Good Leaders are Good Listeners, But to Be an Exceptional Leader, You Must Learn to Listen Differently Learning to be an effective listener may be one of the hardest skills to master on your journey to becoming a fully-competent leader. Good leaders listen in a way that enables them to hear and understand what they [...]
Why You Must Invest in Exceptional Leadership (Especially When Business is Good) Most anyone who has ever had bottom-line, P&L responsibilities for a business knows that managing success can be as difficult as managing failure. You relentlessly aim for success, always knowing that the rewards you earn are for avoiding failure. It seems that almost [...]
Many people point to great leaders as a source of personal inspiration. Others credit revered teachers, mentors or family members for having inspired them to believe in themselves, or believe in something bigger than themselves. And influential leaders will often cite someone in their life who inspired them to become the people they are. Inspiration [...]
Exceptional leadership moves mountains. It is not the leaders themselves who actually move the mountains. It is the competent organizations they lead that make things move. Have you ever attempted to move a mountain? Leadership provides what it takes to cause people to accomplish things that matter by making it both possible and necessary for [...]
One great quality of a highly-competent leader is their ability to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. It is not only necessary to learn from the adversity you face - it is essential that you make yourself a better leader ( and to do so, a better person) with what you learn. These ten stumbling [...]
How do you assess the competence of a leader? It is clearly what they cause to be accomplished. Dr. Lee Thayer, who has written more than a dozen insightful books on leadership strongly suggests that "it is the organization that makes the leader successful, not the other way around." What this means - is that [...]
And Improve Performance and Profitability in Your Company and Restore Sanity in the World As a leader, time is your most precious asset. How you choose to spend it, invest it our share it determines your effectiveness and your happiness. Time is forever finite – and when lost cannot be retrieved. Effective leaders guard their [...]
Sustainability has become a hot topic for good reason. Too much of how we have functioned as a society has burdened the resources necessary for maintaining life. We see this in ecological and environmental terms as it impacts natural resources such as fresh air and water and the consequences of rampant pollution. We also see [...]
Why be a leader? Is it a calling? A sense of duty? Some people fall into leadership positions because of whom they were born to or because they were positioned next in line. Others jockey for the opportunity to be chosen. There are those who deserve to be leaders and those who by any reasonable [...]
How prepared is your company for addressing the challenges and opportunities of the next decade? Think about what has changed for your company in the last ten years. Think about your customers, their needs and how you conduct business with them. How about your supply chain? And consider how your employees think and work differently [...]
