The rarest commodity is leadership without ego: Bob Davids at TEDxESCP

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  1. *The rarest commodity is leadership without ego: Bob Davids at TEDxESCP*

  2. Esther Almuni Tapias

    Thanks to much for your talk, I like a lot you are very calm and very sweet
    person, I like Ghandi like you and I consider He was an exemplar person who
    pacifically could organisate a big revolution and He fought for obtaining
    freedom
    Thanks so much for this talk from Catalonia opressed by Spain, we are
    fighting too pacifically and democratily but Spain don’t let us be
    independent, we’ll need a president with any kind of ego
    Thanks to much

    He talks about management and leadership.
    in 1960 was written a book called ” up to organisation ” that changed the
    life of Bob
    it’s about a leadership cultivated without ego
    Management is control but only we control,quality, time and money but they
    have the same importance one with the other
    but with people is very different we need a leadership. The leadership
    doesn’t have to obligate people only have to lead people without any
    pressure
    His favourite leader was Ghandi motivate people with peaceful manners, for
    him is powerful
    Power comes when people you are leading give you support.
    leadership is a gift you can’t buy it, you can’t sell it and so on if you
    have talent you could develop you as a leader

  3. BANG BANG

  4. Christine Jayme chrstnjayme

    Too many managers.. The world is short of leaders.. 

  5. Brilliant insights into real leadership and one of the key characteristics
    demonstrated by the presenter – humility

  6. WOW you are ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! You’re AWESOME!!!

  7. The problem we got today is plain simple. There is no difference anymore
    between managers and leaders it’s simply the same position in a company. It
    all ends up in getting a “fresh” manager from the university with dumb
    theroies that will never work out in reality. On top of that he have to
    lead and isnt able to. Leading is a very complex job and you need a lot of
    social expertise and experience to do it right and get a good result. And
    yes, this kind of leaders is nearly died out. Practice makes perfect, and
    for the managers today, the practice is the theory they get at university,
    so: NO PRACTICE. As a logical result they have to suck at leadership (or
    military slang: honor), its something you have to earn its not something
    you will learn or magically get from people.

  8. gabrielle secretpocket

    If all leaders in the world would have the characters that were mentioned
    the world would surely be in order and in peace.
    “You need to be in touch with the people you lead and to be in their
    shoes…”

  9. The true essence of what the differenve of management and leaserahip. A
    must watch for everyone. 

  10. Leadership is the most necessary and rarest commodity we have

  11. Mohamad Aizat Zakaria

    Leadership without ego is already shown by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). You
    just can read his biography. No other leader on this planet can equal him.
    He not just show great leadership to his companion, but even how to eat,
    drink and even sleep. Because all words that comes from him is a prophecy.

  12. The best advice i ever received . If you want to be a leader , respect the
    people you work with 

  13. mba2ceo – not sure why you have resulted to name calling. Most only use
    this form of argument when they have no others. Hitler was not a great
    leader. Under Bob’s premise, you give the power back to your people and
    they give you more. AH didn’t do that. His end result was also less than
    favorable. In reading your comments, you have some glaring blind spots.
    It would benefit you to revisit the content of this presentation.

  14. They should of had this tim larkins guy speak

  15. i am currently training to be a manager and always thought I would do it
    differently to any way I’ve been managed and he has just hit the nail on
    the head of my beliefs and ideas I have had to achieve this and reinforced
    them even more, really glad i watched this

  16. LEARN TO GIVE THE POWER BACK TO THE PEOPLE

    *Leadership Without Ego*

    Bob Davids is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has now headed six
    major company start-ups. Davids’ engaging discussion explores the dynamics
    of leadership. He was hugely inspired by Robert Townsend’s ‘Up the
    Organization’ and learned that the commodity most needed in business is
    leadership without ego.

    TO THINK ABOUT:

    Management and leadership are two different things.
    Management is about control and you can control only 3 things really:

    1.) Quality
    2.) Time
    3.) Money

    A leader should always give power back that he receives from his followers.
    If people give a leader power back and he takes steadily power from them,
    one day he will fail totally in his leadership.

    What does that mean in reality?

    When a leader gets power from his Twitter followers (mentions and RTs), he
    should give this power back. He should show a real interest in his
    followers, should interact with them, should mention them and RT them, with
    empathy and care. Good leadership is not about exaggerated interaction, but
    about well-thought-out interaction that makes sense and that appreciates
    the followers in a grateful way.

    “Any leader who doesn’t support the heart of evolving humanity is not a
    leader worthy of being followed.” ~ Vanna Bonta

    #leadershipwithoutego #leadership #humanity #empathy #Twitter 

  17. Bob Davids~ Good talk at 3:43 am

  18. Ibraheem Almasri

    Leadership is a gift!

  19. Leadership is a gift

  20. *Leadership: Leading Without Ego*

    Great talk of Bob Davids. 

  21. Valais 2020 / Region 2020 - think tank

    la commodité la plus recherchée: le leadership sans ego

  22. Great talk by Bob Davids on egoless leadership.

    TEDxESCP – Bob Davids: The rarest commodity is leadership without ego!

  23. Well you’re a professional coach. Mr. Davids meant that empathy is the
    single most valuable element within successful leadership because it can’t
    be commoditized or taught, it must be “given,” as in to yourself through a
    combination of life-occurrences and character, and essential to most human
    endeavors therefore it is rare. Management on the other hand can be taught
    as it doesn’t require any leadership. Why aspire to teach leadership when
    you want to teach people to succeed at management?

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