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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

It became required reading in business school classes. Like Jim Collins accomplished in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t , Peters and Waterman developed a methodology for their study. The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come.

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065: Influence 3.0: Upgrade from Leadership to Impact

Engaging Leader

In this episode, Jesse traces the development of influence through three stages: Influence 1.0: In this episode, Jesse traces the development of influence through three stages: Influence 1.0: But then its results fell to simply average, quietly surpassed by a new mode of influence. Welcome to Influence 3.0. Influence 3.0

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The Signs Of Provocative Leadership

Lead Change Blog

I was recently in a meeting with the leadership development director of a large manufacturing company. The topic was the company’s leadership development training program. Participants sit through classes chock full of models and instruments with a few clever games thrown in and come out a trained leader.

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From predictability to potential

Persuasive Powerhouse

Marva Collins showed that children who were previously labeled “learning disabled&# were actually victims of the label they were given by teachers who didn’t know how to teach to them. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential. The children that Ms.

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

Tanveer Naseer

In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” Just as high-trust organizations are careful not to hire Louis XIV imitators, they also avoid treating employees like second-class citizens.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Crazy Rich Asians

Joseph Lalonde

During one of her classes, she was playing poker with one of her students. Nick Young: It can’t just be one thing or the other… Nick was talking to Collin about his choices. While many leadership gurus and personal development experts will discount games, I embrace movies and games for the life lessons they can teach.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? What do you think? Alex Good One!

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