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Leadership and Self-Awareness

N2Growth Blog

Lesson #1 was: “ Make your own development a priority - Zuckerberg knew he needed to be a leader (and not just a tech guy) if Facebook was going to go anywhere, so he hired an executive coach to learn management and leadership skills.” Control is about power – not leadership. Forget span of control and think span of influence.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients.