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It has always bothered me that influence is listed as one of the top defining characteristics of leadership.
Influence—good or bad—is anchored in the ability to sway people through communications, but that has nothing to do with the ability to implement and execute.
Am I off-base here? Are people […]
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One of the great leadership discussions today centers around teaching, but most of the talk seems to come from politicians who are prolific with visions-sans-funding, senior academics from big name institutions who do research, and parents whose kids are caught in the maelstrom.
I told a friend of mine […]
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Yesterday’s NYT Bits wondered who is the smarter of two Harvard dropouts, Bill Gates of Microsoft or Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Neither bothered attending class, but Gates caught up “in a single intense burst during a separate reading period at the end of the term.”
Zuckerberg was to busy with […]
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An interesting post over at Collab@work led me to the Executive Summary of an HBS study on how multiplayer games hone leadership skills.
“…the authors studied people who headed up teams in online games. They also sought the insights of gamers who have led real-world business […]
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In January offered up kudos to Sam Zell for his approach to changing Tribune’s corporate culture, including a clear, blunt, slightly irreverent employee handbook, as a major part of turning the company around.
Definitely not your typical media mogul, but it’s so nice to hear a CEO who isn’t […]
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Ask any leadership expert, consult any leadership book or blog and one of the constants that you’ll find is that it’s crucial to craft a vision and, more importantly, to be able to communicate it clearly, so that there are no misunderstandings.
That’s the only way to have […]
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The following story has been told in various incarnations for more than 40 years.
Once upon a time there was a man who ran a hot dog stand. This man ran one of the finest hot dog stands in the whole city and, strangely for a hot dog stand, he […]
Finding and identifying WOW in anything is exciting, fun and always a two-edged sword—which is the most useful kind as well as the most dangerous. When the talk turns to leadership WOW, the adjectives that you hear most frequently these days are “authentic,” meaning real or genuine, and “servant” meaning it’s all about them—as opposed […]
In the first post in this series Casey Ross’ comment “I’ve been around too many visionary “leaders” who could inspire the heck out of you but could never get one thing accomplished.” got me to thinking.
There may be something else going on along with the “play it safe” mentality engendered by the bean counters (some, […]
Sports has long been used as an analogy to various business practices—the best sales training film I ever saw was done by Vince Lombardi explaining how selling was akin to the plays in football. But I don’t hear as much about good business practices being used to motivate a sports team.
Mike Kavis has a great […]
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