Category: Leadership Qualities

Google “What makes a great leader?”, and you get “about 58,300,000 results” today! So, there are millions of leadership studies, theories, frameworks, models, and recommended best practices. But are there clear, simple answers we need for our daily work lives?

These three authors partnered to answer that question:

• Dave Ulrich:  Business Professor from the University of Michigan and one of the ten most innovative creative and innovative management thinkers according to Fast Company
• Norm Smallwood:  Fellow University of Michigan Business School Faculty member and Co-Founder of the RBL Group
• Kate Sweetman:  Leadership Consultant and Former Editor at Harvard Business Review

Drawing on decades of research experience, the authors conducted extensive interviews with a variety of respected CEOs, academics, experienced executives, and seasoned consultants—and heard the same five essentials repeated again and again. These five rules became The Leadership Code.

In The Leadership Code, the authors break down great leadership into day-to-day actions, so that we can all become Out of This World Leaders.

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Southwest Airlines has a remarkable record of success and effectiveness (see my June 21, 2014 post on The Southwest Airlines Way). They’ve done it by building a unique culture. On May 2, 2013, Colleen Barrett (President and Corporate Secretary from 2001-2008) visited us at the Johnson Space Center on Innovation Day and shared Southwest’s secrets to success.

She also captured many of those not-so-secret secrets in a uniquely-written interview with Ken Blanchard in Lead with Luv: A Different Way to Create Real Success. As Kevin Krone (VP of Marketing, Sales, & Distribution for Southwest Airlines) put it, “Colleen teaches us that love is what matters and that you have to lead with your heart and know that the heart will take you in the right direction.”

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