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Mark Sanborn’s lessons in leadership

2 August 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.
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8 leadership lessons from Nelson Mandela

20 July 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 underground, [...]

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Six leadership transition lessons from the new CEO of Citigroup

3 June 2008

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….

6 May 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

11 November 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 don’t make mistakes generally don’t [...]

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20 Insights from Peter Drucker…

9 September 2007

The Marketing Headerhunter.com discusses the 20 Reasons to Love Peter Drucker taken from The Daily Drucker, a collection of Peter Drucker’s most insightful management observations.
 

The critical question is not “How can I achieve?” but “What can I contribute?”
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.  He alone [...]

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Change Management Lessons

11 August 2007

Kathrine Walsh discusses some of the lessons John Kotter, the author of ”Leading Change“ and ”The Heart of Change” has learnt, in the article ”Five Things I’ve Learned About Change“
I personally admire Jack Welch as a change leader. And I have learned many lessons from him. He’s said that “the world is moving in nanoseconds,” so you better damn well [...]

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Learning from the life of Benjamin Franklin

30 June 2007

 
Learning from other great leaders is essential to our personal leadership journey. In the article “Benjamin Franklin’s Extraordinary Leadership” by Jack Uldrich, in Leader to Leader we have an example of a leader who did walk the walk and left a good trail. Some of Benjamin Franklin’s achievements include:

As a businessman, Franklin built America’s first media [...]

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Things Leaders Do

18 February 2007

An Fast Company article “Things Leaders Do” provide insight into Jeff Immelt’s, 10 keys to great leadership.

Personal Responsibility. – “Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility. You lead today by building teams and placing others first. It’s not about you.”
Simplify Constantly. “I always use [...]

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Honoré’s Leadership Lessons

19 November 2006

The Center for Creative Leadership discusses the leadership lessons from Lieutenant General Russel Honoré. General Honoré has learned his lessons in leadership over a 35-year career in the U.S. Army.
Honoré’s Leadership Lessons
Take it from the General. Here are a few of his guiding truths of leadership:

In crisis, the first report is usually wrong.
Have the [...]

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