Leadership has always been hard

As the year 1776 drew to a close, the American experiment was in trouble. In recent months the Colonial forces had suffered much at the hands of the British troops and Hessian mercenaries. They had been routed from Long Island, chased from Manhattan across New Jersey into Pennsylvania. Boston, New York and Rhode Island were [...]

By |2021-01-19T09:45:49-04:00May 8th, 2012|Competence, Leadership|0 Comments

Level 5 failure

In Good to Great, Jim Collins researched and codified a surprising fact: that leadership matters a great deal in taking organizations from good to great. He said that good-to-great leaders seemed to come from a completely different mold when compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, [...]

By |2021-01-19T09:45:50-04:00May 3rd, 2012|Character, Competence, Leadership|0 Comments
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