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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Performance and Fulfillment

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In business you need high performance. In life, you need a sense of fulfillment. In leadership you need both.   Performance is external. Fu...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Change the Process, Change the Result

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"If we find success, it’s all about sustaining it.  And if we are struggling, it’s all about responding."  Trevor Moawad, Director...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Projecting a Leadership Presence

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To be a successful leader - to truly influence outcomes and inspire others - it is paramount that you project a leadership presence on a dai...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Decision Making at GE

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Leadership by fiat when done in moderation can drive change and set a course.  “I think that if you run a big company, you’ve got to four o...

Decision Making in a Crisis

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By taking your time, evaluating the facts clearly and keeping the bigger picture in mind small business owners can make good business decisi...
Sunday, December 05, 2010

How to Treat People

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Don't talk to all your staff or all your clients/customers the same way, because they're not the same. The Dreyfus model of skill a...
Saturday, December 04, 2010

The Snowstorm Study: A Classic Study of Employee Commitment

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With the UK gripped in the midst of another winter freeze, consider this fascinating piece of research! Behavioural scientists do many stud...

Chinese, Indian Workers Give Bosses Top Marks

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Workers in Japan gave their bosses low marks while managers in China and India won kudos in a recent survey. Only 35% of employees in Japan ...
Friday, December 03, 2010

Making Choices

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Life provides all of us with a series of choices. The choices we make determine how successful we are.   When you acknowledge that you and ...
Thursday, December 02, 2010

Keep Your Team Smiling

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We once had a colleague ask how we trained our employees to smile. We told him we didn’t. We hired the people who smiled during the intervie...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Winning Breeds Winning

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An appreciation of legendary basketball coach John Wooden who died earlier this year.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Positive Leadership and Elite Sport

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Positive Leadership Limited helps leaders throughout an organisation excel under pressure. Our advice assists clients solve critical strate...

Creating Meaningful Corporate Values

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Andrew Cosslett has been Chief Executive of IHG since February 2005. IHG is the World’s largest hotel company operating over 4,100 hotels un...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Servant Leadership In the Workplace

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An  exceptional recent study  of 815 employees and 123 supervisors published in the  Journal of Applied Psychology  makes a very strong argu...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Asking the Right Questions

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Today, we would like to suggest a way to ask questions that will help you change your focus from problems to solutions. If you want to make...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

How Companies Can Develop Critical Thinkers and Creative Leaders

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This article was written by Col. Bernard Banks, a faculty member in the Department of Behavioural Sciences & Leadership at West Point an...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Persistence Wins!

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Persistence.  You must have more than your fair share to succeed. There's plenty of advice out there about knowing when to give up! To...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving to all followers of the Positive Leadership Blog and especially to all our friends in the USA.  Please remember at this...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Aligning Behaviour Around Values

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Leaders intent on optimising performance and results need to recognise the importance of aligning everyone around a single set of core leade...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

What is an Authentic Organisation?

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An organisation is authentic when its actions, its character, and its sense of purpose are aligned with and support each other.   An organi...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Positive Leadership

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A Positive Leadership strategy will help you optimise the profitability of your business. For more information on how we can help your busi...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

It Is About You

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When we think about the best bosses, we think of pride-builders. Pride-builders are experts at engaging the emotional commitment of employee...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Use Failure to Grow Your Business

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How can companies plan and pursue an aggressive growth agenda with confidence? By framing their strategic growth opportunities, testing assu...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Dominating Leaders Make Worse Decisions

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Powerful leaders make worse decisions by dominating their colleagues into silence , a new study from the London School of Economics (LSE) ha...