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Great leadership is about conversation

15 February 2009

 
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“I think getting up in the morning is more exciting when you’re nervous. If you’re not nervous, you’re dead. . . .It’s time to change your life or your work the moment you stop having butterflies in your stomach.” – Warren Bennis

If certainty and stability breed complacency and mediocrity, then change [...]

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Shaping conversation as a leadership practice

5 August 2008

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Conversation is an important part of effective leadership and change for the following reasons:

Vision must be shared, before it can be lived… this requires conversation.
Change is underpinned by conversation Organisations change, when people change…. and … people change one conversation at a time…..
Employee engagement is driven by meaning and purpose… [...]

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Leader as social architect…

24 March 2008

The need for effective "social architectures" within organisation is critical if we are too ensure that we develop future leaders, to drive innovation and to create an organisation that has a great legacy. If we examine our leadership, I’m sure we’ll find that meetings are where we do much, if not most, of our leading. [...]

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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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Resolving stuck conversations…..

25 June 2007

I have posted before on the importance of conversation in leadership (here and here). Meaningful strategic conversation is an emotionally draining and difficult leadership task. However without meaningful conversation, buy-in and commitment remains elusive, as was observed by Steven Covey “no involvement, no commitment“. Meaning conversation creates involvement……. which generates the commitment …… and…… it’s commitment that ensures aligned action and an effective end [...]

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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…

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Moving Beyond Debate: Start a Dialogue

22 April 2007

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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Leading through conversation

15 April 2007

Leaders shape the world through the conversations they initiate and engage in. The amazing thing is how often we forget the power of conversation in shaping how we see the world. Organisations consist of conversations, conversations with teams, employees and customers. Conversation affects how we think, which in turn affects how we act.
“…its through language that we [...]

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Leadership’s New Rules

23 October 2006

With the increasing complexity the roles and behaviours of leaders need to change to suite a complex environment. The Dannemiller Tyson Associates discusses three new rules for leaders in the 21st Century:
Old Rule #1: The leader’s job is to know, and to serve as a final authority in important decisions.
New Rule: The leader’s job [...]

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Building Bridges in Conversation

17 April 2006

Our leadership conversations need to build bridges, not walls! Too often I see daily interactions that result in unnecessary conflict because of how we conduct ourselves in conversations. The best attitude to adopt in conversation is one of learning with the objective of building bridges. You can significantly improve your conversation by practicing the following [...]

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