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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

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The moral of my story continues to be that in order to be a great leader, you absolutely must be a great reader. Teddy Roosevelt was rumored to actually read two books a day. Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read).

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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 That was a distinction with an operational and organizational difference.

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