It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Marshall Goldsmith wrote an interesting article “Great Leaders Are Made Not Born” discussing leadership development effectiveness, when Marshall Goldsmith and his partner Howard Morgan, conducted an extensive study on leadership development programs involving over 86,000 participants in eight major corporations. Their finding were that… “Leaders who participated in a development program, received 360º feedback, selected [...]
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Photo by TheSportingLife As leaders we need to be constantly learning and growing, one of the best way’s to grow is by having a few good mentors to guide you on your journey. A mentor is defined in the Wiktionary as “A wise and trusted counselor or teacher“. whilst this is a good definition, it [...]
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According to the article “Future-focused CEOs bring innovation” organisations whose leadership speak about future event and external activities are more innovative than those leaders who don’t. ‘By simply counting the number of future-oriented sentences in annual reports we can predict future innovation by the firm,’ said marketing Professor Rajesh Chandy of the University of [...]
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It’s important to take a holistic view of leadership. This is exactly what Jim Bolt has done in his article on the importance of "Developing The 3-Dimensional Leader". He makes the opening point that "Too many leaders today are one-dimensional, narrowly focused on business results…." and we have all seen the devastating results of narrowly [...]
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Photo by The U.S. Army “From now on, [choosing my successor] is the most important decision I’ll make. It occupies a considerable amount of thought almost every day.” – Jack Welch, on succession planning in 1991 (10 years before his retirement) Leadership development and succession planing is critical for today’s organisations. Successful leaders take considerable [...]
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