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Communication

Peter Drucker On Leadership

15 April 2008

There is a great article “Peter Drucker On Leadership” discussing the leadership principles of Peter Drucker, some of his ideas from the article that stood out to me are as follows:

What Needs to Be Done: “Successful leaders don’t start out asking, ‘What do I want to do?’ They ask, ‘What needs to be done?’ Then [...]

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Steve Jobs and his leadership

30 March 2008

Fortune has a great feature on Steve Jobs, titled "Steve Jobs speaks out" that looks at some of Steve’s perspectives on business, leadership and technology. In the article Steve reveals some interesting insights into Apple and his leadership principles.
 

 
On Apple’s focus
 
"Apple is a $30 billion company, yet we’ve got less than 30 major [...]

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Context, Purpose, Drama and Conflict: The secret sauce of great meetings

24 March 2008

Patrick Lencioni author of the numerous books including "Death by Meeting" wrote an interesting article "Avoid ‘Death by Meeting’" which provides some great insights on creating an effective meetings. Patrick describes the two primary reasons meeting are ineffective as..

Meetings lack drama. Which means they are boring.
Most meetings lack context and purpose.

 
Drama and Conflict
Great [...]

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Focus your communication on the why and less on the how….

16 March 2008

Kevin’s Eikenberry has a great post that caught my eye titled "What to Communicate" discussing the importance of communication to leaders. I really believe that we do not spend enough time figuring out the why before we move on to figure out the how. Kevin reminds us of this principle by providing the following rule [...]

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Moving from BHAG to CCAG….

15 December 2007

I am a firm believer that clarity is a necessary ingredient for great leadership. I was first convinced of the importance of clarity to leaders by Marcus Buckingham in his article "The Clear Leader". Recently Tom Peters in his post "From BHAG to CCAG" discusses the importance of clarity….
"The book Built to Last made popular [...]

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The higher executives climb, the less likely they are to know what is and isn’t working at their companies…

26 November 2007

Carol Hymowitz wrote an interesting article "Sometimes, Moving Up Makes It Harder to See What Goes On Below" discussing the need to leaders to kee in touch with what’s happening on the ground in their organisations and teams…
"Executives know success in business depends on identifying and fixing problems before they become crises. It is [...]

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Companies Need Less Communication…. Not More!

29 October 2007

I couldn’t agree more with David Woods who makes the point that Companies Need Less Communications… Not More!….

Companies don’t need more communication. They need more clarity.

Clarity of the vision of the company.

Clarity of where the company is going (long term and short term).

Clarity of HOW the company will get there.

Clarity of individual roles and how [...]

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Change fails when employees don’t grasp the rationale for the change

22 July 2007

Research by ROI Communication on change and communication found that change programmes fail if employees don’t grasp the rationale for the change. Roger D’Aprix, vice president of ROI Communications found that:
“the only way you can rationalize the change is by reference to the marketplace and the forces that are driving the organization…”

It’s important when communicating the rationale [...]

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Leaders communicate with their actions and attitude

30 June 2007

The February 2007 issue of the Leading Effectively e-Newsletter, from CCL, discusses leadership and communication. I believe the communication is a leaders most powerful tool, a good example of the power of communication is Martin Luther King Jr. who put an extraordinary amount of time and energy into communication with significant results. An article in the newsletter [...]

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Your product may be good, but will it spark a conversation?

2 June 2007

Heath and Dan Heath, authors of “Made to Stick“, ask a very interesting question in their article in Fast Company,  ”Give ‘em Something to Talk About” discusses a very interesting question…
“Your product may be good, but will it spark a conversation?”

Conversation creates and emotional connection with your product and increases a persons connection with the product…

“Conversation [...]

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