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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

The Horizons Tracker

While we often seem to portray CEOs as superheroes capable of doing it all, the reality is that they will inevitably have strengths and weaknesses. Research has demonstrated that a CEO’s integrity plays a pivotal role in maintaining employee loyalty and preventing issues such as fraud.

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Hackers and Hummingbirds: Leadership Lessons from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Terry Starbucker

I recently read “ Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg ” by Ekaterina Walter (I received an advance copy). In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

For the last 20 years, and all around the world, we CEOs have invested untold millions into the question: “What does it take to have an engaged workplace culture?” How to Be a Soul-Sucking CEO. But I am also continually surprised to see an almost entrenched, dated attitude CEOs have toward their people and their culture.

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Are Bosses Always Over-Confident?

The Horizons Tracker

Over the mark “A tell-tale sign of whether a CEO has gone over the line between valuable confidence and dangerous overconfidence is when they start to disregard the feedback they are getting and pay less attention to what’s happening elsewhere in their industry,” the researchers explain.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Upon becoming Honeywell’s CEO in 2002, he encountered an organization on the verge of failure, thanks to years of untrammeled short-termism.

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Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders

Next Level Blog

» June 22, 2010 Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders One of the things that makes a strategy book really useful is when it introduces a model that you can use to organize your thinking for years to come. It’s The Discipline of Market Leaders. | Main | Who’s The Boss? This week’s VBC feature did that for me.

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How You Sabotage Your Success.

Rich Gee Group

I had to FedEx a letter to a prominent executive the other day to connect with them. For instance: When composing the letter, it took me HOURS to decide on a template (design). Getting the letter in an envelope. Transporting the letter to the nearest FedEx location in time to ensure the date on the letter is reasonable.

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