All posts tagged "Leaders"
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How Leaders Build Trust
I spoke with my friend Bill George, Senior Fellow and Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School,...
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The Politics of Fiction
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel...
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Collaboration Capability
The above leadership development model was co-created recently whilst I was working with a senior leader of a Fortune 500...
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Mindful Leadership
Dear friends, Earlier this year I had the privilege of hearing Arianna Huffington speak about the power of...
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Are Entrepreneurs Happier?
One of the questions I’m asked most often is, “Are you happy all the time because you’re an...
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Pull vs Push
The business strategist and coach shares why in life, and in business, pull has much more power than...
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Extraordinary Bosses
A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to...
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Lessons Learned
Are there certain leaders that you find inspirational? Steve Jobs inspires me because he faced tremendous adversity in...
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Powerful Trait
Recently I conversed with a friend who runs a large company. He was struggling with communications challenges typical...
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Leaders Like Wolverine
Leaders are like Wolverine because leaders have sharp edges – they have to because leadership requires cutting through...
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Seven Key Leadership Traits
Research has shown that there are seven key Trust Factors that are most common in outstanding leaders. Failure...
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Genius Leadership – Making The World A Greater Place
Transactional Leadership is about being the one at the top carrying the burden of responsibility, making sure everyone else...
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The New Social Leadership
When driven by fear, human beings generally go to one of three places: They get stuck. They solve...
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The Five Minute Coach
Managers have it tough. Well most of those I work with do. What I hear from the managers...
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10 Questions for Entrepreneurs
Getting it right in business is not that simple. How on earth do we know if we are...
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The Incomplete Leader
“Be a good leader. Be incomplete. Don’t be perfect, don’t even try….” There is evidence that the best...
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NLP and Leadership
I am an international consultant and author, pioneering the use of NLP for people in business. My work...
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Self-Esteem in the Information Age
This essay appears in the Drucker Foundation’s collection of business essays, The Organisation of the Future (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997)....
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The Three Essential Messages of Steve Jobs (so far)
The retirement of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple is perhaps a bigger earthquake in the world of...
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Leadership and the Art of Politics
As a leadership consultant and executive coach I am often asked by my clients to help them understand...
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The Top 10 Emotionally-Intelligent Fortune 500 CEOs
I entered Stanford Business School twenty-nine years ago as a naive twenty-one year old, the youngest in my...
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The Cost of Arrogant Leadership
Mac Davis sang, “Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way,” and whilst...
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The “I” In Team
As a person who works with athletes in many sports at all levels from juniors to international teams...
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How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and...
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‘How To’ Guide for Visionary Entrepreneurs
As visionary creators, we’ve created and are in touch with loads of wonderful, internet based resources for transforming...
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How to Pick an Expert?
At the last Investec Academy course in Riebeck West, I chatted to some of the boys about how...
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One-man World Summit
Scottish funnyman Rory Bremner convenes a historic council on the TEDGlobal stage — as he lampoons Gordon Brown,...
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Altruism – The Social Imperative Of The Decade
Social Entrepreneur Creel Price shares his insights into why Altruism has become the social imperative of the decade....
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9 Tips for Building Rapport
Rather than following suggested guidelines, which I am sure are readily available on this subject, I have rather...
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Leading Your Workforce During An Economic Crisis
In the days and weeks since the economy began tanking, the workforce has been on an emotional roller...
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Leadership in Troubled Times
Unless you have been on holiday on another planet you are acutely aware of the current financial ‘readjustment’...
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A New Paradigm of Leadership Emerges
There’s a whole new kind of leadership emerging in the world today. I call these new leaders ‘The...
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How You Manage to Lead
Leadership is oft talked about in the business world today. Is this because it is one of the...
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Advancing Your Career – An Inside Job
Anybody who has employed more than a couple of people will have come to the realisation that “you...
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Situational Leadership – Part 2
The first article in the three-part ’Situational Leadership’ series highlighted the need for direct connections to be made...
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Situational Leadership – Part 1
The need for a situational approach to leadership development. How can leadership styles be shaped to meet the...
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The Secrets of Entrepreneurs Under 40 Exposed…
Katherine Edgar was born in Sydney in 1968. The youngest of three children, she was brought up in...
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Secrets of Internet Entrepreneurs Exposed
“This book takes you up-close and personal with seventeen of the most successful internet entrepreneurs in the country....
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The Power To Actualise
Jim wanted more as a leader, and more as a small business owner. So as I explored his...
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When Things Go Wrong For Those Who Step Up
For years I have found it inspiring to read the stories and biographies of those who became leaders,...
