It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Photo by garryknight Striving towards a vision and bringing about successful change is one of the hallmarks of leadership. However, vision equals change and change is often accompanied by conflict and tensions within and between teams. The leaders ability to effectively resolve this conflict and get people to move forward, acting to bring the vision [...]
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I posted previously about the importance of leading through conversation. Leadership conversations are those difficult conversations we have about exploring who we are, what we value, what we stand for and where we are going. They’re about breaking new ground and exploring together the future that we want to create. Often the staring point for these type of conversations is a [...]
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With organisations under pressure to constantly produce short-term results there is a need to have leaders at all level within an organisation. Leadership today is not about position or authority, it’s about influence and responsibility. And those who are leading from below, rather than from the top of an organisation have a unique set of [...]
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In an article The Philosophy Behind Our Systems by Emily and Dick Axelrod they propose that: Systems succeed or fail, based upon the philosophy behind them. I think that this as true of leadership, here are some of the philosophies that The Axelrod Group build into the collaborative systems they design. Principle 1: A compelling [...]
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An article by William C. Finnie provided some insight into five key values that support high performing cultures of companies like GE, 3M and Johnson & Johnson. The five values discovered by Dr. Robert Lefton, co-founder of Psychological Associates, who works with Fortune 500 companies using behavioral science to provide business solutions, are: Openness and [...]
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