by George Ambler on March 22, 2009
Photo by plagal There has been a debate for years about what makes a great leader. This debate is usually summarized into two schools of thought. The one school proposes that leaders are a select few people who are born with the unique set of skill and have rare leadership abilities. The other school of [...]
by George Ambler on September 28, 2008
“Leaders like everyone else, are the sum of all their experiences, but, unlike others, they amount to more than the sum, because they make more of their experiences.” – Warren Bennis, Why Leaders Can’t Lead Leaders are continual learners and effective leaders ensure they make the most of their life experiences. It’s important then [...]
by George Ambler on February 27, 2006
Photo by Design By Zouny Leadership development is about personal development and the experiences we have on our life’s journey creates the necessary personal capacity required to lead. Consider the biography of the life of Winston Churchill, “Winston Spencer Churchill: The Last Lion, Visions of Glory” describes Churchill as: “Sickly, an uncoordinated weakling with the [...]
by George Ambler on February 25, 2006
A Fortune article “Catch a Rising Star” looks at rising top talent within large corporates. The following quote from the article really hit home for me the importance of talent in this new economy: “Gates once said that if you took the 20 smartest people out of Microsoft, it would be an insignificant company. Imagine. [...]