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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Toyota's no-show leadership

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The last time anyone looked, Toyota (the world's largest car manufacturer) was a Japanese company controlled by a Japanese family. But d...

Diamonds in the Rough

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Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane Jr. shares his views on what it means to be a successful business leader in this article - http://www...

Keeping Your Word

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Your word is one of the most precious things you have as a leader, but many people think very little of breaking it. This is a mistake for ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

The True Test of Leadership

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An excerpt from the Address of President-Elect John F. Kennedy Delivered to a Joint Convention of the General Court of the Commonwealth of M...

Positive Leadership - Success, Heroes and Role Models

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Jean Driscoll is a six-time Boston Marathon winner in the wheelchair division. Here is what she says about 'success': 'Some pe...

54% of US Employees Feel Their Senior Leadership Team Is Effective

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Research conducted by the Kenexa Research Institute, evaluated workers' views of their organisation's senior leadership team. Accord...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Lack of Leadership Holding Back Growth in the Scottish Economy

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Here is an excellent article which first appeared earlier this year in The Herald newspaper, written by the chairman of Scottish Enterprise...

Francois Pienaar on Nelson Mandela

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'The future belongs to leaders who want to win, without ever losing track of their own values.' Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric ...
Monday, February 01, 2010

What Sets Roger Federer Apart as a Sporting Leader

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This is a very interesting article and well worth reading - http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/tennis/theres-only-one-roger-federer-...

Leadership Award Announced by NFL

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Perhaps this recent announcement will give some food for thought to those reponsible for high profile professional sports in the UK? The N...

More Evidence Showing the Importance of Leadership Development in 2010

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Henley Business School has revealed that developing the leadership skills of middle managers and equipping them to manage change are among t...

Increased Spending on Leadership Development Predicted in 2010

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According to recent Deloitte research, 'economic optimism has reached its highest level among surveyed executives since January 2009...

Leadership Requires an Ability to Deal with Adversity

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Dealing with adversity is one of the core challenges of the leader. Developing a coping strategy for yourself and your team is essential fo...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

British Leaders - They're Not What They Were

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'Leadership, wrote the Chinese general Sun Tzu, is “a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage and discipline”. If ...

The Quiet Mind and Innovation

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'Executives at GE, 3M, Google, Bloomberg Media, and Salesforce.com do it. Ford chairman William Ford does it, as do former corporate chi...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

How To 'Manage Up' A Difficult Leader

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Here is an interesting story from Forbes magazine ( http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/19/manage-up-boss-leadership-careers-workplace.html?partne...
Friday, January 29, 2010

People Centred Leadership Delivers Outstanding Performance

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The Work Foundation’s major study to reveal the essence of outstanding leadership has crushed the commonplace assumption that powerful lead...

Removing Negative Self-Talk

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As we all know, people talk to themselves.  We all spend the whole day talking to ourselves, even if we don’t realise it.  Self-talk is lik...

US Business Leaders Lack Credibility

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Only about a quarter of people consider U.S. business leaders to be credible, according to a new global survey. That's markedly worse t...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Attitude is a Key Value of Positive Leadership

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At Positive Leadership, we define attitude as an overall outlook on life, a mind-set or way of thinking that affects everything that you do...

Positive Leadership

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It's hard to believe Clint Eastwood will be 80 this coming year. Do you remember him from the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns of the ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Leaders of the Pack

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Here is some interesting and thought provoking comment from Forbes magazine ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos: 'One of the ...

Building a Leadership Community of High Commitment and High Performance

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If the leaders of the financial institutions implicated in the economic crisis had had the aspirations, the higher moral purpose, or the sa...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Leadership Skills Lacking in Over 50% of US Managers

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According to a recently published survey, the majority of workers in the U.S. find their bosses likeable, but feel the management within th...