Positive Leadership: Lessons from Adversity - Simon Cooper of Ritz Carlton

Positive Leadership: Lessons from Adversity - Simon Cooper of Ritz Carlton

Positive Leadership: The Power of Leadership Quotes

Leadership quotes are leadership tools that inspire us. Studies have shown that leadership quotes have made a positive impact in our day-to-day life. They are considered as one of the best leadership tools. These inspirational words awaken your potential. Leadership quotes are one-line statements but their meaning is vast and impact is immense. These words not only inspire but also promote personal development.

Leadership quotes are the right words that are delivered at right time and in a right way.  They can change your negative attitude and transform your problems into opportunities. Leadership quotes can give you strategy to solve your problems. These words help to stay focused in your work. Leadership quotes will encourage and inspire you to achieve higher goals. If you use leadership quotes in a speech, it will have a greater impact on the audience. Leadership quotes will help the speaker to effectively communicate with the audience. Strong leaders use leadership quotes for effective leadership. They use it as a tool to support their strategy, vision and mission. 

Leadership quotes are like pearls of wisdom. It is up to you, to find vision in leadership quotes. A leadership quote if implemented can transform your life positively. Leadership quotes can tell you how to be successful in life.

Positive Leadership: The Power of Leadership Quotes

Positive Leadership: Defining Corporate Culture

Andy Friere, Co-founder and CEO of Axialent, argues that what leaders do--not what they say--defines the organisation's culture. Friere suggests that most leaders are not actually aware of how what they do is perceived and shapes culture. However, shaping a strong culture is one of the most important activities for any entrepreneur because it determines, in part, whether the company goes on to success after the founder leaves or whether it fails.

Positive Leadership: Defining Corporate Culture

Positive Leadership: Building Team Spirit Together

Societe Generale recently launched a new communications campaign, with a new signature, around a message that is strong and engaging for its customers and its employees: "Building team spirit together".

Positive Leadership: Building Team Spirit Together

Positive Leadership: How Video Games Build Leaders

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

Positive Leadership: How Video Games Build Leaders

Positive Leadership: The Importance of the Right Team Attitude

Herschel Walker talks about the attitude of the Georgia Bulldogs 1980 National Championship team.

Positive Leadership: The Importance of the Right Team Attitude

Positive Leadership: Dressing for Leadership

Jewellery designer and fashion blogger Wendy Brandes talks about how Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama have handled the tricky question of dressing like a leader:

Positive Leadership: Dressing for Leadership

Positive Leadership: How To Handle Difficult Conversations

Mary Ellen Slayter, Senior Editor of SmartBrief sits down with the Chief Human Resource Officer for Time Warner Cable Paul Falcone to discuss how HR managers can best manage the 101 toughest employee conversations:

Positive Leadership: How To Handle Difficult Conversations

Positive Leadership: A Video Every Leader Will Benefit From Watching

In one of the most memorable races in Olympic history Derek Redmond of Great Britain finishes his 400m Semi-Final crying on the shoulder of his father. Powerful. Utterly Olympic.

This take on Redmond's historic Olympic run gets the goose bumps going, but also drives home some valuable leadership lessons. We're all subject to disappointment and failure, but leaders are defined and remembered for how they react in times of crisis. Similarly, the people we surround ourselves with are often the keys to our achievements, helping us through when the going gets tough. When your time comes, how will you react, and who will help you through the finish line?

Positive Leadership: A Video Every Leader Will Benefit From Watching

Positive Leadership: The Big Question

Famed Harvard Legal professor, Alan Dershowitz, asks developing and aspiring leaders to think forward. Taking a page from science fiction, Dershowitz asks his students to imagine the future and what issues will have to be confronted. In asking the question, his hope is to get people thinking about where we're going, prepare them to confront challenges, and assume a leadership position along the way:

Positive Leadership: The Big Question

Positive Leadership: Usain Bolt - The Art & Science of Coaching (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Positive Leadership: Usain Bolt - The Art & Science of Coaching (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Positive Leadership: The Changing Face of Leadership

Recent studies in the field of management, particularly related to leadership, indicate that there are dramatic changes happening in how people in organisations perceive a leader and leadership. Gone are the days when a leader is recognised by the glow in his face or the charisma he displayed. It is no longer a mandatory trait that a leader exudes power from his face.

Organisations today observe that ordinary individuals also demonstrate strong leadership traits and are able to drive teams towards achievement. A leader is no longer expected to have that “larger-than-life,” flamboyant behaviour. It is also a widely observed phenomenon that it is not just the individuals at the top level who play leadership roles, there are many others down the hierarchy; who demonstrate the ability and the keenness to lead teams and nurture team spirit.

Another characteristic that is being accepted by the majority of organisations is that leaders are not born. Even the shop-floor supervisor or the frontline executive could instil a vision in their colleagues and  subordinates and help them share a common goal.

