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Lead Change Blog
JUNE 16, 2014
If you browse the titles of some of the most searched and rated leadership books on the web, you will find a variety of themes and trends. There is 5-D Leadership. Results-Based Leadership. Leadership for the 21st Century (amassed from over 580 books). Please feel free to contact him through his social media profiles.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 19, 2017
The leadership antidote to passion-free mediocrity may not be to change employees or loudly telegraph your displeasure or even “crack the whip.’ True, but what would your leadership relationship be like if suddenly all your employees were independently wealthy volunteers? Ask the Cleveland Cavs or the New England Patriots.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 4, 2017
And of all places, he lost it in the big-deal quarterly leadership meeting. And yet, he engaged the hearts … and commitment … of every single person in the leadership meeting. The “Larry loses his cool” incident led me to reflect on the true meaning of leadership. Passion takes the plain vanilla out of encounters.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2011
The core challenge of leadership, Davis argues, is to "find the revolution before it finds you." Ray Davis took charge of Umpqua back in 1994, when the bank was a pipsqueak of an outfit with six branches in and around the southern Oregon town of Roseburg, assets of $150 million, and, in his words, a "plain vanilla" competitive strategy.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 29, 2016
Leadership recognizes that it needs professional systems and the professional managers to run them. In our experience, leadership teams too often overreact as they add new talent and professionalize the organization. We’ve observed that leadership teams make a number of common mistakes: They try to codify their genius.
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