Now I’m sure you’ve read Stephen Covey’s excellent book ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’. But if you haven’t, you should. It’s an inspiring summary of the seven simple but motivational things you need…
How to Learn from Your Leadership Mistakes
We learn most from our mistakes. It’s true. But problems occur for us when we forget this. Or when we deliberately deny that we made a mistake. And – if we’re honest – most of…
The Ultimate Leadership Strategy
Put people first. It’s the great cliche, isn’t it? When a business school professor like me asks you ‘what’s the most productive leadership style?’, you know the answer don’t you? Put people first. But if…
Three Steps to Unleashing Your Team’s Potential
Most people could perform at a much higher level than they do if their boss created a suitable environment for them to flourish in. In many instances, it’s the boss who is holding the team…
Are You the Worst Leader in the World?
The question I am most often asked by managers is: ‘Why won’t they do what I want?’ This is usually followed by: ‘And why don’t they work harder?’ As leaders and managers, we often assume…
Leadership… It’s Not Just For Managers
The other day my nine-year old daughter and two sons (seven and five years old respectively) were playing with neighborhood friends. Out of the blue, my two sons came running home upset because the girls…
Leadership… It’s Not Just For Managers
The other day my nine-year old daughter and two sons (seven and five years old respectively) were playing with neighborhood friends. Out of the blue, my two sons came running home upset because the girls…
Two Serious Failings of Really Useless Leaders
It’s daunting for business leaders who aspire to improve their leadership to be told to follow the example of Gandhi or Martin Luther King. These people are certainly inspirational, but they’re a tough act to…
Leadership Lessons from the Presidential Election
Business executives don’t have to win votes to get appointed. But to be a successful leader, in the corporate world or the political world, you need to know who you are and what you stand…
Unknown Facts About Leadership Revealed
Imagine a bed of oysters, carpeting the bottom of the clear blue ocean, waiting for some adventurous diver to scythe through the dappled waters and bring to the surface the secret pearls trapped inside. OK…
Two Questions to Help You Change Your Leadership Style
Do you want to change your leadership style? Perhaps you’ve discovered something in particular that you want to do, or do differently. And this, of course, is the problem. You want to change something you…
Be The Best Boss You Can Be
Being the person in charge can often be very exhilarating for someone experiencing such a feeling for the first time. Whether you are in charge of a project with a team of company employees that…
Company Custom T Shirts: How to Increase Team Spirit at Work
Running a company is somewhat like coaching a team. You want all your employees to thrive as they work together to accomplish goals. You can bring team spirit to their game by giving them company…
The Death of Leadership
Leadership is dead. Or, if not dead, it’s in a coma. Executives all over the world are so overwhelmed with the day-to-day nitty-gritty of their jobs and hampered by the lack of support from the…
Three More Reasons Why CEOs Fail
There are two main reasons why chief executives fail to hang on to their jobs: a decline in the company’s finances, and failure to communicate bad news in the best way. But there are many…
Leading an Economic Counter-Insurgency
General David Petraeus would be a rock star in the business world today. He is a man that knows how to turn the worst situation into a success relatively quickly. Gen. Petraeus took over command…
The Three Forgotten Reasons Why CEOs Fail
A decline in a company’s financial position may be the fastest way a chief executive can lose his or her job, as the global credit crunch has shown. But it’s easy to forget that several…
The Two Main Reasons Why CEOs Fail
So you’re going to be chief executive one day. But once you’ve got there, how are you going to hang on to your job? Well, there have been many high-profile failures in recent months and…
How To Develop Leadership Qualities
Quality leadership is a necessary asset found in all successful organizations. Look at any flourishing company, group, or committee and you will find a capable leader behind all of them. Many people ask the question,…
The Essential Leadership Skill – Managing Office Politics
One of the skills that successful leaders need to master is a bit of a dirty word these days. It’s not the sort of thing they offer leadership training courses on, but it lies at…
How To Plan And Prioritize Your Time As A New Sales Manager
Plan and prioritize your time! was the first instruction ever given to me by my very first sales manager. He was ex army and I was fresh out of university. I had a whole lot…
Leadership Principles to Live By During Times of Change
As we move into future, we are going to be experiencing both changes and opportunities in the business world that are going to challenge us in ways we have never experienced in the past. As…
MLM Downline Retention- The Holy Grail?
