It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Be Excellent, one of my favourite blogs, describes the “11 Qualities of Leaders” from the book Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader. The leadership qualities are: Know themselves through reflection and self-observation (*pg. 20) Understand both their history and present environment (*pg. 32) Are clear about their values and goals (* pg. [...]
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