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
Web site for the book, Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations, by Bob and Gregg Vanourek.| 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
Article Summary: Leaders these days face daunting challenges in navigating chaos and uncertainty while keeping their teams focused and aligned. Practical strategies to help leaders adapt effectively and lead through turbulent times with clarity and confidence. +++ Leading through chaos and uncertainty is challenging for any leader. Rapid change, unexpected disruptions, and pervasive anxiety can ... Read more The post Leading through Chaos and Uncertainty appeared first on Triple Crown Leade...| Triple Crown Leadership
How can you take your leadership from bad to better? What are the best ways to elevate your leadership? Dr. Barbara Kellerman, Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, is a prominent scholar of bad leadership (including both poor performance and unethical behavior). In her book, Bad Leadership: What It Is, How ... Read more The post Elevating Your Leadership appeared first on Triple Crown Leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
Too often, we focus on leaders while neglecting the critical role that followers play in teams, organizations, institutions, and nations. These days, we face major problems with bad leadership, so we’re wise to address what followers can do about bad leaders. In her book, Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters ... Read more The post What Followers Can Do about Bad Leaders appeared first on Triple Crown Leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
7 types of bad leadership according to Dr. Barbara Kellerman, including a Bad Leadership Assessment and 4 phases of going from bad to worse| Triple Crown Leadership
The telltale qualities and behaviors of toxic leaders, the psychological factors that make people follow and stick with them, and what we can do about toxic leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
On leadership learning: why learning is essential for effective leadership, with practical strategies for leaders to make learning an integral part of their lives.| 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 organizational culture and competitive advantage. Can your company culture be a competitive advantage? How to build it?| Triple Crown Leadership
16 key ethical leadership practices for prioritizing ethics when leading people. Too often leaders focus almost exclusively on performance while neglecting people considerations. Big mistake.| Triple Crown Leadership
Ethical decision-making is a cornerstone of effective leadership. 22 ways ethical leaders approach decision-making.| Triple Crown Leadership
How you can become an ethical leader. What are the signs of ethical leadership in action—the things that ethical leaders do that others don’t? A list of top individual ethical leadership practices.| 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
Donald Trump is an unconventional leader. Few people know he’s operating from the leadership playbook of his former fixer, Roy Cohn. And with big implications. Here Gregg Vanourek looks at the Donald Trump leadership playbook from a leadership perspective.| Triple Crown Leadership
We have too many toxic leaders in our workplaces, communities, and nations. What are their characteristics? Why do so many people follow them willingly? What makes an environment conducive for them to capture and maintain power?| Triple Crown Leadership
Do workplaces have a role to play in supporting democracy and promoting civic engagement? Yes. 10 ways businesses and nonprofits can bolster democracy.| 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
Trust is essential in leadership--and in all relationships. When you have trust, it changes everything. On trust and leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
What are the essential qualities of servant leadership? Here we summarize Robert Greenleaf’s ideas and add our own thoughts.| 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
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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
Bob Vanourek is co-author of Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations.| Triple Crown Leadership
With this Alignment Scorecard, you can assess your organization’s level of alignment and make plans for improving it.| 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
For leaders, there are many benefits of self-awareness, both for themselves and for their followers, teams, and organizations. 21 examples of how self-awareness can elevate leadership.| Triple Crown Leadership
The consequences of leaders lacking self-awareness, and a case study of what happens when leaders lack self-awareness| 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
It’s hard to be a good leader if you’re a dominating talker. 19 practices for how to become a better listener.| Triple Crown Leadership
Today we have a dearth of courageous leaders. The telltale actions of courageous leaders in 3 areas: general actions, moral courage, fostering courage in the organization.| 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 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
All leaders confront ethical challenges. Many people take ethical leadership for granted. Leadership and the ethics imperative.| 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
Take our Leadership Derailers Assessment to identify what's inhibiting your leadership effectiveness, and then get to work on improving.| 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
Personal Values Exercise| Triple Crown Leadership