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Productivity is high;Stress anxiety is low;Morale is great;Customers are beating down your doors;Employee turnover is non existent (except when its your idea), and;Profits are rolling in so fast the owners and bankers are all asleep.Congratulations - and I’d really like to study your organization to learn how you do it.In the real world, most organizations have concerns about at least some of those things and often while training leadership we find that a manager's inability to focus or concentrate is simply because he's "too close to the forest to see the trees".Read more…Effective Leadership Styles
No matter the individual or the reason at hand, all effective leadership styles have one thing in common- they all contain the “Four C’s”- Character, Communication skills, Consistency, and the Creativity needed for successful problem solving. Of course, within each of these four traits, variances of extreme proportions are noted by those most inclined to utilize them.For example, President Harry Truman was quoted as saying, "A leader is a person who has the ability to get others to do what they don't want to do and like it.Read more…Perseverance: A Diamond Is A Hunk Of Coal That Stuck To Its Job And Made Good Under Pressure
Our daily prayer should be, 'Lord, give me the determination and tenacity of a weed.' It's been said that a great oak is only a little nut that held its ground. "These troubles and sufferings of ours are, after all, quite small and won't last very long.Read more…If You Want to Lead More You Need to ...
If you want to be more of a leader, you should check those moments where you normally are much of a follower.For instance. You are at a party and you are not really having fun, but you do not want to leave too early.Read more…Focus and Context: The Hub of Leadership
"Successful leaders spend a lot of time creating the identity of the organization – what our values are, what our mission is, what our purpose is, how we are going to act together as one. Those are agreements of how we are going to be together. You can actually get a whole team or a whole group to hold one another accountable.Read more…Innovation Calls For Leadership
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."Success is one of the leading causes of failure.Read more…Leaders Help People See Beyond What Is to What Could Be
"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries before." — Frances Hodgson Burnett, 19th-Century American WriterThomas Kuhn, the noted American professor of the philosophy and history of science, is best known for his work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which sold over 1 million copies in 16 languages. The book challenged conventional thinking that scientific change was strictly a rational process.Read more…Leadership Takes GUTSS
Leadership can be one of the most rewarding things a person experiences in their life. The exhilaration of knowing you orchestrated a team that came together and accomplished some worthy objective. Leadership can also be one of the most frustrating experiences in life when the objective is not met or when people on your team let you down.Read more…The Voice Of Leadership
Have you ever attended a seminar or a speaking event where the speaker was polished and pulled out all the stops and really fired up the audience? And then, when it was over, you rushed out the door in an excited buzz with the rest of the audience, but realized that what the speaker said compelled you to do nothing?These days, technique and entertainment in public speaking seem to be valued over substance.Read more…The Optimal Leadership Model
Transformational Leadership and the Integrated Leadership ModelTo optimize the rate of success in today’s competitive market, businesses must have an effective leader who will maximize the human resources available to increase market share. Transformational leadership focuses on developing leadership strategies that align an organization’s vision with the tasks performed. “A characteristic of Transformational leaders is that they create a new vision; a vision that separates them from competitors, and from where the organization is now” (Symons, 2006, p.Read more…Turn Your Vague Intentions into Powerful Decisions
What’s had the biggest impact on your life? Your parents, partner, career or education? Your health, social status or background?Read more…The Leadership Challenges in Family Businesses
Increasingly, the success of businesses, depends on the quality of leadership throughout, and especially from the top. Yes, you need good management disciplines and skills to ensure that things run effectively. However, on its own they will not be enough.Read more…The Best Decision Makers in the World
There’s a group of people who are at the pinnacle of decision making. They can make a snap decision in less that the blink of an eye. And those decisions can make the difference between absolute success and complete failure.Read more…Virtual Team Leadership: Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for the 21st Century
Executive SummaryOne of the critical enablers of our future Navy will be the ability to fully incorporate Virtual Teams (VT) in all warfare and process applications. To capitalize on virtual team technologies and processes will require total coordination across all business and warfare areas within the Navy. Charles Wardell (1998), a writer for the Harvard Business School newsletter, asserts “a company’s ability to seize an opportunity often depends on how fast it can field a team of talented individuals, wherever they may be.Read more…Divine Empowerment of Christian Leaders
Understanding Divine Empowerment Luke’s understanding of the Divine Empowerment of Christian Leadership provides critical insight into shaping the values of spiritual leaders. God prepares leaders with a specific purpose and task in mind. Luke, in Acts 2, utilizes the Old Testament to highlight the importance of the divine empowerment of leaders.Read more…Strategic Enterprise: Transforming Today's Navy for Tomorrow’s Environment
