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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The moral of my story continues to be that in order to be a great leader, you absolutely must be a great reader. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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Good Leaders Don't Use Bad Words

Harvard Business Review

At Australia''s Amplify Festival , former IBM Chairman/Europe Hans-Ulrich Maerki observed that one of the most important organizational and cultural shifts that occurred in the aftermath of IBM''s $3.5 But the real question confronting leaderships is how much can language alter thoughts and influence behaviors? This may be true.

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