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goal. Today’s leaders often reinvent themselves periodically in order to scale new mountains. We sometimes feel that we are at l ...
Ed was born of working-class parents in Brooklyn, New York. Smart, ambitious, determined to succeed, he went to work in a factor ...
About the time Ed began getting restless, a family-owned firm in the same industry was looking for new blood. The CEO, the grand ...
his life, Ed ran into something he couldn’t tough his way through. Some members of the family board told Baxter that Ed was too ...
ambitious, but he was also a tyrant. He was impulsive and frequently abusive of people who worked for him. They would actually c ...
While he had needed someone like Ed to help him run the business, he had known that the board was right: the business that had b ...
(meaning imagination and creativity), judgment and taste, and character. It wasn’t just the people skills, as they had originall ...
which he also directed. In 1959, Lear and Bud Yorkin founded Tandem Productions, which produced and packaged TV spe- cials with ...
programs. In 1974–1975, five of the top ten shows were Lear’s. In November 1986, five of the top nine off-network sitcoms in syn ...
life is the stuff of which TV shows and movies are made. His accomplishments prove, beyond a doubt, the efficacy of full self-ex ...
such-and-such.’ I ran down the four flights of stairs to the brass mailbox to pick up the mail each day. Every once in a while m ...
when a new show didn’t become a hit right away. Thanks to Lear’s success, other worthy shows were given a second chance: It is n ...
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2 Understanding the Basics As we survey the path leadership theory has taken, we spot the wreckage of “trait theory,” the “great ...
know where you’re going, and why, you cannot possibly get there. That guiding purpose, that vision, was well il- lustrated by No ...
cupola lacks professional integrity, as does any person who trims his or her principles—or even ideas—to please. Like Lillian He ...
weekend seminar, as many of the leadership-theory spokesmen claim. I’ve come to think of that one as the micro wave theory: pop ...
to the top; Roosevelt and Kennedy, driven by ambitious and powerful parents, worldly but conventional, remaking them- selves and ...
Just as Roosevelt and Kennedy made themselves new, and therefore independent and free, Johnson and Nixon were used goods, no mat ...
president” largely because of his winning manner even when faced with the Iran-contra scandal and a stock market plunge, on Octo ...
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