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Judgment and Strength of a Leader

By Ram Charan - Here is an excerpt of Ram Charan's book 'Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform From Those Who Don't'. This excerpt lists the qualities successful leaders possess. (Added: 15-Feb-2007 Hits: 287 )

Lead the Team: How to be the Person Others Follow: Leadership Success Secrets

By Susan M. Heathfield - The word leader can be included in your job title, but it doesn't mean that you do lead and others follow you. Let the tips within this article help to ensure that others will follow as you perform your leadership role. (Added: 20-Apr-2007 Hits: 380 )

Leadership - Character and Traits

By Donald Clark - Leaders are excellence builders. This a good discussion of traits and attributes that are universal in every great leader. (Added: 21-Feb-2007 Hits: 307 )

Leadership Development - Results focused Leadership thinking and practice from around the Globe

By Marshall Goldsmith - In a recent study (sponsored by Accenture) we completed in-depth interviews with 202 specially chosen, high-potential leaders from around the world. These participants were all seen as being at the very top when compared to colleagues at their level in their organizations. These future leaders were asked to describe how the ideal leader of the future would differ from the leader of the past. The results were clear. The ideal leader of the future was seen as a person skilled at building partnerships inside and outside the organization. (Added: 18-Nov-2009 Hits: 145 )

Leadership Is Confusing

By Tom Peters - "You think the past five years were nuts? You ain't seen nothin' yet! It's only going to get weirder, tougher, and more turbulent. Which means that leadership will be more important than ever -- and more confusing". This article was published in February of 2001 and made some predictions about the roles of leaders in business. Compare these predictions with how you perceive the leadership role currently. (Added: 12-Mar-2007 Hits: 229 )

Leadership Traits

By n a - There is an increased emphasis on leadership excellence in the business environment today. Learn how personal boldness and empathy are useful for today's successful leaders. (Added: 2-Feb-2007 Hits: 275 )

Leadership versus Management.

By n a - Take a look at the different personality styles in leadership versus management. Each has different attitudes toward goals, their basic conceptions of what work entails, their relationships with others, and their sense of self (or self-identity) and how it develops. Leading resources and managing resources are vastly different activities. (Added: 2-Feb-2007 Hits: 193 )

Managing the Performance of Someone With a 'Bad Attitude'

By n a - Find out how to best manage the performance a team member with a bad attitude. Learn how to focus on the behaviors that demonstrate bad attitudes. (Added: 5-Nov-2007 Hits: 352 )

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

By Bill George - William George, an expert on leadership development, recently teamed with Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to present a conference on "mindful leadership," a secular process to explore the roles of self-awareness and self-compassion in developing strong and effective leaders. "To our knowledge, this is the first time that a Buddhist Rinpoche and a leadership professor have joined forces to explore this subject and see how Eastern teaching can inform our Western thinking about leadership and vice versa," George says. You can read George's summary of the Mindful Leadership conference on his Web site. For George, leaders who don't develop self-awareness are subject to becoming seduced by external rewards, such as power, money, and recognition. They also have difficulty acknowledging mistakes, an Achilles' heel that has crippled a number of CEOs who have appeared in the news recently. ^new (Added: 27-Nov-2011 Hits: 95 )

Overcoming Barriers to Creativity

By Will Schutz, Ph.D. - As an effective leader, you want to encourage creativity within your team. Learn how to remove obstacles to creativity and logical thinking, and identify the hurdles at each stage of the creative process. (Added: 17-Feb-2010 Hits: 87 )

Put Off Procrastination For Good

By Christine W. Zust - Procrastination is NOT a good leadership attribute. Here are some good tips to help you stay on top of your to-do list. Share them with your staff so that good quality work is delivered on time and on budget. (Added: 12-Mar-2007 Hits: 184 )

Service Over Self-Interest

By Micheal McKinney - Find out why leaders should focus on service over self-interest. Learn and understand the concept of custodial leadership. Do you know what stewardship is within a leadership context? Find out by checking out this article. (Added: 21-Feb-2007 Hits: 228 )

Seven Difficult Personality Types and How to Deal with Them

By Dr. Marilyn Manning - Learning to deal successfuly difficult people will enhance your coping mechanisms. This leads to you being the facilitator many win-win situations. A discussion of 7 difficults personality types follows. (Added: 5-Nov-2007 Hits: 310 )

Six Attributes of Successful L-E-A-D-E-R-ship

By Victor A. Teplitzky, MSOD, PMP, PhD - The author discusses six essentials for successful and effective leadership. (Added: 13-Apr-2007 Hits: 215 )

Taming the Alpha Exec

By Andrew Park - An executive's set of strengths are also accompanied by an opposing set of weaknesses that can ruin an organization when given too much air time. Read this article to learn how executives can receive help in mastering their weaknesses. (Added: 15-Feb-2007 Hits: 204 )

Ted Turner on Visionary Leadership: How to See Over the Horizon | Leading Change | Fast Company

By SETH KAHAN - Many leaders are described as "visionary" -- I'm always curious as to how they got that way. Is it something they're born with, or something we can we all learn? I had a chance to participate in a Silicon Flatirons Q and A with media mogul Ted Turner as we probed this question with Ted (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 121 )

The Art of Enlightened Leadership

By Jim Dreaver - Some thoughts about enlightened leadership and the qualities a leader must possess in order to be a great leader. (Added: 8-Nov-2007 Hits: 187 )

The 3 Ds of Leadership

By Skip Weisman - A search on Amazon.com listed 193,692 books on the topic of leadership. With that many resources on leadership you would think today's business owners, leaders and managers would have it figured out. But, alas, reading about leadership and "doing" leadership are two different things. It's easy to read about leadership. But in applying leadership skills business leaders sometimes feel like a fish out of water. (Added: 1-Dec-2009 Hits: 107 )

The Brains of Leadership and Management

By Alistair Schofield - Management and leadership alike obviously and entirely depend on the brain - the most complex organ in the human body and one that, even today, is not fully understood. The better leaders and managers do understand its workings, however, the better they are able to use this complexity – and improve their results. (Added: 16-Mar-2007 Hits: 304 )

The Compassionate Leader

By Christine W. Zust - Do you know what it takes to become a compassionate leader? The author offers some of her ideas of the attributes of a compassionate leader. (Added: 12-Mar-2007 Hits: 155 )