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Successful leaders demonstrate courage, focus and engagement

17 May 2009

“Leadership Matters: Appreciate GE’s Immelt” by Todd Thomas makes the following insightful observations after observing successful leaders such as Jeffrey Immelt CEO of General Electric, John Stumpf CEO of Wells Fargo and Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.
Courage: Each of these leaders, and those around them, exhibit the courage to make the decisions they feel they [...]

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Keeping your leadership focus

13 April 2009

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“The hardest thing about the job is staying focused” – President Obama talking to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes

“How the best bosses find focus” provides three great insights into how leaders keep their leadership focus:

Know what you’re not good at. “Over lunch last week, a senior executive at a top Fortune 500 [...]

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The importance of questioning your work

16 June 2008

Taking time out to think and reflect on what your busy with and what’s your purpose, what are you striving to achieve? Then ask yourself, is what I’m doing directly contributing to my purpose? To remain on track 37signals suggests that to remain effective that we question our work, by asking the following:
 

 
These are questions [...]

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Time is limited…… Are you spending it on purpose?

15 June 2008

 

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"Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose." – Lance Armstrong

The survey of nearly 1,200 managers and directors by the UK-based [...]

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Separating strategy from planning conversations

11 May 2008

To be effective it’s necessary for leaders to separate strategy from planning, separating the why and what from the how. This is necessary simply because strategy and planning require two different thinking styles which are not complementary. As highlighted in a post on management-Issues:
“Ever been in a strategy meeting where everybody was focusing on the [...]

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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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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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Where’s your focus?

22 February 2008

Effective leaders not only recognise the unique strengths and weaknesses of others. They have sufficient self-awareness to recognise their own, personal strengths and weaknesses.
“Leaders know themselves; they know their strengths and mature them. They also have a faculty I think of as the Wallenda Factor. The flying Wallendas are perhaps the world’s greatest family of [...]

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Leaders grow most in their areas of strength!

13 January 2008

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"The mediocre manager believes that most things are learnable and therefore that the essence of management is to identify each person’s weaker areas and eradicate them. The great manager believes the opposite. He believes that the most influential qualities of a person are innate and therefore that the essence of management is to [...]

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