Grow the Job

Pressure, power, and politics. It doesn’t matter which leadership model you use, eventually, leaders are defined by how well they handle these three issues. The articles below will help you gain an appreciation for what it takes to lead, give you practical insights on how to cultivate a leader’s perspective and deal with tough political situations, and will help you see if you’ve got the stomach to really lead.

Do You Have What It Takes to Lead?

• Fulfill your obligation to be great: The Flower Shop story
• Work/life balance: a recipe for mediocrity
• How can I make myself passionate when I don’t get paid enough?
• Why must leaders have so much passion and energy?
• Are you a gutless turd?
• Humility
• 9 reasons you must be brain damaged to want to be CEO

Readying Yourself

• Stress, pressure, and the Quality Event
• Overcoming your secret fear
• Are you ready to lead?
• 19 books and 1 article every leader should read
• 20 great movies for leaders
• Advice for up-and-coming CIOs… and for other leaders, too
• Adopt a woman’s perspective
• A ridiculously simple metaphor for the #1 thing that what stands in your way

Understanding Politics

• When is a friend not a friend?
• Leadership, patience, and the law of the jungle
• Corporate cowardice and its impact on loyalty
• Ethics: maybe there ain’t no thing?
• You’ve mastered your own fear, now what about theirs?
• In a political environment, how do I know who my friends are?
• How do I work with poilticians?
• Liar, Coward, Politician: the game with no right answer [off site]

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