Leadership Articles

Business » Leadership | By John Nicholas @ Tuesday, 26th September 2006 @ 6:31 AM

"Success is 99% failure." So said Soichiro Honda the founder of highly successful Honda Motor Company. Honda is reputed to produce some of the highest quality fuel efficient cars in the world. He is also considered an innovative leader among auto manufacturers because of his concepts. In past articles I've talked a lot about success. Today I will talk bout how failure is part of success. People who always play it safe rarely succeed. The reason is that their fear of failure i... more...

Business » Leadership | By Regina Maniam @ Saturday, 23rd September 2006 @ 11:12 AM

Having good team players is key to great teams. No matter what other fancy stuff we do in the name of team building, if your team members are not good team players, managing the team will be quite a struggle. How can good team players be developed? Team players are usually the people that are known for sharing and hard work. This alone will not be sufficient as people also want to see their career progress and be recognized. Then how do you focus people towards the team goa... more...

Business » Leadership | By Kris Koonar @ Friday, 22nd September 2006 @ 11:06 PM

Business coaching is necessary for surpassing the current levels of performance and productivity. The challenges faced by todays organizations in terms of reinvention, reengineering, reorganizing and right sizing has forced them to utilize business coaching in order to compete in the current market environment. For the proper growth of any organization, it is necessary to have executives who are up-to-date with the recent trends and have beliefs, values, attitudes, motivation and thoughts that w... more...

Business » Leadership | By Ron Bates @ Tuesday, 19th September 2006 @ 8:19 PM

For some executive hiring authorities who do not have any background in Sales, it can be a challenge to really know if they are making a good hiring decision when interviewing prospective Executive Sales Leaders, Managers, or quota carrying individual contributors. Why? Because any halfway accomplished sales professional is capable of putting forward a sophisticated smoke & mirrors presentation in an attempt to close a deal. The sales process and strategic complex selling can b... more...

Business » Leadership | By John Nicholas @ Monday, 18th September 2006 @ 8:20 PM

The Japanese term "Kaizen" means the process of continuous, ongoing, small, steady incremental improvements. It's the magic of taking something good and making it great. The SECRET to leadership success is to apply Kaizen with The Law of the Slight Edge! The Law of the Slight Edge is: you don't have to be twice as good to be twice as successful. All it takes to gain the edge is to improve just 1% in many areas (maybe even 100) rather than to try to improve 100% in... more...

Business » Leadership | By Regina Maniam @ Wednesday, 13th September 2006 @ 9:13 AM

Team building is key to businesses in delivering profitability and customer satisfaction. Strange as you may think, I believe it is also key to employee satisfaction. A team is made up of a number of people charged withdoing a specific piece of work. The team is put together primarily based on the skills required as defined for the project. In the fast moving environment that we live in, the extent to which team members can work together is hardly given any consideration. It also does not... more...

Business » Leadership | By John Nicholas @ Wednesday, 13th September 2006 @ 3:31 AM

How often have you heard, "You want me to do what? Get someone else!" When you feel you're too important to help in some menial, but necessary task, you're only fooling yourself. You will never be exempt from the mundane. The upside is: that's what helps to build character to make you a stronger leader. My father used to say, "Son, no matter what you do in life whether it's mopping a floor on up to leading men in the military, if you should die doing... more...

Business » Leadership | By Lee Colan @ Tuesday, 12th September 2006 @ 1:56 AM

Most types of sports equipment like a golf club, a tennis racquet or a baseball bat have a certain spot that, if the ball hits it, will give the player the optimal result. Hitting this sweet spot yields a long drive down the fairway, a swift crosscourt return or home run swing. Every sport has a sweet spot of some type. If you have experienced it, you know when you hit the sweet spot, you barely feel it. The ball goes where you want it to go - even further and faster. Doesn't get any b... more...

Business » Leadership | By Sanjay Johari @ Thursday, 7th September 2006 @ 12:03 PM

Several years earlier I read a book which had this sentence as its title - You are born to be a leader. Since then this sentence has remained at the back of my mind. With my passing years I am realizing more intensely that everybody is a potential leader. Everyone specializes in some area and he or she is better than others at something. There is some uniqueness in everyone. At times everyone wishes or dreams of achieving something in life. Everyone tends to follow his or her inner voice.... more...

Business » Leadership | By Abbas Abedi @ Thursday, 31st August 2006 @ 3:33 AM

Leaders are born. Do you agree or disagree? Sorry, there are no scientific proofs or guiding rules to substantiate this allegation. Simply put, the potential to lead is based on the ability of a person to persuade or make others follow willingly. Leadership is a skill. Like any other skill, such as driving and biking, it can be learned. Most of the well-known leaders started from zero, hardly knowing anything related to leadership. Others were even a burden to society until... more...

