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Good is the enemy of great. We’ve all seen ample evidence of companies getting good at something, only to then stall, get defensive, and ultimately fail.

Join Admiral Eric Olson on October 10 as he addresses leaders and managers worldwide on Team Building and Leadership in the 21st Century–via satellite and the web.

In this HBS interview, Linda Hill, co-author with Kent Lineback of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, addresses how managing yourself as an individual contributor is light years away from leading others. Great leaders must adopt a way of thinking about how they can influence their people to ever-higher levels of productivity and results.

Admiral Eric Olson — credited with developing the specialized forces that have accomplished some of the most notable military operations of the last decade — knows better than anyone how to get the most out of team members. In this short post on fcw.com, read some of the tips and fundamentals of leadership that Olson offered his audience at the FOSE conference in Washington, DC.

In this short interview, Thomas Kolditz shows how extreme life-and-death situations can offer profound lessons for leaders in any setting