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Bad Leadership?
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ~John F. Kennedy US President John F. Kennedy wrote the above quote in a speech he prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his...
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Leaders: Born or Made?
The purpose of leadership is to create more leaders, not more followers. Early in my business career the big question being asked in MBA classes and academic circles was whether leaders are born or...
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More Performance Platforms
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ~Yogi Berra As you probably know from my previous blogs, my daughter plays the violin and with learning any...
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Leadership is Everywhere . . .
The road to leadership is travelled one step at a time. There is no express elevator or fast track! I am often amazed at how the word leadership conjures up in people’s minds images of military...
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How to Spot a “Crappy” Executive . . .
Like most everything else, the range of executive effectiveness (from the extremes of “totally ineffective” to “leading on all fronts”), probably follows somewhat of a bell-shaped distribution. It is...
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Slow Down, Reflect and Learn . . .
Experience isn’t the best teacher, it is the only teacher. ~Albert Schweitzer This is one of my favourite and useful quotes. I strongly believe, especially in the world of business consulting, that...
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Psst! . . . Want to Grow?
In 1881 The Galveston Daily News described the vested business interests in Galveston as behaving like “big fish in a small pond”, and the phrase has stuck in American literature ever since. There is...
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The Missing Leadership Competency
I must confess I am not a great fan of the popular focus on long lists of leadership competencies and their use in everything from leadership training to executive recruiting. I look at the long list...
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English Football (soccer) and Executive Development
For the past 20 years I have been living in London and to say that the English are football crazy would be an understatement. There are multiple football leagues, as well as club teams in almost...
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Develop Character First, Leadership Will Follow . . .
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~Helen Keller In the middle of...
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Peer Leadership, Courage and Culture Change
The best training program in the world is absolutely worthless without the will to execute it properly, consistently, and with intensity. ~John Romaniello Let’s face it, corporate America has been...
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Just What Do You Mean by Leadership Development?
One of my favourite business stories: One day Little Johnny came home from school and asked his mother why Dad was always working late and why he had to bring work home as well. Mommy replied that...
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Leadership Development: The Room with Two Doors
Let’s Make a Deal is a television game show that has been going, in various formats for over 50 years. The most celebrated of its many hosts was the charismatic Monty Hall, with his perfect attire...
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Culture Change is not an initiative . . .
“When the rate of change on the outside is greater than the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” ~Jack Welch There is a huge misconception at all levels of the business world that culture...
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I Don’t Want to be a Leader, …
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the...
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Leadership. Is there an App for that?
There’s an app for just about everything these days. Some of them are useful, such as an alarm clock app, GPS map apps, email apps, Passbook for storing airline boarding passes and concert tickets,...
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Game Over !
First we shape our institutions, and afterwards they shape us! ~Winston Churchill After a particularly tough day, the chief executive of a major corporation came home exhausted. A barrage of crises...
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Leadership . . . Unsafe at any Speed?
In 1965, when I was a junior in high school and sporty, stylish and innovative cars were all the rage, Ralph Nader, a Harvard trained lawyer, published a book that was both highly controversial and...
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The First Step on the Road to Leadership
The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step. ~Lao Tzu To say that the road to becoming an effective leader is long and difficult is an understatement and definitely not for the...
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The 3 Deadly Sins of Poor Leadership: Part 1
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by avoiding it today. ~Abraham Lincoln When I was in college in the 60’s there was a popular saying: “What goes around comes around”. To me this...
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