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Hot Leadership
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
The books about leadership never stop coming. Dozens of them are published every year, and they must be selling, because publishers keep churning them out. Will Marre, co-founder of Covey Leadership Center in Encinitas, Calif., says that during the past 20 years, more has been written on leadership than in all of recorded history.
He may be right. Why is it such a hot and perpetually trendy subject? Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, most of us would like to be a leader. On any level, leaders are powerful people. Military leaders have changed the course of history, corporate leaders have spawned entire industries and political leaders run our country--at least we hope so. Whether on a micro or a macro scale, leaders effect change.
How do they do it? What makes Jack Welch a legendary leader? Why were Napoleon, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower considered great leaders? What traits, attributes and skills do they share?
The essence of the new leadership thinking is going beyond identifying common-sense traits great leaders share and spotlighting the leadership success stories of the day. Jack Welch, the superstar CEO of GE for two decades, authored Straight From the Gut, in which he outlines a template for success called the “4 E Model.” His four E’s are: 1. energy (leaders are high-energy people); 2. energizers (true …
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