ECONOMICS - 5 Leadership Lessons for Today's Executive

The poster of 12 O'clock High, the 1949 Gregory Peck-led vehicle centering on the underperforming 918th Bomber Group, hangs framed in my Aveksa office. This is not because of its reputation as one of the best WWII films to emerge from the glut of late 1940's war-centric cinema, but as a constant reminder of the timeless lessons of leadership the film triumphed. Through juxtaposing the leaderships styles of Colonel Davenport and Brigadier General Frank Savage, 12 O'clock High explored what it meant to be an effective leader of troops. Its lessons, which I will explore in this week's column, can be translated from the harrowing skies above WWII Europe to the (significantly less dangerous) modern workplace.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vickvaishnavi/2013/04/11/5-leadership-less