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CEOs Share Experience: Initiatives to Lead Culture Change

Sunday, February 23, 2014

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CEOs SHARE CULTURE INITIATIVES My last blog laid out the context for leading culture change and gave a few examples of CEO initiatives to lead the way. Here is a more complete list based on both private client conversations and Vistage CEO peer advisory group discussion:   –       Hire a talent manager for development of […]

Steve Jobs Reborn: A Lesson for Aspiring (and graying) Leaders

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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You may or may not be a Steve Jobs fan because of some of his personal history. But what he has done with Apple after returning to the fold is simply amazing. And he has an understandably large following of employees and customers. What happened? Randall Stross has captured the answer in his article: What […]

Small Business Advocate — A Treasured Resource for Big Companies Too

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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Jim Blasingame of smallbusinesssadvocate.com hosted my presence on his morning radio show yesterday. Though it is not the first time Jim and I have chatted like this, it is a reminder of his value as an advisor to business, keeper of an inventory of written wisdom and node in a network he calls his “brain […]

Brain Research Confirms Nurture vs. Nature

Sunday, November 30, 2008

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Kate Zernike (Never Let Them See You Sweat, New York Times, November 30, 2008) has written an important and timely article on leadership. In brief, she reports that the “uncommon” calm, confident manner you see in Barack Obama is only partly genetic, partly the result of experience (challenges, setbacks, recovery and learning). And she points […]

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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