leadership

Quotes of the Week

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. ~Margaret Mead If you have the courage to begin with, you have the courage to succeed ~David Viscott It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation ~Herman Melville The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense ~Albert Einstein It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves ~Edmund Hillary...

Global circle-why, how, what

Simon Sinek, author of Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action has a simple but influential model for inspiring leadership all starting with a golden circle of why, how and what. The question “Why?” is however, the most important for making a difference. He talks about Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers, arguing that Inspired Leaders, regardless of size and industry; think, act,...

Quotes of the Week

“Good sayings are like pearls strung together.” ~Chinese Proverb “Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~Joshua J. Marine “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” ~Jonathan Swift “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky “Human success is a quotation from overhead.” ~ Charles H. “The best way out is always through.” ~Robert Frost...

Quotes of the Week

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” ~Sam Rayburn “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” ~George S. Patton “Leadership is intentional influence.” ~Michael McKinney “Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.” ~Thomas Carlyle “He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”...

Leaders – your moods have a huge impact on your Employees & the Bottom-line

Being a leader today isn’t easy.  With greater demands and less resources, it seems that there is never enough time or energy to get everything done.   Deadlines, demands and the resulting stress make work and life a challenge.  In addition to the impact on your personal well being, your mood has a profound impact on your employees. According to a Harvard Business Review article (Goleman, Boyatzis, McKee, 2001), a...

Quotes of the Week

“One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.” ~Dennis A. Peer “Doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results, is the definition of crazy.” ~Unknown “They can because they think they can.” ~Virgil “Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” ~Dorothy Bernard “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” ~James Joyce “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but...

Quick Tips to Improve your Leadership Skills

1. Get a reality check. Get a clear vision of yourself, others, and the world. Find out who you are, what your colleagues think of you, and how you want to influence others. Finding out what others think of your leadership skills and your communication skills can be a real surprise, and is often the most influential driver for change. 2. Listen, listen, listen. Listening is one of the...

Quotes of the Week

“People want to feel what they do makes a difference” ~Frances Hesselbein “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~Winston Churchill “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” ~Vince Lombardi...

Quotes of the Week

“I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not” ~Lucille Ball “Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination” ~Anonymous “If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” ~Henry Kissinger “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability” ~Harry F. Banks “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the...

Quotes of the Week

“Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.” ~Chinese Saying “Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!” ~Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin “We must become the change we want to see.” ~Mahatma Gandhi “Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision” ~Anonymous “You don’t have to hold a position...

Quotes of the Week

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” ~Andrew Carnegie “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~Zig Ziglar “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” ~Woody Allen “The creation of a thousand...

The Self Aware Leader

In  How to Crack the Self-Awareness Paradigm, written by John Baldoni (Havard Business Review, December 2009), Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, admitted that he had some weaknesses coming out of the recent recession and was committed to making changes. Immelt demonstrated a crucial aspect of leadership: self-awareness. This skill is the ability to see one’s shortcomings and to improve on faults. Self-awareness allows a leader to see where...

Quotes of the Week

“To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.” ~Franklin Roosevelt “It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.” ~J. W. von Goethe “Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth” ~Julie Andrews “There’s one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice...

The Opportunity Cost of Innovation

Today, there is one major quality required for leaders: innovation. Who immediately comes to mind? Most likely, this person is probably under the age of 30. We are too quick to associate the younger generation with creativity and innovation. A young prospect is bound to lead the future generation on a path of success with a substantial understanding of technology and social trends, right? Probably. But, will this modern...