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Leadership is a teachable skill
Summary:
Leadership skills are teachable and learnable, but it takes courage to practice them.
High performers benefit more from leadership training than lower performers. However, incentivizing and wanting to learn leadership are crucial.
Some people prefer to remain great executors instead of becoming leaders, and both
... See moreReThinking • Brené Brown and Simon Sinek on the Leadership Skills We Need to Build
beware of mistaking past accomplishments and experience for future potential. Background and talent determine where people start, but character skills shape how far they can climb.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Becoming a Talent Champion: Refocusing Executives on the Five Talent Activities That Matter
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This was illustrated brilliantly to me by Professor Bill Meehan, who spent thirty years with McKinsey advising CEOs and senior leaders on strategy and now teaches a class called “The Strategic Management of Nonprofits” at the Stanford School of Business.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
In Orange Organizations, strategy and execution are king. In Green Organizations, the company culture is paramount.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
talent sets the floor, but character sets the ceiling.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Find Your People
joincolossus.comIt’s actually the employees in the growth-mindset companies who say that their organization supports (reasonable) risk-taking, innovation, and creativity.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Most people shift between a steep growth trajectory and a gradual growth trajectory in different phases of their lives and careers, so it’s important not to put a permanent label on people.