Good Leaders Learn: Lessons from Lifetimes of Leadership

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good leaders learn
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the Author
Leader Biographies
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Leadership Character
3. Learning to Lead
4. The Interviews
5. You Have to Be Able to Communicate and Then Be an Example
6. No Task Is Insignificant for Making a Family, a Community, or a Corporation Better
7. I Am a Better Leader When I Can Represent That in Which I Believe, and for Which My Passion Is Sincere, My Understanding Is Complete, and My Commitment Is Personal
8. It Is Critical That Leaders Understand the Concepts of Duty and Obligation
9. I’m a Big Believer That If You Don’t Want to Be Criticized, Then Say Nothing, Do Nothing, and Be Nothing
10. Roll up Your Sleeves and Work Shoulder to Shoulder with Others
11. There Are Very Few Things in Life That You Can Control, but the One Thing That You Have Absolute Control Over Is the Quality of Your Own Effort
12. Knowing When to Leave and Do Something Different Is One of the Hardest Things for a Leader to Do
13. I Learned It’s Not Good Enough to Be Right—People Have to Buy Into Your Vision
14. Life Is a Blackboard That You Cannot Erase
15. I Didn’t Have Time to Think About Courage or Where to Find Courage—You Just Have It
16. Don’t Underestimate the Value of Your Early Career Moves—You Can’t Make up Lost Time
17. Care With Your Heart, Concentrate Your Heart, Relax Your Heart, and Open Your Heart
18. Learn to Accept Accountability and the Consequences of Failure: Leadership and Accountability Are Inseparable
19. People That Mind Don’t Matter and People That Matter Don’t Mind
20. I Always Felt That My Strongest Role Was as the Voice Whispering in Somebody’s Ear
21. If You Have the Illusion That You Can Do Everything Well, God Help You—It Is Going to Be a Disaster
22. There’s Credit in Mission Accomplishment—Don’t Bring Back Excuses
23. I Constantly Learn Lessons About Letting Go
24. I Like to Think People Think I Stand for Something
25. Leaders Tend to Be People of Broad Interests and Knowledge
26. Trust Is Built on Behavior, Not on What We Say the Values Are
27. You Have to Create Not Only a Network, but Also a System Through Which Information Can Flow
28. Coming From a Long Line of Leaders, I Was Raised to Be a Leader
29. Reach for the Stars—But Keep Your Feet Firmly Planted on the Ground
30. There Are Two Things in Life You Should Not Let Go—Your Values and Your Family
31. If You Are Not Creative in Getting Solutions and You Limit Your Expectations and Outcomes, You Are Not Going to Change the World
32. If You Are Not Working for People Who Inspire You, Who Are You Working for?
33. The More I Learn, the More Exciting My Life Is and the More Opportunities That I See
34. There Is No Individual Who Is Ever Bigger Than the Team
35. I Went Into Public Life Because I Felt That Was the Place That I Could Make the Biggest Contribution
36. Reflections on the Interviews
37. Conclusions on Learning to Lead
38. Leadership Insights for the Next Generation of Leaders
Index