Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2023

So many leaders feel the need to be right to demonstrate competence or to feel like they have all the answers, but in most leadership positions this doesn’t fly anymore and leaders need to be wrong from time to time. So last week I was at my favorite store for such things, REI, and REI is not a sponsor.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 17, 2023

As we talked, I posed a leadership and culture question that has confounded me for decades. A couple of weeks ago, I found myself in front of a pair of toe socks at REI. Your Turn Are you ready to unlock the next level of your leadership potential? I’ll save the question itself for another time.) The socks were on sale.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2012

You can learn from Recreational Equipment Incorporated , better known as REI -- an outdoor gear and apparel co-op. As described in Amy Lyman's new book, The Trustworthy Leader , REI concisely articulates its core values in this series of statements: Authenticity -- We are true to the outdoors. So what makes it different at REI?

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By possessing a disciplined set of principles and focusing on carefully developing her leadership skills throughout the process, she was able to achieve her goal of becoming #1 in the translation market that was already dominated by established competitors. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.

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Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 28, 2023

Article: The changes the LGBTQIA+ community wants to see at work Written by Evie Worsnop Wednesday 28 June 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Managers play a key role in making their organisation inclusive. Please login to the left to confirm your registration and access the article.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Images: Alastair Staley Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email CMI’s new president Fiona Dawson CMgr CCMI on good and bad management; the leaders who inspired her; and helping managers navigate climate change Back in 1988, Fiona Dawson arrived at Mars for a graduate trainee role. She was 21.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2012

My original premise for this blog was to share a variety of leadership and branding principles with the current generation of business leaders. With forty years in the saddle, hundreds of dusty trails and a few fistfights along the way, I have an oasis of management insight in which to draw.

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