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Time to Lead: What We Can Learn from Great Leaders

Leading Blog

A S professor Jan-Benedict Steenkamp states in Time to Lead , “Everybody can improve their leadership qualities by reading about other leaders, how they resolved their dilemmas, and why they were successful.”. Second, he identifies four types or leadership metaphors : the hedgehog, the fox, the eagle, and the ostrich.

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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch & Dinner!

Great Leadership By Dan

Our book, “ A Culture Of Discipline:The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” is the outcome of ten years of practice and experimentation on two key theories developed by two world renowned researchers: Peter Drucker and Igor Ansoff. Igor Ansoff is known as the father of strategic management.

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Key Performance Indicators of Good Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Dr. Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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5 Steps to Develop Team Goals

Skip Prichard

Patrick is President of Fulcrum Connection LLC, and is a facilitator, leadership trainer, and professional speaker. Strive to Be an Excellent Leader and Manager. The research literature on leadership finds that the most effective leaders are excellent managers and excellent leaders. ” -Peter Drucker.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic.

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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

The people who might make crucial decisions about war and peace, about our taxes, who will have enormous effect on the quality of our lives, our social order, the civility of our public discourse, undergo an experience from which few human beings could emerge whole. Some do not.” — Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker , Running, November 23, 1975.

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Executive Presence Training

Career Advancement

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” Peter Drucker. What should we be looking for in a training meant to prepare them for executive positions?

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