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Great Leaders Know What They Do Best – and Let Go of the Rest

Great Leadership By Dan

We’ve worked with four-star generals who describe their leadership method this way: “I give my people the bottom line of what’s gotta happen. Former Alaska Airlines CEO John Kelly was a master at knowing when to take charge through one of his conative capabilities – innovating solutions.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Talk About Your Brown Shorts If You Want To Hire Stars

Tanveer Naseer

They’re the specific attitudes that make your organization different from everybody else. “Brown Shorts” is a very strange name that pays homage to Southwest Airlines and their unique culture of fun. Mark Murphy is the founder and CEO of Leadership IQ. What the heck are Brown Shorts? ” To which I say: “ Great!”

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CEOs Need Courage

Harvard Business Review

To resist doing what everyone else is doing or what you are expected to do requires courage. Steve Jobs of Apple has eschewed criticism of the company's enormous cash hoard — that it was keeping too much cash — and has continued to introduce innovative new products even in the midst of economic downturns.

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4 Things Successful Change Leaders Do Well

Harvard Business Review

Innovation vs. Regulation. Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Optimization vs. Rationalization. Hold everyone accountable. It has to be an all-hands-on-deck engagement.

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Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers

Harvard Business Review

Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. Whereas recent views of leadership tend to emphasize the instrumental meaning of performance, the extent to which a leader meets contracted goals, there is also a cultural meaning of performance. They wanted to hear about Semco, Southwest Airlines, Gore Tex, HCL.