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What is your effect on the people you lead?  Do you leave them better of or are they relieved when you leave.  Asking the question about the net effect of your Leadership and Management is Shawn Murphy from Switch and Shift, guest posting on the Leadership Connexion this week. I recall reading rece Read More

Everybody seems to be talking about character based leadership.  Amidst the buzz around character based leadership, I often still find myself wondering; “What does it really mean in practical terms?” Don’t you? Character Based Leadership Definition Trying to clarify the matter for myself I came up Read More

“A conductor’s happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people’s stories to be heard at the same time.” Itay Talgam Short Bio of Itay Talgam Itay Talgam debuted as an international conductor in 1987, when he was chosen by Leonard Bern Read More

A detailed review of the backlinks for this site really opened my eyes. There are a lot of links – and I mean a lot! – that we had no idea we had. Some are of very good quality. Some of very poor quality. Some Google probably accepts. Some it probably flags as "unnatural." Some might even be negati Read More

You remember our very involved leader Gary?  He is the leader from last week, making his people dependent on him. Not only is Gary’s leadership style making the people in his organization dependent, it also conditions the people to stop thinking.  Instead of coming up with solutions to their own pr Read More

Where there is no vision the people perish… Proverbs 29:18 (The Bible) So how important do you think vision is for successful leadership? Looking at the piece of scripture, vision does not seem important for leadership.   Note I did not say vision is not important.  Vision is very important.   I ju Read More

How do you ensure effective leadership by balancing the tension between achieving the goal and focussing on people’s needs? I struggle with this question sometimes.  I am sure I am not the only one.  As a leader you have to achieve certain goals.  There are certain change outcomes you have to manag Read More

Meet Gary.  He is the leader of a small organization and a very “hands on” guy.  He makes a point of knowing about every single detail in the organization and gets involved in the detail 90% of the time. Gary prides himself in his problem solving abilities. If someone got a problem, he is the [...] Read More

It’s the end of the day and I pull my office door close behind me.  It’s been a rough day.  I wonder about my leadership during the situation with John today.  The difficult conversation was something I could not postpone any longer, without causing further damage.  As I leave the building I replay Read More

Inexperienced Leaders sometimes gets confused between power and leadership. They think that power, shown through exercising authority and taking charge, or being in a position to tell others what to do is leadership.  However power and leadership are two very different things. Power is a tool that Read More