Archive for the ‘Global Leadership’ Category
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Hi everyone!Bill has brought to my attention an interesting article on “what makes a great manager”...Are you ready for the magic recipe?According to Gerard M. Blair, author of the article and Senior Lecturer in VLSI Design at the University of Edinburgh, “The first step to becoming a really great manager ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Having spent 28 years in the British Army, Rhys Marc Photis brought this article to my attention. This article 'hits the nail on the head'. I have cut out some of the article and concentrated on the key points. Also highlighted are statements which are particularly true.The military are ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Alexander the Great as I mentioned in the previous blog was perhaps the greatest leader the world has ever known. However like all of us, he did have his weaknesses.Every victory increased his ego, vanity and susceptibility to flattery. He likened himself to Achilles and Hercules. His vanity (arrogance) acted ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Perhaps the most read about soldier and leader in Europe.
I am wading my way through a thick tome on his life and at the back of mind thinking,
'any lessons for the modern business leader'?
Here are his traits:
Alexander, lead from the front, didn't order anybody to do what he ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
I thought it was time to say something about possibly the two most lateral-thinking business thinkers in Euroape today. Business thinking has not really moved on in the last 100 years and these two have, needless to say, copied/spiced up the ideas of the likes of Charles Handy ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
I have always liked Mintzberg and this site/business venture is no exception. It is, after all, 'learning to help yourself'!
www.coachingourselves.com
Author: Imran
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
I would like to ask participants on a leadership course the following:'if you were given the opportunity to join any organisation in any part of the world to see leadership that motivates and empowers you, where would you go?'One would hope the answer would be 'straight back to the ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The army has developed, probably over hundreds of years, the 'buddy buddy' system. What does this mean? It means that when you go on operations or training you have a mate. That mate 'keeps an eye' on you and you him.Your buddy is somebody you can off load ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
My good colleague David Paterson brought this article to my attention. I think it sums those key qualities we all look for in our leaders and must expect of ourselves in a leadership role.
Because leadership is inextricably connected to who we are deep down, ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
31st Dec. - Whilst I am sitting in the kitchen and making my way through The Observer, thinking about 2008 and what will be my key-thought for organisations and my course participants, I stumbled upon some words which I could not have put together better myself.
An article by Simon Caulkin, ...
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