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Leadership Development

Where do you place your best people?

5 April 2009

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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 to become great.”
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Leaders are not born, they’re made… leadership develops

22 March 2009

 
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There has been a debate for a number of years concerning the issue of 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 [...]

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Leadership development is primarily about helping others discover themselves

25 January 2009

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 on formulas, [...]

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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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Executives are unhappy with their leadership development

24 August 2008

Leadership development is the pressing need of organisations across the globe. Whilst there are organisations investing significant sums of money to develop leaders, according to recent research the results have been disappointing. Management-Issues discusses research by the Global Leadership Forecast 2008|2009, by consultants DDI, which sets out to examine why confidence in leaders is declining [...]

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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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Learning to think like a leader…

25 May 2008

 
 
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I came across an interesting Harvard Business Review article “How Successful Leaders Think” which really resonated with me. The author Roger Martin makes the following point concerning leadership:
“But this focus on what a leader does is misplaced. That’s because moves that work in one context often make no sense in another, even [...]

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Improving your leadership effectiveness

30 April 2008

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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 [...]

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Six Best Practices of Leadership Development Initiatives

17 February 2008

Chief Learning Officer magazine has an article "Leadership Development in 2008" that discussing research which found the following six best practices common to highly successful leadership development initiatives.

Strong executive engagement: The most important practice of all is to obtain the engagement of top leaders and managers. Their commitment means that the program will be highly [...]

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Spotting a New Leader

3 February 2008

Spotting a New Leader by Fred Smith provides insight into some of the traits to look for when identifying future leaders, which he describes the following 10 signs of leadership potential.

Leadership in the past. "The best predictor of the future is the past."
The capacity to create or catch vision. "When I talk to people [...]

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