In Landing in the Executive Chair: How to Excel in the Hot Seat, I described “virtuosos” as those people who distinguish themselves and exemplify E5: excellence, expertise, experience, enterprise, and ethics. Of these five, excellence poses the most challenges for understanding it and attaining it. What makes us excellent? First, we must be aware ofRead more
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What can leaders learn from a wrestling match with Mother Nature? Today marks the 20th anniversary of the second-largest volcanic eruption of the past century and by far the largest eruption to affect a densely populated area, which occurred at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines on June 15, 1991. The eruption produced high-speed avalanches ofRead more
