What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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If you had the chance to talk to hundreds of business leaders at the top of their game, what habits and patterns would you learn? Adam Bryant has done just that. He's the senior managing director of the ExCo Group and founded the “Corner Office” interview series at The New York Times. Along the way, he has identified the mindset and attributes that the world's best leaders have acquired to truly influence and change their organizations. He shares what they are and how to develop them in your own career. Bryant wrote the HBR article “The Leap to Leader” as well as the book The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership.

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0:30.0	Welcome to the HBR idea cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:41.0	I'm Kurt Nickish.
0:42.0	There's a memorable interview with the CEO that I read in the New York Times years ago.
0:53.0	It was with Duke Energy's James E. Rogers.
0:56.0	In it, he talked about how his reports would delegate up.
1:00.0	With email, he said, it's just so easy to pass decisions along to him.
1:06.0	And he would sometimes simply respond, your call.
1:10.0	I remember that more than a decade later.
1:12.0	There's a lot of leadership maturity in being able to say to your team, your call,
1:17.0	to allow them to make decisions for the organization and to live with them.
1:22.0	That is just one of many insights that Adam Bryant has won from interviews over the years.
1:28.0	He wrote the corner office interview series for the Times,
1:32.0	and has interviewed hundreds more people for his new book, The Leap to Leader,
1:36.0	How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership.
1:39.0	He says that the most underappreciated aspect of becoming a senior leader is that it demands a new way of thinking,
1:46.0	a mindset shift with a careful plan around that.
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