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Best of Blogs: Work Matters by Bob Sutton

by Kevin Eikenberry on July 9, 2009

in Books,Guest Posts,Leadership,Leadership Blogs

This is the ninth post in our series of guest blog posts from our ten finalists in this year’s Best of Leadership Blogs competition (make your pick here) Bob Sutton is a researcher and Professor of Management Science at the Stanford Engineering School. The word ‘innovation’ best describes his way of exploring the connections between [...]

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Considering Edward Whitacre – What Must a Leader Know?

by Kevin Eikenberry on June 11, 2009

in Leadership,Learning

Last night I heard a report on NBC Nightly News, quoting the newly announced C.E.O. of GM (and former CEO of AT&T), Edward E Whitacre, Jr. as saying “‘I don’t know anything about cars.’ He went on to say, however, ‘A business is a business,’ in his view, and the principles, as he put it, [...]

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GM Successful at Something?

by Kevin Eikenberry on June 2, 2009

in Guest Posts,Innovation,Leadership,Learning

What’s the key to executive leadership in this vicious economy? Transparency. Everyone wants to know what is going on within their organization or the organizations they buy from. In Kevin Eikenberry’s book Remarkable Leadership he said, “Too often leaders don’t want to talk about a change that everyone knows is coming until they believe they [...]

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