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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. 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. It became required reading in business school classes.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

It leads to short-term thinking. The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. And that feeds our approach in society at large. That’s not the way to lead.

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The Power in a Powerful Thank You

Let's Grow Leaders

The reason I’m writing is to say, thank you, thank you for bringing some light into my leadership management journey. Now, I want to take a question that came in this week from a program that we’re doing leadership development program. So if you have a leadership or management related question, you can send that to me.

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Taking leadership to the next level

Lead on Purpose

In recent days I’m re-listening to Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins’ definition is simple: “Level 5 leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.” This is, as Collins puts it, a “study in duality.” So can you and I become a Level 5 leader?

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Think You’re Wise in Your Own Eyes? 4 Steps to Develop Leadership Humility

Leading with Trust

One study showed that firms led by a CEO who scored high in humility developed management teams that were more likely to collaborate and make joint decisions, share information openly, and possess a shared vision. So how can we develop humility in our leadership? Viewing yourself as a steward.

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What Makes a Great Leader?

Next Level Blog

What followed next was a quick real-time distillation of long-held thoughts and observations on the nature of true leadership. These are the conclusions I’ve come to after spending most of my life so far either leading others or advising, coaching, developing and observing leaders.

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How To Be A Trusted Executive

Eric Jacobson

Choosing to: Deliver Coach Be Consistent Be Honest Be Open Be Humble Evangelize Be Brave Be Kind Awhile back, Blakey kindly answered the following questions about what I read in the book: Question: Of the three pillars – ability, integrity, and benevolence – to becoming a trusted executive, which one do you think is most important to develop?