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6 Things That Make Leaders Look Weak
Passing The Buck Why you asking me? Any problem in an organization is owned by the highest ranked person who knows about it. If you’re the boss, that means you. If you know about it, it’s your...
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Encourage leadership, and you’ll need less management.
THERE’S a great many posts and articles about the difference between leaders and managers, so I’ll leave my two cents worth on that topic for another time. Instead, here’s a look at why building...
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About the Method Leadership Masthead
THOSE of you who’ve been following this blog from its inception 6 weeks ago, (I think there’s two of you…), will have noticed how often the logo and the site have changed. It’s been evolving towards...
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Create a Culture of Accountability? Here’s the ONE thing you must do.
SO, what’s the one thing you need to do to create a culture of accountability? Are you sitting down? It’s heavy. Ready. Okay. Here it is: The one thing you absolutely must do in order to create a...
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The Six Essential Responsibilities of Organizational Leaders
WHAT do leaders do? Better stated, what should they do? It’s a question oft asked and with a multitude of answers. Here’s a definitive list that briefly outlines the essentials. If any of these...
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Challenge to Engage
LAST week this post alluded to a critical factor that’s necessary if you want employee engagement. Today’s post is about that factor. During my first “tour” as a manager in China (in 2000), I was...
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5 Easy Ways to Quickly Improve Your Leadership
TODAY just a short list, but powerful. You can start doing these things today (or reaffirm if they’re already a part of your modus operandi), and you’ll see immediate results. 1. Listen. Really...
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Why lead?
WHAT motivates people to lead others; to take on the role of organizational leader, whether in corporate, non-profit, government, military, sports, or a myriad of other organizational settings?...
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10 Give-aways that your boss is a phony
REAL leaders, that is, titled-leaders who have good leadership skills (which is not a given), choose to lead not for the sake of leading per se, but because they have a vision of what could be, and...
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Leadership IS creativity.
Creativity, at is essence, is the process of finding a way to get from what is, to what could be. One imagines something new, something one wishes to make real, and the creative process is the means...
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Are you spreading joy or pain?
EVERYBODY is in the business of giving good service, because everyone has at least internal customers whose productivity depends on being helped happily and efficiently. Unhappy, disgruntled,...
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Interpersonal conflict in your team? You need good advice, and a “list post”...
THERE IS A lot of leadership advice out there. Hundreds of books, thousands of websites; some helpful, most not. Much of it ignores fundamentals; instead offering adhoc, graft-on, band-aid, random,...
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Australian PM Kevin Rudd. Good Leader?
FOR NON-AUSTRALIANS who may not be aware of the saga, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd recently maneuvered himself back into the top job – some would say ruthlessly – after a lengthy and very...
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Why developing leaders is hard and the two most powerful ways to go about it.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, which fundamentally is the improvement in an individual’s ability to take the lead and in their people skills, must start from, and be driven by, the learner. Leadership is an...
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Developing Good Leaders – a couple comments
In response to the post from a few days ago, “Why developing leaders is hard and the two most powerful ways to go about it“, Kurt Häusler (@Kurt_Haeusler) commented: “Both assume good leadership is...
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Effective Personal Development requires good Personal Knowledge Management....
FURTHER TO POSTS on leadership development (“Why developing leaders is hard…” and “Developing Good Leaders…“), here’s a great slideshow by Steve Dale (@stephendale), on: “… taking responsibility for...
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If you think leadership is about having followers – about influencing others...
I’M HAVING A continuing problem with what I call “The Cult of Leadership”. Take five minutes to look around the web and you’ll note how almost all material on leadership focuses on having followers,...
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Stiffness is Death
Organizational leadership takes place in one of two contexts. Either… The organization is heading to new heights – it’s a start-up, or an existing organization that’s reached a plateau. It needs a...
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Boss versus Leader – not so clear cut.
No attribution. No copyright infringement intended. Let me know if it’s your work. Intuitively, the picture resonates. We’ve all had the petty-tyrant boss; the person who loves the sound of their...
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When to lead and when to manage
You lead people, yourself included. You manage situations. Nobody worth their salt likes to be “managed”. Trying to manage people, that is; using threats of punishment, promises of reward, passive...
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