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The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell

2002· book· en· W567792838 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Oren Harari

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMilitary History and Strategy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNothingBureaucracyNewspaperFace (sociological concept)State (computer science)Political scienceHistoryManagementMedia studiesLawSociologyPoliticsComputer scienceSocial sciencePhilosophyEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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In the tradition of books like Get Better or Get Beaten and What It Takes to Be no.1, comes Oren Harari's Leadership Secrets from Colin Powell. Colin Powell is one of the most recognizable and highly regarded leaders in the world. As secretary of state, his face appears on the front page of hundreds of newspapers across the world several times per week. Colin Powell is nothing less than a classic American success story. The son of immigrants, Powell was born in Harlem and grew up in the South Bronx. After stints in Korea, Vietnam and Germany he made his most important marks in the Pentagon bureaucracy, and became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before becoming secretary of state in 2001. His biography, My American Journey, earned out its 6.5 million dollar advance (according to the op. ed. editor of The New York Times). This book will be modeled after Get Better or Get Beaten, with 20-22 short chapters (18 of those devoted to the leadership secrets), with several subheads per chapter, and Powell Rules at the end of each chapter. Sample chapters include: Don't be afraid to push the envelope: You don't know what you can get away with until you try. It's people, not organizations, that determine success: Organizations don't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Discount organizational charts and titles: Organizational charts and hence titles count for next to nothing. Maintain distance between your position and your ego. Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. The key to the book will be execution. This is not a biography (that's been done). This is a leadership book that will appeal to a wide and diverse audience, including members of the military. One of the primary appeals of the book will be its simplicity. By keeping the book short, and including several bite-sized sections to each chapter, readers will be treated to an easily accessible book that reveals the leadership secrets that made Colin Powell what he is today. The book is based on an article that Harari wrote after he met Colin Powell and heard him speak. That piece, entitled Leadership Secrets from Chairman Powell, became the subject of a front page story in The Wall Street Journal in March 2001. That piece spoke of how the Harari article sparked great demand for the Colin Powell primer (the article). For example, General Motors of Canada printed a bi-lingual in-house training manual based on the primer. In summary, we have a strong package that reveals the leadership secrets of one of the great brand names in the world of leadership: Colin Powell, the man that helped win the Gulf War.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.099

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.002
Scholarly communication0.0100.005
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0290.011

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.133
GPT teacher head0.277
Teacher spread0.143 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations44
Published2002
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