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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Positive Leadership: Courageous Leaders Apologise!

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We are frequently taught that leaders, especially aspiring leaders, should hide weaknesses and mistakes. This view is flawed. It is not ...

Positive Leadership: Our Offer to You

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What do the recent Barclays LIBOR scandal and the ‘humiliating shambles’ of the G4S Olympics security operation have in common? One ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Positive Leadership: Three Pitfalls Start-Up Founders Must Avoid

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Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School professor, outlines three pitfalls start-up founders must avoid - the three Rs: relationship decis...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Positive Leadership: The Success Formula Behind Lady Vol Athletics

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In 29 years as the leader of the Lady Volunteers, recently retired Joan Cronan's programmes combined to win 10 NCAA Championships, 3...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Positive Leadership: The OODA Loop

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Business is a dogfight. Your job as a leader: outmanoeuvre the competition, respond decisively to fast-changing conditions, and defeat y...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Positive Leadership: American Influence in the 21st Century

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Author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman spoke to a Stanford audience about the themes of his recent book, " That Used T...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Positive Leadership: You Win From Within

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Positive Leadership: Why We Lie

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We like to believe that a few bad apples spoil the virtuous bunch. But research shows that everyone cheats a little - right up to the poin...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Positive Leadership: Improving Your Return On Luck

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Morten Hansen, management professor at UC Berkeley, describes the traits leaders need to help their organisations thrive in times of cha...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Positive Leadership: Training for Mental Toughness

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It is no surprise that it takes stamina and mental toughness to be successful in small business. The truly challenging part is achieving...
Saturday, July 07, 2012

Positive Leadership: Winning at the Olympics

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has posted an epic music video for the official song of the London 2012 Olympics. English ...
Friday, July 06, 2012

Positive Leadership: Maintaining a Winning Approach

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Strategy, understanding the competition and strong technical talent are keys to success in any competitive sport. However, in basketball...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Positive Leadership: The Importance of Values Based Leadership

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No matter how big a company gets, it needs to be prepared to change course if the environment calls for it. That was the message fro...

Positive Leadership: Oops!!

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Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Positive Leadership: The Path to Peak Performance

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Harvard's Dr. Edward M. "Ned" Hallowell (author of Shine ) outlines the five steps necessary to excel at work: select, conne...

Positive Leadership: Barclays, Values and Integrity

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An interesting quote from Bob Diamond, ex CEO of Barclays, at t oday's UK Treasury Select Committee : "I believe values ...

Positive Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Barclays Scandal

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In advance of today’s UK Treasury Select Committee hearing and the expected further fall-out from the Barclays scandal, we believe there...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Positive Leadership: Dealing With Uncertainty

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Monday, July 02, 2012

Positive Leadership: Bankers Need A Moral Compass

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This extract from a recent editorial in the Financial Times highlights the continued appalling state of the UK banking sector and the ne...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Positive Leadership: Great Mentors

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Most of us can identify at least one person, sometimes more, who has served us as a valued mentor.  This is or was an individual whose f...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Positive Leadership: What Great CEO's Do Well

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The "best of the best" CEO’s tend to share the following eight core beliefs: 1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefiel...

Positive Leadership: You Don't Get to Choose the Role You Play

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Sami Jo Small’s motto in life is you don’t get to choose the role you play, but you get to choose how you play it, and it’s a motto she sa...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Positive Leadership: Hard Work Builds Winners

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Positive Leadership: Act Like an Optimist

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In this brief video Jack Canfield describes a simple technique that will get you thinking, perceiving and acting like an optimist, so ...