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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning. New York: Viking, 2003.
Fred Kofman • Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values
Commit to excellence Measure the important things Build a culture around service Create and develop great leaders Focus on employee satisfaction Build individual accountability Align behaviors with goals and values Communicate at all levels Recognize and reward success
Quint Studer • A Culture of High Performance: Achieving Higher Quality at a Lower Cost
But to become a great leader, one needs to assume the best about each person.
Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders
Throughout the rest of his life, the community of men admonished, affirmed, and endorsed his masculinity. Life was filled with camaraderie, protection, and high ideals. Boys become men in the community of men. There is no substitute for this vital component. Dad, if your boy is to become a man, you must enlist the community.
Robert Lewis • Raising a Modern-Day Knight
STAGE 1: DISCIPLINED PEOPLE Level 5 Leadership. Level 5 leaders are ambitious first and foremost for the cause, the organization, the work—not themselves—and they have the fierce resolve to do whatever it takes to make good on that ambition. A Level 5 leader displays a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. First Who … Then W
... See moreJim Collins • Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
The best teams—like the three snipers on the deck of the Bainbridge—know their coach (or commander or boss) trusts them to trust each other. Those horizontal anti-MECE bonds of trust and overlapping definitions of purpose enable them to “do the right thing.”
Stanley McChrystal • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
From the start, my prime directive, the fundamental goal, was the full and total implementation throughout the organization of the actions and attitudes of the Standard of Performance I described earlier. This was radical in the sense that winning is the usual prime directive in professional football and most businesses.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Our fathers taught, “Your actions speak so loudly I can’t hear what you say.” Today’s young people tell us, “Don’t talk the talk if you don’t walk the walk.” Each maxim merely reflects a higher wisdom that urges Christian leaders to “conduct [themselves] in a manner worthy of the gospel” (Phil. 1:27).