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10 Essential Leadership Models

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s all about adapting your leadership style to the developmental needs, or “maturity level”, of your employees. I say Blanchard, but that’s because they follow @Great Leadership. (-: 2. Servant Leadership. I’ve always liked the Leadership Practices Inventory 360 degree assessment that supports the model.

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. It was scary, really.

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Women in Power: Leadership Differences By Gender

Women on Business

As women progressively enter leadership roles and management positions in organizations that traditionally used to be held by men, many pose questions about leadership styles and gender. This statistic draws a question: what is the difference between a man and woman’s leadership style?

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified. Followed by irrelevance.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). By Jim Collins. Winning (2005).

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The CEO Who Led a Turnaround Wearing a Helmet

Harvard Business Review

One of the key lessons that Huggy Rao and I learned from studying scaling up excellence is that, to spread new ways of thinking and acting, just talking about the importance of new beliefs and behaviors isn’t enough. And in 2001, profits jumped to $2.2 See here for more about the turnaround and Paul’s leadership style and philosophy.).

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