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What Is Different About Ethical Leadership?

Leading Blog

Certain principals cut across the lives of such leaders as they transcend traditional leadership roles and prioritize the well-being of the communities, economies, and global society they serve. As founder and CEO of Chobani, a top-selling yogurt company, he “operates on a simple fundamental principle, that we do well by doing good.”

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Are You Making These CEO Mistakes? Learn from 7 Powerful Examples

Lead from Within

The role of a CEO is one of the most challenging and complex in the business world. While CEOs are often admired for their leadership, vision, and decision-making abilities, they are not immune to making mistakes. Successful CEOs understand that a happy and engaged workforce is essential for long-term success.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

Leading Blog

Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. With similar conviction, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said, “Empathy makes you a better innovator.It’s a quality my wife helped me begin to learn when our son was born with severe disabilities.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

This, of course, starts with the CEO, and young companies have a broad set of founders and CEOs with different backgrounds, competencies, and demographics at the helm. A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO.

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How Do I Build Leadership Tenacity and Grit?

Let's Grow Leaders

How do you tap into the grit and tenacity when you are exhausted? 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.

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. Let’s take a look at the anatomy of character, how it establishes itself, and what leaders can do about it.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2024 curated just for you. Simply maximizing shareholder value while not breaking the law is no longer a tenable approach, but we've never been so confused about what it means to do the right thing—and why it's so important. It's time to fight back.

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