John Bowie
Keys to the Boardroom: The Soft Skills of Leadership
"The way I contribute most isn’t by developing brilliant strategies myself, but rather by getting groups of people to work together."
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John Bowie
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
Keys to the Boardroom: Inspiring Your Team
As a leader, your job is to bring them together as a team and to inspire them to solve the hard problems.
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John Bowie
- Oct 17, 2020
- 2 min
Keys to the Boardroom: Getting Comfortable with Ignorance
New managers, especially, may adopt the false belief that management is about knowing more than your direct reports and exerting control.
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John Bowie
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Keys to the Boardroom: Letting Go Your Last Competency
You must forget about being the best engineer now and worry about being the best manager of engineers, a totally different skillset.
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John Bowie
- Oct 8, 2020
- 2 min
Keys to the Boardroom: You Are Not What You Do
You must replace your belief that you are your ideas and your results with another belief. A belief in your values.
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John Bowie
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Keys to the Boardroom: Let Go Your Ego
The most successful CEOs do not derive their self-worth from their ideas and achievements.
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John Bowie
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Keys to the Boardroom: Getting Noticed
To get noticed and promoted, you need to look around, find problems, pick them up, and solve them.
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John Bowie
- Sep 27, 2020
- 2 min
Keys to the Boardroom: Getting Passed Over
One of the most discouraging experiences is being passed over for a promotion that you think you deserve.
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John Bowie
- Sep 25, 2020
- 4 min
Keys to the Boardroom: The Virtues of Nearsightedness
There are dangers associated with setting your sights on distant targets. Sometimes you become too obsessed with long-range plans.
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John Bowie
- Sep 18, 2020
- 3 min
Keys to the Boardroom: The Wrong Question
Steve asked the wrong question, focusing exclusively on what he wanted to be.
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John Bowie
- Sep 14, 2020
- 4 min
Keys to the Boardroom: The Accidental CEO
Career success, a CEO will tell you, must never be your goal. Career success is achieved only as the by-product of accomplishing other goals
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John Bowie
- Sep 11, 2020
- 3 min
Keys to the Boardroom: Opportunity or Destiny?
Once you find the courage to abandon the opportunities and return to your destiny, your energy and enthusiasm will flourish.
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John Bowie
- Sep 9, 2020
- 7 min
Keys to the Boardroom: About this Blog
The Success Recipe Myth At the close of the 20th Century, I got the idea that I would write a book about CEOs who rose to the top of the...
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