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APRIL 1, 2023

Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

You have to have a team and operate as a team, and any corporation would have a training program to acculturate people. Newt Gingrich, 2011. .” — Peter Drucker, How to Make the Presidency Manageable, Fortune November 1974. You can’t just appoint smart people.”

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JULY 6, 2011

in the Summer 2011 Leader to Leader journal, that “the best way to deliver on an ambitious agenda for your organization is to embrace a sense of “humbition” in your personal style and as part of your leadership repertoire.”. Stephen Hall calls it the “gift of perspective.” It is indeed. Humility is all about perspective. So] be ambitious.

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Best Leadership Books of 2011. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Blog Post ). Augustus lived out an extraordinary and often terrifying drama.”

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