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Five challenges that accelerate leadership development

22 December 2008

 

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The high levels of change demand increased leadership capabilities and the requires organisation to focus on the development of future leaders. The Center for Creative Leadership has studies the development of leadership for the last 38 years and have identified five key challenges that have facilitate the effective development of leadership:

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Seven critical questions to assess your leadership

19 October 2008

 

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Effective leaders are always striving to become better, always stretching themselves and their teams. The Harvard Business Review of January 2007 had a great article “What to Ask the Person in the Mirror” by Robert S. Kaplan, discusses seven questions that leaders can use to assess themselves to stay on [...]

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Abraham Maslow’s 8 Ways to Self-Actualize

14 September 2008

Derek Sivers has a great post on Abraham Maslow’s and his 8 Ways to Self-Actualize. Maslow defined as self actualisation follows:
"Self Actualization is the intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately, of what the organism is."

One of the interesting insights concerning Maslow from this article is that:
“Maslow studied healthy people, [...]

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The best investment advice from Warren Buffet

28 August 2008

Alec Hogg from Moneyweb provides insight into some of Warren Buffet’s best investment advice. During the question and answer session at the AGM of his Berkshire Hathaway group Warren Buffet made the following comment regarding the best investment that you can make…
"The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get [...]

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Leaders who are open to growth… tend to grow

13 July 2008

An article from the New York Times discusses research by the Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, author of “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, has found that people generally approach life with one of two mind-sets when thinking about their talents and abilities…
“Those who believe they were born with all the smarts and gifts they’re [...]

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Searching for growth leaders

13 July 2008

MIT Sloan Management Review has a great article “In Search of Growth Leaders” by Sean D. Carr, Jeanne M. Liedtka, Robert Rosen and Robert E. Wiltbank discussing the importance of growth leaders. Growth leaders are these managers who can generate organic growth to “find new streams of revenue without always resorting to acquisitions”. After three [...]

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How to read a business book

3 June 2008

Having written one of my first posts on “How to Read and Digest a Book!” the post by Seth Godin on How to read a business book, really caught my attention. In the post Seth makes the following observation on how people go about reading a business book…
“…..They cruise through the case studies or the [...]

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5 tips on making a successful leadership transition

25 May 2008

Talent Management has a great article “In With the New: Leader Dos and Don’ts” that provides some tips of leaders who are transitioning to a higher leadership challenge, from team member to team leader, from manager to senior manager, from senior manager to director. All of these transitions place a higher demand on our leadership [...]

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Persistence trumps talent….!

6 May 2008

I recently posted on Seth Godin’s insight into persistence, following up on that the Mavericks at Work blog has an interesting post titled Talent Trumps Resume, Persistence Trumps Talent which quotes the following from Dan Pink on persistence…
“There are massive returns to doggedness, the people who achieve the most are often the ones who [...]

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Leader: Who do you intend to be?

5 May 2008

“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller

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