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Leaders think differently

15 March 2009

  Photo by √oхέƒx™   “Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” – Robert Jarvik Leaders pioneer and initiate change. Leaders are not sheepwalkers and they do not follow the traditional cow paths of life. Leaders bring the future into the present. This is [...]

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The best thing we could do for ourselves is reflect on the way we think…

7 December 2008

Thinking is critical to leadership. A post on the Anecdote blog highlights the importance of improving how we think as leaders…. "The best thing we could do for ourselves is reflect on the way we think…. Our thoughts affect the way we feel about something (emotions) and the way we react to situations (our behavior) [...]

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Talking time to stop and think

24 August 2008

One of the topics that I have written about on numerous occasions is the importance of setting aside time to reflect and think. How are you doing with this leadership practice? Do you have a place to think and shape your thoughts? Consider the following event in the life of Edward Bear from Winnie the [...]

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Leader, are you taking enough time out to think?

27 July 2008

Leaders do not get enough time to think, this is the result of a recent survey. . . "… of nearly 1,200 managers and directors by the UK-based Chartered Management Institute has found more than eight out of 10 struggle to prioritise their work, with conflicting demands pulling them in all directions…. Two-thirds complain they [...]

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Searching for growth leaders

13 July 2008

MIT Sloan Management Review has a great article “In Search of Growth Leaders” by Sean D. Carr, Jeanne M. Liedtka, Robert Rosen and Robert E. Wiltbank discussing the importance of growth leaders. Growth leaders are these managers who can generate organic growth to “find new streams of revenue without always resorting to acquisitions”. After three [...]

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Learning to think like a leader…

25 May 2008

    Photo by jgrantmac   I came across an interesting Harvard Business Review article “How Successful Leaders Think” which really resonated with me. The author Roger Martin makes the following point concerning leadership: “But this focus on what a leader does is misplaced. That’s because moves that work in one context often make no [...]

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Leaders think differently…..

20 January 2008

Photo by by edwardolive ..   I believe that great thinking and great leadership go hand-in-hand. Leaders think differently…. Leaders think differently about themselves. Leaders think differently about others. Leaders think differently about what’s possible. Leaders think differently about life. Leaders think differently, and that’s what distinguishes them from followers! Your thinking creates your beliefs, [...]

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Strong opinions weakly held…

15 September 2007

The phrase “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” from a post by Bob Sutton describes an important philosophy for leaders, Bob Sutton describes the importance of this idea as: “….the virtues of wise people – those who have the courage to act on their knowledge, but the humility to doubt what they know…to deal with an uncertain [...]

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Are you taking enough time out to think?

3 April 2007

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.” [...]

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How does a genius think?

13 February 2007

“Good thinkers do not necessarily think harder, longer, or more exactly; they have simply learned to think in directions that are more likely to be productive.” – Unknown What is the quality of your thinking? I recently stumbled upon the book “Marketing Genius” by Peter Fisk, who describes the following insights into how a genius [...]

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