good leadership
examples, definitions, characteristics, and behaviors of admirable leaders that exhibit these core qualities: humble confidence, kindness, integrity, curiosity, open-mindedness
good leadership
Leading from good to great does not mean coming up with the answers and then motivating everyone to follow your messianic vision. It means having the humility to grasp the fact that you do not yet understand enough to have the answers and then to ask the questions that will lead to the best possible insights.
Jim Collins • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Entrepreneur Cindy Gallop on how to build a successful business:
“There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a compelling and inspirational vision of what you want them to achieve for you and the company. Then you empower them to achieve those... See more
“There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a compelling and inspirational vision of what you want them to achieve for you and the company. Then you empower them to achieve those... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On inspiration, how to lose, and building a successful business
To be a good delegator, first you have to be a systems thinker . Systems thinking consists of understanding how events, behaviors, tasks, problems etc. relate and how they can prevail and sustain over time.
Clara Ma • Issue 23: Delegating as a Chief of Staff
One of the best ways you can show productivity trust = modeling and embracing “blank time.”
The Root of Over-Meeting Culture
Chouinard and his business partner, Tom Frost, made what would become a legendary decision to shift away from pitons. It foreshadowed many other decisions Chouinard would make over the next fifty years, each with a similar pattern: Come to grips with damage you’re doing, set bright lines about how you’ll shift your business to reduce that damage,... See more
Doug Sundheim • How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States
I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.
Brene Brown • Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
"The greatest predictor of success for leaders is not their charisma, influence, or power. It is not personality, attractiveness, or innovative genius," the pair write. Instead it's a quality called "relational energy." Having it can help your company be up to four times more successful.
Yale Research: Having This 1 Trait Makes Leaders 4X More Effective
“In many ways the magic of Patagonia comes from the constraints we place on ourselves which are grounded in our deep sense of responsibility to do right by the environment and society,” Stanley told me. “We can't go to the Fashion Institute of Technology library and choose from 5,000 fabrics for the spring line. We have a couple hundred we can... See more
Doug Sundheim • How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States
