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Your Leaders, Hubris or Humility?

Michael Lee Stallard

Published by Michael Lee Stallard on May 7, 2010 06:26 am under E Pluribus Partners , connection culture , employee engagement , intentional connectors At the Chick-fil-A Leadercast, Jim Collins just pointed out that great leaders in his research had the character strength of humility and those who fall could be described as having hubris.

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Has SAS's Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code On Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

During the Leadercast program and prior to my meeting with Goodnight, author Jim Collins interviewed him on stage. Collins seemed to be looking for something similar in Goodnight to explain SAS’s benevolent corporate culture where the average work week is 35 hours and the bucolic SAS campus has nearly every employee perk imaginable.

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The Pride Paradox

Michael Lee Stallard

Some leaders who do this fail to develop what is arguably the most important character value: humility. Humility is not easily developed when you have wealth, power and/or status. It’s especially difficult to develop humility without the help of others. Humility develops in several ways. Herein lies the paradox.

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Buzzwords Aren't All Bad | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate. link] Dan Collins Buzzwords are definitely not trite. As you pointed out in your comment toning down the serious nature of discourse can also lighten the mood and be more effective in doing so. Thanks for sharng Sami. The best argument in the world will always lose to a two by four.

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From predictability to potential

Persuasive Powerhouse

Marva Collins showed that children who were previously labeled “learning disabled&# were actually victims of the label they were given by teachers who didn’t know how to teach to them. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential. The children that Ms.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? And there’s no professional development without personal development… In this case, I suspect those leaders who find it difficult to express their compassion publicly could do so with some developmental work.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. Thanks for the post, Larry Bruce (@pcmguy) [link] Dan Collins Not bad Mikey – nothing could add to that one. link] Mike Myatt Thanks Dan…Have a great weekend Sir.