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America’s 2008 Best Leaders

22 December 2008

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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8 leadership lessons from Nelson Mandela

20 July 2008

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 underground, [...]

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Dr. Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

11 May 2008

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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Steve Jobs and his leadership

30 March 2008

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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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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Leaders hold themselves to a higher standard….

3 February 2008

 

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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 example [...]

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Are you being effectively mentored?

6 January 2008

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As leaders we need to be constantly learning and growing, one of the best way’s to grow is by having a few good mentors to guide you on your journey. A mentor is defined in the Wiktionary as "A wise and trusted counselor or teacher". whilst this is a [...]

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The influence of leadership

29 October 2007

I have previously posted on my belief that, like fish, organisations rot from the head down. Michael Watkins discussing Infectious Leadership makes a similar observation:
"For good or ill, the senior leadership of every organization is infectious. By this I mean that leaders’ behaviors tend to be transmitted to their direct reports, who pass them on [...]

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Martin Luther King on Effective Vision…

5 October 2007

“Effective visions provide context, give purpose, and establish meaning. They inspire people to mobilize, to act, to move in the same direction… Every good leader realizes that effective visions cannot be forced upon the masses. Rather they must be set in motion by means of persuasion and inspiration.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

 
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20 Insights from Peter Drucker…

9 September 2007

The Marketing Headerhunter.com discusses the 20 Reasons to Love Peter Drucker taken from The Daily Drucker, a collection of Peter Drucker’s most insightful management observations.
 

The critical question is not “How can I achieve?” but “What can I contribute?”
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.  He alone [...]

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