It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 than work. [...]
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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 [...]
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