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“Blue Zone” Leaders grow others
The brain of a leader is one that accepts today's reality but knows that the future can be better. Key to bringing about this better future is the facilitation of growth in other people. Working from his experience of helping those who have been abused and disadvantaged, Doug Long provides some simple behaviours that leaders can use in order to bring about the future we desire for individuals as well as for society at large.
Cracked eggs don’t hatch!
Great organisations are predicated on highly satisfied, totally committed customers who want appropriate quality and a fair price for the goods or services they buy. These customers, as long as they can see that they are receiving value for money, are perfectly happy for their supplier to make good profits – they want to know that the supplier will be there in the future. It’s the marginal customers for whom price is a key determining factor. What happens when there are systems issues that work against good customer service?
The 20 Qualities of Good Leadership
This tool defines the 20 qualities of leadership that researchers have identified as common to virtually all organizations. It can be used to learn the leadership qualities people appreciate most within the organization. It may also be used to aid an individual leader in assessing his or her own leadership skills.
4 Signs of a Successful Leader
In the USA, Republican Party campaigning for the next Presidential Election is well under way; in Australia we have constant reminders that some people want Federal Elections to be held now and, in Queensland we have a State Election imminent. What is common to all these is that whoever gets the top job in any of them will then be referred to as a “leader”. What is also common to all of them is that whoever holds the top job now is also referred to as “a leader” but one who, according to pretenders to the throne, is seriously flawed. It begs the question “How can we recognize successful leaders?”

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Identifying Poor & Pathetic Leadership Styles and Related Impacts
There seems to be a real deficit in good leadership and a large surplus of poor and pathetic leadership in many businesses today. One can easily find example after example of poor and pathetic leadership and the resulting impacts on employees, in particular, and the health of the business, in general. So what are these poor and pathetic styles of leadership? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers a list of ten (10) styles of poor and pathetic leadership.

Leadership Its All About People
This brief overview of leadership is designed to paint an overall picture of what it is going to take for leaders to advance the performance of an organization from good to great. You will no doubt use much of what is provided in this article plus add your specific talents and strengths to the leadership equation. This is how it should be as there is not a magic formula for leadership in today’s complex environment. The key is to absorb all that is presented in this article and other books on leadership and connect with what works best for you in the context of your organizations’ strategy of developing great leadership capabilities.

Is your leadership effective?
In many ways, good leadership is hard to define. It can't be directly measured. In fact often the measure of leadership is qualitative rather than quantitative - although quantitative results always follow. So, the questions remains, how can you tell if your leadership skills are effective?
Leadership Development - A Strategic Need?
Leadership development budgets, that are based on only good intentions and general ideas about leadership, get axed in bad times and get extravagant during good times. If having great or good leaders at all levels is a strategic need, as the above top companies demonstrate and as many leading management experts assert, why do we see such a stop and go approach?
Leadership Assessment #1 – In vs. Out Ratio
There are hundreds of leadership assessments. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. I call it the "In Versus Out" Ratio.
Leadership Assessment #15 – Make Good Decisions
There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the ability to consistently make good decisions.

Business Coaching for Effective Leadship
While leadership is easy to explain, it’s not so easy to practice. Leadership is about behaviour first, skills second. Good leaders are followed chiefly because people trust and respect them. Leadership differs to management, which relies more on planning, organisational and communications skills.

Is "leadership" dead?
"Leadership" now seems to be a catch-all term (a bit like "communication"). That being the case, has the time now come when we should be considering whether the term "leadership" has lost its impact and whether we need to radically rethink the whole concept by moving out of all the traditional concepts like "servant leadership", "situational leadership", “contingency leadership”, “leadership habits” etc that are based on attitudes and behaviours?
Leadership Mentors
There is no shortage of individuals who aspire to be really good leaders. There is also an abundance of leadership development programs, yet we still see a habitual shortfall in the number of really good leaders. I believe a major reason is a shortage of really great leadership mentors. This article shares the impact of this problem and gives the antidote.
The Changing Mix of Business Leadership
Guys we don't want to alarm you but there's a new boss in town and he's a she. Give them the right to vote and now they want to rule, run things. Heck of it is they're good at it...darn good at it! True you won't wake up tomorrow and females will be running everything but slowly, methodically they're getting positions of management, leadership. Good thing is they're doing a pretty good job. Bad thing is they aren't willing to go back to the "good ol days." Good thing is the good ol days weren't that good. Bad thing is treating them as an equal feels good.

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