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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 dynamic techniques to boost your executive leadership!
- Here's a really simple way to measure the strength of your executive leadership skills. Ask your people to name 3 important reasons why they enjoy working with you.Most leaders find it acceptable to be viewed as a "nice", "friendly" or "clever" person.Others prefer to be "hands-off" - you know the type of boss who lets us do our work the way we choose to do it - the leader who wants ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leaders are; are you?
- Identity CrisisIt's not only the knowledge you carry around in your head. More important to your effectiveness as a leader is your character ? who you ARE. In an interview of Harvard Business School Professor, Scott A. Snook, conducted by, Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge Senior Editor Martha Lagace, they exposed a truth that will help you guide your leadership development ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Learn how to lead people
- "Who rules or guides or inspires others"Having excellent guide skills is one of the most important abilities to possess in today's fast-paced world. We need the support and cooperation of other people to help us in reaching our goals. The saying "No man is an island" is an undeniable truth.Here are some guidelines to effectively influence anyone you desire.A) Enter t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Be the samurai sword
- Relationships are constantly facing crisis. Everywhere we look people are in dispute with one another. Companies are in dispute with one another. Countries are even in dispute with one another.Arguments, litigation, divorce, even war are the products of relationships in crisis.What is the purpose of fuelling animosity? Life is so short. It's too short to waste precious time with such...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Seven personal characteristics of a good leader
- How often have you heard the comment, "He or she is a born leader?" There are certain characteristics found in some people that seem to naturally put them in a position where they're looked up to as a leader.Whether in fact a person is born a leader or develops skills and abilities to become a leader is open for debate. There are some clear characteristics that are found in good l...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ten characteristics of leadership
- Many people are interested in the characteristics of a great leader. There are many lists of these traits. These are quotes taken from an article by Bill George former chairman and CEO of Medtronic. According to him the most important trait is to be yourself!1. Authenticity "After years of studying leaders and their traits, I believe that leadership begins and ends with authenti...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to become a great leader & improve your leadership skills
- A great leader is able to inspire his/her workers to work harder. Instead of firing workers, great leaders know how to fire his/her worker up to do their best.Your leadership skill will determine the size of your business, company and even your position at your work place. I read the book of 1st Samuel and 2nd Samuel from the Holy Bible, from those books; If you have the chance to read them...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leadership: seed or fruit?
- Purpose: Learn immediately if you are fostering leadership or ignoring it. Discover the power of nurturing your people.It was an enormous redwood tree. And due to regulations the forest service had to go to incredible trouble and expense in order to cut it down. The cutting team had to start by climbing to the branches and removing them one at a time from the lowest to the highest. O...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ask yourself whats in it for we?
- "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi_______________________________________"What's in it for WE?" is a question we ask ourselves. It is not a question we as...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The compassion paradox
- Effective leaders are comfortable with paradox. They can call on skills and work in ways that seem to be contradictory.Dictionary.com defines paradox as "a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true." As I study the field, I find many paradoxes associated with leadership. I see that developing the skills of a great leader requires us to work in apparently contr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The incandescence of the human spirit
- There lives within every individual a power, an energy, an incandescence of spirit that is being constantly held in check, like a dimmer switch turned way down.A lifetime of being told: "we are nothing special; to stand out is egotistic and wrong; to conform is necessary; to be different is bad; the collective good must be served even to the determent of our own being; we must support; we m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Weakness, struggle, fear, knowledge, growth, courage, leader
- Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most remarkable men in the history of the world. As a boy he wanted the boldness of his father. As a child he wanted to be a naturalist, but as a teenager he wanted to get into politics. Once in politics he wanted power, and once in power he would change the world forever.Theodore was a man of destiny, but in childhood his only destiny seemed to be death. F...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pure discipline
- General George S. Patton was born on November 11, 1885 on his fathers ranch and vineyard in Los Angeles County over what is today the city of Pasadena and much of the UCLA campus. Early in life he was small and weak, but raw determination and drive built up body day-by-day, piece-by-piece.As a small boy, he delighted in his father's stories about his family's strong military lineage....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Fighting the gravitational pull of positional leadership
- A little on leadership?Many people enter the leadership world through a position and a title, but we must understand that just owning a title doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader is about influence. Your ability to lead resides in your ability to influence others around you to accomplish organizational objectives. It's true that titles do initially command a certain amoun...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The goals of leadership coaching and partnerships
- Webster's Dictionary describes a "partner" as an ally or an association built around common interests and goals.A partnership denotes a joint venture, a relationship built on equal status (rather than inequality). Mutual consent and consideration from both parties are important attributes.Organizations need leaders with a personal commitment to the idea of building partners...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The flexible leadership workshop
