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Great Leaders Decide With Their Guts, Not Just Their Brains

"Dig up all the information you can, then go with your instincts. We all have a certain intuition, and the older we get, the more we trust it… I use my intellect to inform my instinct. Then I use my instinct to test all this data. ‘Hey, instinct, does this sound...

The Greatest Obstacle To Leadership Greatness

“It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share.”                                            Proverbs What's the biggest obstacle that gets in the way of people and prevents them from becoming truly effective leaders? Ken Blanchard,...

Be Direct In Your Communications And Excel As A Leader

"There is no wisdom like frankness."                  Benjamin Disraeli As an English literature major in college, my professors routinely asked me to write several-pages-long analyses of books they earlier had assigned me to read.  The goal of these assignments, of...

Four Great Examples Of How Starbuck’s Howard Schultz Leads From The Heart

“Some people say, ‘Come on, markets are not about morals, they’re about profits.” I say that is old thinking.  That’s a false choice.  The great companies will be the ones that find a way to have and hold on to their values while chasing profits, and brand value will...