Our weekly roundup highlights links to articles and talks to help you be a more effective leader.

1. The 5 Communication Habits All Leaders Need to Motivate a Team (Inc) 
   “A global leadership study revealed that 85 percent of companies report an urgent need to develop employees with leadership potential.”

2. The Importance of Filters in Communication (Forbes)
   “Everything communicates. Think through how you want to be perceived. Then figure out your audiences’ filters and manage what you say and do and don’t say and do with those in mind.”

3. How to Communicate Better in Distributed Teams (InfoQ)
   “Communicating with people in your own country with whom you share a language, culture, and many other similarities is already challenging. With people from another country, time zone, culture, and language, it is even more challenging.”