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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT.

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Transitioning into Management

The Center For Leadership Studies

Consider the words of Alan Mulally (former CEO of both Boeing and Ford) and George Morrow (former SVP of Commercial Operations for Amgen) as they reflected upon their transition into management years ago: Alan Mulally – “I was an entry-level engineer at Boeing for a number of years before I became a manager. He resubmitted.

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The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

The Center For Leadership Studies

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. One challenge with those discoveries is that many provided conflicting results regarding who leaders were, what they did and what the most effective style of leadership was.