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On Leading with Greatness

Dr. Jim Salvucci

The only way to rid the world of bad bossing is to master the skill of great leadership. Every week, On Leading with Greatness will show you how. Join the movement! jimsalvucci.substack.com

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In a Zero-Sum World, Everyone’s a Loser

On Leading with Greatness ·

2022/01/13

Do you remember that kid in the playground? You know, the one who had to be the winner every time no matter what. This is the kid who cheated at tag, who pushed the other kids off the monkey bars, who boasted — in the absence of all evidence — about zipping down the sliding board faster than anyone … ever. This is the kid who altered the rules and lied constantly for nothing more than bragging rights. Perhaps you lost a race or two to the nearest tree with this kid when you didn’t even know you were

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6:35

Lies My Bosses Told Me

On Leading with Greatness ·

2022/01/06

Those of you who regularly read my essays will know that I can be a wee bit cynical about bosses and the general state of bossing in our world. It is not that I think all bosses are bad — after all, I spent many years as a boss — but over decades I have had a series of bosses that ran from utterly mediocre to galactically bad with one major exception. It just doesn’t have to be this way. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,

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9:25

Stuff Your Ego in a Sack and Throw It in the...

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/12/30

Because of the holiday season, I am reposting this revised version of an essay from December 31st, 2020. It encourages you to commit the act of egocide over and over again. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe

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7:46

Human Decency Is a Superpower

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/12/23

Because of the holiday season, I am reposting this revised version of an essay from December 24th, 2020. It addresses the theme of human decency and demonstrates that decency can be, in its simplest form, superhuman. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe

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6:54

Soviet Nails

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/12/16

Goodhart's law states that “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Put another way, when we set a performance measure as a goal or a bar to hit, people and organizations tend to find ways to achieve that measure without regard for whether their performance or production is truly effective, beneficial, or even desirable. Goodhart’s law has to do with unintended consequences. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to

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7:25

BCD: Bureaucratic Compulsive Disorder

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/12/09

The other day I went to visit my father in St. Agonistes Hospital about five hours from my home, where I got to witness a clear manifestation of BCD or Bureaucratic Compulsive Disorder, an affliction that compels organizations to do irrational things for their own sake. My dad has unfortunately been at St. Agonistes a lot in the past year, so I am familiar with their Covid protocols for visitors, which apparently have not changed much in the face of changes in our understanding of the virus and its

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7:27

Leaders Relate

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/12/02

The sheer quantity of articles and quotations on the subject of leadership is impressive. Lots of people over lots of years have offered lots of advice — in the form of adages, axioms, and maxims — but, as with any human endeavor, the results are decidedly mixed. Some leadership aphorisms are wise and pithy while most are banal or overwrought. More than a few are outright stupid or misleading.Frankly, I have been feeling a bit left out of the leadership aphorism party that seems to take place all

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6:45

Just Decent Is More Than Enough -- An Encore Episode

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/11/25

Because of the Thanksgiving Holiday, I am reposting this revised version of the first essay in my series, from October 1st, 2020. It articulates the essence of what I see as the only hope for improved leadership and healthy workplaces: human decency. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe

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5:28

How to Become Self-Aware of Self-Delusion

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/11/18

How, she wondered, could she appraise her own performance and be assured that she was not just fooling herself? After all, by definition, a delusion is an inability to process the world as it is. It is a deceit. How could she know that she was not deceiving herself? How could anyone in a position of authority be truly self-aware?Her friend thought for a few long minutes before replying, “By asking that question.”It’s not the most satisfying answer — I’ll grant you that — but it is a good answer

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7:23

What All Workers Want

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/11/11

We are hearing a good deal about the Great Resignation, the phenomenon of a surprising number people dropping out of the workforce since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. Many pundits and employers have claimed that people have stayed away from work because of pandemic unemployment benefits expansion. Others have noted fears of Covid in the workplace and childcare needs complicated by Covid. Still others have figured that Covid has given some folks the opportunity to dream big, to stretch

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6:44

On Culture, Change, and Culture Change

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/11/04

The culture of any organization can seem immutable to those within it. That is certainly the case in higher education. Many colleges, like many organizations of all stripes, tend to view their cultures as almost sacrosanct, as though they can never, will never, and should never change. I know I lost out on several university dean jobs when, during my interview, I offered observations of culture and the need to innovate. I even had a slideshow on the subject to support my presentations to faculty and

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6:02

Two Sides, One Coin

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/10/28

What is the point of regret?To make heads or tails of regret, we will have to differentiate regret from guilt. Guilt has to do with past action or inaction we had some choice or informed agency over whereas regret refers to past action or inaction that we could neither predict nor control.So, properly understood, regret has to do with consequences from past action or inaction that we had no control over and cannot correct. In this way it has much in common with its counterpart, worry. Get full

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7:10

And the “My Best Boss” Award Goes To…

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/10/21

Who is the best boss you ever had? What made that person such a good boss? I am lucky in that the best boss I ever had was actually quite a good boss. I am unlucky in that — even taking into account my teenaged years — the contest for the best boss I ever had was not particularly competitive. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe

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6:52

There Is a Last Time for Everything

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/10/14

Death is the mother of beauty.Wallace StevensSteven’s observation is in line with the Stoic concept of momento mori, a practice in which the contemplation of mortality leads to greater appreciation of that and those which we value. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe

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Clocks: The Little Dictators on Our Walls

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/10/07

Cocks everywhere, the little dictators of our lives. We wear them on our wrists, consult them on our phones, and squint up at them as they tower over our towns. Think about it. A clock of all things, Big Ben, is one of the most potent symbols of Great Britain. And don’t get me going about Prague. Get full access to On Leading With Greatness at jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe

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Critical Thinking & Thinking Hard

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/09/30

I want to differentiate critical thinking from what I call “thinking hard.” Both critical thinking and thinking hard require a degree of smarts and effort, but only critical thinking is rigorous in the truest sense of that word. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe

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The Lucky 13 Guide to Communication (Written and Oral)

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/09/23

This one is on effective oral and written communication, but what I offer are not rules. They are more like guides, mere suggestions, helpful hints, noodgy nudges, and the like. After all, rules just beg to be broken. For instance, consider my personal rule that I don’t write listicles. So take that, rules! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimsalvucci.substack.com/subscribe

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6:02

Gosh, It Happens

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/09/16

The human species is both blessed and cursed with an impressive power of recall. Recall allows us to review the past, searching for wins to replicate and losses to learn from. When we contemplate the present and future, sequences — the order of things — are difficult to ascertain or predict with any accuracy, but in scanning the past we can often easily see connections that escaped us at the time. We may notice that action B resulted from action A or that more activity in this particular venue at a

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5:53

Goin’ to the Crossroads

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/09/09

The great Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson (1911-1938) was a revolutionary guitarist with a wicked way with words. While he still has a living stepsister who published a captivating memoir last year, much is not known about his life and death. Johnson’s prodigious musical powers in combination with his short life and enigmatic biography have naturally generated much lore, one tale being his visit to the crossroads. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other

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The Snowball Effect

On Leading with Greatness ·

2021/09/02

Have you ever worked with a liar? I mean someone who just could not resist the urge to exaggerate, fabricate, fib, and prevaricate throughout the day. I am not talking about someone who has a diagnosable condition that compels them to lie. Nor am I concerned with someone whose grasp of reality is so tenuous that they cannot distinguish it from fiction. I mean someone who chooses to lie so much that it becomes almost an instinct, a mindless habit, like nail biting or Facebook. This is a public

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