Flexible but Structured DesignMilitaries are not usually mobs of men but rather organized socio-technical systems. As technology has more impact on the way wars are fought, more detailed organization will be required. Many different things affect military organization – tactics, training, weapon availability and deployment to name a few.Read more…Leadership Insights from the American Revolution
IntroductionIn order to understand why is was difficult for the British to formulate a strategy that would have averted open rebellion in their thirteen North American Colonies, one must understand the state of the British Empire just prior to the revolution and why Parliament made certain decisions. In the pages that follow I’ll discuss why the British would not have been able to provide an amicable resolution that would maintain the status of their empire and continued domination of the thirteen North American Colonies.Colonial discontent in North America revolved around two policy issues that the British were unable or unwilling to address.Read more…Rules of How to Achieve Leadership Qualities
The rules of achieving leadership qualities by unleashing instincts inside of you are limitless. There is no stopping once you unleash the leadership rules. Likewise, leaders come in all shapes, sizes, forms, backgrounds, ethic groups, and so forth.Read more…The Heart of a Warrior
Floating on the Willamette River watching last night’s fireworks with my family I couldn’t help but think of our founding fathers and the sacrifices they made when they fought to establish our country’s freedom. Those thoughts of respect and admiration in turn led me to think about of our troops oversees currently fighting to protect our way of life and preserve our freedom. The more I began to ponder the heroism of our military (past and present) the more I began to consider the traits possessed by our nation’s warriors.Read more…Sun Tzu - Ancient Author or Leadership Guru?
In the field of leadership and management we are being constantly bombarded by new fads, some useful and some not so useful. In recent years we have seen charismatic leadership, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, level five leadership, emotional intelligence (EQ) and now spirituality.These are all useful models and without them we would be hard pressed to make sense of the complexities of modern organisations and the people that lead them.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Leadership category
- When You're Not Born Smart - By: Gerry McRae
Accept what gifts have been bestowed upon you. Now learn how to act and appear smarter with what you have been given. - Money Can't Buy Me ME. - By: Charlotte Wood
I was shopping at Costco one day and on my way out I noticed some gym pants in the clothing area, so I walked over to the table to take a closer look. While I was checking out the colors and sizes, I noticed the sales person across the table watching me, so I smiled. - Professional Leader Mentoring: The Right Leader Development Resource For Our Times - By: Michael Shenkman
In these anxious days of intense competition and rising costs of doing business, we need leaders who strive not for efficiency of operation, but who offer, demonstrate, and demand a commitment to excellence in all aspects of their organizational lives. - The 4 Qualities of Australia's Best Coaches - By: Meiron Lees
Corporate coaching and executive coaching has become more and more accepted as a development opportunity for Australian organisations but how do you choose the one that will be the most compatible and give you the best results? - Leadership matters in managing change effectively - By: William King
Leadership plays an important role for any change in business or service organization. The article brings out a fact of the importance of leadership in management of a change process. It also throws light on the reasons for resistance to change and how these can be effectively managed by a correct leadership oriented approach. - Brainstorming - An Art to Master in Effective Decision Making - By: William King
Our thought process goes through a lot of churning and reaches to some decisions. This article is an effort to make you realize how important brainstorming is and how you can control your mind reaching to better decisions. - All About Leadership Skills - By: Ron Victor
Today’s youths need to develop their leadership skills, which is very necessary. Both leadership skills and leadership training is very much important. - Leadership Skills Development – Five Key Activities of Innovation - By: Peter McLean
Leading innovation in business development and risk management is the result of action, thought and creativity, commitment and dedication, as well as perseverance.Innovation is the product of continually conducting five key activities. These activities can be incorporated into your small business plans, your leadership skills development and your corporate team building. - Leadership from the Heart - By: Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
So what is leadership from the heart? Leadership from the heart is only a expression for how you (as a leader) can center yourself before making decisions.I recently attended a couple of workshops from Greg Yau, a King-Fu Master, an Acupunture Master, and a Master of Quantum Physics. - When Successul Training Fails - And What to Do About It - By: Anthony Griffin
Elizabeth M., Human Resources Director for a mid-sized furniture manufacturer, earnestly shared with me her hopes for developing a skilled cadre of supervisory personnel who would effectively lead their work groups by positive example and, thereby, maximize the contributions to company profitability. She wanted the front-line Supervisors to be able, through training, to develop, motivate, and inspire their subordinates to be more effective and productive contributors to Company growth and profitability.