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The five tasks of leadership

30 August 2009

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I an busy reading the book “Just Enough Anxiety” by Robert Rosen, which proposes the following five tasks of leadership.

Leadership: Successful leaders willingly travel into the unknown.
Strategy: Successful leaders set an evolving course through ambiguity, complexity, and change.
Engagement: Successful leaders inspire and challenge people to perform beyond their own [...]

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Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders

15 June 2009

The Harvard Business Review provide a list of the “Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders” as follows:

Lack energy and enthusiasm
Accept their own mediocre performance
Lack clear vision and direction
Have poor judgment
Don’t collaborate
Don’t walk the talk
Resist new ideas
Don’t learn from mistakes
Lack interpersonal skills
Fail to develop others

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Passion and deliberate practice results in great leadership

1 November 2006

Anders Ericsson is a Psychologist at the Florida State University, conducting research into how superior performers become good at what they do. His research seeks to answer the question, What matters most in producing high performance? Is it natural talent or hard work? The simple answer usually given is that they’re both important and is [...]

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