Leadership

How Can You Tell If You Have What It Takes To Be A Leader?
By Bob Selden · 18 years ago
Finding out "How am I doing?" has always been a thorny issue for managers, particularly when the issue is about "How good a leader am I?". It's relatively easy to get feedback on results (e.g. ...
The Leadership Choice
By William Frank Diedrich · 18 years ago
Every home and every organization has structure. Structure is the invisible field that influences behavior. Systems expert Peter Senge of M.I.T. defines structure as “choices made over time.” Choices made over time becomes the “way ...
Leaders Under Construction - Developing Leadership Skills
By Akhil Shahani · 18 years ago
Are leaders born or made? Well, leaders are born, but only in la la land!!! You can be born with the traits of a leader but the right encouragement is a must for developing leadership ...
Leadership Training
By Marcus Peterson · 18 years ago
Leaders envision the future; they inspire organization members and chart the course of the organization. Leaders must instill values - whether they are a concern for quality, honesty, calculated risk taking, or respect for employees ...
Leadership Styles
By Marcus Peterson · 18 years ago
The term "leadership style" refers to a leader's behavior. Behavioral pattern, which the leader reflects in his role as a leader, is often described as the style of leadership. Leadership style is the result of ...
Leadership Development
By Marcus Peterson · 18 years ago
In performing leadership functions, managers sometimes make attempts to change over from one leadership style to another with changes in the situation. This is rather difficult to do for most people and unless one learns ...
Leadership
By Marcus Peterson · 18 years ago
Although some people treat the terms management and leadership as synonyms, the two should be distinguished. As a matter of fact, there can be leaders of completely unorganized groups. On the other hand, there can ...
Are You a Manager or a Leader - or Both?
By Charlie Lang · 18 years ago
When I ask my coaching clients, mostly senior executives, what they do during a typical working day, I notice that most of them spend the majority of their time with management rather than with leadership ...
Leadership on the Brink
By Charlie Lang · 18 years ago
THE PROBLEM SITUATION Imagine you are the chief operating officer (COO) of a mid-sized corporation, say with 2,000 employees. Your company manufactures commodities like cables for cars. It’s headquartered in Hong Kong, but has factories ...
Does Your Style Of Leadership Inspire?
By Jonathan Farrington · 18 years ago
An inspired and motivated workforce is essential for any business that hopes to stay ahead of the competition. But just how do you motivate people? What kind of leadership do people respond to? And how ...
Ben Franklin: Leadership Guru?
By Gerry Czarnecki · 18 years ago
Ben Franklin is typically associated with the Declaration of Independence, bifocals, and the spirit of invention. His name doesn’t generally bring to mind “management guru”, but Justin Fox, an editor of Fortune magazine posits that ...
Effective Leadership: A 22 Question Leadership Test
By Colleen Kettenhofen · 18 years ago
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden There’s a big difference between just being a team leader, and leading so that people will willingly want to follow ...
Qualities To Look For In A Leader
By Dennis Sommer · 18 years ago
Are you ready to take over a leadership role in your organization ? You probably feel comfortable with your industry, managing staff, technology, and political culture at this point. But, have you developed and fined ...
Effective Leadership Styles
By Bill Gorman · 18 years ago
No matter the individual or the reason at hand, all effective leadership styles have one thing in common- they all contain the “Four C’s”- Character, Communication skills, Consistency, and the Creativity needed for successful problem ...
Seven Ways to Improve the Results of Your Leadership Development Efforts
By Kevin Eikenberry · 18 years ago
Every day we deal with a variety of matters of urgent importance in our organizations. Seldom is leadership development on that urgent list. While perhaps not urgent, few things are of greater importance to the ...
How Can a Vision Turn Your Business to Churn out More Profits and Productivity?
By Alex Cheong · 18 years ago
Only when you have a vision that your team buys into, will you expect results, both tangible and intangible to happen. A vision provides a sense of direction with regards to where everybody in the ...
Great Leaders display the 3Cs and 2Ps; Simple but Universal
By Alex Cheong · 18 years ago
For those of you who harbor bold dreams of becoming a leader with a mission of realizing your vision, we now seek to inculcate in you the 5 essential components that make up a vision. ...
The Perpetual Touches of Leaders: Some Case Studies To Get You Thinking
By Alex Cheong · 18 years ago
Leadership exists everywhere in every form imaginable. In almost every scenario or activity a leader is needed to come to the fore to take on the challenge of guiding the rest to achieve the common ...
How To Make The Power Of Mastermind Work For The Ordinary You
By Alex Cheong · 18 years ago
It can be quite a daunting prospect trying to form your mastermind group for the first time. You start to wonder where can you find the right people, questions start to be asked, you doubt ...
The Power Of Positive Thinking
By Franck Silvestre · 18 years ago
Just imagine, look at yourself as a winner in every situation, you control your mind, you do not let any situation fool you... Do you know the real difference between the sleepers and the awakes? ...