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What Are You Not Seeing? Strategic Blind Spots Every CEO Should Address
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The Five Temptations of a CEO
Effective leadership requires balancing vulnerability with strength, fostering productive conflict instead of superficial harmony, choosing clarity over certainty, prioritizing accountability over popularity,…
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CEO Excellence: What sets the world’s best CEOs apart (podcast transcript)
Are you a great CEO, or just a good one? New research shows that the leaders who truly excel have a set…
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How New CEOs Establish Legitimacy
CEOs are given the authority to lead by the rules of corporate governance. They gain additional influence and credibility by demonstrating competence.…
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Staying ahead: How the best CEOs continually improve CEO performance
It’s during this middle stretch of your CEO tenure that the concentration and energy you applied to your objectives during your first…
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Stepping up: Becoming a high-potential CEO candidate
The road to becoming CEO is a difficult ascent for even the most seasoned leaders. While there is no way to guarantee…
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Leadership Matters: When, How Much, and How?
How much impact do CEOs have on their firms? And what differentiates top-performing CEOs? We studied the tenures of 7,000 CEOs worldwide…
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The Myth of the Brilliant, Charismatic Leader
There’s a view out there — call it the “superhero” theory of leadership — in which the individual vision, charisma, and brilliance…
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A Simple Formula for CEO Success
People often ask me if there is a simple formula for achieving CEO success that every leader should follow. I believe there…
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What Courageous Leaders Do Differently
True leadership courage today looks different. It’s quieter, more deliberate, and far more demanding emotionally. Courageous leaders are willing to be open,…
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CEO vs President
CEO (chief executive officer) is at the most senior executive position in an organization (mostly an entity with a separate legal existence) who…
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Research: How Long Should a Founder Remain CEO?
Do founder-CEOs have an expiration date? In the wake of Jack Dorsey’s resignation from Twitter, some have begun asking whether the move…
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The new CEO toolbox: 3 Priorities You Need to Be a High-Performing Leader
During the pandemic, CEOs who have been able to quickly take the right steps to maintain a strong leadership presence and provide…
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Teamwork at the top
Creating an effective top team starts with behavioral improvement and teamwork in leadership.
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Conquering a Culture of Indecision
The job of the CEO, everyone knows, is to make decisions. And most of them do—countless times in the course of their…
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Transformation in uncertain times: Tackling both the urgent and the important
In ordinary times, successful leaders continually strive to master the balance between the urgent and the important, both in their organizations and their…
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What This CEO Thing Is All About – Jack Welch
Excerpts from the book Straight From The Gut, by Jack Welch, where he shares his thoughts and experience on being a CEO.
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Five Digital Transformation Metrics Every CEO Should Track
As organizations launch more and more digital initiatives, CEOs must monitor whether they are delivering business results. These metrics are ones to…
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Psychological Safety and the Critical Role of Leadership Development
While the benefits of psychological safety are well established, a new survey suggests how leaders, by developing specific skills, can create a…
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Why CEOs Surround M&A Announcements with Unrelated Good News
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How To Spot An Incompetent Leader
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Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve
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How To Become A Game-Changing Leader
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Jack: Straight From the Gut
Introduction Straight from the Gut is Jack Welch’s candid and deeply personal account of his journey from a young engineer to one…
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The Leader’s Bookshelf
The Leader’s Bookshelf – James Stavridis & R. Manning Ancell Why this book matters Most leaders read. Very few read with intention.…
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The Leadership Challenge
There are leadership books that inform you, and there are those that quietly raise the standard you hold yourself to. The Leadership…
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Beneath the Armor
Ole Carlson is pushing one core idea: the real work of leadership happens beneath the surface—beneath the title, beneath the confidence, beneath…
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Leadership Wheel Presentation
The Leadership Wheel Presentation A complete, real-world model for leading well and living well. Great leadership isn’t one trick—it’s balance. The Leadership…
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On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
Introduction to the Revised Edition, 2003 “Bad economic times allow second-rate leaders to exercise power recklessly and with impunity. Good times will…
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Trillion Dollar Coach by Bill Campbell by E. Schmidt, J. Rosenberg, and A. Eagle
Please click on this link for The Trillion Dollar Coach Book Summary Chapter 1: The Caddie and the CEO The Trillion Dollar…