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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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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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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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Leader, Be Yourself

3 April 2006

The article by Kellye Whitney, The New Leadership Requirement: Be Yourself from the Chief Learning Officer discusses the importance of being yourself, stating that:
“if you are your very best self, your chances of becoming a great leader increase.”
With a dizzying array of books and workshops on leadership it becomes easy to fall into the [...]

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