Positive Leadership

Positive Leadership Limited is a strategic leadership and corporate finance advisory firm. We use our considerable experience to provide unique perspectives and innovative solutions which help corporate leaders unlock maximum value from complex business challenges. There is no dress rehearsal for delivering answers to critical business challenges. When you are under intense pressure to succeed, we help deliver the vitally important marginal gains which let your business excel and win.

Friday, December 11, 2009

What Makes a Boss a Winner?

What makes a good business leader? Is it intellect, charisma, luck, charm, thuggery, stamina, ruthlessness, cunning, or simply intuition? Or is it a cocktail of all these things?

Regardless, it doesn't matter how good the chief executive is, he is never going to make a success out of a fundamentally bad company.

In recent history, Britain has been famously good at inventing and discovering things but not very good at commercial exploitation of them. But it would be wrong to attribute this to failure of leadership.

It's no accident that virtually all the truly memorable business leaders of the past century have been Americans. It is the sheer size of the market that matters, for therein lies the commercial opportunity that makes great companies. That's why we may soon be looking to China and India to produce the superstars of the business landscape.

One final tip not widely appreciated. Behind every outstanding business leader lies an outstanding PA. Without one, you won't so much as get past first base.

For more, see - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/6612263/What-makes-a-boss-a-winner.html

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