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Chapter from: "Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others"
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Published in: 2011

Abstract

Your identity as an executive-level leader is dependent on the environment you create within your organization: you can't separate out your success or failure from the people you lead or the culture you've engendered. In this chapter, Justin Menkes, a noted expert in executive assessment, profiles a maestro CEO - Dave Dillon, head of supermarket giant Kroger - showing how Dillon's organization exemplifies the ongoing interactive system great leaders cocreate with their people. In his leadership, Dillon demonstrates the three attributes necessary to a great leader and how they have transformed both his organization and Dillon himself: realizing potential, subservience to purpose, and finding order in chaos. These are the attributes you need to succeed as a great leader in the high-pressure global economy of the twenty-first century. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 8 of ‘Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others.’ This chapter is excerpted from ‘Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others'.

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Abstract

Your identity as an executive-level leader is dependent on the environment you create within your organization: you can't separate out your success or failure from the people you lead or the culture you've engendered. In this chapter, Justin Menkes, a noted expert in executive assessment, profiles a maestro CEO - Dave Dillon, head of supermarket giant Kroger - showing how Dillon's organization exemplifies the ongoing interactive system great leaders cocreate with their people. In his leadership, Dillon demonstrates the three attributes necessary to a great leader and how they have transformed both his organization and Dillon himself: realizing potential, subservience to purpose, and finding order in chaos. These are the attributes you need to succeed as a great leader in the high-pressure global economy of the twenty-first century. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 8 of ‘Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others.’ This chapter is excerpted from ‘Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others'.

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