Leadership

Leadership lesson: A vision has to give people goose bumps

 
As leaders we have to be able to paint a picture in people’s minds, shape the future and to bring it to the present.
 
A dream is also a vision
I was at a recent New Leadership workshop with a client down in Mexico and one of the exercises is what we call a dream-o-graph, people [...]

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Leadership Lesson: Don’t lay bricks. Build a cathedral

Bold compelling visions bring everyone together on a real purpose
I was going through the SmartBrief on leadership newsletter this morning and found a interesting read on a great leadership lesson from Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford.
Mr. Mulally was interviewed by the NYTimes and was asked what leadership lessons he had learned over his career [...]

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Leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln

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Lately I’ve been thinking about leadership and it’s impact on others. I found these 8 leadership principles from Abraham Lincoln to be clear, concise and exemplary of of good leadership practice and thought I share them with you.

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Lincoln on Leadership is an extraordinary treatise on leadership. Is [...]

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10 Most common traits of bad leaders

The authors of a recent article from the Harvard Business Review analyzed a couple of study’s to find out why leaders fail.
As noted from the authors:
In one, we collected 360-degree feedback data on more than 450 Fortune 500 executives and then teased out the common characteristics of the 31 who were fired over the next [...]

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If you don’t make others better, you’re not a leader

Are you making others better?
The NBA season is over and the Los Angeles Lakers are the Champions.
The big talk is all about how Kobe Bryant finally got a ring without Shaquille O’Neal. But the story that is without a doubt the most important for leaders is Phil Jackson surpassing Red Auerbach as the coach with [...]

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