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Problems of Growth
When an organisation needs more money, the issue is a little more complex than sometimes is realised. In this article, Douglas Long suggests some leadership questions to accompany the management task of keeping the business viable.
Strategic Leadership Questions - 10 Key Things to Get Right Before Initiating Change
Before starting out on your change management initiative - some strategic leadership questions to ask yourself. This list is not exhaustive but is intended as an aide-memoire to kick start your thought processes and to help you avoid the 70% failure rate.
The 9 Great Questions Real Leaders Often Ask
Real Leadership boils down to 5 actions: Questioning, Visioning, Engaging, Inspiring and Mentoring. For optimum performance to occur these must be balanced with 5 Real Management actions: Focusing, Systemizing, Following, Measuring and Coaching

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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?
How To Have A Highly Productive Team
Before you start complaining that your team are causing you headaches and not performing the way you want, take a look at yourself first. Gary who runs a plumbing business has 5 staff. He was always complaining that they were lazy, didn't use their initiative and would take advantage of him. We had Gary fill in our 'Productivity and Leadership Profile'. This process allows each team member to anonymously answer questions about how they see Gary in many areas including his leadership abilities, communication, organisation, etc. The process also allows Gary to answer the same questions on how he sees himself.

Obama Leadership: 8 Ways to Lead in the 21st Century
Leadership perspective piece on President Obama's leadership style and leadership lessons learned for leading effectively in the 21st Century. Includes 8 Obama leadership development tips.

Leadership Theories - What Does it Take to Be an Effective Leader?
There are more leadership theories than you can shake a stick at. Theories have evolved from "Great Man" and "Trait" theories to "Transformational" leadership - each with a different set of dynamics, contexts and focus. Here is an overview of leadership theories - but first here are 2 quick questions for you: (1) see if you can spot which applies to Genghis Khan and which applies to Mother Theresa; and (2) try to figure out which of these theories best describes the style you feel would be most appropriate for leading your change initiative...
“Third Generation Leadership” – “3G Leadership” or “Leadership v3.0”
First Generation Leadership ("G1 Leadership" or "Leadership v1.0") was typified by a command and control approach in which hierarchy ruled and the leader was "right". Second Generation Leadership ("G2 Leadership" or "Leadership v2.0") was typified by a reward for conformance / non reward or punishment for non-conformance. Again, hierarchy ruled and the leader was largely "right". Third Generation Leadership ("G3 Leadership" or "Leadership v3.0") is typified by engaging followers both with what they are doing and with the people with whom they do it. In this article Doug Long introduces both the concepts of leadership generations and shows the distinctions between them.
Business Leadership Skills
Not that a business is born with leadership skills. It is true that certain leadership traits that quite a few others seem to them. However, there are others that can be developed. There are many leadership programs that teach us different leadership style will also help us realize our business leadership skills and have some improving. However, short of the best leadership training effort comes from rising above the rest and put personal gain before the collective interests.
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?
Are You Really Listening?
Most folks are just starting to dig in again after a relaxing holiday season; leaders are no exception. If, like many of my clients and colleagues, you are always on the lookout for ways to increase your inspirational leadership, this is a good time of year to check yourself out on the key skill that can keep a team inspired by your leadership: your listening skill. Here are some key questions to ask as you check the current state of your own listening ability....
Leader Interrupted
The concept of leadership within the protection of this book or the walls of any classroom is much different in execution. Too often, leaders understand the factors that promote effective leadership yet still fail to execute at critical opportunities. Why can leaders say (and even believe) the right things and then contradict the very same statement with their teams? Why does leadership theory get diluted in application on the job? How can we develop leaders to execute properly? These simple questions and the answers are in fact a revelation for most organizations.

The secret questions of successful thought leaders
Thought leadership is incresingly becoming a business discipline in its own right but before companies start on their thought leadership journey they should ask themselves four questions.

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