, I feel wary of those who wear the mantle of leader, but who, on closer inspection, show little appreciable depth as citizens. I look to […]

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