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10 Management Lessons-Ryan Allis
2008-02-16 16:05:00 Over the past five years, as iContact and Virante have grown, I’ve learned a lot about managing people. A business amounts to little without the people behind it. The two most important things I look for when hiring are initiative and work ethic. I cannot overestimate the importance to the eventual success of your business of bringing on good people. But once you have hired these good people, how do you manage them? I certainly admit that I have much left to learn about leadership and management, but here are a few tips that might be helpful: Have a vision and communicate it. Make sure you clearly communicate your vision for the company. No one follows a leader who cannot communicate the way in which the company will succeed. The future of all your employees is tied closely to the success of your company. Make sure they believe in your company, what it stands for, and its products and services, and make sure they know that the hard work they are put... More About: Management , Ryan , Lessons
Indicators of Leadership Potential-Ram Charan
2008-01-24 15:00:00 This is the fourth in a series of four articles written by Ram Charan, based on his latest book, Leaders at all Levels. As soon as I read the book, I’ll post a review. In the meantime, these articles are packed full of value and very useful. Enjoy! In my many years of observing leaders, I ... More About: Books , Leadership , Cato
Business Acumen-Ram Charan
2008-01-23 15:00:00 This is the third in a series of four articles written by Ram Charan, based on his latest book, Leaders at all Levels. As soon as I read the book, I’ll post a review. In the meantime, these articles are packed full of value and very useful. Enjoy! Every successful businessperson, whether a street vendor ... More About: Business , Books
People Acumen-Ram Charan
2008-01-22 15:00:00 This is the second in a series of four articles written by Ram Charan, based on his latest book, Leaders at all Levels. As soon as I read the book, I’ll post a review. In the meantime, these articles are packed full of value and very useful. Enjoy! Leadership is predicated on the ability to ... More About: People , Books
Focusing on the Essentials-Ram Charan
2008-01-21 18:13:00 This week, between Monday and Thursday, I’ve decided to post a series of four articles written by Ram Charan, based on his latest book, Leaders at all Levels. As soon as I read the book, I’ll post a review. In the meantime, these articles are packed full of value and very useful. Enjoy! Do you think ... More About: Books , Essentials
Review: Man?s Search for Meaning
2008-01-18 14:00:00 Do you need the courage to keep living? Do you feel that life is cruel and that you can’t deal with the suffering it throws at you? If so, you need a reality check of sorts. You need to find meaning in your life, and that’s what this book is about. Man’s Search for Meaning covers ... More About: Books , Review
We Need Leaders Like Patrick Awuah
2008-01-17 13:30:00 After growing up in Ghana, Patrick Awuah studied in Swarthmore College, in Pennsylvania, and later moved to Washington State to work for Microsoft. After several years in Microsoft, and after becoming a father, he came to the realization that the African continent was in dire need of better leaders. He saw an absence of ethical ... More About: Profiles , Leaders
How To Be An Effective Presenter
2008-01-16 13:30:00 Perhaps you lost an election for the local city council because of your poor debate performance. Or maybe you got a C in a class just because you did badly on an oral report. Those situations happen frequently, even when the substance of an argument is sound, or even superior to others. In other words, ... More About: Presentations , Effective , Presenter , Resent
Leadership-Related Blog Carnivals
2008-01-15 13:30:00 In the last couple of months I’ve participated in various Blog Carnivals . I’m sure you can find great value in them, so I’ll list them below so that you can browse through them. They all contain posts or articles which relate to leadership. I’ll also get in the habit of mentioning all the future blog ... More About: Leadership , Related
Leaders Need To Walk The Talk
2008-01-14 14:00:00 I feel compelled to extend the conversation taking place in Leaders that DON’T:politicians, from Leadership Turn, regarding alternatives to politicians. First let me restate, as I said in We Need Alternatives to Politicians!: “…politicians just want to get elected and let that cloud their judgment (even many well-intentioned ones, I?m afraid) while true leaders care about ... More About: Talk , Walk
We Need Alternatives to Politicians!
2008-01-13 14:00:00 There is an ongoing discussion over at Leadership Turn, in the post Leaders who DON’T: politicians, which I think is of interest to many readers of The Art of Leading. It states what many people know to be true: there is little, if any, true political leadership in the U.S. and abroad. Standard politicians nowadays ... More About: Politics , Politicians , Alternatives , Alterna
5 Things You Can Do To Be A Better Arguer
2008-01-11 14:00:00 Your ideas will face opposition in any field of life. Do you want to prove to your boss why you deserve that raise? Do you want to convince that friend of yours to lend you the money you need to start your dream business? Then you need to get those ideas heard and supported. How ... More About: Communication , Things , Negotiation , Persuasion
Why Do We Argue?
