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Chasing lions…

8 March 2009

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 Batterron’s book In a [...]

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Book Review: Fire Them Up!

26 October 2008

 
 
“Fire Them Up!” by Carmine Gallo
 
 
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 [...]

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Seven ways inspiring leaders communicate

28 September 2008

 
 
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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 [...]

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Leaders are you walking the walk and leaving a good trail?

22 February 2008

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What type of trail are you leaving?
 
Technorati Tags: Leadership, Management, Business, Example, Model, Inspiration, Motivation

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Leaders hold themselves to a higher standard….

3 February 2008

 

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The article "Leading management" highlights how important it is for leaders to hold themselves to a higher standard, the article states that "..a good leader should be more critical of his or her performance than anyone else." I strongly agree with this statement. As leaders we’re responsible to set the example [...]

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The secrets of inspiring leaders…

13 January 2008

Business Week has an article "The Seven Secrets of Inspiring Leaders" that reminds us of the importance of inspiration to leaders. A recent recent Maritz Research poll found that:
"Only 10% of employees look forward to going to work and most point to a lack of leadership as the reason why…"

The article discusses the following seven [...]

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Positive or negative: What world view are you creating?

11 November 2007

This post from Curt Rosengren really struck a cord with me… It’s a great question for leaders….
If we’re going to make a positive change in the world, hope is a prerequisite. And that sense of hope can be either fed or depleted by what you choose to let into your brain to begin with……. Two [...]

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Martin Luther King on Effective Vision…

5 October 2007

“Effective visions provide context, give purpose, and establish meaning. They inspire people to mobilize, to act, to move in the same direction… Every good leader realizes that effective visions cannot be forced upon the masses. Rather they must be set in motion by means of persuasion and inspiration.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

 
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Are you demotivating your employees?

13 June 2007

Harvard Working Knowledge published an article by by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer, “Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation” on motivation that really resonated with me. A large part of a leaders job involves initiating and leading change and this requires of leaders the ability motivate and inspire others to join them on the journey. Unlike [...]

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Employee Morale: What to do?

11 February 2005

A recent article on employee morale, on CIO.com caught my attention. Especially since we have been wrestling with the effect of low employee morale within our organisation. As the article mentions, “there are no easy fixes“, a scenario where “prevention is better than cure”! However, in the “new economy”, organisations will be faced with the [...]

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