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Culture is the shadow of the leader….

14 March 2007

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a Leader” – John Quincy Adams It’s primarily the leaders actions that inspire people to do more, to be more and to learn more. It’s the actions of the leader which leads to an organisations culture. In a [...]

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Leaders Participate and Actively Play in the Game of Life

23 January 2007

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who [...]

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Visioning matters

10 January 2007

“Visioning means imagining. At first generally, and then, with increasing specificity, what you really want. That is what you really want. Not what someone else has taught you to want and not what you have learned to settle for. Visioning means taking off all of the constraints of assumed feasibility, of disbelief and past disappointments [...]

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Leaders are NOT parents!

3 December 2006

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending [...]

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Leaders place people at the heart of their work

26 November 2006

“Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.” – Warren Bennis The Leadership Insight Leadership is about people. In [...]

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Leadership is about creating new realities…

19 November 2006

“Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.” – Peter Senge The Leadership Insight Leaders need to have a clear grasp of current reality, but most leaders seem to have [...]

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How to become an expert at anything….

5 November 2006

In “The Necessity of Reinventing” an article by Terry Brock he discusses a concept advocated by Earl Nightingale: Earl Nightingale said it well years ago when he said you can become an expert in a field with the right amount of study and learning. He recommended a minimum of one hour every day, five days [...]

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How leaders change and in turn, change the world…

13 September 2006

“When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried [...]

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Two approaches to life…

29 August 2006

I found this really quote interesting, it’s from a post I found on Management Craft… “In the years since, I’ve come to believe that there are two approaches to life. The first, followed by most, the the “paint by numbers kit” approach to life. You do what other people say. You follow a well-traveled path. [...]

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Drucker on the importance of effectiveness….

20 August 2006

“What is the managers job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds triteand it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, [...]

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