There are piles and piles written on this subject. Harvard Business Review is just full of research and essays on it. Every now and then, an article like this surfaces, a "case study" that is the result of survivorship bias - a description of one or two people that succeeded, their "advice", and values. What I think the community of entrepreneurs needs, is a more methodical research and insights taken from much larger samples. See for example Roger Martin's "Fixing the Game".
CEOs Don’t Come Pre-Made. Authentic Leadership Has To Be Learned
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#32The last thing and skill that 99% of today's fascist corporate CEO's want to do is practice leadership. Their main skill is the con. Conning their way into their positions, and then using the resulting power to eliminate any potential rivals. That is what 99% of today's CEO spend their time on. Talking about leadership is kind of like salving their ego's to convince themselves they provide any value at all to the social equation.
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#33I thought there would be more content in an article with that title. I don't think that good leaders need to learn how to be authentic or how to appear authentic to others. I think that educated, intelligent, capable, ethical and self-confident people are naturally authentic in that they aren't so insecure as to try to hide their errors and are wise enough to know that insincere speech or behavior will be detected an…
"The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that, that you can do anything."
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#34I really like this article. It reinforces my belief that the best companies are run by genuinely good people with genuinely good intentions - in other words, that the idea of business as dominated by sleaze and cynicism is either a myth or a partial and declining truth. The section "Nix multi-task listening" really struck a chord for me. It can be challenging to really focus on listening to someone, especially if you…
The article is more wishful thinking than science, though.