It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
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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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 [...]
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Photo by erix! 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 [...]
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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 feedback, selected [...]
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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 [...]
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