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Attitude

Sheepwalker?

20 February 2007

Photo by burak yilmaz Seth Godin has a great post on “Sheepwalking” which he defines as: “..the outcome of hiring people who have been raised to be obedient and giving them a braindead job and enough fear to keep them in line.” This is true of many organisations today, looking for people who can “fit [...]

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Your Boss Has an Attitude Problem

28 January 2007

An interesting article from Fast Company, “Marcus Buckingham Thinks Your Boss Has an Attitude Problem” by one of my favourite business researchers and authors Marcus Buckingham, he works at the Gallup Organization and his research focuses primarily on making the link between people, their performance, and business results. He the co-author of two best-selling books: [...]

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Are you practicing positive leadership?

29 August 2006

An article from Gallup Management Journal titled “The Impact of Positive Leadership“discusses the benefits of positive leadership. In the article Tom Rath Coauthor of “How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life” discusses the importance of positive interactions in the workplace. Over the past decade, scientists have explored the impact of positive-to-negative [...]

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The importance of a leader’s attitude….

9 August 2006

The practice of leadership requires that we focus on our leadership skill, knowledge and attitude. Leadership skills are the abilities we have developed through training, leadership knowledge is what we know about the practice of leadership and leadership attitude springs from who we are, it is the sum total of everything that makes us who [...]

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The Fred Factor

11 February 2006

The small book titled The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn, shows how everyone can make a difference every day! The book proposes three simple yet powerful principles: 1) Everyone Makes a Difference The fact is that everybody is already making a difference every day. The key question is, What kind of difference is each of [...]

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Preparing Mentally for the Leadership Challenge

11 February 2006

Some say the first challenge of leadership is to know whom you lead. I say the first challenge of leadership is to know who you are. So says Louis S. Csoka, from the Wharton Leadership Digest article “The Inner Game of Leadership”, he goes on to say: “Elite athletes who compete against one another are [...]

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The Solutions Focused Way

9 September 2005

I believe that a positive approach to life is the most effective. There are some downside to an overly-optimistic worldview, but the upside out weights the downside in most day-to-day situations. The primary benefit of a optimistic approach is the increased proactive response to circumstances, pessimism creates passivity and withdraw. An interesting article mentions three [...]

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The High Cost of Pessimism

29 July 2005

As described by Martin Seligman in his book “Learned Optimism” the costs of pessimism include: Pessimism promotes depression. Pessimism produces inertia rather than activity in the face of setbacks. Pessimism feels bad subjectively. Pessimism is self-fulfilling. Pessimists don’t persist in the face of challenges, and therefore fail more frequently – even when success is attainable. [...]

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Learned Helplessness

7 July 2005

After reading Learned Optimism : How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin P. Seligman, I was struck by the concept of learned helplessness and it’s impact upon people’s lives. Martin describes learned helplessness as: “the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter” Each [...]

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