It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Anecdote posted on David Maister’s podcast on earning trust and it’s importance to business. The fact is that leaders cannot lead without trust. Maister identifies four dimensions to trust, the first three can cause trust to increase: Credibility – about words – I can trust what he says. This is about tangible, professional expertise. Reliability [...]
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Photo by LifeSupercharger More and more I am realising the importance of perseverance to effective leadership. There are so many different obstacles and barriers to attaining our vision and purpose in the world today that without perseverance we will fail to make a meaningful difference in the world. Perseverance is what’s requires to face failure [...]
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“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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Photo by charles chan * The article “Leading management” highlights how important it is for leaders to hold themselves to a higher standard, the article states that “..a good leader should be more critical of his or her performance than anyone else.” I strongly agree with this statement. As leaders we’re responsible to set the [...]
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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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