You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 20, 2014

I wrote this post in September, 2011. I was thinking the other day about how easy it is, when first embarking on the leadership road to pack our authority and our sense of self-importance but leave little room in the bag for what it really takes to lead well ~ heart. If you are to be truly successful, you will need it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pfizer, the multinational pharmaceutical giant, has become increasingly intentional about shaping its culture. You can see evidence of Pfizer’s commitment in Ian Read’s letter to stakeholders the year after he became CEO: In 2011, we thoroughly explored what our culture is and how it needs to evolve. Pfizer people care.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 20, 2014

A classic problem of smart, successful people is Adding Too Much Value. It is extremely difficult for successful people to listen to other people tell them something that they already know without communicating somehow that (a) they already knew it and (b) they know a better way. I asked my coaching client J.P.

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QAspire

JANUARY 24, 2010

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. What started as a two member team was now a successful fitness center running round the clock with a number of trained instructors and some very good facilities. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. ” But this is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies. American companies send their most promising leaders abroad for global leadership assignments.

Competitive Advantage 12

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. All rights reserved.

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