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In case you haven't seen it, the new 'Hub TV' clip is brilliant - How to start a movement. It's leadership lessons from a You Tube clip of people dancing at an outdoor concert. Click on 'Leadership lessons from Dancing Guy' in the righthand column of this page, where it says 'Hub TV'.

Here's an edited version of the wonderful Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (bought recently by Amazon's Jeff Bezos). It's a three minute video on Meet The Boss TV, a new free service that I think has its value proposition the wrong way around. It offers the edited version of videos, like this one, openly, but makes you register to watch the 'full version' at 18 minutes long. Listen carefully, Meet The Boss owners, if you stumble across this - It's in the editing that the value is.

Latest research from the Centre for High Performance Development suggests consumption of chocolate is linked to leadership success. Click here for the findings.

PS The stuff on Conceptual Flexibility, Teamwork, Empathy you will find there is also useful and only takes a minute to read

Some of the below is adapted from the free sample book summary from bizsum.com - take a look here if you want to consider signing up for their summaries, which are very good. The rest of the summary, below, I added in myself.

Only room here for a few learning points from the book, so if you've read Good to Great yourself, why not add a point that you found powerful, using the comments section, below.

It's that time of year when we look back on what for many has been a tough year and look forward to what kind of leadership we think will be most effective next year. We all lean towards a particular form of leadership, I think. My preference is for servant leadership models, dispersed leadership, leadership that brings people together around a common purpose.

But we all know that you need different forms of leadership in different situations.