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How Character Erodes

Leading Blog

In a October 2002 Fast Company article— The Secret Life of the CEO: Is the Economy Just Built to Flip? Jim Collins, explains how character erodes: These were the people who, in the presence of an opportunity to behave differently, got drawn into it, one step after another.

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SERVANT Leaders are Needful – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

A servant leader makes clear their intent to listen to new ideas, encourage the development of others’ ideas and set clear expectations for execution of the best plans. These include the following from Spears and others, Frick & Sipe as well as Russell & Stone (2002). Invites Feedback (Frick & Sipe). Sipe, James W. &

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Debbie Laskey On Social Media, Brand Audits And Leadership Books

Eric Jacobson

She developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the non-profit arena, and the insurance industry. Her expertise includes brand marketing , social media , employee engagement , leadership development , and customer experience marketing.

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Book Review: “Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All”

The Practical Leader

As with Collins’ first book, Built to Last , and with Good to Great (read my review of both books on LinkedIn or The Leader Letter archive ), they compared the outstanding companies to a control group of comparison companies in the very same industries and extreme environments that failed to thrive. Sounding familiar?

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“How to Be Exceptional” is Destined to be a Landmark Leadership Book

The Practical Leader

As I wrote in the September issue of The Leader Letter , in more than three decades of watching countless leadership books come and go in this business, I can count on one hand — starting with Corporate Cultures and In Search of Excellence — the very few that marked a major turning point in development focus and approaches.

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Love is at the Heart of Strong Leadership

The Practical Leader

Herb is featured, along with many frontline employees, in an inspiring 15 minute video we’ve been using for years when working with Clients on leadership and culture development. In their new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, feature Southwest in their extensive research on “10X companies.”

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The Best Leaders Are Insatiable Learners

Harvard Business Review

Gardner, who died in 2002 at the age of 89, was a legendary public intellectual and civic reformer — a celebrated Stanford professor, an architect of the Great Society under Lyndon Johnson, founder of Common Cause and Independent Sector. What did Spence learn from Collins?

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