It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Photo by lululemon athletica An important part of a leaders job is to provide and environment that helps to inspire and motivate the people around them. Inspired, motivated and passionate employees lead to improved results and higher levels of innovation. This is why the June 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review article “How Customers Can [...]
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This video by Dan Pink provides a really insightful overview as to what motivates people. As leaders motivation is a critical leadership consideration as motivation lead to committment or complacency. Unless we can inspire and motivate people to follow and engage with the vision – leadership fails! As was so effectively illustrated in this video, [...]
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Inspired by one of the most obscure acts recorded in Scripture…. “Benaiah chased a lion down into a pit. Then, despite the snow and slippery ground, he caught the lion and killed it.” – II Samuel 23:20 The Lion Chaser’s Manifesto Taken from The Community Fellowship’s series of Chase the Lion adapted from Mark [...]
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The book “Fire Them Up!” by Carmine Gallo is really a great read. It discusses the importance of inspiration for successful leadership. The book is divided into two parts “Part I: The 7 Simple Secrets” of success which provides the foundation principles for inspiring others and “PART II: Living the 7 Simple Secrets” discusses how [...]
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Carmine Gallo writes in BusinessWeek, “The Seven Secrets of Inspiring Leaders” discussing research by Maritz Research which found that only 10% of employees look forward to going to work. The main reason? A lack of leadership. Whilst Carmine was conducting research for the book “Fire Them Up” the following seven techniques were shown to result [...]
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