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Self-Awareness

Good leaders balance advocacy and inquiry to resolve conflict

25 May 2008

Striving towards a vision and bringing about successful change is one of the hallmarks of leadership. However, vision equals change and change is often accompanied by conflict and tensions within and between teams. The leaders ability to effectively resolve this conflict and get people to move forward, acting to bring the vision into today is [...]

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Leader: Who do you intend to be?

5 May 2008

“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 time [...]

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The three aspects of good leadership

15 April 2008

Dr. Jay Conger Professor of Leadership Studies, Claremont McKenna College, discusses the following three aspects of great leadership, authenticity, branding and followership.
“We’re swimming in advice about how to be good leaders. Bookstores hold remarkable portraits of Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Jack Welsh and others. They all have advice for us. But how many people can [...]

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Leaders are originals, not copies…!

16 March 2008

“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, 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 what and [...]

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Where’s your focus?

22 February 2008

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 of [...]

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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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Positive or negative: What world view are you creating?

11 November 2007

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……. Two [...]

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Leading for the Next Act

11 August 2007

The article titled “Leading for the Next Act: Why CEOs Must Evolve or Step Aside“ published in Knowledge@Wharton provides an interesting discussion concerning the need for leaders to change their leadership style to fit that challenges facing their organisations.
“The secret to long-term CEO success, suggests David Nadler, a consultant to boards and senior executives, is conceiving of a [...]

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The Practice of Mindfulness

18 July 2007

The leadership practice of being fully present and in the moment is one of the most powerful and difficult leadership practices we can master. This state of being is captured by Lao-Tzu as follows:
Do you have the patience to waittill your mud settles and the water is clear?Can you remain unmovingtill the right action arises by itself?The [...]

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Questions leaders ask themselves

21 June 2007

The Leadership Wired Newsletter from John Maxwell has an interesting article “Questions I Ask Myself” the ten questions suggested are a great personal leadership checkup:

Am I investing in myself? This is a personal growth question. Lifelong learners have a common set of characteristics: (1) They develop a personal growth plan. (2) They possess a [...]

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