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Keeping Unscheduled Time

9 August 2009

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“Every leader should routinely keep a substantial portion of his or her time—I would say as much as 50 percent—unscheduled. … Only when you have substantial ’slop’ in your schedule—unscheduled time—will you have the space to reflect on what you are doing, learn from experience, and recover from your inevitable mistakes. Leaders [...]

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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:

Challenge [...]

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How many of the 7 habits have you integrated into your life?

19 October 2008

In Stephen Covey’s bestselling book “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, Stephen discusses the following 7 habits:

Be proactive. You are responsible for your life. Decide what you should do and get on with it.
Begin with the end in mind. Think of how you want to be remembered at your funeral. Use this as [...]

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How leaders make the most of their experiences

28 September 2008

 
 
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“Leaders like everyone else, are the sum of all their experiences, but, unlike others, they amount to more than the sum, because they make more of their experiences.” – Warren Bennis, Why Leaders Can’t Lead

Leaders are continual learners and effective leaders ensure they make the most of their life experiences. It’s important [...]

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Leader: Who do you intend to be?

5 May 2008

“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller

As leaders we spend a lot of time [...]

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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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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 new [...]

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Adopting a learning attitude

17 March 2007

I have been reflecting on the importance of having a learning attitude after reading the book “Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 7 Powerful Tools for Life and Work” by Marilee Adams. The key thesis of the book is that by consciously observing our thinking and by asking ourselves better questions we are able to [...]

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Observations on how we learn…

1 November 2006

A great post titled “What I believe about learning” from the Anecdote blog, so what does Shawn believe about learning?

People don’t think they’ve learned anything until they’ve reflected on what happened. The learning comes at this point of reflecting not in the act of work in many cases.
Learning is social-it benefits from conversations. While [...]

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Generating Knowedge in Groups

18 March 2006

I recently had the privilege of attending training on the Cynefin Tools and Methods with David Snowden, hosted by @TomorrowToday.biz. I found the training extremely useful, specifically as it relates to introducing and leading change in organisations. The Cynefin framework is something that I’m going to become better acquainted with over the next while. I [...]

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