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The Great Secrets of a True Leader
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| To be most successful, leadership can not be treated simply as a role you play or as a program for middle management, but rather it must be viewed at all levels as a way of "being a leader." This "soft stuff" is hard work, but as a leader you already knew that. |
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Leadership by Example
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| How can you encourage people in leadership roles throughout your organization to be more fully engaged in the leadership process?
As a CEO, Vice President, Director or any other “KEY” leader, you play a very important role in developing a corporate or organizational mind-set...a mind-set that embraces the kind of leadership at all levels that will take your organization from good to great... |
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Top Ten Leopard Tips
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| Here are the top-ten Leopard tips from my friends, Adam Engst et al, at Take Control Books. They’ve already released five ebooks to help people upgrade to Leopard. These books cost either $10 or $15, but you can save 30% if you buy all five. Take Control publishes minor updates for free, so the authors can revise their books on the fly. |
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Leadership Its All About People
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| 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. |
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It’s All About PR
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| You learn that, in the book world, PR is everything. When you walk into a bookstore, you are walking into a treasure house of 140,000 books. Online at amazon.com, there are 2.5 million books. Somewhere in your mind, dimly, you knew that, but nothing drives it home so much as walking into a bookstore and seeing rack upon rack of beautiful books and then you go find your section and see all the racks of beautiful self-help books and then... |
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Presidential List
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| I read an article recently that made a lot of sense to me. Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize winner for her books on history, and she made a list of ten points that are important for a President to consider and to emulate if they hoped to be great. She has written books about Abraham Lincoln and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and she believes leadership strengths should be considered carefully before voting. Here are some of the attributes that she feels make for a great leader--and I agree! |
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Ken Blanchard's insights on thought leadership
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| Ken Blanchard is one of the world’s most influential figures on leadership and management. He is a sought-after author, speaker and business consultant on the topic. His book “The One Minute Manager’ co-authored with Spencer Johnson has sold more than 13 million copies. He has co-authored over 50 books and has been inducted into the Amazon Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 best-selling authors of all time.
He has received many awards and honours for his contributions in the field of management and received The Thought Leadership award by Association of Learning Providers.
In this interview, Ken gives his views on thought leadership and tips for aspiring thought leaders. |
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Enough Leadership Already!
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| I know... I know...there exists a plethora of books and articles that point us in the direction of solving all of our problems with someone's version of leadership. As a contributor of contemporary leadership principles, I too often get caught up in the hype of the next great leadership think. Amazingly, with my own love and passion for studying the human need to lead or follow, I am often obscured from some very basic truths. Simply put, without the "right" people on the team, the quantity and quality of the leadership provided will always be limited.
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What is Leadership Theory
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| A leadership theory that the great man theory books frequently various leadership states that there are two basic beliefs, that leaders are born and not made, and the other coming when there is a notion that great leaders data needs. |
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Is "leadership" dead?
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| "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? |
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Leadership Exposed: Things You Thought You Knew About Leadership
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| Much has been written about leadership: rules, pointers, styles, and biographies of inspiring leaders throughout world history. But there are certain leadership ideas that we ourselves fail to recognize and realize in the course of reading books. Here is a short list of things you thought you knew about leadership. |
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Business Leadership Dilemma: Can the Dark Side of Employee Behavior Be Tamed?
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| This year is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important books in the field of leadership practices. When Douglas McGregor asked us to look at basic beliefs about the workforce he got the conversation rolling. "The Human Side of Enterprise" is a classic, one to be on all leadership development lists. Are employees lazy and self-centered, needing strong directives and lots of watching (theory X)? Or, are they inherently meant to blossom and all they need is to be given sunshine and room to bloom and grow (theory Y)?
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