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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners

Harvard Business Review

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In this episode of “The New World of Work”, he offers his thoughts on leadership in tough times.

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Texas Roadhouse and a Leader’s Legacy

Mark Sanborn

That way,” he explains, “ Visitors can see that failure isn ’ t a bad thing when you ’ re trying to innovate.”. Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. Not innovation for the sake of innovation, but innovation that helps operators and improves guest experience. .

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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. The flexible schedule has allowed him to be active in his neighborhood and faith community, and gave him the courage to ask his boss for a six-month sabbatical to travel the country with his family. This was also true for Michelle Hickox.

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How the Best Restaurants in the World Balance Innovation and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. Since the business was particularly slow during the winter, its owners, Ferran Adrian and Juli Soler, decided to close shop 2-5 months a year to travel and search for new dish ideas.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.