Posted on 07/20/2015 9:58:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After spending decades as Wall Street darlings, arrogant business leaders are out of fashion. The new hotness for CEOs these days? Displaying humility, self-awareness and honesty.
In this new world, a good leader doesn’t brag about his "TEN BILLION DOLLARS," as Donald Trump's campaign did last week. A good leader doesn’t rank his workers and fire the bottom 10 percent each year, as revered General Electric CEO Jack Welch did back in the day. The new CEOs project humility. They apologize when they screw up. They admit when they don’t know something, and they empathize with their workers and treat them decently.
Wild, right?
“You have to be real and authentic. It requires having strong character,” the former CEO of Medtronic, Bill George, told The Huffington Post. “The Donald Trumps of the world, they make it in politics, not business.”
Since declaring his intention to seek the Republican nomination for president last month, Trump has been out on the campaign trail, touting his leadership skills and experience. But for the most part, the business world has actually moved past his autocratic style. The shift has happened gradually over the past few years, in part because the financial crisis bred a deep mistrust for overly confident leaders and in part because social media has made it much easier to call out a boss for arrogance or wrongdoing....
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“You have to be real and authentic. It requires having strong character,”
Unlike every Republican leader that is afraid of his own shadow.
He doesn’t need to, but California is finding better ways using Obamacare to confiscate private wealth. That was my point.
Arrogance is outdated?
Has anybody told Obama?
Or Hillary!?
Or any DIM politician, for that matter?
That’s wishful thinking, Emily. Try to come back to reality.
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