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Today ethical leadership is more important than ever. The world is more transparent and connected than it has ever been. The actions and philosophies of organisations are scrutinised by the media and the general public as never before. This coincides with massively increased awareness and interest of corporate responsibility and related concepts, such as Fair Trade, sustainability, social and community responsibility. The modern leader needs to understand and aspire to leading people and achieving greatness in all these areas.

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Dynamic Indifference
There’s a funny leadership story in a book by Eric Yaverbaum titled “Leadership Secrets of The World’s Most Successful CEO’s. From the book – When asked to share his most powerful leadership technique, Bill Bonner founder and president of Agora, a large international publisher, replied “I practice a technique that might be called DYNAMIC INDIFFERENCE. I do not try to lead, probably because I am no good at it. Instead, I merely focus on the work itself. What needs to be done? Who’s got a better idea? Who’s going to do it? No attempt is made to lead. Just the contrary, people are ignored. Finally, they get tired of being ignored and turn to me for leadership. Then I tell them I can’t help them. This forces them to figure out the problem for themselves and resolve it.
What does leadership mean today?
THis article outlines the shift that has taken place in leadership theory and practice today. It describes the six new leadership challenges: vision, empowerment, inspiration,challenge, collaboration, recognition and modelling. It describes effective personal leadership and concludes with a seven step process and work sheet for leadership development.
How to be a high performance leader
The subject of leadership is the quintessential conversation of our generation, particularly at this time of great social change, commercial and political unrest. I believe leadership, [being a leader] to be a character trait, not simply a title you bestow upon a person or entity, without significant reason and evidence over an extended period of time. True 'leadership' is the ability to inspire action through ones own actions. This feat is not as easy to achieve as the definition suggests. Easy in theory - but ever challenging in practice.

“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 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 It Training or Education?
The word Training has been used to describe so many activities that the word has lost its meaning and value. In reality, most of the training in corporate America is education. Education provides knowledge but training provides the enhanced ability to perform. Consider this: Which gives the greatest return on investment – Education or Training – when it comes to leadership, teamwork, supervision, coaching sales and service? Training is the process of bringing a person to an agreed standard of proficiency by practice and instruction. Yet what is actually performed is mostly instruction with little to no practice.
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?
Monkey Business: Fairness in the Workplace
Fairness is often a question of perception, so while we may do our best to practice fairness, others may not always view us as fair. Of all the leadership qualities, this is perhaps one of the hardest to practice on a consistent basis. This article provides seven practical tips to help you be fair in the workplace.
Classic example of thought jacking
Thought jacking can be a very successful tool to elevate your thought leadership position or to create a thought leadership platform for your brand. Here are two examples showing how Malcolm Gladwell has used this approach for his position on the tipping point as well as deliberate practice or the 10,000 hour principle.

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