With A New PBS Documentary And A Third Michelin Star, The Inn At Little Washington Looks Toward The Future In These Trouble Times

Chef Patrick O’Connell knows how to dust himself off and get dinner on the table through thick and thin, recession and flood, hurricane and power blackout, better than anyone I know, managing to navigate his way around these catastrophes and more for over 40 years at his legendary restaurant and c

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5 Things You Need To Understand Before Accepting That Leadership Promotion

The leadership development industry has done a disservice to the global marketplace. After nearly 30 years in the space and as an executive in one of the leading firms, I've been part of the problem. We've convinced everyone they need to be a leader, and in my opinion, it's just not true.

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Leadership That Makes Us Better

All crises generate narratives featuring victims, heroes and villains. It is not difficult to see who played these roles in the Great Recession.

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100 Leadership Qualities

We are often so focused on trying to fix our weaknesses that we neglect to nurture our strengths.

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What’s The Surprising Leadership Lesson In The COVID-19 Crisis?

As we move through this coronavirus crisis – doing meetings by video chat with our kids and pets in the background or our laps, caring less about how we look on camera or the backgrounds we show – we are increasing our appreciation for authenticity, communication, trust, relationships, verifiabl

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Should Boeing's CEO Stay Chairman? There's Precedent For Splitting The Role After Scandal

Could Boeing’s org chart be faulty, too? It’s the question many shareholders and some corporate governance experts are asking in the aftermath of the 737 MAX crashes of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines and the plane’s subsequent grounding around the world.

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Hershey's CEO on Professional Growth and Women in Business

When Michele Buck was tapped to run Hershey (hsy) in March 2017, she became the first female CEO in the company’s 123-year history. Fortune included her on our 2017 list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business for the first time.

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4 Leadership Skills You Need, No Matter How High You Rank

The fundamental techniques that drive your success never change. Think about how many free throws Michael Jordan must have practiced, or how many jabs Mike Tyson threw. Top athletes like them never stop practicing their basic building blocks even after rising to the top of the professional ranks.

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Where Was the Pilot On That United Airlines Flight?

I’m as horrified as everyone else watching that video of a United Airlines passenger being forcibly dragged from his seat, knocked down and bloodied, to make room for a crew member.

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What Is Leadership Storytelling, Anyway?

When I started Leadership Story Lab 10 years ago, I got a lot of blank stares whenever I said “I teach storytelling.” People would search for the closest thing they knew.

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An International Perspective: Top Leadership Challenges For 2020

While leaders and managers in every region face many similar challenges, they also face certain challenges that are very specific to the geography in which they’re based.

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The Massive Difference between Negative and Positive Leadership

Much that is written about leaders these days seems to be negative: they are incompetent, arrogant, unethical, greedy, the list goes on and on. No doubt, there is a great deal of anger and cynicism from employees, shareholders, and voters.

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The 10 Biggest Business Scandals of 2017

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To Remain A Global Economic Leader, The U.S. Has To Lead On Paid Leave

Americans have never been more fixated on the news from Washington. Even in the dog days of summer, our politics are at a fever pitch. But the farthest-reaching action in Washington this week isn’t dominating headlines.

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The Most Important Leadership Trait All Ethical Bosses Share

How's your reputation? When people run a Google search on your name or company, do you get worried? Is there anything you don't want revealed about your culture or brand? Listen, the leadership journey is not for wimps. There will be scrutiny from all sides. That's why integrity....

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Michael Dell’s Advice to Entrepreneurs: ‘You Better Come Up With Something Unique’

Michael Dell has some advice for people who want to start their own business and who dream to be a successful entrepreneur: “Go for it.

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5 Things to Know About the Next PepsiCo CEO

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is stepping down as CEO on Oct. 3, and her No. 2, Ramón Laguarta, will be stepping into her shoes, the company said on Monday.

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It's Time for Your Business to Discuss Sexual Harassment (and Then Do Something About It)

Stretching my hamstrings on the bright purple artificial turf of the nearest gym, I overheard snippets of a conversation between a sculpted physical trainer and a round middle-aged man.

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The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders

Why are tarnished leaders so much easier to name just now than shining ones? Think of disgraced Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, indicted and jailed Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong, fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, forced-out Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz—all th

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6 Leadership Lessons Learned While Riding My Motorcycle

Always Be Looking Ahead - It is essential for motorcyclists to always be looking ahead so that they can better anticipate what lies ahead of them on their journey.

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Sheryl Sandberg Said This About Leadership And It Was Incredibly Insightful

Leaders need more than one good quality to make them a quality leader. Still, there are certain attributes that separate leaders and great leaders. As we've seen throughout history, leadership takes many forms. In entrepreneurship, we tend to be trailblazer, and in that we lead.

