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Nov 26, 2010

The Dangers of Charismatic Leaders

[NOTE: This post was updated December 2022 for freshness & clarity, and to remove and replace broken URL links.] Professor Robert Sutton...

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TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Aug 7
2 min

Lack of Composure

Many years ago I had a chance to meet and interact with a middle manager who, while appearing on the outside to be very self-assured, was...

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Jul 4
3 min

Don't Be Petty and Don't Delight in Other's Misery

Petty is an interesting word. The Collins Online Dictionary defines it as: mean or ungenerous in small or trifling things a petty person...

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Jun 4
7 min

What it Means for a Leader to Take on "Extreme Ownership"

Photo: Jocko Willink (left) and Leif Babin (right) I've written before about "extreme ownership" and how passing the buck (i.e., blaming...

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May 2
7 min

Good to Great to Gone

I was once part of a leadership development initiative (in 2019) that required partnering and collaborating with a third-party vendor,...

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Apr 9
15 min

Book Review: The Leadership Challenge, 7th Edition

In this book review of The Leadership Challenge (7th ed.) by James (Jim) Kouzes and Barry Posner, I'll compare the 7th edition (2023) to...

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Mar 7
8 min

Don't Get Hooked on "Fake Work"

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must...

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Dec 19, 2022
8 min

Don't Outsource Your Thinking

If there's one thing I've learned from attaining my Ph.D. it is this — don't outsource your thinking. As a society, we've become lazy,...

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Steve Nguyen, Ph.D., is an Organizational Development Leader. He partners with senior & executive leaders on ways to improve human behaviors in the workplace and on how to make people and organizations more effective.

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