Want to boost team performance? Here are three things leaders can learn from engineers who have figured out how to make jet engines go faster.

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Are you indispensable?  Should you be? We make the plans, give the orders, follow-up on everybody and everything.  Nothing happens without our say-so.  The machine is humming and we are at the controls. It feels like leadership.  But is it? Holding it All Together Stanley was charismatic and brilliant.  Taking the helm of the household […]

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Not everyone has the charismatic superhero personality that captivates a room, and attracts followers like metal filings to a magnet.  For the many of us who may be a little short on vitamin C (charisma), are we doomed to permanent follower-ship while the outgoing back-slappers take over the world?  I’d say don’t give up hope.  […]

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There is a good reason that Jim Collins’ book Good to Great is a #1 best seller with over 3 million copies sold.  It is jam-packed with revealing detail and captivating examples of what it took for some companies to rise to sustained greatness. What you may find most interesting from a leadership perspective are the […]

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