Sublime

A vital feature of the practice of adaptive leadership is the capacity to take corrective action. This requires continual learning in dialogue with one’s own mistakes, missed opportunities, and disappointments that inevitably occur when one is working on the edge of known problems and unclear solutions.

The One Minute Manager.

He had this style about him leaving no doubt that while he would share his point of view, he was not making recommendations or prescriptions: you, the CEO, were the judge. It actually made it easier to seek him out, as he didn't demand you follow his point of view. He impressed on me that the role of the board was to hire and fire the CEO, and that

Thus, while Shackleton was undeniably out of place, even inept, in a great many everyday situations, he had a talent—a genius, even—that he shared with only a handful of men throughout history—genuine leadership. He was, as one of his men put it, “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none.” For all his blind spots and inadequacies

A good leader is always a follower as much as he is a ruler. The team comes first. That was why Red listened to his players and got out of the way when he felt they were right.

Managing, by the former head of ITT, Harold Geneen.

Most important, Carlson was listening to employees. After boarding a United flight, he would change into a cardigan sweater and then work the cabin of an airplane, asking pilots and flight attendants whether they were happy and what the airline could be doing better. Hearing any criticism or suggestion, he reached into his pocket for an index card