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Servant Leaders Outperform Because They Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

Here’s an example of a servant leader that brings the force of connection to life. Servant leaders such as Admiral Clark outperform other leaders because they move people to “surrender the me for the we” and it is nearly always the case that we accomplish more when we are pulling together than when we are drifting apart.

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What Approach Do You Use?

Lead Change Blog

Thought leaders present their ideas in meetings, articles, books, journals, TED talks, blogs, and webinars. . Three things make thought leaders standout. a) Their ability to produce original and innovative ideas. . Servant Leaders. These leaders provide the help and support that we need to change.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. These four innovation stages aren’t neat and orderly. It’s a big competitive edge.

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4 Strategies to Remove Fear from Your Leadership

Leading with Trust

Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. I’ve observed many leaders who manage people through fear. But when you ask them about the fear-based sentiments they feel throughout the day (e.g., So, what’s the antidote to fear?

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Let’s Not Kid Ourselves – The Debate Over Hybrid Work Comes Down to Trust

Leading with Trust

Well, most companies are saying that employees’ physical presence in the office is required to foster a healthy organizational culture, or that in-person interaction is required for innovative and creative work to take place. Trusted servant leaders look to bring out the best in their team members. Are those important factors?

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Simple Truths of Leadership Turn Common Sense into Common Practice

Leading with Trust

To prove my point, go to Amazon.com and search their book listings for the word “leadership” and see how many returns you get (but wait until you finish reading this article!). It’s all about a leader’s character and intention. The most persistent barrier to being a servant leader is a heart motivated by self-interest.

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Leadership: It Either Scales and Grows, or Destroys

Lead Change Blog

Scaling Leadership provides a proven framework for magnifying agile and scalable leadership in your organization by multiplying high-achieving leaders at scale. Lead Change recently spoke with the authors, Bill Adams and Bob Anderson, to dig deeper into their latest book. What makes the time right for this book? We have about 1.5