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Are You Coachable? Does it Matter?

The Practical Leader

In their new research paper, The New Leadership Frontier: Coachability , Joe Folkman, Jack Zenger, and Kevin Wilde found that this question most clearly delineated successful leaders from those heading for a career crash or derailment. ” Are You Invested in Your Development? By age 40, this drops to the 50th percentile.

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100 Answers to the Question: What Is Leadership?

Lead from Within

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. All members of an organization, who are responsible for the work of others, have the potential to be good leaders if properly developed.” “Leadership is an intangible quality with no clear definition.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company.

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Right Leadership, Right Model

Great Leadership By Dan

A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned. In my long career, 45 years of it as a CEO, I’ve lived that change. In the old days, lots of employees spent their careers as cogs in a giant machine.

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Piers Morgan vs. Larry King… how to get off on the wrong foot

Roundtable Talk

← Fast Friday with Virgil, Roman Epic Poet ROWE: A new roadmap for work that will bend your brain → Piers Morgan vs. Larry King… how to get off on the wrong foot Posted on January 18, 2011 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment In my experience, when it comes to making career moves, it’s always advantageous to have small shoes to fill.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. And you know, I can only find one definitive statement about leadership that he said. I’ve seen it my whole career. Ben: Yeah, definitely.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. And you know, I can only find one definitive statement about leadership that he said. I’ve seen it my whole career. Ben: Yeah, definitely.