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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

You will be helping your talent destroy their careers while you destroy their faith in your company. More recently, Stephen Covey said, “I am not a product of my circumstances. Focus on the short term and you’ll cripple any ability for your people to plan confidently for the future, for both your business and their family.

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Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 | RoundtableTalk

Roundtable Talk

Overall though, this event was a vast improvement over the recycled ideas of Covey, Blanchard, Peters et al. A stark comparison to Michael Eisner who praised micro management and working inside boxes which left me a little cold. Nothing wrong with management classics, but what worked in 1970 just isn’t working today.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

I know that that was one of the ways that I came into learning about servant-leadership though the characteristics of servant-leadership, which you extracted from Robert Greenleaf’s writings and, and that’s helped me grow, personally, in my career. Stephen Covey wrote a foreword to that and it had really some wonderful content.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

I know that that was one of the ways that I came into learning about servant-leadership though the characteristics of servant-leadership, which you extracted from Robert Greenleaf’s writings and, and that’s helped me grow, personally, in my career. Stephen Covey wrote a foreword to that and it had really some wonderful content.

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