Author: asalvador

Jurgen Klopp, the recently-retired German-born manager of Liverpool, is a standout leader. Here are four leadership lessons from his glittering career: Self-awareness. Klopp started as a player, but quickly worked out that his superpower was coaching: “I had fourth-division feet and a first-division head.” Adopting an aggressive mindset. Klopp is a proponent of Gegenpressing, a […]

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Leadership is mostly a public vocation, but its best work is performed in quiet, private moments. Such a moment was captured in the Netflix documentary, Captains Of The World – when the Croatian captain Luka Modrić had a fireside chat with his world class goalkeeper, Dominik Livakovic. Livakovic was going through a woeful patch of […]

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Life won’t give you what you want, it’ll give you what you’re prepared to fight for. So more important than what you wish for, is what you’re prepared to settle for. Don’t settle for anything less than your highest vision. Ever. Success is mostly grit. […]

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Great leaders are comfortable with the expression of emotion. How dull we would be without emotions. We would be no better than cold, calculating robots. If people cry in a meeting, don’t brush the emotion away. Embrace it. Hold their hand, sit with it, absorb it. We are all intrinsically emotional beings. Sadly, only some […]

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Culture matters. It matters immensely. Here’s why. Great companies are not the companies that do everything well. Those companies don’t exist. Great companies are the ones that are constantly identifying problems and solving them. In the early 1990’s, a young researcher named Amy Edmondson – now a Harvard Professor – was studying the performance of […]

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Please don’t be timid. A leader is not a leader unless they are bold. Don’t squander the power you’ve been given by conforming to the lazy fashions of the day. Don’t shrink, don’t hide, don’t blend. Be a light on a hill. Stand up for what you believe in. Hold at least some views that […]

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A note to young leaders. Confidence is a thing of beauty, quintessential to the vocation of leadership. The most confident people don’t have big egos. Where you see ego, know that it almost always spells insecurity and fear. It’s humility, not pride, that is the ultimate expression of self-confidence. Humility is being equally at ease […]

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Leaders are dreamers. When I interview, I often ask: So, tell me, what’s the dream? What’s a cause you feel passionate about? Where do you want to be in 10-years from today? Most people struggle to answer these questions. They either don’t have a dream, or they lack the courage to clearly articulate it. Human […]

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