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Pacing for Growth

Lead Change Blog

Growth expert Alison Eyring, who is also a long-distance runner and triathlete, found the answer in endurance training and shared those findings in her book, Pacing for Growth. Alison utilizes her background in endurance training to explain how to apply the same principles to leadership. So how can leaders find the right speed?

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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work

Lead Change Blog

He began his Chick-fil-A career over forty years ago as an hourly team member behind the counter of a local restaurant. Since then, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Training and Development, Field Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, and Leadership Development.

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4 Strategies to Remove Fear from Your Leadership

Leading with Trust

It’s not always logical and we have to train ourselves to react in more thoughtful ways, but it’s a reality of the human condition. Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. Simple truth number 33 simply says, “Fear is the enemy of trust.”

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6 Ways Leaders Are Different

Great Leadership By Dan

The Secret , a book I co-authored with Ken Blanchard, outlines what we believe great leaders do -- the skills part of the picture. Mark Miller, co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life , is vice president, training and development, for Chick-fil-A. For more information please visit [link] and [link].

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Preview Thursday: Win the Heart

Lead Change Blog

Mark Miller began writing over decade ago when he teamed up with Ken Blanchard on The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. Mark started his Chick-fil-A career working as an hourly team member back in 1977. He has since authored or coauthored seven bestselling titles. He also sells chicken.

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Creating a Leadership Culture

Nathan Magnuson

More than 10 years ago, I had the privilege to co-author The Secret with Ken Blanchard, a book about Chick-fil-A’s point of view on leadership. Did they want to know my career plans or what time my flight was going to leave? Train it – Having a definition is critical but insufficient alone. If not, that’s the starting point.

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097: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow | with Mark Miller from Chick-fil-A

Engaging Leader

First, they identified the skills that set apart great leaders; this became the topic of the internationally best-selling book The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do, which Mark co-wrote with Ken Blanchard and has just been released in a new 10th anniversary edition.

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