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How Do I Build Leadership Tenacity and Grit?

Let's Grow Leaders

In this week’s Asking for a Friend I speak with World Class Ultra Triathlete, Kurt Madden, who is also CEO of The Collaborative, about leadership tenacity and grit. 7:56 How Kurt applies some of what he learned as an athlete into his role as a CEO. Do after-action reviews. What is tenacity? Build trust.

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To better manage and understand yourself and work – you need to seek different patterns

Mike Cardus

Working with an agile-team, we chose to replace their after-action review process with Distinctive :: Working Well :: Small Improvements. Ideas for how to make sense of the patterns you notice, a way to create small changes or experiments and see what happens to do more of and less of.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

But that happy union of stakeholder and shareholder interests arguably lasts only as long as Wood remains CEO (adding fuel to Worthy’s point that cultures of “friendly, easy, comfortable relations between boss and subordinate,” must flow organically from the top down to the supervisory ranks.) We felt defeated and powerless.”.

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