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Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life, and Leadership

By Oprah Winfrey — 2014

During a student-led interview at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Oprah Winfrey shares seminal moments of her career journey and the importance of listening to your instincts. See more...

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Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust

The more traditional forms of leadership that are based on static hierarchies and professional distance between leaders and followers are growing increasingly outdated and ineffective.

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Edgar Schein, Peter Schein
2018
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Forum: Hear Our Voices

Myokei Caine-Barrett, Narayan Helen Liebenson, Rebecca Li, and Myoan Grace Schireson share their experiences and insights into being a female teacher and leader in today’s world.

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Pema Khandro Rinpoche, Grace Schireson, Rebecca Li, Myokei Caine-Barrett, Narayan Helen Liebenson
2020
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Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all too often when we interact with people—especially those who report to us—we simply tell them what we think they need to know. This shuts them down and we may feel disconnected from those around us.

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Edgar Schein
2013
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How Stephen Covey’s ‘The 7 Habits’ Guides Leaders in Times of Challenge and Uncertainty

The 30th-anniversary edition of ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ offers new insight to help us deal with our current challenges.

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Marcel Schwantes
2020
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Principle-Centered Leadership

How do individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve organizations failing despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent on them? How do we unleash creativity, talent, and energy within ourselves—and others—in...

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Stephen Covey
1992
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The Leader in Me: How Schools Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time

In today’s world, we are inundated with information about who to be, what to do, and how to live.

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Stephen Covey, Sean Covey, Muriel Summers, David K. Hatch
2014
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The Values Compass: What 101 Countries Teach Us About Purpose, Life, and Leadership

“The Values Compass takes us into the hearts, minds, and traditions of the cultures and people of the world. It demonstrates how interconnected we are and how the divisions that exist between us stem from acting with narrow self-interest rather than concern for the good of our human family.

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Dr. Mandeep Rai
2020
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The Character Edge: Leading and Winning with Integrity

Character―the moral values and habits of an individual―is in the spotlight now more than perhaps at any other point in modern history. Politicians distort facts. Corporations cheat customers and investors. Athletes are caught using illegal supplements.

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Robert L. Caslen Jr., Michael D. Matthews, Martin Seligman (foreword)
2020
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The Importance of Passion as a Business Leader

Everywhere we go, we see people who are caught doing something that they don’t care about and struggling to get through each day. Not everyone falls into this web, though. For those who are passionate about what they do, work can actually be an exciting and invigorating experience.

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Eugene Gold
2019
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The Authenticity Paradox

Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership. But as INSEAD professor Herminia Ibarra argues, a simplistic understanding of what authenticity means can limit leaders’ growth and impact.

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Herminia Ibarra
2015
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