Retention. It’s the magic word in network marketing, maybe a more important issue to network marketing business owners than prospecting. It’s the Holy Grail of network marketing. For the majority of MLM distributors, retention is…
Attraction Marketing Will Bring Success
Success is no longer a selling game , nor is it up to training, service, operational efficiencies or catchy mass advertising. Not when the lines between these industries are blurring and competition for clients, agents…
Attraction Marketing Will Bring Success
Success is no longer a selling game , nor is it up to training, service, operational efficiencies or catchy mass advertising. Not when the lines between these industries are blurring and competition for clients, agents…
Soul Purpose Corporate MAP: Executive Coaching
Following a ten-year study of personal and corporate businesses, a clear trend was discovered and written about in the book The Prosperity Paradigm. Business people appeared to align with one of five different modes of…
Forming a Mentoring Circle
More and more businesses are seeing the value of establishing mentoring programs for their employees but finding it hard to keep up with demand. Matching each employee with a mentor, with all the demands and…
Inspire to Lead and Lead to Inspire
Inspiration comes at both ends of the leadership equation. Leaders are called to guide and lead from many different directions but there is always an element of emotion and inspiration. The call to act as…
Top 7 Things Great Leaders Do
Leaders all have different qualities but there are at least 7 qualities that are common to all leaders. If you want to be someone that people look up to and trust you can develop these…
Can you Teach Leadership: Confronting Conventional Thought
Many people, including many colleges and universities, are firm in the belief that leadership is an inborn trait and cannot be taught as a field of study. This belief is rooted in the historical context…
Discover How You Can Learn the Significance of Focus for Your Team
There are many great lessons that one can learn from the importance of focus. One can learn that focus is important in many different aspects in life such as building a business, playing team and…
Leadership Values and Loyalty
No matter it is religion, sports, or politics, a leader has an inseparable role in any arena. Hence, it is not an exception in the case of a business environment. A leader plays an inevitable…
Discover How Your Team Can Learn about Winning Mentality
As one learns about winning mentality, there can be many interesting lessons that one can learn from. Learning about winning mentality can provide excellent opportunity for individuals and team to develop in many different areas…
Discover How You Can Learn to Motivate Your Team Effectively
Motivating a team, fellow employees or subordinates can be an interesting experience. There are many methods and strategies that one can use to motivate others. “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals…
Don’t Just Brand Your Business, Brand Yourself
This title means what it says…don’t just brand your business, but brand yourself! ‘You are your business’ -especially in the Micro and HBB sector. It is very important for potential clients to trust you as…
Is Your Management Style Limiting Your Success
I have worked with stacks of businesses over the years. Often I am asked to name the most important indicator of whether or not a business will succeed or fail – my answer is always…
All Chiefs and no Indians: Leadership in the Team Context
It is hard to believe that you company could be blessed with too many leaders and the possibility of that happening is indeed remote. But what do you do when you need a leader to…
Act Fast When Customers and the Community Lose Faith in Your Offerings
There may be no stronger source of unhappy surprise than having the customers’ and community’s perceptions of your products and services suddenly turn from positive to negative with no warning. Perhaps a television program runs…
How to Become an Effective Leader
Recent evidence has shown that there is a Personality Profile for someone who can be called a natural born leader. In this personality profile there are a set of innate characteristics that can be studied…
Banish that Helpless Feeling When Trends Turn Negative
People who feel helpless often react that way because they cannot locate any acceptable alternatives in their own minds. A good way to circumvent that problem is to find others who have had similar problems,…
Management Theory And Building A Network Marketing Business
Building a Network Marketing Business is not so much about managing people as it is about leading others. You can manage from a very selfish vantage point but to maintain longer term leadership demands the…
Look for the Benefit in Setbacks to Gain the Most Profit
Your biggest customer calls to say that the firm is going into bankruptcy and won’t be able to pay the six month’s worth of outstanding invoices. You wish him well and hold your head in…
Boost Office Morale with Negative Ions
Do you often feel refreshed and rejuvenated after you get out of the shower in the morning? Ever wonder why people find themselves so happy they spontaneously start singing in the shower? The answer is…
Open Your Eyes and Ears When Tough Times Arrive
A number of years ago I was asked to help a struggling business overcome setbacks created by increased global competition, adverse cost trends, unfavorable currency rates, and weak leadership. Looking closely at the operations, I…
Confidently Prepare for the Best When You Feel Helpless
Irresistible forces can leave you feeling helpless. When that occurs, you are often vulnerable because inaction is often worse than a poor action. How can you find a helpful path? Answering the following questions is…