Lessons

Mark Sanborn’s Lessons in Leadership

by George Ambler on August 2, 2009

Mark Sanborn has a great blog and addresses leadership issues in many of his posts. One of his posts that really caught me attention is “Lessons Leaders Need to Know” In the post Mark lists his leadership lessons, some of which are: The responsibility and service of leadership always outweigh the recognition and status. Anyone [...]

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8 leadership lessons from Nelson Mandela

by George Ambler on July 20, 2008

Richard Stengel , who worked with Nelson Mandela on his autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom” has an article in Time titled “Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership”, these 8 lessons of leadership are: Courage is not the absence of fear — it’s inspiring others to move beyond it. “Mandela was often afraid during his time [...]

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A leader is likely to be challenged by a number of leadership transitions as they develop and grow their careers. These transitions may be from team member to team leader, from manager to divisional leader or from director to CEO. Other difficult leadership transitions can occur as leaders move between companies or even between industries. [...]

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10 Leadership Mistakes that We’ve All Made

by George Ambler on May 6, 2008

Church Solutions has a great article on the “10 Stupid Leadership Mistakes I’ve Made” by Tony Morgan, these 10 leadership mistakes really resonated with me as I have made some of them myself. Leadership mistakes can be time of the greatest learning for leaders, provided we recognise we’ve made a mistake, take some time to [...]

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Ten Habits of Incompetent Managers

by George Ambler on November 11, 2007

Fast Company discusses the “Ten Habits of Incompetent Managers” by Margret Hefferman which are as follows: Bias against action: “There are always plenty of reasons not to take a decision, reasons to wait for more information, more options, more opinions. But real leaders display a consistent bias for action. People who dont make mistakes generally [...]

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