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Get the Summary of Doris Kearn Goodwin's Leadership in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral...
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#1 There is a wide literature around the concept of the leadership arc. The careers of even the greatest leaders follow a similar pattern. The end can be sudden and brutal, and more than 150 coaches lost their jobs as a result of the instability caused by sacking the manager.
#2 The leadership arc is the path of a leader's career. It is a journey of success, stability,...
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#1 The Law of the Lid states that leadership ability is the lid that determines a person's level of effectiveness. The lower an individual's ability to lead, the lower the lid on his potential. The higher the leadership, the greater the effectiveness.
#2 The McDonald brothers, Dick and Maurice, opened a small drive-in restaurant in Pasadena in 1937. Their business grew...
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#1 I work with leaders who are smart, nice, and even power hungry all at once. I help them identify what stands between them and their greatness, which is their leadership gap.
#2 To help leaders get to where they want to be, I help them understand who they are not just superficially but deeply, which means acknowledging the parts of their personality they feel the need...
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#1 The essence of being real is to know what you care about and then do your best to be true to these values and aspirations. You can't help but like Kerry Tanaka right from the start. She works in marketing for a pharmaceutical company, for which she travels a lot.
#2 The Total Leadership program helps you identify gaps between what you value and how you're acting...
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#1 I was born on a Monday in November 1966, in Marie Claire Beauvais, France, to Axel Jean-Pierre and Marie-Claire. I never took my father's last name, and I ended up with my mother's maiden name.
#2 I was a Peenie Greet, or skinny twig, as my brother Maurice referred to me. I was painfully skinny, and I hated my protruding wings on my back. I was never given a middle...
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Get the Summary of Jocko Willink's Leadership Strategy and Tactics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: These are all questions about leadership-the most complex of all human endeavors. And while there are books out there that provide solid leadership principles, books like Extreme Ownership and The Dichotomy of Leadership, there is no leadership field manual that provides a direct, situational,...
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Get the Summary of L. David Marquet's Leadership Is Language in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As a leader in today's networked, information-dense business climate, you don't have full visibility into your organization or the ground reality of your operating environment. In order to harness the eyes, ears, and minds of your people, you need to foster a climate of collaborative experimentation...
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#1 I had to turn over more responsibility to my team, which was not easy for me. I was a control freak, and I had to let go of control. The process of turning over responsibility was extremely emotional for me, because I had to let go of someone who did things my way.
#2 The qualities of a great leader are integrity, servant, humility, vision, decisive, disciplined,...
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Get the Summary of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Leadership in Turbulent Times" explores the lives and leadership qualities of four U.S. presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The book delves into their early lives, highlighting the personal challenges and formative experiences that shaped their characters...
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#1 Leadership is essential because it makes a significant difference in people's levels of engagement, commitment, and performance. Developing your leadership abilities will help you improve the way people around you feel about their workplace and promote more productive organizations.
#2 There are people who believe that not everyone has the potential to lead, and that...
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#1 Servant leadership is the process of helping your employees accomplish goals. It is all about a leader's character and intention. A misguided heart will color their thinking, impact their behavior, and cause them to begin every day by asking What's in it for me today.
#2 The two parts of servant leadership are the leadership aspect, which focuses on vision, direction,...
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#1 The good news is that employee engagement, empowerment, and organizational agility can flourish when the fundamental relationship between leaders and followers, helpers and clients, and providers and customers becomes more personal and cooperative. The bad news is that continued deception, scandals, high turnover of disengaged talent, safety and quality problems, and...
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#1 In 2001, I was CEO of Whole Foods Market, and I was being interviewed as part of an investigation into who should lead the company into the future. I was asked to step aside and make way for a new leader.
#2 The saga of WholePeople. com, which ultimately failed, is its own story. I had co-founded and built Whole Foods from the ground up, but I owned a relatively minor...
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Get the Summary of Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee's Primal Leadership in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities,...
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Book Preview: #1 Leadership is one of my passions. I have dedicated more than thirty years of my life to helping others learn what I know about leading. The 5 Levels of Leadership is a lecture that I have given more often than any other, and it explains how leadership works.
#2 The 5 Levels of Leadership is a method that has been used to train leaders in companies of every size and...
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Get the Summary of Tim Elmore's The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Author Dr. Tim Elmore helps leaders of all kinds navigate increasingly complex, rapidly changing environments, as well as manage teams who bring a range of new demands and expectations to the workplace that haven't been seen even one generation prior.
After working alongside...
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#1 Tribes are the basic building block of any large human effort, including earning a living. They influence more than teams, entire companies, and even superstar CEOs. They decide whether the new leader will flourish or get taken out.
#2 The Tribal Leader is the person who upgrades the tribe, or the group of people, as the tribe embraces the leader. The leader and the...
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#1 When a thirty-eight-year-old Nick Saban arrived at Toledo, he didn't waste any time in establishing his authority. He knew what he wanted, and he made it clear from the start that he would not be changing anything except for the name on the front of the uniform.
#2 If you want to establish a new culture, you need to lay out clear and consistent standards from the...
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#1 Culture is an abstraction, yet the forces that are created in social and organizational situations derived from culture are powerful. We must understand these forces not only because of their power but also because they help to explain many of our puzzling and frustrating experiences in social and organizational life.
#2 We as students, employees, managers, researchers,...
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