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This blog about Mary Szela, SVP at Abbott’s Global Strategic Marketing & Services and Pharmaceutical Products Group, defines an effective leader as recounted from Jim Collins’ book Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don't, which introduces a new leadership vocabulary – Level 5 leadership.
Through the years, many have raved about the fundamentals of effective leadership and most of them have a CEO-centric view of the corporate world. But there’s more to leadership than meets the eye. Leaders possess executive capabilities which determine their effectiveness to lead the company toward sustained success.
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Collins states that effective leaders are the Level 5 leaders who are able to move their companies from mediocrity to a sustained excellence through humility and will. Leaders like Mary Szela believe that the Level 5 leadership reaps rewards beyond monetary such as employee loyalty and good teamwork.
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Contrary to popular belief, Level 5 leaders aren’t that larger than life, heroic figures. They are humble yet willful leaders who put the company’s welfare first before feeding their own ego. They understand that leadership is not for them but for the long-term interest of the company of which they are only just a part. They may be humble, but they’re not the wallflower type. They’ll do what it takes to elevate the company from good to great no matter how painful it will be.
To learn more about Mary Szela and the strategies for effective leadership, go to MarySzela.Livejournal.com.
