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The only way to rid the world of bad bossing is to master the skill of great leadership. Every week, On Leading with Greatness will show you how. Join the movement! jimsalvucci.substack.com
Have you ever considered the inherent value of taking action and getting things done? We sometimes refer to comic book heroes as “action heroes,” but do you think action is heroic in and of itself? Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
Leaders understand that justice is a key leadership value and that it must expand beyond mere retribution toward a more holistically just future. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
Leaders know that silence enhances pain, trauma, and injustice. Silence is the tool of the cruel. Leaders stand tall as its sworn enemy. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
The truth is that the player who attempts to bluff always does so from a position of deficiency. You wouldn’t be bluffing if you placed a high bet on, say, a straight or a flush unless you somehow knew for a fact that your opponent held four of a kind. Therefore, bluffing is always a de facto admission of weakness even when the player wins. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
Leadership and writing have some direct parallels, not the least of which is that when done well, people don't notice. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
Slide 321 of the most exhausting PowerPoint I ever sat through taught me almost nothing about advising students—but it accidentally taught me much about leadership. So did a brilliant, infuriating Korean student who could humiliate me with grammar rules but couldn't write a single clean sentence. Both stories point to the same lesson: you can know everything and still not know how to do anything. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
Why do we impose thoughtless, unnecessary, even harmful rules on ourselves and our organizations? Tradition, inertia, inherited habits, the hidebound predecessor whose practices nobody questioned. Over time these ad hoc rules harden into identity—"this is just who we are"—and can even manifest as what I call bureaucratic compulsive disorder.They're garbage rules that squander time, energy, and opportunity while we pretend they're values or identity.This week I draw on Bob Newhart, Viktor Frankl, Bob Dylan, and a hoary tale about a beef roast to make the case for a leadership practice as clean and resolute as the problem demands. The answer is simpler than you think—and harder than it sounds.Great leaders don't ask "what else can we do?" They have a better question ready. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
The leadership gurus I call the nabobs of negativity insist leaders need to learn to say "no" more often. But is the big problem in leadership truly leaders who don't say "no" enough, as the nabobs would have it, or leaders who say "no" too often? Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result isn't insanity, not when it benefits the bosses. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
Abraham Lincoln is often cited as an exemplary president for leaders to emulate. While that's true, his leadership is far more nuanced and complicated than most people realize, and therefore he's a more useful model of leadership. Honest Age is an honest model of leadership. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe
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