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Leaders are not born, they’re made… leadership develops

22 March 2009

 
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There has been a debate for a number of years concerning the issue of 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 [...]

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How leaders make the most of their experiences

28 September 2008

 
 
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“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 [...]

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Seeking Powerful Leadership Experiences

27 February 2006

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 pale fragile hands of a girl, [...]

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What’s the State of your Leadership Practice?

25 February 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. The [...]

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