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Are you a Leader or just a Boss?

21 February 2010

I often find that many people onfuse leadership with positional power. We tend to believe that a person in a position of authority or someone with a title, has their position or title due to their leadership qualities. However, in many cases there is no correlation between someone’s position and their leadership ability. Just having [...]

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Tips from Tom Peters for Leading in Freaked-out Times

4 April 2009

“Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell” By Tom Peters provides a list ways of being a leader in freaked-out times. These are some of the leadership tips that caught my eye…

Leaders love the mess. “… There’s no mess — and no creativity, no energy, no inspired leadership.”
The leader is rarely — possibly [...]

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Responsibility and its role in leadership

31 August 2008

 

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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness." – Stephen Covey, The 8th Habit

As leaders we can be given accountability and we can given authority, but we cannot be given [...]

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The power of commitment

15 June 2008

As leaders we often underestimate the power of commitment, there is something powerful about being committed, I mean being truly committed to a cause, to a vision or to a meaningful purpose.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." – Goethe

The decision to act [...]

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Time is limited…… Are you spending it on purpose?

15 June 2008

 

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"Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose." – Lance Armstrong

The survey of nearly 1,200 managers and directors by the UK-based [...]

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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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Leaders are originals, not copies…!

16 March 2008

“The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” — Walt Disney

Warren Bennis one of my favourite leadership authors, in his book "On Becoming a Leader", he discusses how leaders are originals and not copies. To be an original, a leader must know and understand what and [...]

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Where’s your focus?

22 February 2008

Effective leaders not only recognise the unique strengths and weaknesses of others. They have sufficient self-awareness to recognise their own, personal strengths and weaknesses.
“Leaders know themselves; they know their strengths and mature them. They also have a faculty I think of as the Wallenda Factor. The flying Wallendas are perhaps the world’s greatest family of [...]

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Leaders are you walking the walk and leaving a good trail?

22 February 2008

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What type of trail are you leaving?
 
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