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Friday, August 20, 2010

R. A. S.

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Did you know that you have a built-in screening device that either admits or blocks information?  The human nervous system contains a marve...

Values-Based Leadership

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Steve Newberry, CEO of Lam Research Corporation, gives a keynote presentation based on his model of leadership. Newberry is a graduate of th...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Surprising 'Science' of Motivation

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Excellence v Success

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The best of the best make their life and work a quest for excellence and understand that there is a difference between success and excellenc...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

How a 'Non-Policy' on Holidays Can Be The Break You Need

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Silicon Valley success story, Netflix, shows how a non-policy on holidays can provide the break you need.  The idea is that freedom and res...
Monday, August 16, 2010

The Anatomy of a Lie

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Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception  explains how we can navigate a world where lying is second natur...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Motivating Your Staff

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One of the biggest issues that frustrates our clients is the level of motivation of their employees. Often, they feel  their employees are n...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Encouraging Early Entrepreneurship

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We have written recently about the true national challenge being the need to create jobs -  http://positiveleadershiplimited.blogspot.com/20...

Execution

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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done  is about getting the right things done – about producing positive results. If purpose is...

The Red Arrows Set The Standard Each Day At Every Level

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The Red Arrows build every show around a focus or centre point, and build their team around shared values. Without shared values, peak perf...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Great Teaching

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Great teaching is the centre piece of a strong education; everything else revolves around it.’  Bill Gates, speaking to the American Feder...

Great Teaching is the Centre-Piece of a Strong Education

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'Great teaching is the centre-piece of a strong education; everything else revolves around it. This is the main finding of our foundati...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

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Are You a Genius or a Genius Maker?

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Are you a genius or a genius maker?   We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Creating New Jobs

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We can career-counsel people all we want about how to find jobs, but the true challenge now is how to create jobs . The private sector, and ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Leader's Learning

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There are three aspects of a personal learning strategy that are critical to the effective learning of eminent performers, senior executives...
Monday, August 09, 2010

Failure is a Wee Test

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' “You have to suffer failure in this game. It dents your personal pride but it is a part of the game, part of life. But if you take a ...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

HP's Leadership Failure

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Hewlett Packard’s Board of Directors demonstrated recently that if you violate HP’s Standards of Business Conduct (SBC) you can lose your jo...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

The Art of Possibility

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Speaking recently on leadership and problem solving, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander emphasises that everyone has op...
Friday, August 06, 2010

The Mentor Leader

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Tony Dungy retired as coach of the Indianapolis Colts just two seasons after winning the Super Bowl. Since then, he's worked as an NFL a...

'Presence' Determines Leader Success

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The personal quality of presence is one of the most important factors contributing to a leader's successful performance. A leader's...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

'Presence' is a Key Component of Leadership

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One of the most important, yet often overlooked leadership competencies is one that many call ‘leadership presence’. This looks different f...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Executive 'Presence'

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Toss a stone into a pond and watch what happens. The ripples move out from the centre growing larger as they swell before receding into the ...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Flow (or 'Being in the Zone')

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Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure ...