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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

Do Leadership Books Really Help Advance Your Life and Career? Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness Robert K.

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Interview with David McCuistion of Vanguard Organizational Leadership (VOL)

Modern Servant Leader

As Greenleaf wrote, there is a healing in the process of serving others. I think the greatest challenge facing the adoption of Servant Leadership as your personal leadership focus is that one has to take the “ego” out of their positional authority and put others first. Why do you advocate Servant Leadership?

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. At one point in my career, I worked for a man who was a tyrant, bigot and sexist. And the VP most certainly expressed leadership by realizing that the tyrant could not stay in the position he was in.

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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

CO2

Today, the ability to be seen as a participative leader can still be important and those in leadership positions that don’t take the thoughts and feelings of their subordinates into account are rarely regarded as truly great leaders. Gary Yukl in 1971, with the leadership style being called delagative rather than participative.

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Where Are the Rewards for Reflection?

Persuasive Powerhouse

The act of reflecting can us to become aware of our past actions in order to impact the future in a positive way. For every decision, there are often positive results and less-than-positive results. I found your suggestion of reflecting on prior events or decisions that had a positive outcome very beneficial.