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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in?

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Quotes to Note on Purposeful Leadership

The Practical Leader

. “Those who are able to inspire give people a sense of purpose or belonging that has little to do with any external incentive or benefit to be gained. ” Sinek, Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Leadership is an affair of the heart, not of the head.”

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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

Simon Cooper, president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton, calls this “scriptless service”. Simon Cooper, president and COO of Ritz-Carlton says the best reason to rid an organization of mindless hierarchy is to provide scriptless service : employees deciding on their own how to make guests happy. That’s real leadership.”

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Ten Steps That Will Help You Get Out Of A Rut

Joseph Lalonde

Simon Sinek in his book Start with Why: How Great leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action explains how essential knowing our why is. Creating incentives and measuring points to your progress is a very helpful encouragement that will cheer you on. Talking about things makes them real, otherwise you’ll spend your life boxing at shadows.

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It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day, It's a New Life For Small Business. and I'm Feeling Good

Women's Leadership Exchange

recorded by some of the greatest singers from Nina Simone to Frank Sinatra to Michael Buble,, it?s Of course, we have the challenge of having a dysfunctional Congress, who has shown little leadership this past year. Leslie Grossman, Cofounder, Women's Leadership Exchange If you haven?t t listened to the song ?Feeling

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May the Force — of Inspiring Leadership — Be with You

The Practical Leader

” This is a powerful analogy for the leadership and culture energy fields that bind teams and organizations together. The leadership side of The Force inspires action with a focus on strengths, optimism, hopes, and dreams. Ultimately, the problem is a failure of leadership. ” Are you that boss?