Tag: leadership
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Are You Following A Lemming?
I had lunch with some senior leaders of a large company, one we all know well. A company that’s run by people with just enough hubris to not realize they’re going to be out of work, one way or another, in the next 12 months (at most). Why? Not because they’re not smart or talented or charismatic. The fact that they’re all…
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Knowing Your Place
Long ago, in what seems like another life, a colleague much senior to me (in age, experience and level) summoned me to his office on a Friday afternoon for a “chat.” Sounded ominous, and it was. I’d been working for the (unnamed) company for some time, and had achieved some early success. Enough success that I wasn’t just feeling confident, I was feeling unstoppable. …
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My Visit To Kate Ebner’s Radio Show On VoiceAmerica
Here’s the stream of my appearance on Kate Ebner’s VoiceAmerica radio show, “Visionary Leaders, Extraordinary Lives.” (And here it is on iTunes.) The title of the show does indeed make me sound dead and eulogized, but I was instead hyoercaffeinated and borrowing the office of a colleague at AMC Networks, where I was that day.…
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It’s Not What You Do, It’s Why You Do It
We all, at some point, struggle with natural questions about who we lead, who we follow, and why. Like all of us, I’ve followed (and still do) some inspiring leaders, and I’ve also followed some leaders that simply didn’t — or couldn’t — lead. Why did I even bother to follow them as long as…
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Itay Talgam’s TED Talk On “Conducting” Leadership
I wrote about classical music conductor Itay Talgam once before. Here’s Itay’s TED talk on leadership…
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Leonard Bernstein Performs Haydn With Almost No Hands
My new friend, legendary conductor Itay Talgam, gave his TED Talk at the Nokia Ideas Camp this weekend. He walked us through the variations in style and technique of the world’s greatest classical conductors, ending, of course, with