Strategic Leadership Advisory Services from Positive Leadership

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Thinking of Leading? Think About Winning First!

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As a 34-year veteran of the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, Pradeep Pant, President of Kraft Foods Asia Pacific, can say quite c...

How (Not) to Lead in a Crisis

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Tony Hayward, ex ceo of BP, must have studied management in a parallel universe, where a set of anti-rules for bad leadership are taught. He...

The Importance of Ethics and Values in Business Leadership

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Don Soderquist is the founding executive of The Soderquist Centre for Leadership and Ethics and former chief operating officer of Wal-Mart. ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Positive Leadership™ Values-Based Strategic Planning

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What defines our strategic planning process is our emphasis on helping you develop a robust plan built around the values of Positive Leaders...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Attributes of Great Leaders

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If you were to compile a checklist of attributes for great leaders, it would certainly include the following: Visionary?  Check. JFK's...

Helping Individuals Succeed

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The Chinese have a saying: "There's a different length for all the fingers on a hand." You really need to find out each indiv...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

How Video Games Build Leaders

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Stanford professor Byron Reeves on how online multiplayer games like 'World of Warcraft' are creating the next generation of leaders...

The Future of Leadership

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Cross-cultural, female, visionary, and values-driven, Indra Nooyi, chairman and ceo of PepsiCo embodies characteristics that will be increas...

Positive Leadership™ Coaching

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Central to the creation of positive, sustainable, high performance organisations is good leadership .  Positive Leadership Limited supports...

Building a High Performing Organisation

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Here are ten quantum leaps (specific ways of acting and behaving) that build high-performing organisations: Align the Values of Positive Le...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

A Model for Inspirational Leadership

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Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?...

Mentors

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What is a mentor? What is that mentors do? Can having a mentor help you succeed?  These days, there are many sophisticated tools available ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Adaptive Leadership

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Ronald Heifetz is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership and founder of the Centre for Public Leadership at Harvard...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Integrity and Character

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“By themselves, integrity and character do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.”

Decision Making

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‘None of us have a real understanding of where we are heading. I don't. I have senses about it. But decisions don't wait, investment...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

7 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the US Navy Seals

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Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the Navy Seals. Here are 7 lessons: 1. Take Decisive Action: Build your company so that you can ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Opinions

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Silicon Valley futurist Paul Saffo has long argued that the best leaders and the best organisations have strong opinions that are weakly hel...

Leadership is a Transfer of Belief

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As a leader you are not just managing people, you are managing their beliefs.  Beliefs are contagious.   As a leader if you don’t believe ...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Sustaining Success

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Sustaining success is a challenge. Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, fully understands this. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bolt comp...

Military Leadership as a Role Model for Business Leadership

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Military service—particularly service in the crucible of combat—is exceptionally effective at developing leaders. Why? It's nurture, not...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Effective Bosses

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'One of the defining, and most crucial, features of effective bosses is that they shield their followers -- whether from political manoe...

Athletes in Business

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'It is interesting to me that so few athletes make a successful move into business. There are so many things about being an athlete that...

The Dutch Soccer Team and Personal Development

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Many people are holding back their personal development by ignoring an important step – accepting responsibility for their actions. A great...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Winning Under Pressure

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Give Hall of Fame golfer Gary Player 15 minutes and he'll try to save the world. Ask him about his new book Don't Choke: A Champion...