2008-01-10 14:00:00 Tim and Bob are both junior executives in a big corporation. Both are faced with the same situation: Their boss has signed a particular contract, which is pretty clearly a waste of resources in their eyes. But their boss is 100% convinced that she’s doing the right thing. Tim and Bob both are 100% convinced ... More About: Argue
The Art of Leading is Back
2008-01-08 14:30:00 The Art of Leading is back. Life circumstances didn’t allow me to post regularly (almost nothing at all). But from now on I’ll be aiming to post three high-quality articles per week. Happy (late) New Year! Please keep visiting for new, reinvigorated content. More About: Back
Eight Steps to Finding and Creating the Work You Love
2007-12-31 14:00:00 EIGHT STEPS TO FINDING AND CREATING THE WORK YOU LOVE By Brian Kurth, author of Test-Drive Your Dream Job Many of us are still trying to figure out what we want to be when we grow up. We may have good jobs and nice paychecks, but we are not really happy in our work. We daydream about ... More About: Love , Work , Creating , Career , Steps
10 Signs That You Aren?t Cut Out To Be A Project Manager
2007-12-10 13:30:00 I came across an article I think is helpful. Perhaps the best way to read it is to use it as a checklist for self-improvement tasks if you find that you fall into one of the 10 signs. 10 Signs That You Aren’t Cut Out To Be A Project Manager More About: Project Management , Project Manager
How to Win Negotiations By Seeking Differences
2007-11-26 17:26:00 Common wisdom and tradition suggest, roughly, the following steps when negotiating: 1. Divide the issue into manageable portions or sub-issues. 2. Among those sub-issues, find common ground. 3. Concentrate your efforts on finding solutions to those specific issues that were found in the common ground. 4. Choose the preferred alternative. There is nothing wrong with this approach. In fact, it?s ... More About: Differences , Negotiation , Seeking , Negotiations , Diff
Communicate your vision
2007-11-23 14:00:00 Wanting to be a leader is a very significant step in your personal development. But if wanting is all that you do, then you’ll stay there and there will be no actual leadership to talk about. You may have a grand life-altering vision of the future, but if others don’t see it too, then that ... More About: Communication , Communicate , Vision
Why Leaders are Authors of Greatness
2007-11-21 14:00:00 Why is it that time passes by so fast when we’re reading a great book? There’s something about it that just enthralls you into a hypnotic state of mind and sort of fall into a deep trance. When you wake up, you’re done with the book. Time was accelerated. You rode a spaceship through a ... More About: Relationships , Goals , Authors , Confidence , Leaders
Identify your strengths
2007-11-19 14:00:00 Generally, every great leader has one trait that stands out from the others. They have one characteristic that identifies them. It may be related to personality, or to leadership style, or to other areas. What many of these leaders understand that many don’t is that the way you naturally are can be used to your ... More About: Strengths
Leadership Links
2007-11-12 14:30:00 The other day I wrote a post where I mentioned succession planning and Citigroup’s apparent lack of it. This article comes right in time: Leadership Tip - Looking Toward Tomorrow: The Succession Planning Imperative Part 1 of 2 The folks at Leadership Challenge use Oprah and her initiatives as an example of the importance of learning ... More About: Links
Robertson Endorses Giuliani: Alliance for Leadership
2007-11-09 13:30:00 I guess everybody knows by now that Pat Robertson, the ultra-conservative pastor, has endorsed Rudy Giuliani for President, even when they have opposing social stances. What does this have to do with leadership? A lot, in my humble opinion. Regardless of political parties and ideology, Giuliani has demonstrated he’s very smart. I start with the premise ... More About: Politics , Leadership , Alliance , Persuasion
Leadership lessons from a dog and a cat
2007-11-06 18:00:00 I just found this post in a blog called Workmash. It’s a nice read, and has good insight on leadership. Leadership lessons from a dog and a cat More About: Links , Lessons
How come Citigroup doesn?t have a solid succession plan?
2007-11-06 14:00:00 It’s extremely easy to speak “after the fact”. But I have to get something off my chest: Isn’t an institution as large and respected as Citigroup supposed to have a solid succession plan? CEO Chuck Prince is no more, and there’s a big mess over who will take charge. True leaders, or at least organizations, need ... More About: Plan , Succession , Solid , Soli
9 Things To Do In The First 100 Days
2007-11-05 15:01:00 Last week , in Why the First 100 Days Could Make or Break Leaders, I mentioned the importance of “the First 100 Days” of a leader in a new position. In today’s post I’ll map out one possible course of action that someone might take in those first 100 days, to make the most out ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Action , Success , Goals
9 Surefire Ways to Be a Bad Leader
2007-11-02 18:08:00 1. Never value your journey as a success. People who consider the achievement of the ultimate goal as the only possible way to achieve success are perfect prospects to never be good leaders. It is a perfect way to fail as a leader. Leaders, naturally, are driven and desire to accomplish the realization of a vision. ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Goals , Failure , Recognition
Fast Company Leadership Links
2007-10-31 17:00:00 The archives of the Leadership blog of the Fast Company website has a couple of interesting articles. Check these out: Contribution to the classic “Made vs. Born” debate.Leadership is a Muscle Great conversation between Bill George and Wendy Knopp about the role of leaders.Open Debate Excerpt from Ram Charan’s book Know-How, about the qualities that all successful leaders ... More About: Links
The Leadership Hub
2007-10-31 13:00:00 Yesterday I discovered a website called The Leadership Hub. It’s new and I haven’t explored it much, so I still can’t tell you how good it is. But I can tell you that it looks like a promising resource for leaders and leadership enthusiasts. It tries to integrate social networking. My first impression is very ... More About: Links , The Leader
Why Leaders Break Rules That Need To Be Broken
2007-10-30 18:47:00 “Rules are made to be broken” I can think of many interpretations and questions about that somewhat “cliched” phrase, but one stands out: Who makes the rules? You may know the answer already: Leaders . In every aspect of life, be it politics, religion, or business, leaders make the rules. Leaders are the ones who blaze the ... More About: Break , Broken
The Leadership Vacuum
More articles from this author:2007-10-30 14:07:00 The importance of leadership for the growth and competitiveness of business organizations is not debatable. This post from The Practice of Leadership highlights that and is based on a study done by IBM. The Leader ship Vacuum More About: Links 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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