Traits and Habits of Great Leaders:
How the best leaders throughout history and across industries differ from the ordinary Interview with Scott S. Smith Scott Smith has had 1,800 articles and interviews published in 190 media, including Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur, Success, Chief Executive, American Airlines’ American Way, United Airlines’ Hemispheres, and Los Angeles Magazine. His focus has been on the practices that distinguish great leaders from the rest and he has interviewed dozens of top CEOs, including Bill Gates, Meg Whitman, Mark Cuban, Larry Ellison, Howard Schultz, Lee Iacocca, Marilyn Carlson Nelson of the Carlson Companies, Whole Foods founder John Mackey, and Richard Branson. He has also talked with a wide variety of other high-achievers, including Stan Lee, Kathy Ireland, Bob Newhart, Dean Koontz, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, civil rights pioneer James Meredith, Kirk Douglas, Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran, former president of Mexico Vicente Fox, and leadership expert Frances Hesselbein. Based on his own experience as the manager of a dozen small companies and wide reading in history, he wrote Extraordinary People: Real Life Lessons on What It Takes to Achieve Success, which included in-depth analysis of the careers of people like Catherine the Great, Ray Charles Anne Rice, Jim Henson, and Simon Bolivar.
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Traits and Habits of Great Leaders w/Scott S Smith | The Nonprofit Exchange: Leadership Tools & Strategies podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
