Mayo615's French Odyssey Week 14: Power & Influence
Channel: Mayo615
Date: 2019-07-01

Hello! 
And welcome to the Week 14 Update of Mayo615’s Odyssey to France and how to turn Big Ideas into Big Realities. This week I am focusing on leadership.
One of my Intel colleagues, a Harvard MBA told me a story of HBS students eager to take John Kotter‘s leadership class, at the time called “Power & Influence.”  The students thought that Kotter’s course would teach them how to become calculating and ruthless. He amusingly remembered that Kotter’s course taught them the exact opposite: managers must first learn to be humble, connect and gain the respect of their colleagues and subordinates, before attempting to lead, or they would be doomed.  Kotter’s book of the same name is filled with case studies of “ruthless” people who failed and those with humility who succeeded. Your takeaway from this week should be that humility predicts effective leadership. Humility is associated with minimizing status differences, listening to subordinates, soliciting input, admitting mistakes and being willing to change course when a plan seems not to work.
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