The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

As I wrote in the September issue of The Leader Letter , in more than three decades of watching countless leadership books come and go in this business, I can count on one hand — starting with Corporate Cultures and In Search of Excellence — the very few that marked a major turning point in development focus and approaches.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

‘Tis the season for futurists, forecasters, and analysts to line up with seers, fortune tellers, and prophets to earnestly foretell what 2013 has in store for us. He ends with, “given our inability to predict, should managers bother to base plans on predictions? .”

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Fortunately, Bezos gave you his plan, if you just know where to look. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). It is based on chapter 8 of Jim Collins book Good to Great. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. It is one of most successful companies in the world.

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