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Be a Better Leader – Be More Like Your Heroes!

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein, Former Girl Scout CEO. Alan Mulally, Former Ford CEO. Paul Hersey, Co-creator of Situational Leadership®. Warren Bennis, Renowned Leadership Expert. With my new project 15 Coaches. 15 Coaches is my legacy project. The response to this project has been amazing!

Beckhard 101
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One Quick Exercise for Planning Your Life

Marshall Goldsmith

In doing this exercise myself, I found that all of my heroes are generous teachers, like Buddha, Frances Hesselbein (former Girl Scout CEO), Alan Mulally (former Ford CEO), Peter Drucker (Father of Modern Management), and Paul Hersey (Co-creator of Situational Leadership®). With my new project 15 Coaches.

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The Case for Custom Learning

The Center For Leadership Studies

I have had the distinct honor of helping to design, develop and deliver over 200 custom leadership development projects during my career. The overwhelming majority of the projects I have had direct experience with were with customers I would describe as creative, forward-thinking, learning professionals.

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Leading the Modern Workforce

The Center For Leadership Studies

While trying to figure out how to work from her parents’ home, with a two-year-old and a four-year-old running all over the place, she volunteered to tackle a special project. This project identified and locked in critical suppliers during the first phase of COVID. Leadership is unquestionably different from what it used to be.

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Transitioning into Management

The Center For Leadership Studies

What most of us learned (very quickly) is that leadership is one of the most historically unique disciplines ever, and we had no earthly idea what we were getting into. When I became a manager, I had a senior engineer that worked for me submit a project plan. He resubmitted. I found something else I didn’t like and sent it back.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

List of Servant Leadership Academic Programs Now Available. Inverted Pyramid of Project Success. Speedboat or Sailboat Leadership: Which Do You Practice? Servant Leadership Profile: Sojourner Truth – Black History Month. Situational Leadership? Try Consistent Leadership Instead. Leadership.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

The CEOs of both — John Noseworthy and Delos “Toby” Cosgrove — are highly skilled physicians. A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. Cleveland Clinic comes in second.