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Learning to think like a leader…

25 May 2008

 
 
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I came across an interesting Harvard Business Review article “How Successful Leaders Think” which really resonated with me. The author Roger Martin makes the following point concerning leadership:
“But this focus on what a leader does is misplaced. That’s because moves that work in one context often make no sense in another, even [...]

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Landmarks for Leaders in Times of Uncertainty….

26 February 2008

Rapid change whilst facing uncertainty, requires great courage. I found the article in the Pegasus newsletter titles “Landmarks for Leaders in Times of Uncertainty and Chaos” by Bob Stilger very insightful. The article discusses how community leaders are creating change inspite of the uncertainty around them.
“All around the world, people are stepping forward in new [...]

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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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Are you taking enough time out to think?

3 April 2007

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.” [...]

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Ideas: The Foundation of Leadership

12 December 2005

Ideas form the basis of leadership! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, describes an ‘idea‘ as being:
“the result of thinking.”
Thinking and leadership go hand-in-hand, primarily because:
“Great leaders lead by ideas” – Rudolph W. Giuliani
Great leaders lead through ideas, not through positional power and authority. Good examples of great leaders who use ideas, rather than authority to lead [...]

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Developing a Leadership Philosophy

12 March 2005

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Ideas are the building blocks of a leadership philosophy, and ideas are the result of thinking. Therefore, to develop a leadership philosophy its necessary to develop a “thinking discipline”.Leaders need to be intentional about how they develop their ideas, by consciously deciding which ideas to believe and embrace as part of their personal [...]

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