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Leadership for Project Managers
By Jim Owens · 17 years ago
In the first half of the 20th century there was a belief that Scientific Management was the new way forward. Scientific Management was the herald of a new era, removing the need for skilled craftsmen, ...
Persuasion Strategies of a Good Leader
By Michael Lee · 17 years ago
The persuasion strategies of a good leader consist of the drive to succeed, preservation of the group, and attainment of a common goal. As a good leader, persuasion is vital to meet the group’s goal ...
Leadership: Take Time to Energize
By Bill Pullen · 17 years ago
Elizabeth is the executive director of a large non-profit organization that provides wide-ranging services to people in need. She and her staff work long hours to help their clients as effectively as possible, always trying ...
When a Leader Knows to Say, “No.”
By Eileen Mcdargh · 17 years ago
On November 2, Whole Foods Market CEO, John Mackey, sent a letter to all employees announcing that the salary cap policy on executive compensation would change. He said “No” to their unprecedented policy of capping ...
Leadership: Being Open to Feedback
By Bill Pullen · 17 years ago
Oftentimes leaders say they are eager for opinions about their performance. In many cases, they honestly do want it. Some say they are open to feedback, but their behavior says otherwise. People in leadership roles ...
What is Leadership really about?
By Sean Mcpheat · 17 years ago
If you have attended any kind of management training, be it management training courses or management training programs you might have noticed that all of them focus on leadership. Management training courses and management training ...
Step Up and Lead
By William Frank Diedrich · 17 years ago
A recent leadership study in the United States in 2006 by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, sponsored by US News & World Report, offered the following data:
• 70 % of Americans ...
Developing and Deploying Leaders in the Right Way
By Ram Charan · 17 years ago
Helping people realize their potential as leaders means clearing a path for them to grow, but it also means identifying what they need to work on in the current job. This is where leadership gets ...
Team Building – What and How??
By Akhil Shahani · 17 years ago
“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
- Henry Ford
You got it! Team building is the art of building a team with a can-do attitude to achieve targets ...
The Unheard Third: How to identify, grow, and keep your latent leaders
By Nancy D. Solomon · 17 years ago
Leaders lead. Followers follow. And then there's The Unheard Third™: The people in the middle who, for one reason or another, fall through the leadership cracks when they're passed through or passed over. These latent ...
Why Learning is a Leader's Most Important Skill
By Kevin Eikenberry · 17 years ago
Ask anyone to give you a list of skills that describe a highly effective leader and I’m guessing they’ll give you a pretty extensive list. (Go ahead, make a quick mental list right now.)
Since ...
Is There An Increasing Need For Leadership, Or Is It Just Hype? 5 pointers for potential leaders
By Bob Selden · 17 years ago
Of all the things that have changed over the last few centuries, and particularly the massive amount of change experienced during the last 100 years, the one constant that remains is the need for good ...
Leadership: Genuine Service or Ego?
By Bill Pullen · 17 years ago
For about a year, I considered applying for a position on the board of a local non-profit organization whose mission I believe in deeply. I felt that my education, skills, and experience would help them. ...
Develop Your Leadership Styles and Skills
By John Mckinnon · 17 years ago
What is it that has set the great leaders and entrepreneurs of the world apart from the rest of the world? You know what I’m talking about- the truly remarkable ones that have made their ...
Five Signs of a Great Leader
By Obono John Obono · 17 years ago
When we think of successful leaders, we often think of people like Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi, people who have made a difference in the lives of millions.
Whether it's a leadership ...
Conduct Your Own Leadership Seminar: The 10 Step Process
By Mark J Emslie · 17 years ago
The Value of a Leadership Seminar
Contrary to the opinion of many, leadership skills can be taught, and many effective leaders have learnt the various strategies needed to accomplish leadership. It is not something that ...
Leadership Lessons from the Back of the Fridge
By Steve Lover · 18 years ago
I suspect in the back of most refrigerators there is something that shouldn’t be there. You know what I mean – something that is moldy, spoiled or rotten. It might be drooping celery, hamburgers with ...
Leadership Lessons from the Great Pyramids - PART 2 of 2
By Arthur F Carmazzi · 18 years ago
...While "attitude" was enough to build the smaller Pyramids (like that of King Sneferu), the largest, grandest, and the only of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world still standing, with a height of 450 ...
Leadership Lessons from the Great Pyramids - PART 1 of 2
By Arthur F Carmazzi · 18 years ago
Evidence uncovered by Faunal experts Redding and Lehner prove it...
It was not slaves who built the great pyramids. It was gangs of motivated, dedicated, and well organized individuals who had a purpose...
...And over ...
The How and Why of Participative Leadership
By Akhil Shahani · 18 years ago
As a business owner, one of your biggest challenges is to lead your team well. Should you focus on employee participation at the cost of business goals? Or do you “show them how it’s done” ...