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How to get more great leaders into government
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[Washington Post] - By Tom Fox, The Washington Post. Geoff Smart is the chairman and CEO of ghSMART, a leadership firm for CEOs and investors. He is the author of leadership books and a social entrepreneur who sees his mission as creating, communicating and putting into
New York Times bestsellers
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[Minneapolis Star Tribune] - LEADOCRACY, by Geoff Smart. (Greenleaf, $ ) The author encourages the movement of outstanding private sector leaders into government and offers strategies for helping them get there. (b). Rankings reflect sales for the week that ended July 7 at
Calm, cool and collected: The mindful leader
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[Globe and Mail] - In Leadocracy (Greenleaf, 163 pages, $20.50), recruiting consultant Geoff Smart calls for more business people to bring their skills to government, and to sign a pledge he has devised in which they promise to spend a two-year stint in government before
Book excerpt: Choosing better government leaders
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[Denver Post] - John Hickenlooper reached out to leadership selection expert Geoff Smart for help in putting together a Cabinet. The two ended up creating The Leaders Initiative, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is "to identify, develop and deploy society's
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