It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Photo by Scott McLeod I recently stumbled across an interesting article by William Pasmore in Forbes titled “You Need A Leadership Strategy Now” which got me thinking, especially his statement regarding change… “Change is tough and always has been. Many executives aren’t good at leading change because they don’t understand the importance of making critical [...]
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Photo by joshuahoffmanphoto Jim Collins in his best selling book “Good to Great” discusses a powerful leadership principle… “put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems” Collins noted that: “…failing to grasp the fact that managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way [...]
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Photo by plagal There has been a debate for years about what makes a great leader. This debate is usually summarized into two schools of thought. The one school proposes that leaders are a select few people who are born with the unique set of skill and have rare leadership abilities. The other school of [...]
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Aviv Shahar has a great post on “Developing Leaders” stating that… “The greatest leadership act in the world is growing and developing new leaders and then empowering and releasing them to lead.” The development of leaders is of critical importance. The question is how? As discussed in Aviv’s post much of leadership development is focused [...]
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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: Challenge 1: Unfamiliar responsibilities. [...]
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