Cort Dial\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\nGreat Leaders Focus Less on Strategy and More on People\xa0\n\u201cI have a strategic plan\u201d is not a quote we remember Martin Luther King, Jr. saying at the Lincoln Memorial. Great leaders focus less on strategy and more on people.\xa0 They understand how affecting the feelings of people can inspire others to climb the mountain with them.\xa0 Have you ever been told that your ideas weren\u2019t welcome and to focus on your job?\xa0 That\u2019s likely because you are a heretic (soon to be hero), who is on the way to becoming a great leader.\xa0 The world needs you!\xa0 In his book, Heretics to Hero: A Memoir on Modern Leadership, Cort Dial discusses, through storytelling, the leadership lessons he learned throughout a career on skyscrapers and in South American jungles.\n\n\xa0\n\nTo learn more about Cort Dial, his work and his book\xa0Heretics to Hero: A Memoir on Modern Leadership, click here.\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\n\n\xa0\n\nClick here to check out our newest leadership development tool \u2013 LEAD \u2013 Leadership Education and Development\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nSteve Caldwell is an executive mentor and coach to managers and leaders who desire to excel in their career and become the leader others want to follow. Steve is a leadership expert, host of the\xa0Manager Mojo podcast and author of the book\xa0Manager Mojo \u2013 Be the Leader Others Want to Follow. (www.ManagerMojo.com)\n\nSteve also coaches his followers not only on how to become great leaders, but how to effectively coach and lead their employees to find satisfaction and fulfillment from their jobs and life.\n\nHaving started his work career at the savvy age of 13, Steve is also currently CEO of Predictive People Analytics based in San Francisco, CA, a firm specializing in helping leaders increase sales, reduce turnover, and attract key talent. (www.PredictivePeopleAnalytics.com)