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Gary Hamel’s Nine Ways to Identify Natural Leaders

15 June 2009

Gary Hamel’s “Nine Ways to Identify Natural Leaders” provides some insight into the age old question “How do you identify leaders?”
“The need to empower natural leaders isn’t an HR pipedream, it’s a competitive imperative. But before you can empower them, you have to find them. In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of [...]

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The leaders inner circle

25 January 2009

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"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." – Theodore Roosevelt

In the January 2009 issue of John Maxwell’s newsletter Leadership Wired there is a great article [...]

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Great leaders hire great people and build great teams!

4 June 2008

Great leaders surround themselves with great people. Lone ranger leadership is doomed to fail, there is no one great person that is going to transform an organisation it takes a strong team and a great leader. If you look at the life of anyone who has achieved success, such as Jack Welch, Bill gates and [...]

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The higher executives climb, the less likely they are to know what is and isn’t working at their companies…

26 November 2007

Carol Hymowitz wrote an interesting article "Sometimes, Moving Up Makes It Harder to See What Goes On Below" discussing the need to leaders to kee in touch with what’s happening on the ground in their organisations and teams…
"Executives know success in business depends on identifying and fixing problems before they become crises. It is [...]

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The leader’s inner circle

11 August 2007

“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big [...]

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Constructive conflict is essential for creating commitment to decisions

15 May 2007

An article from HBS Working Knowledge “Don’t Listen to ‘Yes’“ where Martha Lagace,talks with Professor Michael Roberto, author of the new book Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer on why it’s essential for leaders to spark conflict in their organizations, as long as it is constructive.
If people smile, nod, and say “yes” at your company, [...]

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Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

21 March 2007

The “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni is written as a “leadership fable” a story of a technology company that is struggling in the marketplace to find customers. The new CEO recognises that the company has innovative products and great talent, however the executives are not working together as a team, negating [...]

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Your Boss Has an Attitude Problem

28 January 2007

An interesting article from Fast Company, “Marcus Buckingham Thinks Your Boss Has an Attitude Problem” by one of my favourite business researchers and authors Marcus Buckingham, he works at the Gallup Organization and his research focuses primarily on making the link between people, their performance, and business results. He the co-author of two best-selling books: [...]

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Leaders Participate and Actively Play in the Game of Life

23 January 2007

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who [...]

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Groups perform better than the best individual at solving complex problems

24 December 2006

Organisations are increasingly dependent on teams to solve the complex problems challenging businesses today. A recent study shows that their faith in teamwork to solve complex business problems is the best approach.
In this study 760 students from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign solved two letters-to-numbers coding problems as individuals or as groups of [...]

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