You might be surprised just where I get leadership insights from! Take for instance celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay. Here’s what I see when I look past the rudeness. 1. He is passionate. He cares about what he does. He wants to help people be more successful in their businesses. 2. He knows his stuff. He …
In the last couple of weeks I have seen a few examples of where things haven’t gone as well as hoped, for myself personally and for a few of my clients. I think it’s important to remember that we can’t win all of the time and we still need to remember to laugh. Occasionally as leaders we can …
It would be wrong to say that leadership in good times is easy. It’s our actions, though, in tough times, when the chips are down, that may define us as leaders. Where I live in the Hunter area of Australia we have just had a once in a generation severe weather event. Destructive, cyclonic winds, extensive rainfall leading …
Leadership is a habit, a practice. Great leaders do the same outstanding things over and over, day in day out. Here are five things that great leaders do every day. 1. Think about tomorrow. We get so caught up with what is right in our face that we can forget about the future. Great leaders always …
Last week I made a mistake. Not a big one, but one I’m not proud of and I regret the fall out to others and the harm it may have caused to my reputation.I was sloppy as a result of being distracted and rushed. I had a couple of choices once I realised what I had …
Consider the different styles and results from these two kinds of musicians. The one man band is a kind of novelty act. They think they are good at everything so they do everything. They think they don’t need anyone else to get things done. They are busy, really busy, but are they effective? Is this …
So, before you are allowed to do a lot of things in life, you need to pass a test. Like drive a car, perform surgery or build a bridge. It’s kind of important that if you are going to potentially affect people’s lives or property that you show that you know what you are doing. Leading …
In short, there are some rules for leadership. Like in many other areas of life, if you break the rules there are consequences. In my book ‘Road Rules for Leadership‘ I list the 21 rules for leadership. Rule Number 1 stands alone. It is ‘Managing is not enough. You need to lead’. If you just focus on …
Most of us have conflicting priorities and are time poor. How do we get everything done that needs to be done? When we have lots of things demanding our attention, which ones do we do first? A trap that many of us fall into is to focus on the things that scream loudest. These might include meeting …
Everyone likes to be liked. Some will say they don’t care, but I don’t believe them. We feel better when people like us.One of the biggest challenges of leadership is making the right decisions, even if that means that people won’t like us. If you are making decisions primarily so that people will keep liking …