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Improving your leadership effectiveness

30 April 2008

Photo by urbanjacksonville   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, [...]

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The 6 Drivers of Organisational Change

22 April 2008

Scott Anthony posted an interesting set of six drivers of organisational change, based on a discussion panel on change that I found interesting and worth sharing. The six drivers of change identified by the panel are: The need for a crisis or some kind of “burning platform” to motivate transformational change A clear vision and [...]

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Leaders relentlessly simplify…

27 February 2008

Simplicity is critical to the effective execution of an organisation’s strategy. Raj Sheelvant’s discusses the importance of simplicity in his post “Simplicity Minded Management“.  He refers to Ron Ashkenas’s HBR article “Simplicity Minded Management”, where the author provides the following checklist as a guide to help to reduce complexity: Make simplification a goal, not a [...]

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Landmarks for Leaders in Times of Uncertainty….

26 February 2008

Rapid change whilst facing uncertainty, requires great courage. I found the article in the Pegasus newsletter titles “Landmarks for Leaders in Times of Uncertainty and Chaos” by Bob Stilger very insightful. The article discusses how community leaders are creating change inspite of the uncertainty around them. “All around the world, people are stepping forward in [...]

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Do you have a set of leadership principles that enable others to act?

24 February 2008

Photo by homelessballoon   An article by Dan Heath and Chip Heath, in Fast Company, Analysis of Paralysis discusses a key principle, "If your strategy doesn’t help employees act, it’s not a strategy.", as discussed in the article…. "Researchers Eldar Shafir and Donald Redelmeier helped prove this point in an article in The Journal of [...]

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Are you investing in your personal leadership?

17 February 2008

The "Integer Leadership Consulting" blog has a great post "Thinking about Self-Leadership: A brief reflection" which builds on what Greg Thomas describes as personal leadership which is.. “the desire of an individual to take charge of his or her own life. Personal leaders realize that leadership is not a position or title, but an outlook [...]

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How are you doing as a leader?

13 November 2007

  "From now on, [choosing my successor] is the most important decision I’ll make. It occupies a considerable amount of thought almost every day." – Jack Welch, on succession planning in 1991 (10 years before his retirement) Leadership development and succession planing is critical for today’s organisations. Successful leaders take considerable time in developing leaders [...]

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Leading for the Next Act

11 August 2007

The article titled “Leading for the Next Act: Why CEOs Must Evolve or Step Aside“ published in Knowledge@Wharton provides an interesting discussion concerning the need for leaders to change their leadership style to fit that challenges facing their organisations. “The secret to long-term CEO success, suggests David Nadler, a consultant to boards and senior executives, is conceiving of [...]

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Eleven criteria for spotting future leaders

4 August 2007

Skip from Be Excellent™ posted a list of eleven criteria for spotting future leaders, from Ram Charan’s book Know-How, they are: They consistently deliver ambitious results. They continuously demonstrate growth, adaptability, and learning better and faster than their excellently performing peers. They seize the opportunity for challenging, bigger assignments, thereby expanding capability and capacity and improving [...]

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