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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Preventing Leadership Failures

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What causes a leader to fail? What can we learn from those who have fallen? How do we avoid failure of our own? These are just a few of the ...

True Leadership

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True leadership is about bettering the lives of the people around you. That is a simple idea, but far too few people follow it. Too many ex...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Excellence: Don't Fear Failure

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Tom Peters tells a story about a man who was unafraid to fail, and why that makes him an excellent role model:
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Signs of a Positive Leader

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So how do we know when we're following a true leader? Well, that's something we all have to decide for ourselves. But we have some i...

Developing Leaders from the Military

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Bill Simon, the chief operating officer of Wal-Mart U.S. and a 25-year veteran of the US Navy and Naval Reserves, had a suggestion. What the...
Monday, April 26, 2010

What Leaders Need To Do To Keep Top Talent Happy

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With unemployment rates so high, you may think that your employees have no option but to stay with your company. That is a dangerous assumpt...

Are You Squandering Your Intelligent Failures?

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Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath studies innovation, corporate venturing, and entrepreneurship. Her latest book is Discovery-...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Art of Leadership

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Senator William W. Bradley, 66, is a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC.  From 2001-2004, he acted as chief outside advisor to McK...

Ross Perot on Leadership

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Ross Perot, the 79-year-old a former independent US Presidential candidate commented recently that many of the US’s problems would be minimi...

America's Favourite Bosses

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Working for the man in charge of Cheerios, Trix and Lucky Charms might seem less glamorous than working for the man behind the iPod, the iPh...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

What is Success?

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'Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no lu...

Excellence Under Pressure

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Excellence Under Pressure is a key value of Positive Leadership and the ultimate goal of all Positive Leaders. ‘We are what we repeatedly ...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Citizenship in a Republic

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One hundred years ago today, US President Theodore Roosevelt spoke at the Sorbonne in the Grand Amphitheatre at the University of Paris. He ...

Can Scottish Enterprise help to build better businesses?

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From The Herald (23 April 2010): 'Scottish Enterprise does not possess 2020 vision. The agency was bang on the money in its focus on te...

Imagine Yourself........Leading

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Why is it that some Leaders speak so well in public?

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Public speaking is an invaluable skill no matter what your leadership role is, whether you are in sales, need to talk to investors or just w...

Debriefing

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Debriefing is a value of Positive Leadership. ‘Learning involves the gradual reduction of error, like a sniffer dog slowly feathering towa...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Why Blog?

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Failure Can Be A Step On The Road To Success

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Not everyone who's on top today got there with success after success. More often than not, those who history best remembers were faced w...

Service

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Service is a value of Positive Leadership. ‘I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will b...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Managing in an Era of Mistrust

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A new Maritz® Poll conducted by Maritz Research, a leader in employee satisfaction research, paints a dire outlook of American workforce att...

Leading in Rough Seas

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Victor Fung of the Li and Fung Group (the Chinese multinational founded in Guangzhou in 1906) summed up well the sense of the kind of change...

Confidence and Poise

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Confidence and Poise are two values of Positive Leadership. ‘No man can make you feel inferior without your consent.’ Eleanor Roosevelt ‘...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Excellence

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'EXCELLENCE IS NOT AN "ASPIRATION." EXCELLENCE IS THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES. (Think about it.)'   Tom Peters