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Category Archives: Leadership
Leadership Lessons From Gordon Ramsay
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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 […]
Leadership In Tough Times
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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 […]
5 Things Great Leaders Do Every Day
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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 […]
WILL YOU PASS THE ‘LEADERSHIP LICENCE TEST’?
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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 […]
BREAK THE LEADERSHIP RULES AND HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS
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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 […]
WHERE IS YOUR FOCUS – PAPERWORK OR PEOPLE WORK?
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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 […]
ARE YOU CHOOSING LEADERSHIP OR ‘LIKERSHIP’?
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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 […]