- The Leadership ChallengeLeaders in today's society are faced with an increasingly complex challenge: To deliver business results in the face of rapidly changing conditions, while building team members' capacity to address the future. While organizations are becoming generally flatter, less hierarchical, less "command-and-control," individual managers must still determine wh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Benefits of leadership skill training
- DESCRIPTION CMOE's Leadership Skill Training addresses a wide range of leadership development topics, based on the needs of the audience and scope of delivery. Leadership Skill Training for new leaders might be targeted to help them make the transition from individual contributor to effective leader. For more experienced or advanced audiences, Leadership Skills can address the situational deci...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Blowing your own leadership horn
- There are two streams of competitiveness running through every organization. The first goes outward: It's the organization's competitive activities toward its competitors. The second goes inward: It's the competitiveness of leaders inside the organization who are vying against one another for power, recognition, privilege and promotion.To be successful in the second, leaders must not only d...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What makes a good leader? ask uncle sam
- What do the major generals who are leading the war efforts in Iraq have in common with executives and entrepreneurs who are conducting business back home? When it comes to leadership, the answer is probably a lot more than you think.In a recent study conducted by the Army War College, subordinates of the major generals who are leading the war efforts in Iraq were asked to rate the performan...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Real charisma, clinton style
- What exactly is Charisma? Most would agree that it is a magical, illusive, personal quality, divinely endowed on some people more than others. One thing is for certain, it is more easily identified than defined. It is the secret to being liked and agreed with by others. It is the much sought-after quality that causes people to envy others because of their congeniality and ease at which they intera...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What does exceptional business success require of us?
- To excel in business we need conscious command of all our faculties, mind, body and heart to ensure our work/life balance. Then we can seize the moment of opportunity and create exceptional results.Western business schools us in our physical and mental aspects of business. We learn the requirements for:1. Great processes to deliver complex team results, and,2. Great strategies...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What kind of leader are you?
- You are a leader if someone is following you. This could be as simple as one person watching you and following your example and encouragement, to being a leader in your home, your community, your workplace or even your nation. Leadership can take many forms, but typically it often involves managing people- one of the most difficult of all tasks. It means coordinating and motivating the actions of ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ten qualities of a great leader - plus 1
- Great Leaders are optimists first and foremost. Their tendency is to interact according to Henry Ford's observation, "whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right." Because the buck must stop somewhere and because the dynamic of authority dictates that all delegated authorities are themselves subject to authority, they understand that being a leader is far more than a title. The te...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The leadership strategy: an unmined comstock lode of results
- During the Second World War, Winston Churchill had a framed inscription on his desk that said, "It's not enough to say we are doing our best. We must succeed in doing what is necessary."The world demands results. Good intentions and promises are no use to it. And one of the best ways for any leader to get results is to employ a strategy, which is a plan, method or series of actions for obta...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A good leader knows the teams colours
- Leadership can be a very challenging task. As leaders we don't always get to choose who is on our team. In fact very often a leader inherits a team, of which most of the members have been there far longer than the leader, and may even know more about the work than the leader. Whatever the situation, one of the responsibilities of a leader is to motivate the team to all work together towards the co...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you a leader or a manager?
- President Ike Eisenhower once demonstrated the difference between leadership and management to his cabinet by putting a piece of string in a straight line on the conference table. He then asked one of the attendees to put his finger on one end of the string and push it. The string, of course, bunched up in an ugly bundle. He then asked the man to pull the string with his finger on one end. The str...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The leadership talk as a living hologram
- The hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made on a flat surface with laser beams.The three-dimensionality of such an image is not the only remarkable characteristic of a hologram. If a hologram of your face is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still contain the entire image of your face.Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Miraculous leadership
- It was a time of turmoil. In November 1979, supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini took 71 Americans hostage in Iran. On Christmas Eve that year, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Gasoline prices, inflation and interest rates were soaring as 1980 began. President Jimmy Carter said America was in a "crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will."T...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Wisdom from the rock
- He grew up in Brooklyn, the son of an ex-con father and with a Mob-connected uncle who earned a living as a loan-shark. He credits his father continually saying, "Never lie, never steal," as an influence in his making a better career choice. After getting a law degree, he became a U.S. Attorney, prosecuting organized crime and Wall Street inside traders. Of 4,152 convictions he attained,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Building teams and teamwork
- A tight knit team is a group of competent individuals who care deeply about each other and are fiercely committed to their mission. They are highly motivated to combining their energy and expertise to achieve the common objective. From our observation and studies on building teams, we have found three primary conditions that have to be met in order to attain higher levels of team performance and m...