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Character

Leader: Who do you intend to be?

5 May 2008

“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller As leaders we spend a lot of [...]

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Building the character of our future leaders…

27 January 2008

The Center for Creative Leadership newsletter had an interesting article "Don’t Give Up On Leadership Character" discussing the development of leadership character. Character a critical foundation of great leadership, in fact, character is the hallmark of all great leaders. Character is important as sound character inspires trust…. "People of genius are admired. People of wealth [...]

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The Paradoxical Commandments

5 October 2007

by Dr. Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. [...]

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The three key components of a compelling vision…

24 September 2007

    An article "The Vision Thing: Without It You’ll Never Be a World-Class Organization" by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Stoner discuss the three critical factors exhibited by all world-class organisations: Clear vision and direction championed by top management Trained and equipped people focused on implementation of the agreed-upon vision and direction Established recognition and [...]

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Character…. the foundation of leadership

17 September 2007

I found and interesting article from The Josephson Institute entitled “The Character of Leadership” in this article Warren Bennis discusses the importance of character for leaders. “Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, assertive or sensitive. It’s about having a particular set of attributes — which all leaders, male and female, seem to [...]

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Leadership is a choice

5 September 2007

“I neither started the project nor suggested it. I simply responded to the call of the people for a spokesman” – Martin Luther King, 1958 A the core leadership is a choice. In the same way that Martin Luther King responded to the situations he found in his daily life. We too are faced with [...]

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Character results in the following leadership behaviours

1 May 2007

We all instinctively know that it’s impossible to be an effective leader without strong character. When talking about the the importance of character one of the frequently asked questions are “what exactly do we mean by character?” and “how does a leader of character behave anyway?” An article from CIO.com provides some clues, based upon the research [...]

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Seven failings of really useless leaders

11 February 2007

Keys to leadership lie within from TimesOnline discusses some of Steven Sonsino’s insights on the failing of leadership, he believes that: “it is quicker, easier and more effective for us as managers to stop doing the things that demotivate people than it is for us to bolt on radically new techniques from acknowledged inspirational leaders…….People [...]

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Make Christmas Matter

17 December 2006

A study on The World Distribution of Household Wealth by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) was released on the 5th of December 2006. For the purposes of the research wealth was defined as: “We use the term in its long-established sense of net worth: the value of [...]

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Building Leadership Character

17 December 2006

Character is an important part of the practice of leadership. The December CCL newsletter featured an article “Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership Don’t Give Up On Leadership Character” which discusses the the key components of building leadership character based on the book by Gene Klann, Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good [...]

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