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Why Your Good Leadership Isn't Great.

Rich Gee Group

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great. Do you feel that you stayed true to your ethics and that your decision grew you as a leader in your organization? Good To Great.

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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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The Pride Paradox

Michael Lee Stallard

Values such as work ethic, excellence and open-mindedness can be cultivated with practice. Some of our favorite books deal with this topic. Jim Collins described the humility of Level 5 leaders in Good to Great and how it often came as the result of a life threatening event or religious experience. Not so with humility.

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The right people

Lead on Purpose

Recently I decided to re-read (actually listened to) to the classic business book Good To Great by Jim Collins where he discusses, among other things, the value of people. Collins makes an important distinction with regard to the people in an organization: you need to get the right people.

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The Fallacy of No | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Dan Collins Mike, If there is one characteristic I admire in leaders and respect in you it is the willingness to state in no uncertain terms (sorry for the play on words) their stance. No seldom takes you where you want to go. Best, Dan [link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: Thanks for stopping by and sharing your insights.

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Leadership & Influence Summit | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Dan Collins Mike, I would particularly like someone to address the popularity of "politically correct" leadership. link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. Let me expand. Would Churchill, Patton or their ilk have flourished in leadership today? Thanks for the suggestion Dan.

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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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