Positive Leadership: Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe

Positive Leadership: Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe

Positive Leadership: Stop and Think

Positive Leadership: Stop and Think

Positive Leadership: Entrepreneurial Advice

Positive Leadership: Entrepreneurial Advice

Positive Leadership: Great Insight from @DougConant

Positive Leadership: Great Insight from @DougConant

Positive Leadership: Life

Positive Leadership: Life

Positive Leadership: The Purpose of a Business

Positive Leadership: The Purpose of a Business

Positive Leadership: Why Do You Want To Lead?

Positive Leadership: Why Do You Want To Lead?

Positive Leadership: Focus

Positive Leadership: Focus

Positive Leadership: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Moving beyond our comfort zone is how we can best learn and grow.

To develop the courage to take a leap, and the skill and ability to actually pull it off:

Understand what’s in it for you to motivate yourself. Brainstorm how working on this tough behaviour — networking, perhaps, or public speaking — can advance your career or help you reach other goals.

Then, customise a plan to take control of a situation instead of being overwhelmed by it. If, for example, you’re an introvert who dreads networking events, instead of feeling pressured to meet everyone, focus on a few people and actually try to get to know them, or aim to make initial contacts with the goal of following up in a more comfortable setting.

For more, see: http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/12/get-out-of-your-comfort-zone-a-guide-for-the-terrified/

Positive Leadership: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Positive Leadership: You Can't Lead Alone

Barry Posner is the Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. 

In this talk he discusses two truths from his book with co-author Jim Kouzes, "The Truth About Leadership;" you make a difference and you can't do it alone. 

Positive Leadership: You Can't Lead Alone

Positive Leadership: The Future of Leadership

Sharing their secrets of leadership success: Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger; Robert Kraft, New England Patriots owner; James Owens, Caterpillar chairman; Wesley Clark, retired U.S. Army general and Alison Levine USMA West Point adjunct professor.

Positive Leadership: The Future of Leadership

Positive Leadership: How to Lead Successfully in a Crisis

How to lead successfully in a crisis:

First, you need the knowledge. In a crisis, there is no way forward without knowing your industry, your business.

Second, you must also be willing to listen to counsel and integrate disparate data and information, yet act with determination.

Third, being prepared to take risks, able to think outside textbook prescriptions and ready to go beyond what others have done are qualities that become essential in dealing with the most severe crises.

When this knowledge, determination and creativity are combined with humility and humanity, the leader becomes an inspiration.

For more, see: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f90198d0-7d84-11e3-a48f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2rXBywVML

Positive Leadership: How to Lead Successfully in a Crisis