Vince Lombardi
The Character Compass: Transforming Leadership for the 21st Century Mary Crossan, Gerard Seijts, and Bill Furlong Routledge/An Imprint of Taylor & Ross Group (October 2023) “Those with character have a highly principled, perfectly disciplined and educated will.” Vince Lombardi According…
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Dr. Z: The Lost Memoirs of an Irreverent Football Writer Paul Zimmerman with Peter King (Editor) Triumph Books (2017) A compelling self-portrait of a sportswriter who had “a real problem with authority”…or something The title of this brief commentary is…
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Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno: What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System Takehico Harada McGraw-Hill (2015) “It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to…
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Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders John Baldoni McGraw-Hill (2003) “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw I read this book when it was first published (2003) and recently re-read…
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Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy Irv Rothman John S. Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why most (if not all) organizations get the results they are designed to produce, 12 Nov 2013…
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Win-Win Partnerships: Be on the Cutting Edge with Synergistic Coaching Steven J. Stowell and Matt M. Starcevich CMOE Press (1996) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Do not be deterred by the fact that this book was first published…
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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh Portfolio/Penguin Group (2009) “But here’s the lesson I learned….” Note: I remembered this book when I recently began work on material for a workshop on accelerated development of middle managers…
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Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations Bob Vanourek and Gregg Vanourek McGraw-Hill (2012) “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” Vince Lombardi The Lombardi remarks help to explain why Bob Vanourek…
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A former president, then CEO and chairman of the Tom Peters Company, Kouzes is the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. Along with co-author Barry Posner they have written over a dozen books, including…
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Vince Lombardi’s Motivation “Secrets”: Love, Loyalty and Commitment
Here is an article written by William C. Taylor for BNET (February 14, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters,…
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