Furthermore, the understanding exists that leaders do not coerce others to do work. They achieve results through developing a shared vision and communicating it to others while inducing the passion and commitment. Commitment is also seen as one of the important traits that stands out in most surveys done on leadership during the last decade.

Leaders today must outline tasks for their teams, and then focus on equipping the team members with the right knowledge, skills and attitude and also get their buy-in. Employees at all levels of the organisation are increasingly being asked to demonstrate the capacity to lead and ensure that the organisation stays abreast of changing times. 

Positive Leadership: The Changing Face of Leadership

Positive Leadership: Must Be The Music

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Positive Leadership: Must Be The Music

Positive Leadership: Building a Better Life in Business

Former HSBC Chairman Stephen Green, author of Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World, talks about money, morality and an uncertain world.

Positive Leadership: Building a Better Life in Business

Positive Leadership: Rediscovering the Why of Work

Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey advocates for creating organisations that value teamwork, transparency and trust. 

Positive Leadership: Rediscovering the Why of Work

Positive Leadership: The Six Attributes Every New Employee Needs

Jim Collins' book, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't attained long-running positions on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week best seller lists. Here he discusses how to tell when new hires are qualified for the job.

Positive Leadership: The Six Attributes Every New Employee Needs

Positive Leadership: Take Responsibility For Your Own Leadership Development

An interview with Joseph L. Bower, Professor, Harvard Business School. 

To become an effective CEO, work for companies committed to leadership development, and take responsibility for your own development on the job.

Positive Leadership: Take Responsibility For Your Own Leadership Development

Positive Leadership: Too Big to Innovate

AOL co-founder Steve Case talks about the "attacker" spirit of start-ups and the challenge of playing "defence" at a big company. 

Positive Leadership: Too Big to Innovate

Positive Leadership: Malcolm Gladwell on Talent

In his latest work, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of Outliers: The Story of Success—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful people and asks the question: Why are high achievers different from regular people? Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, the cultural forces that make Asians so successful at math and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Positive Leadership: Malcolm Gladwell on Talent

Positive Leadership vs Bad Leadership

Barbara Kellerman, the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the theme of her latest work entitled Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Leadership for the Common Good):

Positive Leadership vs Bad Leadership

Positive Leadership: Rory Shows Resilience and Bouncebackability!

The sporting story of the past week was undoubtedly the implosion of Rory McIlroy at the US Masters Golf. 

Having led the tournament for three rounds he dropped 8 shots in less than 10 holes to finish well behind the eventual winner Charl Schwartzel.  It was a classic lesson in the effects of pressure on performance – as the realisation that he could actually win the thing ultimately became his undoing.

After the second round all the talk was about how Rory would be the youngest winner since Tiger Woods at 21 years of age - but after he so spectacularly failed to win it, should we also blame his age for his inability to handle the pressure?  Well it didn’t stop Woods, but there’s no doubt that a few grey hairs and the experience of having ‘been there before’ makes an enormous difference when it comes to the crunch.  You can’t simulate that in training – it very often comes down to experience, focus and pure desire.

The good news is that Rory is already showing the kind of resilient response that he’ll need to bounce back from this disappointment and turn it into the kind of learning that could fuel his future success. 

Immediately after he finished he tweeted:

“Well that wasn’t the plan! Found it tough going today, but you have to lose before you can win. This day will make me stronger in the end.”

Here he clearly shows that he’s got things in perspective – the humour is definitely a good sign!  He is already able to attribute the failure as a one-off and something from which he will build confidence and experience.  After two rounds in this week’s Malaysian Open – a 10,000 mile trip through 12 time zones – McIlroy is joint leader of the tournament on 11 under par!!

So watch this space – this is the mentality of a future champion!

Positive Leadership: Rory Shows Resilience and Bouncebackability!

Positive Leadership: Follow Your Own Truth

Meaning is not something a leader stumbles across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in the lottery. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own self-understanding. You find it in your past, in your passions, affections and loyalties, out of your innate talents and gifts, out of what you believe is true; out of the people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. You can learn from others and benefit from their wisdom but in the end, your life is your own. Only you are responsible for the choices and decisions you make in life.  Let it be a life that has dignity, elegance and meaning. Find your own truth and become the captain of your soul.

Positive Leadership: Follow Your Own Truth

Positive Leadership: Hard Work beats Talent

Journalist and former table tennis champion Matthew Syed (author of Bounce : How Champions are Made ) argues that academic research has ruled out the idea of innate talent.

Positive Leadership: Hard Work beats Talent

Positive Leadership: Resilience

As Rory McIlroy admits he'll find it hard to forget his recent Masters nightmare, Matthew Syed, author of Bounce : How Champions are Made explains why the young player can recover.

Positive Leadership: Resilience