It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
A recent post on Harvard Business Review, “Why American Management Rules the World” discusses research from a group of European researchers which found that on average American firms are the best managed in the world. “Over the past decade, a team from Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford has [...]
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Photo By HikingArtist.com I recently completed reading the book “Obliquity” by John Kay, which provides an important perspective on vision, goal setting, strategy and decision making. Obliquity is the idea the complex goals are often best achieved indirectly. For example, one of the central ideas in the book is that individuals and companies succeed when [...]
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The exploration of the practice of leadership is a broad topic that is further complicated by the vast number of views and opinions expressed on the nature successful leaders and leadership. The goal of this post is to provide an overarching framework that will be used to guide our conversations on the ever evolving practice [...]
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Photo by Jaako A recent post “Developing future leaders” by Mitch McCrimmon provides and interesting perspective on the importance of leading by example as follows… “Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela had a one-off leadership impact on their respective governments without being members of those governments and having no authority within them. Similarly, [...]
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This video by Dan Pink provides a really insightful overview as to what motivates people. As leaders motivation is a critical leadership consideration as motivation lead to committment or complacency. Unless we can inspire and motivate people to follow and engage with the vision – leadership fails! As was so effectively illustrated in this video, [...]
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