Archive | January, 2008

Brain research confirms you are what you’ve tried

Thursday, January 10, 2008

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“This is your brain on the Job (Phred Dvorak and Jaclyne Badal, WSJ September 20)” does a disservice to the enlightening brain research that has been accelerating since the mid-1990s.  Readers are focused on research that seeks to map the brain of leaders, then train others to use their brains the same way. In the […]

SIGNAL ACTS GRAB HEARTS AND MINDS (Book Excerpt)

Friday, January 4, 2008

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Leaders can succeed with a wide variety of styles as long as they are always authentic, and as we’ve seen, authenticity stems from behavior that reflects values and makes those values obvious to all. Style is an important component of any leader’s arsenal, yet it is secondary to the actual method by which a leader […]

CEO Arrogance and the DNA of Failure

Thursday, January 3, 2008

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It is clear that the personality of successful entrepreneurs plays a crucial role in their success. Traits of passion, energy, drive, persistence, self-confidence, intuition and creativity within their chosen space all contribute.   However, we frequently read about the failure of a company whose name is familiar and whose fortunes we thought were favorable. We […]

Better Supervision Upward and Downward: Free Tool

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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We coaches often see avoidable dysfunction in the workplace: miscommunication, unclear expectations, initiative seen as renegade and so on. Each boss and subordinate have a specific level of trust and respect. It is shaped by personality, initial presumptions, first impressions and history together. Prior history may play a strong, but hidden role. How, then, to […]

What Made jack welch JACK WELCH

How Ordinary People Become
Extraordinary Leaders

by Stephen H. Baum (Random House)

Most leaders of American companies started out as ordinary people. What prepared them for the top job?

Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?

"Lessons for life about the core leadership traits of character, risk taking decisiveness and the ability to engage and inspire followers."
--Jim Clifton, CEO, The Gallup Organization

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