Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

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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Career Books Servant Leader Leadership 97

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Dale Carnegie — “How To Win Friends and Influence People”. Stephen Covey — “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. Every so often, a person comes along, writes a book, and changes the way people act. Napoleon Hill did it with”Think and Grow Rich”. Peters and Waterman — “In Search of Excellence”. Here’s the next business bible.

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Waterman Licensing Covey Objective 286

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Covey drives this point home nicely in his book The Speed of Trust : I’ll never forget what one CEO said about the risk of investing in a focused training initiative for his company. These principles still apply because, as a PM, you are a member of the team and have influence on the people who are hired on to the team.

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Maturity Covey Training Taylorism 159

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Covey writes in The Speed of Trust , “When trust goes down (in a relationship, on a team, in an organization, or with a partner or customer), speed goes down and cost goes up.… To use a related example, most companies have a zero-tolerance policy for being at work under the influence. As Stephen M.

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Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 14

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While the term political leadership may have become an oxymoron, it is simply impossible to be a statesman and not be a leader… It has been said that a politician is concerned with winning an election, and a statesman is concerned with future generations. We simply need to restore principled leadership in Washington.

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