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The “Greatest” Leaders Are Often The Worst Leaders by: Brent Filson It’s a common occurrence, a CEO leads a company to record earnings, retires and in months, those once high-flying earnings are dropping like shot ducks. Observers blame the new leadership team. But most likely the observers are wrong. It’s not just the new leaders [...]
Leadership Development and Jumping Out of Airships by: Brent Filson A German silent film melodrama depicts an airship bombing London during World War I. Lit up by searchlights and strafed by fighters, the crippled airship loses altitude as the captain frantically jettisons dispensable gear to lighten weight. Eventually, the only weight left is human. So [...]
A Whack Up ‘Long Side The Head Of Human Resources: The Leadership Imperative by: Brent Filson When we perceive the simple center in the seemingly complex, we can change our world in powerful new ways. Albert Einstein perceived the simple E=MC2 in the complexities of physical reality and changed the history of the 20th century. [...]
Are You Sabotaging Your Career? by: Brent Filson My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide for the past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up their careers. On a daily basis, these leaders are getting the wrong results or the right results in the wrong ways. Interestingly, they themselves are [...]
Don’t Give Presentations Or Speeches. Give Leadership Talks Instead. by: Brent Filson The CEO of a worldwide business asked me to help him develop a talk he planned to give to several hundred of his top executives. He said, ‘I feel as if I’m Daniel going into the lion’s den.’ Indeed, it was the business [...]
Einstein, The Universe, And Leadership by: Brent Filson Every since serving a hitch in the military, I have been nagged by the question that’s been hanging around leadership since time immemorial: How can some leaders persuade people to believe in them and follow them and other leaders can’t? But it wasn’t the military that provided [...]
Here’s The REAL Reason Bush Won: The Dark Night Of The Leadership Soul by: Brent Filson George Bush won the election because he was finally able to break out of the presidential bubble and give “leadership talks” on a consistent basis. But to do it, he had to face the dark night of his leadership [...]
Three Factors Of Leadership Motivation by: Brent Filson Leaders do nothing more important than get results. But you can’t get results by yourself. You need others to help you do it. And the best way to have other people get results is not by ordering them but motivating them. Yet many leaders fail to motivate [...]