It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
America’s Best Leaders 2008 is a collaboration between U.S.News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. These leaders were selected by a committee of academic, government, business, and nonprofit leaders. The committee defined a leader simply as a person who "motivates people [...]
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Richard Stengel , who worked with Nelson Mandela on his autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom” has an article in Time titled “Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership”, these 8 lessons of leadership are: Courage is not the absence of fear — it’s inspiring others to move beyond it. “Mandela was often afraid during his time [...]
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Dr. Randy Pausch a professor at the Carnegie Mellon University in the USA gave an inspiring presentation and his “Last Lecture”. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas and in August 2006 was told that he had 6 months to live. He then began working on his “Last lecture” which has subsequently inspired [...]
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Fortune has a great feature on Steve Jobs, titled “Steve Jobs speaks out” that looks at some of Steve’s perspectives on business, leadership and technology. In the article Steve reveals some interesting insights into Apple and his leadership principles. On Apple’s focus “Apple is a $30 billion company, yet we’ve got less than 30 major [...]
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Photo by charles chan * The article “Leading management” highlights how important it is for leaders to hold themselves to a higher standard, the article states that “..a good leader should be more critical of his or her performance than anyone else.” I strongly agree with this statement. As leaders we’re responsible to set the [...]
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