Articles related to: leadership
126: Are You A Leader?
Leadership is such a common word, especially among organizations and companies, that its true meaning is sometimes lost. Few individuals can really define what a leader is. Most would probably equate ..
127: Essential Leadership Skills for the Home Based Business Entrepreneur
Your leadership qualities will determine your future success as a home based business entrepreneur. They also play a big part in how successful those who follow you will be. Sometimes we choose to lea..
128: The Secret Building Blocks of Leadership
What does it take to be an effective leader? Below are 11 principles, or secret building blocks, of leadership.1. You musk know yourself first and self-improve.Before you become a great leader, ask yo..
129: How to Lead People
A veritable leader attracts followers. Authenticity in a leader allows trust to be built and maintained. Showing who he really is, his followers know what to expect from him and can rely on him, com..
130: Profit from Adding the Right Allies to Prosper from Important Trends
A good way to narrow your search for allies is to consider the combinations of allies who could be most effective in working with the irresistible forces facing your enterprise. Who are the all..
131: Lead Your Organization Away from Being Too Independent in Working with Trends
If you are a leader in your enterprise (whether formally by job or informally by credibility), you have an opportunity to ask questions that can expose the weaknesses of internally dominated thinking...
132: Form Alliances with Matchmakers to Gain Even More Profitable Alliances
Chances are that perfect allies for you are also out there looking for allies and have not considered you. The main reason that your two organizations are not currently allies is that you have no cur..
133: How Does Knowing My Purpose Lead to Success?
"Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision." Bob ProctorThe relationship between pur..
134: You Are Only Going to Be As Good As Your Business Allies
Organizations provide many reasons why they prefer to rely on their own people. These concerns include:-The frequent rate of failure among joint ventures -The difficulty of getting a high priority for..
135: What Does It Take To Be A Good Leader?
What is leadership? There has been a lot said about leadership and many inspirational thinkers have tried to define leadership. We are told that whereas management is doing things right; leadership is..
136: Building Your Small Business Leadership Pipeline
Times have changed and so has the competitive landscape of business management. Traditional business models told business owners and executives that to become more competitive, you had to invent somet..
137: Be Like a Weatherman and Find Out Which Way the Trend Winds Are Blowing
Companies can be slow to see the cause and effect relationship between a problem and an irresistible force that is creating the problem. In a budget shortfall, people search out cost cuts rather than ..
138: Don't Bother Me With Your Help--Can't You See I'm Busy?
Irresistible forces have a way of arriving at what appear to be inopportune times. This timing can mean that those who normally deal with new issues are already occupied with other pressing matters, a..
139: Create a Positive Buying Experience
A few years ago, when I worked at Cadillac, we studied the customer-buying experience in great detail. Our customers talked about how uncomfortable they were when buying a car. They felt cheap and as ..
140: The Challenge Of Change
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United StatesPreparation and anticipation work hand ..
141: Banish that Helpless Feeling When Trends Turn Negative
People who feel helpless often react that way because they cannot locate any acceptable alternatives in their own minds. A good way to circumvent that problem is to find others who have had similar p..
142: When the Situation Looks Hopeless, Doubt Your Lack of Choice
Like Captain Kirk on the Starship Enterprise in the Star Trek television series, movies and books, you should spurn helplessness and believe that there is always a positive way out of a difficult or u..
143: Act Fast When Customers and the Community Lose Faith in Your Offerings
There may be no stronger source of unhappy surprise than having the customers' and community's perceptions of your products and services suddenly turn from positive to negative with no warning. Perha..
144: Helplessness Can Turn a Big Company into One Big, Unhappy Company
The Helplessness Stall often follows the Wishful Thinking Stall. Here's an example of how that can occur. Sales and earnings at a large retail chain had been declining for years. The chain's executiv..
145: Profit from Irresistible Trends Rather than Sit Helpless
"The only limit [to] our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." --Franklin Delano RooseveltBeing buffeted by strong and conflicting irresistible forces can be a little bit like being th..
146: How to Run a Leadership Activity
The big buzz in the Learning and Development community is about Leadership development. "If only we could train good leaders," goes the argument, "we could be beat the world"This belief is so well ing..
147: Boxed In: Which Way Are We Going?
How well does your vision match the irresistible forces and values of those who work in your organization? That's a critical question you need to answer if you are to have a successful strategy. Let ..
148: The Difference Between Leadership and Management
Leadership is process; it is continually in motion. Management is the product of that process, as well as its saviour. Left to itself, movement would travel on into infinity, there would be no boundar..
149: Value Conflicts: Do Your Customers See Slashing Your Organization's Size as Good for Them?
Value conflicts arise frequently in enterprises, leaving those who work in them confused about what to do next and losing effectiveness as a result. A common value conflict arises when a company choos..
150: Leadership, It's all About the Donut!
Some years ago, I was a general manager for a large restaurant chain. I and the other general mangers were in a restaurant that had just been newly remodeled. As we were getting ready for the meeting ..
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