It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
“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 [...]
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Photo by Soon. “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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“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 and 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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This post from Curt Rosengren really struck a cord with me… It’s a great question for leaders…. If we’re going to make a positive change in the world, hope is a prerequisite. And that sense of hope can be either fed or depleted by what you choose to let into your brain to begin with……. [...]
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