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Time to Lead: What We Can Learn from Great Leaders

Leading Blog

Peter Drucker was asked whether he considered himself more of a historical writer or a management thinker: “More a historical writer,” Drucker answered. Developed from Isaiah Berlin’s expose of the Greek poet Archilochus statement that “the fox knows many smaller things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

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8 Essential Principles of Effective Leadership

Leading Blog

Gayle Beebe has written a book on how effective and moral leaders develop and more importantly, how they must continue to develop. In our instant-oriented culture we often want to short-circuit the thinking, reflecting and acting that mar our progressive development as leaders. Leadership development is a process.

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20 Leadership Books You Might Not Have Read

N2Growth Blog

The Bible - Whether you’re religious or not, there is simply no greater blueprint for developing wisdom, discernment, humility, and every other leadership trait known to man. The Essential Drucker - Peter Drucker was the most noted management thinker of his time. I had the chance to meet Peter on two different occasions.

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Key Performance Indicators of Good Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Dr. Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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Rethinking Good To Great

N2Growth Blog

Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion. In being true to my contrarian self, and with rare exception (Peter Drucker, Adam Smith, etc.),

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Being a Self-Aware Leader: Tasha Eurich

QAspire

Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.” – Peter Drucker, Managing Oneself. In a world where people are so busy responding to external expectations and go with the flow, it takes courage to peep within, develop insight about self, build outsight and find ways to do a more meaningful contribution.

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US Navy and U2: What Connection?

Michael Lee Stallard

The article features the stories of the US Navy’s former Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Vern Clark, and Bono, the lead singer of the rock band U2. The Leader to Leader Institute just posted an article on its website that Jason Pankau and I wrote for the Summer edition of the Leader to Leader Journal.

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