Successful organizations have great leaders  

Our Insight:

  • Find a purpose in life so big that it will challenge every capacity to be at your best
  • Organizations with strong leaders achieve a lot more success than ones that do not have them
  • Strong leaders have some similar traits in common

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

Lao Tzu

Why everyone is talking values - and why they should be more than buzzwords     

  

Our Insight:

  • The millennial generation looks for brands to take the lead with value-oriented operational moves and inter-organizational culture
  • Business leaders should ensure their organization's values are clearly communicated to both employees and external stakeholders 

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Relearning the art of asking questions
   
 

 

Our Insight:

  • Choose the right questions to steer the conversation where you want it to go
  • Asking questions requires a certain amount of vulnerability and corporate cultures must shift to promote this behavior

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Why you should encourage naysayers of your best ideas  

 

 

Our Insight:

  • When you communicate with other people, you come to think more similarly to them; this is because in order to understand what they are saying, you have to think like they do
  • Most people start their discussions of opinions that disagree with their own by finding reasons why that conflicting opinion is wrong

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In honor of the challenge of James MacGregor Burns' life work, the beautiful new Presidential Library for George Washington, The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, is hosting a two-day conference on Burns and his contribution to leadership studies. The April 9-10 conference will feature former students, colleagues, and mentees of Burns and will focus on the scholarship and legacy of one of the most influential thinkers on leadership. To apply, email Sean Thomas at sthomas@mountvernon.org. Include your name, institution, degree program, and contact information in your e-mail.  Scholarship requests must be received by Monday, April 6.

 

Read more about the symposium and scholarship opportunities here

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