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Key Traits of Challenger Brands that Allow Them to Punch Above Their Weight

Leading Blog

The answer to our new client’s dilemma lay hidden in his company’s extraordinary commitment to sales process and training. The mattress CEO was relentless about doing right by customers, and this made him very particular about who he hired and how they were trained. Challenger brands can’t afford to cheat the fundamentals.

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What is Strategic Leadership?

Lead on Purpose

Throughout the ages, leaders and followers alike have wondered whether the process of leadership depends on inborn traits or whether it can be taught. Great leaders are either born or trained. Still, some people who strive for leadership never quite achieve it. Leadership skills can be taught. Guest post by Sarah Rawson.

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Preview Thursday: The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success

Lead Change Blog

My father worked for United Airlines in a variety of executive positions, rising up to becoming the assistant to the president. David Nielson brings over four decades of corporate, Fortune 500, and private consulting experience in organizational change management, leadership development, and training.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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Succession Planning: A Critical Priority

Lead Change Blog

His leadership skill, coupled with his dynamic personality, dedication to higher purpose, love for his people, and will to succeed, as well as his lack of ego, has made Southwest a very successful company. At Times of Leadership Transition. That is also true in leadership.

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Servant Leadership Flies High from the Cockpit – United 757

Lead Change Blog

In June, I found out that Captain Denny Flanagan, of United Airlines (UAL) retired after 30 years with UAL and 20 years Navy before that. Since I am in the leadership business, I figured I needed to meet this man and tell him how amazing it was to find a gesture like that. Little did he know that I write about leadership examples.).

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Leadership and Engagement: Is it Really That Simple?

The Center For Leadership Studies

He worked as an interior mechanic for Continental Airlines and found a wallet a passenger had left behind in a first-class seat pocket. Engagement magically appears at the intersection of personal responsibility and employee-centered leadership!”. He consistently exhibited high standards of integrity.