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Why Your Good Leadership Isn't Great.

Rich Gee Group

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great. Do you feel that you stayed true to your ethics and that your decision grew you as a leader in your organization? Good To Great.

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From Words to Worth: Navigating the True North of Organizational Values

Mike Cardus

Their research emphasizes the role of perceived integrity among top managers and highlights the strong correlation between an organization’s culture and its success (Guiso et al., I wrote how the challenge was not the lack of core values but the “paternalistic and confusing messages sent by senior management.”

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Has SAS's Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code On Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Has SAS’s Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code On Corporate Culture? Despite Collins’ attempts to draw out Goodnight, he hit a dead end. The audience responded with tentative laughter. why is everyone smiling?

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Your Leaders, Hubris or Humility?

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Your Leaders, Hubris or Humility? Collins is right. Collins also pointed out that so often a crucible in life — cancer, economic depression, emotional depression, death of a loved one, etc. why is everyone smiling?

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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? There's a sea of poor advice to wade through looking for those leadership pearls of wisdom , especially with the popularity of blogging and the ease of self-publishing. Leadership books aren't a magic cure-all that turns you into a great leader overnight.

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The Pride Paradox

Michael Lee Stallard

Values such as work ethic, excellence and open-mindedness can be cultivated with practice. Jim Collins described the humility of Level 5 leaders in Good to Great and how it often came as the result of a life threatening event or religious experience. Humility is not easily developed when you have wealth, power and/or status.

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The right people

Lead on Purpose

Recently I decided to re-read (actually listened to) to the classic business book Good To Great by Jim Collins where he discusses, among other things, the value of people. Collins makes an important distinction with regard to the people in an organization: you need to get the right people.

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