In Part I, we examined leadership lessons we could learn from military historian Douglas Southall Freeman. Freeman counseled prospective leaders to: 1) know your stuff; 2) be a man; and 3) look after your people. In this installment, we ask the question, “What Leadership Lessons Can I Learn from History?” Some of you are skeptical. I get it. Americans, […]
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One of our employees has found herself in progressively responsible roles. Excelling in whatever role we’ve placed her, she continuously earns more trust and more responsibility until we inevitably end up promoting her into a new position. We recently placed her in a position of explicit leadership – one which caused her to ask: “Where can
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Our company recently completed articulating our core values: Prioritize People Love the Problem Be More… Do More Celebrate Uncommon Genius Cultivate Beauty These values are fundamentally outward-focused, culminating in the final value, in which we commit to pursuing truth, goodness and beauty. We believe our business interactions should leave our employees, our clients and our
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Our company recently completed articulating our five core values: 1. Prioritize People 2. Love the Problem 3. Be More… Do More 4. Celebrate Uncommon Genius 5. Cultivate Beauty These values are fundamentally outward-focused, culminating in the final value, in which we commit to pursuing truth, goodness and beauty. We believe our business interactions should leave our employees, our clients and
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