Leadership Articles
Think about specific activities in your company that help you make a profit. Of course there are the sales. And there is generating cash flow. And there is the pricing of your products or services. Would it surprise you if I told you there are 9 activities in any company that help you drive profitability?
Wed, 14 Jan 2009: To Learn from the Best, Watch Them While They Exceed the Competition
This article explains how to design a study of leadership to capture the important qualities to emulate.
Wed, 14 Jan 2009: 10 Smart Moves a CEO Can Make Today to Stay Profitable
Anyone can run a company during good times. When you are making money, it's easy to overlook some of the deeper issues that are lying beneath the surface just waiting for an excuse to move to the top of your company's list of challenges and create havoc. Paying attention to these ten proven concepts will help your company weather today's storm and make sure the next one won't hit you so hard.
Tue, 13 Jan 2009: Short-Term Thinking Is a Death Knell in a Tight Economy
When the economy or any other mitigating factor negatively impacts your company, you go into survival mode and make short-term decisions. Instead you should use these difficult times to start thinking more long-term and the best way to do that is to get your employees educated on how your company makes and keeps money.
Tue, 13 Jan 2009: How Tribes Are the Magic Groups Which Secure Your Profits
I've been reading Seth Godin's powerful book tribes and have come away with a number of takeaways and I'm going to go through five of those with you here.
Sun, 21 Dec 2008: How Business Leaders Cheat Thier People and Limit Growth
Lack of accountability steals growth, I find this far too often with managers and leaders. Discover why and what to do about it.
Fri, 5 Dec 2008: How to Lead Your Business Through the Recession
One by one, countries are succumbing to recession as a result of the global credit crunch. What on earth should business leaders do in these circumstances?
Mon, 1 Dec 2008: Conflict in the Workplace
Conflict is part of life, and it is perhaps close to inevitable in the workplace. As you and your coworkers work toward developing new ideas and improving and marketing your products and services, clashes in personality, philosophy, and intent are not just expected, but almost inescapable.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008: Overcome Divisions to Joyfully Connect People and Accomplish More as a Constructive Business Leader
Effective business leaders bring people together who wouldn't otherwise meet. In addition, constructive business leaders help these new acquaintances and colleagues to accomplish things that seem impossible. This article explains what needs to be done.
Tue, 25 Nov 2008: What We Miss from Our Leaders
If you follow the leader wrong you'll wind up right where you started, or worse. Learn how to close in on this simple source of success they won't teach you in college.
Wed, 19 Nov 2008: The Planning of Six Sigma Online Training
Six sigma online Opportunities can exist at any level of a hierarchy including complex, system, subsystem, component, and element levels.
Tue, 18 Nov 2008: The Art of Intentional Inquiry - A Secret Weapon of High Performance Leadership
Learning how to ask the right questions that require your team to think instead of just responding is an art that requires experience and practice. It's also the basis for good coaching.
Wed, 22 Oct 2008: Get Commitment, not Submission, when you Manage Performance Problems
Managers sometimes act as if talking straight with people means telling them what to do and then watching them closely to make sure they do it. This management style may get the work done, but there is not likely to be much commitment to it.
Sat, 18 Oct 2008: Writing Your Own Leadership Books
As a business leader you have a lot to share with future generations. Do it with your own leadership books.
Wed, 24 Sep 2008: LEADERSHIP IS PERFORMANCE NOT POSITION
Leadership for 2020 is going to be very different. What will be Values, Psychology, Technology, Sociology, Business world and management world in the year 2020? We have to prepare young children in classrooms for the year 2020. Leadership 2020 should be taken as a mission of the all countries and futurologist should put some sincere thoughts on it.
Fri, 12 Sep 2008: Finding Your Competitive Edge
What are the characteristics of organizational excellence, the attributes that must be present for your company to survive and prosper in the 21st. Century?
Thu, 14 Aug 2008: Leadership Skills: How to Be a Successful Communicator
How you pass on information can significantly affect what happens next. If you want people to act on your information, you need to make sure they understand it. And that's not as simple as it sounds.
Mon, 11 Aug 2008: Two Essential Leadership Strategies for Changing Company Culture
We can learn some interesting lessons about how to change corporate culture from what the big banks are doing in response to the global credit cruch and financial scandals
Tue, 29 Jul 2008: Compensate to Motivate Your Sales Team
Channeling the energy of a sales team can be challenging. How you compensate them determines where they invest their time and the results you get.
Sat, 26 Jul 2008: Three Steps to Unleashing Your Team's Potential
Most people could perform at a much higher level than they do if their boss created a suitable environment for them to flourish in. In many instances, it's the boss who is holding the team back by trying to control it too closely.
Sat, 26 Jul 2008: Two Serious Failings of Really Useless Leaders
Poor business leaders fail to recognize the importance of emotion and explanation in the workplace
Sat, 26 Jul 2008: How to Learn from Your Leadership Mistakes
Success can stop you learning, but mistakes can kickstart change.
Sat, 26 Jul 2008: Are You the Worst Leader in the World?
The biggest single hurdle preventing employees from increasing their performance is their bosses.
Sat, 26 Jul 2008: The Ultimate Leadership Strategy
Most executives know they should put poeple first. So why don't they?
Sat, 26 Jul 2008: The Number One Failing of Really Useless Leaders
Leaders shouldn't hope to get better by looking at inspirational leaders such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa. We can learn far more from assessing the damage done by bad leaders.
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