Good leaders learn [electronic resource] : lessons from lifetimes of leadership / Gerard Seijts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / John Furlong -- 6. No task is insignificant for making a family, a community, or a corporation better / N. R. Narayana Murthy -- 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 / Elyse Allan -- 8. It is critical that leaders understand the concepts of duty and obligation / Daniel Akerson -- 9. I'm a big believer that if you don't want to be criticized, then say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing / Cassie Campbell-Pascall -- 10. Roll up your sleeves and work shoulder to shoulder with others / Barbara Stymiest -- 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 / Rahul Bhardwaj -- 12. Knowing when to leave and do something different is one of the hardest things for a leader to do / Carol Stephenson -- 13. I learned it's not good enough to be right - people have to buy into your vision / Michael Deane Harris -- 14. Life is a blackboard that you cannot erase / Arkadi Kuhlmann -- 15. I didn't have time to think about courage or where to find courage - you just have it / Linda Hasenfratz -- 16. Don't underestimate the value of your early career moves - you can't make up lost time / Stephen Snyder -- 17. Care with your heart, concentrate your heart, relax your heart, and open your heart / John Cheh -- 18. Learn to accept accountability and the consequences of failure : leadership and accountability are inseparable / Michael McCain -- 19. People that mind don't matter and people that matter don't mind / Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -- 20. I always felt that my strongest role was as the voice whispering in somebody's ear / Michael Shindler -- 21. If you have the illusion that you can do everything well, God help you - it is going to be a disaster / Chaviva Ho�sek -- 22. There's credit in mission accomplishment - don't bring back excuses / Lt.G. Russel L. Honor�e, USA, Ret. -- 23. I constantly learn lessons about letting go / Robert Bell -- 24. I like to think people think I stand for something / Eileen Mercier -- 25. Leaders tend to be people of broad interests and knowledge / Purdy Crawford -- 26. Trust is built on behavior, not on what we say the values are / Charles Brindamour -- 27. You have to create not only a network, but also a system through which information can flow / Amit Chakma -- 28. Coming from a long line of leaders, I was raised to be a leader / Jody Wilson-Raybould (Puglaas) -- 29. Reach for the stars - but keep your feet firmly planted on the ground / Gautam Thapar -- 30. There are two things in life you should not let go - your values and your family / Umran Beba -- 31. If you are not creative in getting solutions and you limit your expectations and outcomes, you are not going to change the world / Antoni Cimolino -- 32. If you are not working for people who inspire you, who are you working for? / Sukhinder Singh Cassidy -- 33. The more I learn, the more exciting my life is and the more opportunities that I see / Dennis (Chip) Wilson -- 34. There is no individual who is ever bigger than the team / George Cope -- 35. I went into public life because I felt that was the place that I could make the biggest contribution / The Right Honourable Paul Martin -- 36. Reflections on the interviews -- 37. Conclusions on learning to lead -- 38. Leadership insights for the next generation of leaders.

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