Business » Leadership | By Lee Colan @ Tuesday, 29th August 2006 @ 3:40 AM

Excellent leadership is defined by excellent thinking. Words and acts of excellence are preceded by thoughts of excellence. Our minds are magnets. What we focus on is what we get. Our thoughts and beliefs have that much power. Think about it! We receive what we believe about leadership. This works just as powerfully with negative thoughts as it does with positive thoughts. You might be asking, "How can I be positive all the time when negative situations are a reality. The... more...

Business » Leadership | By Lee Colan @ Tuesday, 29th August 2006 @ 3:40 AM

Success naturally makes us comfortable. We want to enjoy our success, so we tend to slow down... just a little, we let our focus slip, just a little, we play it safe, just a little. It might be hard to see this in ourselves, but it's easy to see it in the world of sports. How many times have we seen teams lose their momentum and then lose the game because instead of playing to win, they began playing not to lose? They get ahead, but then they pull back and stop playing with the intensi... more...

Business » Leadership | By John Nicholas @ Monday, 28th August 2006 @ 7:35 PM

Part of good leadership requires skill in the hiring process. Good leaders know that retention of productive employees affects the bottom line as well as morale and growth. Recruiting, training and then terminating someone are never desirable. There are many good candidates you could hire. However, even though they may have certain desirable skills, they may not be right for the job at hand. The key is not just to hire the right person, but to hire the right person for the right job.more...

Business » Leadership | By Lee Colan @ Saturday, 26th August 2006 @ 12:08 PM

A common characteristic of high-achieving leaders is a deep sense of passion. Passion is the glue that helps teams stick to their plans through adversity and over the long haul. There are three success factors for leaders capitalize on the power of passion. Paint the Picture Focus and competence engage the minds of your employees. To engage their hearts and ignite their passion, we must meet one of their most basic psychological needs - to contribute to something bigger than a ... more...

Business » Leadership | By Abbas Abedi @ Saturday, 29th July 2006 @ 6:50 AM

This may seem like a great spoiler; but certainly, there is no such thing as a hard and fast rule when it comes to leadership. Every organization, circumstance, and leader calls for different courses of action. What is to be considered as "good" leadership depends on various factors such that what could be "good" leadership in one instance could be "bad" leadership in another. Nevertheless, you need not fret if you are seeking ways to improve your leadership. The... more...

Business » Leadership | By Abbas Abedi @ Wednesday, 19th July 2006 @ 3:07 PM

This may seem like a great spoiler; but certainly, there is no such thing as a hard and fast rule when it comes to leadership. Every organization, circumstance, and leader calls for different courses of action. What is to be considered as “good” leadership depends on various factors such that what could be “good” leadership in one instance could be “bad” leadership in another. Nevertheless, you need not fret if you are seeking ways to improve your leadership. There are generally accepte... more...

Business » Leadership | By Jeff Schuman @ Tuesday, 11th July 2006 @ 6:53 AM

Will you choose to be successful today? Success is a choice you can make. Do you believe that statement? If you do not then you have chosen (yes chosen) a different route and success may not come to you! Success is about choosing what you want in life and taking the necessary steps to achieve that goal. Success is not stopping until you get there! Read the last two sentences again. Easy to say but how do you get there? What are the choices made by the successful? What are they doing diff... more...

Business » Leadership | By Kimberly King @ Saturday, 24th June 2006 @ 12:48 PM

Mentoring is a challenging skill that requires more than just training on communication skills. Before you send your Supervisors to leadership training, coaching training or a course in Management 101, put these processes in place first in order to truly drive change for your business and create Mentors that have a mission. 1. Provide A Mentoring Mission Statement. Just like travelers need a map to know where they are going, Mentors need a mentoring mission statement to know their dire... more...

Business » Leadership | By Liane Bate @ Wednesday, 7th June 2006 @ 11:08 PM

I didn’t know what making a contribution meant, or what its value was until I finished 7 years of university and college, and was about 3 years into my first real job. I would work day-to-day on a job that gave me incredible work skills and knowledge that I still use today. But it wasn’t until someone higher up in the organization empowered me to contribute to the organization as a whole rather than to just to one separate part that I realized the true meaning of contribution. Not only did thi... more...

Business » Leadership | By Tony Jacowski @ Tuesday, 6th June 2006 @ 10:39 PM

Golda Meir, the Russian born Israeli politician once said, “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” How very true. This is the perfect example for how a businessman must think. The lesson that this quote teaches is to think differently while still being within the limits of reason. It emphasizes the importance of time and time management. What are some other traits of successful businessmen and what are the steps one must take in order to cultivate your business aptitude? Here are a few... more...