It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
The January 2009 edition of the Harvard Business Review has a piece titled “To Lead, Create a Shared Vision” by James Kouzes and Barry Posner discussing the importance of a shared vision for effective leadership… “Being forward-looking—envisioning exciting possibilities and enlisting others in a shared view of the future—is the attribute that most distinguishes leaders [...]
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Photo by h.koppdelaney In the book “Built to Last” the authors James Collins and Jerry Porras coin the term big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) which they describe as follows: “A BHAG engages people – it reaches out and grabs them in the gut. It is tangible, energizing, highly focused. People ‘get it’ right away; [...]
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Photo by ckaroli “The scarcest resource for today’s business leaders is no longer just land, capital or human labor, and it certainly isn’t information. Attention is what’s in short supply..” – Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, “The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business” (Harvard Business School Press, 2001) In other words, [...]
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Photo by rhodes “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you have ever been on a farm you will have noticed how cow paths that zigzag across the land. These cow paths are create by cows, who [...]
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Photo by Chuck “Caveman” Coker Leadership is a journey and an effective leader brings along a map. Maps are useful tools to helping us understand where we are, where we want to be and what route we need to take when journeying from where we are, to where we want to be. A key leadership [...]
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