Discover how to be a great leader today. The former president of ford and chrysler warns. At worse, the use of iacocca was misleading and disingenuous
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Lee iacocca believed that leaders are made in times of crisis The authors review the emerging literature on these new styles—ideological leadership, pragmatic leadership, authentic leadership, ethical leadership, spiritual leadership, distributed leadership, and integrative public leadership—as well as the recent work on servant leadership. In december 2019 i took a look at lee iacocca’s leadership style and learned about his 9 cs of leadership (from pages 6 to 10 in his book where have all the leaders gone The cs are traits or actions iacocca thought a leader must have or be able to perform.
At the end of 1970, iacocca was appointed ford’s president by henry ford ii, the son of the company’s founder However, they soon started to clash due to different leadership styles, and ford ii eventually paid $1.5 million in company funds to investigate lee’s professional and private life. There you have it the 9 c’s of leadership If we develop these traits we will become excellent leaders
Lee iaccoca is no longer with us but through his words we can find inspiration to be the best leader we can become
The views expressed here are my own and do not represent my organization. Lee iacocca's book “where have all the leaders gone?” came out in 2007, but his “nine c’s of leadership,” are more relevant today than ever
