Leadership: everyone wants it but not many can pull it off. Being a leader is more than having a fancy job description under your name or on social media profiles. It is a highly demanding role with many rewards. You may be a boss, manager, chief executive, team leader in a specific department, regardless of …
The success and failure of a corporation, agenda or goal depends entirely on the leadership. They can make themselves a hero and mark themselves in the glory of history books or they can live long enough to see themselves become a villain. There are many competitive advantages which a company can have, but great leadership …
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It’s no secret that leaders perform best when they are at their best, personally as well as professionally. The practices of personal leadership comprise ten ways leaders can learn who they want to be, and how they can reach their true potential, whether that means leading a company, leading a team, or leading a life – all without sacrificing …
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As HR professionals, we study leadership every day. In spite of the number of different personalities and leadership styles, it’s not difficult to narrow down what makes effective leaders stand apart. Research from The Leadership Challenge to Multipliers tells us what a great manager looks like. In fact, if you ask a room full of …
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You’re either a leader or a follower. Leaders are made not born. Leaders come in all shapes and sizes. To say leaders are born prepared would be an understatement to those who made themselves into leaders. Not all leaders get a clear signal, telling them to step up and take action. Everyone feels it in …
Some say success happens to those that work hardest, which is true. But almost all of those who have reached their dreams have had mentors who influenced them every step of the way — influencers who make motivation their life’s work. These elite motivational influencers have created not only entrepreneurial success, but huge social media followings from their …
I spoke with a friend recently whose at a strange and frustrating career crossroads. She’s at a company she likes, and she has hopes of climbing the ranks. There’s someone in her way though: Herself. She wants to move vertically, and be the one who’s leading projects, not just being assigned one-off tasks. The problem …
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Managing a team of professionals in the workplace can be challenging at the best of times, but it’s particularly difficult when there’s a dramatic, or even a modest age difference in play. If you’re younger than the team you’ve been hired to manage, you may find your reputation, and your very identity, is under constant …
The sun and the wind decided to have a contest. They wanted to see who could get a man to take off his coat. The wind, of course, thought he would be able to blow it off if he blew strongly enough. So he blew with all of his force. As his force increased, the …
Great visionaries change the world – people like Henry Ford with the Model T, Mother Teresa helping the poor, and Steve Jobs with the iPhone. You may feel that you want to do something great in the world, but don’t really know where to start. What makes great people different? People who accomplish great things …
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The only things we can truly control in life are our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. If we know about how our minds work, we can be intentional about influencing our own thoughts and feelings. We can evaluate reality more clearly, make better decisions, and improve our ability to achieve goals, thus gaining greater agency, the …
The legendary pioneer of innovative research on entrepreneurship, Gregory Dees, once wisely proclaimed that, “Starting a business is not the essence of entrepreneurship.” The essence of entrepreneurship is a passionate engine of radical transformation that drives the entrepreneur to unknown territories and limitless aspirations all requiring authentic leadership for real results. Economist Joseph Schumpeter, précised …
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell How Great Leaders Think and Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5mjnVd2V0M People have very different opinions about what a leader is. Some people think that the leader is the boss or that the leader is the person that everybody else …
We all know who Mark Zuckerberg is, he is the man behind Facebook. Zuckerberg’s goal to ‘connect people’ has changed the very nature of the modern world, allowing hundreds of millions of people around the world to digitally communicate with more or less anybody who’s got a Wi-Fi connection, stating that “By giving people the …
Social movements; work places; medical facilities; governing bodies; educational institutions; charitable and international organizations. All of these are filled with groups of people who need and want good leadership. Good leadership, in fact, improves their lives and, secondarily, the lives of others who are not even within their groups. Consider a leader such as Martin …
