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Are you a Leader or just a Boss?

21 February 2010

I often find that many people onfuse leadership with positional power. We tend to believe that a person in a position of authority or someone with a title, has their position or title due to their leadership qualities. However, in many cases there is no correlation between someone’s position and their leadership ability. Just having [...]

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Never waste a crisis!

7 December 2008

The world around us is in turmoil… companies failing and economies are in recession. These are tough times and the need for leaders and leadership has not been greater.
“Despite all the different issues that top leaders are facing, there is a commonality to great leaders in times like these. It can be summed up [...]

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Become a better leader with 30 day experiments

24 November 2008

 

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By definition a leader is an innovator. Leaders are pioneers, seeking to break new ground, to make old things new, to put things together in a new and innovative way. A leader seeks new things with an eye on the future. The challenge in bring about new things is that [...]

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You know you’re stopped leading when…

28 September 2008

 

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Jon Ferguson has a great post titled “You Know You’re Not Leading When . . .” that asks the question “Ever catch yourself not leading?” and provide the following check list.
You know you are not leading when . . .

You wait for someone to tell you what to do rather than [...]

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Perseverance: The characteristic that separates the successful from the mediocre

8 June 2008

More and more I am realising the importance of perseverance to effective leadership. There are so many different obstacles and barriers to attaining our vision and purpose in the world today that without perseverance we will fail to make a meaningful difference in the world. Perseverance is what’s requires to face failure and then to [...]

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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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Good leaders balance advocacy and inquiry to resolve conflict

25 May 2008

Striving towards a vision and bringing about successful change is one of the hallmarks of leadership. However, vision equals change and change is often accompanied by conflict and tensions within and between teams. The leaders ability to effectively resolve this conflict and get people to move forward, acting to bring the vision into today is [...]

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Three tips for working smarter

11 May 2008

Stever Robbins in the article “Productivity Means Working Smarter, Not Longer” provides some helpful tips on working smarter, not harder.
“Working smart means getting the same results in less time. To do that, you must change how you work. You’ll get the most by changing your speed, increasing focus, and organizing to do things in parallel.”

 

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Persistence: The key to the achievement of meaningful goals

30 April 2008

 

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“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.” – Seth Godin on Persistence

As leaders it’s importance to be persistent. Anything worth achieving in life requires constant effort. Just having a meaningful goal is not enough, to make [...]

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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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