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Personal Leadership

Become a better leader with 30 day experiments

24 November 2008

 

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By definition a leader is an innovator. Leaders are pioneers, seeking to break new ground, to make old things new, to put things together in a new and innovative way. A leader seeks new things with an eye on the future. The challenge in bring about new things is that [...]

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20 Bad Habits That Can Hold You Back from the Executive Suite

11 August 2008

A Business Week article lists the following 20 interesting bad habits, complied by executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, describing what hinder leaders from progressing into the executive suite of their organisations:

Winning Too Much: The need to win at all costs and in all situations—when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point. [...]

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How to read a business book

3 June 2008

Having written one of my first posts on “How to Read and Digest a Book!” the post by Seth Godin on How to read a business book, really caught my attention. In the post Seth makes the following observation on how people go about reading a business book…
“…..They cruise through the case studies or the [...]

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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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Persistence: The key to the achievement of meaningful goals

30 April 2008

 

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“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.” – Seth Godin on Persistence

As leaders it’s importance to be persistent. Anything worth achieving in life requires constant effort. Just having a meaningful goal is not enough, to make [...]

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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 on [...]

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Developing 3-Dimensional Leaders

10 December 2007

It’s important to take a holistic view of leadership. This is exactly what Jim Bolt has done in his article on the importance of "Developing The 3-Dimensional Leader". He makes the opening point that "Too many leaders today are one-dimensional, narrowly focused on business results…." and we have all seen the devastating results of narrowly [...]

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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 a [...]

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Peter Drucker on Effective Executives

7 August 2007

 
In his book “The Effective Executive” Peter Drucker discusses the five essential practices that are hallmarks of effective executives:
 

Effective executives know where their time goes. They work systematically at managing the little of their time that can be brought under their control.
Effective executives focus on outward contribution. They gear their efforts to results rather [...]

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Transformations and Powerful Leadership Experiences

1 March 2006

I’ve been exploring the concept of “powerful leadership experiences“, and one key is to undergo numerous “passages” of adversity or diversity. I found a post on a similar topic on the blog Communication Nation, titled “When was your last transformation?, a very good question, transformation is described in the post as:
By transformation I mean one [...]

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