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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Kindness

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Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exi...

Life Lessons

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Robert L. Joss, Professor of Finance, Dean Emeritus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, has some advice a few weeks before graduati...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Authenticity

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What does it mean to be authentic in today's world? It doesn't mean just being different or standing out from the crowd. "Gen...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Leadership Means Responsibility

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In his 'View from the Top' speech, Stanford Graduate School of Business Dean Robert Joss defines what it means to lead: 'It'...
Monday, June 14, 2010

The Importance of Role Models

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Just about everyone knows that good role models are important for a child's development, but have you ever thought about why this is tru...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

The New 21st Century Leaders

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Here is some fascinating insight into a new leadership model for the 21st century from Harvard Professor Bill George: 'During the last ...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Becoming a Great Leader

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Effective leaders are people who have the skills to create visions, build trust, galvanise people, and get things done. Great leaders are ...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Going the Extra Inch

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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

What Every Leader Should Know

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Every leader should know their people’s responses to each of these questions: While working for this organisation… …what’s your greatest ho...

Honesty is the Safest Path to Making Money

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Warren Buffett is arguably America's most admired investor. He is ceo of Berkshire Hathaway. Here is what he had to say at the 2010 Berk...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Character

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How would you describe your own character? What do we mean when we use that particular word? If we were to describe someone to you by sayin...
Monday, June 07, 2010

The Difference between Leaders and Others

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When leaders make a mistake, they say, "I was wrong."  when followers make mistakes, they say, "It wasn't my fault....
Sunday, June 06, 2010

Coach Wooden on Leadership

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As a tribute to John Wooden's amazing legacy of leadership, here are some of Coach Wooden's thoughts on leadership: . LEADERS MUS...

Outliers: The Sory of Success

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A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story Of Success :
Saturday, June 05, 2010

Coach John Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) - An Appreciation

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'It was always startling, never surprising, for the high school coach to look up and see the historic but humble man in the corner of t...

Talent Is Overrated

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 A conversation with Geoff Colvin, author of Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else :
Friday, June 04, 2010

Teamwork Matters in Business as well as in Sport

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At the heart of recent financial service firm failures was a 'me' not 'we' culture and leaders who were not driven by a larg...

See the Opening and 'Go For It'!

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"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

Oops!! - BP chief apologises for 'I'd like my life back' comment

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Under-fire BP chief executive Tony Hayward issued an apology yesterday for saying in an interview that he would "like my life back,...

The Difference Between Business Champions and Sporting Champions

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The way we define the “Champion” level for the clients with whom we work makes it a lot easier to become a “champion” in the business or non...
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

The Scoreboard Can't Tell You Everything

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This interview with Bill Carter, partner in and founder of Fuse, a youth marketing agency, was featured in The New York Times: ‘Q.  Talk ab...

The Importance of linking Job Descriptions to Corporate Strategy

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Recent research from the US shows that companies that fail to take action to regularly link jobs to strategy often are more than twice as li...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Jose Mourinho and Leadership

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‘Many people work hard, but not well. You must create good leadership with the players , which is an accepted leadership, not leadership by ...

Increase your Self-Awareness to become a Better Leader

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Too many leaders think they are adept at everything. Self-aware leaders know that they can't possibly have the skills and knowledge to d...