David Gergen’s legacy, featuring career highlights, leadership quotes, and reflections from prominent leaders on his impact and service.| Triple Crown Leadership
Interview of Don Lombardi, West Metro Fire Chief, by Gregg Vanourek, co-author of Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations, for Leadership Jeffco.| Triple Crown Leadership
Interview of Matthew Malone, President & COO of Graham Corporation, by Gregg Vanourek, co-author of Triple Crown Leadership, for Leadership Jeffco.| Triple Crown Leadership
How you can transform your work and leadership with the power of purpose. Conversation between authors, Gregg Vanourek & Richard Leider,| Triple Crown Leadership
On the five types of people who fuel your passions in life—and the ones who kill them. A meditation on these important influences in our lives.| GREGG VANOUREK
On organizational culture and competitive advantage. Can your company culture be a competitive advantage? How to build it?| Triple Crown Leadership
Why maximizing shareholder value is wrong. Our take on shareholder primacy theory versus stakeholder theory.| Triple Crown Leadership
Go beyond delegation and empowering. Unleash other leaders throughout the organization and build a culture of stewardship.| Triple Crown Leadership
Dialogue is a rarely used but potentially transformative gathering and communication process that can help groups tap into their collective wisdom, bridge divides, and realize new insights.| Triple Crown Leadership
The best way for people to learn leadership is experientially. Give people experience leading. The key: unleashing leaders.| Triple Crown Leadership
How to become a better servant leader, drawing on other leadership frameworks, including our own “triple crown leadership” model.| Triple Crown Leadership
On leader encouragement. What leads should say to their teams, over and over again.| Triple Crown Leadership
A coaching leadership style is on the rise to help organizations be more effective with today’s workers in the current context.| Triple Crown Leadership
No matter what field you work in, you’ll be tested with ethical challenges. Do you speak up and refuse or go along? Be a “voice of one.”| Triple Crown Leadership
The best leaders show leadership versatility. They flex their style between the hard and soft edges of leadership, between steel and velvet.| Triple Crown Leadership
Effective leaders flex between what we call "steel and velvet," the hard and soft edges of leadership, depending on the situation and the people involved.| Triple Crown Leadership
Many people are cynical about an organization’s purpose, values, and vision. Great leaders collaboratively elicit them from the team and weave them into the fabric of the organization.| Triple Crown Leadership
Bob and Gregg Vanourek share how to build a culture of character in an organization, based on their book, Triple Crown Leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
Effective leaders get results by flexing between what we call “steel and velvet,” the hard and soft edges of leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
Many leaders don’t tailor their communication style to the situation. Effective leaders flex between steel and velvet (hard- and soft-edge) communication.| Triple Crown Leadership
Staying stuck in your natural leadership style is a trap. Why and how you need to get beyond your natural leadership style and flex your leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
How one serial CEO and turnaround CEO used different strengths in different phases of his career and life. On using your strengths in life and work and how this can work over time.| Triple Crown Leadership
Wise leaders take the time for self-care through a regimen of daily activities, sanctuary, and retreats. The benefits are enormous.| Triple Crown Leadership
What is your leadership mindset? Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? What are your self-conceptions and beliefs?| Triple Crown Leadership
How to set goals effectively. What's missing?| Triple Crown Leadership
Many people struggle with finding their purpose. It can be intimidating and confusing. Where to begin? What is purpose? How to discover it?| GREGG VANOUREK
Many leaders are too focused on providing answers and not enough on asking great questions. On the benefits of asking questions, plus great questions leaders should ask themselves and their direct reports—and about other stakeholders.| Triple Crown Leadership
Leadership for the long haul. Long-term leadership. Sustainable leadership. Enduring leadership that gets great results ethically.| Triple Crown Leadership
On leadership and excellence. Leadership and the excellence imperative. “Triple crown leadership” seeks excellent, ethical, enduring results.| Triple Crown Leadership
The most important aspect of leadership is integrity, because everything else leaders do flows from it. On integrity in leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
Good leaders make sure they don’t talk too much. They listen more and listen well. On the benefits of being a better listener and the best practices of listening, including how to build a culture of listening.| Triple Crown Leadership
Early in my business career, I was a loner. I never connected with colleagues. Here's why leaders can't be loners. And how to connect.| Triple Crown Leadership
Are you more of a giver or taker? Too focused on yourself? On ego versus service and focusing on ourselves versus something bigger.| Triple Crown Leadership
There is immense power in small groups. But not just any small group. On the benefits of being in a small group--and best practices in running them.| Triple Crown Leadership