Leadership Articles

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...

Business » Leadership | By Andrew James @ Sunday, 28th May 2006 @ 7:59 AM

There’s a difference between being a boss and a leader. Which one are you? Webster’s definitions of a boss include: A person who exercises control over others and makes decisions, usually the person of highest rank or authority, a supervisor, a person who commands in a domineering manner. In contrast the definitions for a leader include: A person who rules, guides, inspires, escorts, directs, influences, persuades, and is out and ahead of or at the head of others. They have influ... more...

Business » Leadership | By Anna Johnson @ Saturday, 27th May 2006 @ 12:59 AM

As an outstanding manager, you won't just "manage" people; you'll also assist the members of your team develop to their true potential. This means helping team members utilize their talents, develop new skills and knowledge, overcome fresh challenges, become more and more productive, become happier, and in all respects grow as employees and people. To fulfill these responsibilities you'll need to develop coaching -- as well as -- managing skills. Th... more...

Business » Leadership | By Daegan Smith @ Tuesday, 23rd May 2006 @ 8:35 AM

In psychology, a famous doctor said the mind is like an iceberg with only a tip visible above the water and the larger part is submerged. Studies show that humans only use 10% of the brain in doing the various tasks everyday. The other 90% is just kept in storage. Can one imagine what would happen if people had the ability to tap the unused resources? That person can do miracles and itís not only about getting rich. People who are leaders in the respective industries thrive becau... more...

Business » Leadership | By Graeme Nichol @ Tuesday, 23rd May 2006 @ 3:53 AM

Lets begin by understanding a little more about delegation. Hopefully this short piece will allow you to assess your own approach and review its effectiveness or otherwise. Definition - Delegation is where part of your own job consciously passed to a subordinate whilst retaining accountability. As management is really about getting things done through people, successful delegation is vital aspect of a manager's job. The more senior you are the more you really delegate and the ... more...

Business » Leadership | By Daegan Smith @ Saturday, 20th May 2006 @ 7:03 AM

Being a good leader is more than just being able to manage your employees or having better skills than your subordinates. Oftentimes leaders arenít very skillful or very smart, but they earn respect from their underlings and therefore earn their cooperation. Being a good leader entails responsibility and willingness, not just skill and intelligence. Many leaders have different strategies toward leadership, some may or may not work for certain situations, but as you go down the road to und... more...

Business » Leadership | By Daegan Smith @ Friday, 19th May 2006 @ 5:42 PM

There is a saying that goes, leaders are not born, these are made. This line is very true as it was in the olden times and is still applicable today. Before a King turns over the throne to the prince, the young man is trained in various subjects. These include subjects such as combat, history and mathematics. This is a continuous process that happens as duties are given until the time comes that the King either passes away or transfers the power to the young son. In present times especia... more...

Business » Leadership | By Robin Chandler @ Tuesday, 9th May 2006 @ 2:34 PM

There are many qualities that people look for in a leader: the ability to see what's going on, a high level of self-awareness, the skill to motivate and inspire others, good communication and listening skills, the ability to see the big picture and bring others along. One thing that isn't often in the 'top 10' skills, interestingly enough, is the ability to manage conflict, to create conflict and to resolve it. Like most people, leaders are also guilty of avoiding conf... more...

Business » Leadership | By Graeme Nichol @ Thursday, 4th May 2006 @ 6:16 PM

So what makes a vision successful? Everyday companies try to create a vision that will lead them into the future but seldom does that vision ever impact the organization. The reason for this is that the vision is created by a few and never becomes a ‘shared vision’ of the entire organization. Peter Senge, in his book “The Fifth Discipline” describes a shared vision as “… a force in people’s hearts, a force of impressive power….At its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the qu... more...

Business » Leadership | By Graeme Nichol @ Thursday, 4th May 2006 @ 6:14 PM

After Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan published Execution – The discipline of getting things done (ISBN 0-609-61057-0), in 2002, every business on this planet rushed out and dropped copies off to their managers and said “Execute” the quieter implication was, “…or exit.” Why did this happen? Well most managers realize that there is a gap between where they are and where they’d like to be. So did handing out gazillions of copies of the book suddenly turn us into a world of executioners?... more...