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The Leadership Chart Everyone Needs To Utilize During This Ever-Changing Set Of Norms

The last few weeks and longer have been very scary for all of us. People's health, our community's ability to acknowledge and adjust are evolving in-front of us rapidly. Those far less fortunate than I am have been and will be are on a scary edge, not sure where to go for support and comfort.

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Leadership Next

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How to Assess Your Leadership Skills

Are you persuasively steering your team, and the company you founded? How do you know? The first step is to recognize you can always do better. The next one? Follow Ebner’s seven leadership tenets.

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How to Create a Leadership Development Program

What kind of magic does the Walt Disney Company use to keep its large and sprawling staff of smiley, friendly, and competent workers all on the same page ... and keep them all smiling? Contrary to popular belief, it's not the pixie dust.

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Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk

Captain James T. Kirk is one of the most famous Captains in the history of Starfleet. There's a good reason for that.

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Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition

A HUNDRED years ago this month, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four teammates became the first men to reach the South Pole, arriving in triumph five weeks ahead of Robert Falcon Scott.

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5 Leadership Lessons Learned From The Military And What They Mean For You

Leaders—true leaders—aren’t average people. The average person doesn’t choose to swim upstream while others swiftly float downstream, or zig when others choose to zag.

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Leadership Without Presumption: Lessons From Eisenhower

During World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower took a cruise around the Isle of Capri. On seeing a large villa, he asked about it and learned that it was to be his quarters. He inquired about the neighboring villa as well, and learned that it would soon belong to Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz.

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Why This Ancient Leadership Practice Is Suddenly All the Rage

The Founding Fathers of the American Revolution are commonly thought of as Stoics, in the sense that they were uncomplaining, long-suffering--and effective at achieving their goal.

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Five Ways To Demonstrate Leadership In Times of Crisis

There are going to be times in your journey as a leader when you invariably feel like every decision you take is turning out to be incorrect. Nothing seems to work the way it’s supposed to.

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Why Followership Is Now More Important Than Leadership

Good, skilled followers are able to nurture good leadership, by invisibly helping keep a novice leader upright and on track. It’s a lost art in our narcissistic times.

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Leadership lessons from Abraham (Genesis 12-14)

One of the great leaders in the Bible is Abraham. He is often referred to as the father of faith, and reading about his life we can find lots of good leadership principles. Here are some leadership lessons from Abraham based on Genesis 12-14.

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9 Key Leadership Lessons You Can Learn from TV & Movies

Regardless of if it is the CEO or a junior supervisor, the success and culture of a business is defined from top to bottom by its leadership, and although some people take to responsibility more naturally than others, there are always new and important lessons to teach and to learn.

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5 Leadership Lessons from the Bible: Peter

How do leaders handle adversity? So there was Peter at Pentecost—standing boldly before a large crowd of Jews telling them that they had killed the Messiah. What a difference 40 days had made.

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8 Movies With Great Leadership Lessons

One thing I love to do is watch the latest and greatest movie in the theater. Seeing a motion picture on the big screen provides a different viewing perspective. You’re able to sit in the theater’s leather recliner. You’re able to hear the sound in THX.

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7 Funny Quotes With Serious Leadership Lessons

Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training was both the best and worst time of my life. It was awful in the sense of pain and suffering, but also a blast (pun intended) because of that pain and suffering. What made the six-month selection course tolerable was having a sense of humor.

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Leadership Lessons: 99 Questions for Reflection

As we start the new year, instead of giving you an article to just read, I would like to provide a list of questions for you to ponder and reflect on.

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Leadership Lessons from Florence Nightingale

“Florence Nightingale Receiving the Wounded at Scutari” a painting by Jerry Barrett (who was at the Scutari Barrack Hospital – that’s him looking out the window) completed in 1858, just two years after the end of the Crimean War National Nurses Week is a wonderful time to reflect upon the li

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9 Leadership Lessons I Learned As A Company Commander

Commanding a company comes down to the ability to lead and failure is easy if you can’t build a professional unit. After 26 months in command, I’ve compiled a list of lessons learned to help captains waiting their turn to take a company.

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13 Leadership Lessons World War I

The Great War of 1914-18—it became the First World War only in tragic retrospect—was the seminal event of the 20th century. Its after-effects reverberate in our day. One might argue that the 20th century actually began with the war in 1914, culminating with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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10 Watergate Leadership Lessons

Once again, Watergate analogies are in the air. Though they may be overdrawn, there are important lessons that remain evergreen from a historic, catastrophic leadership breakdown at highest level.

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Leadership Lessons of a Rock Climber

As an avid rock climber for more than 30 years, my whole approach to life and career has been inextricably linked with my development as a climber. I began in my early teenage years, when my stepfather signed me up for a climbing course against my will. (“I’d rather study,” I whined.

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The Greatest Leadership Movies

We love leadership movies. So recently we started a fun new tradition at our Growing Leaders office. Once a month we end the workday early and move into our creative space at our office, we pull some snacks out and watch one of these great leadership movies together.

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