Category Archives: Leader Attributes

Are you a Creature of Habit?

I was reading an article from Fast Company this morning and loved it. The article written by John Hunt relates to a book he write called The Art of the Idea. I loved the article  primarily because I like exercising … Continue reading

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How can I discover my Passion

A while back I wrote about what I consider the core of leadership, passion. Recently Change This shared a manifesto on passion by Dr Mani Sivasubramanian. As I read the manifesto I could not help but be reminded of why I believed … Continue reading

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Trust Takes Time

Trust takes time   I received a question a while back from a reader who asked…   One of the biggest challenges I see in my work environment is a lack of trust among the leadership team.  We expect our staff … Continue reading

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What Does a Leader look like? Decisive

Decisive Can you actually see “decisive” Ron? Yes in a manner of speaking. To be correct decisive is not a behavior, it is a series of behaviors. Decisiveness involves all the same elements of confidence and at the same time … Continue reading

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What Does a Leader look like?

  Wouldn’t it be nice if every leader had some unmistakeable label, sign or other outward appearance that allowed us to recognize them at first sight? it would certainly save some time. after all we could get right to the … Continue reading

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Integrity and Leadership: Does a leader need to be unethical?

  As you know our first tip in the effective leadership series was “protect your integrity”. You can still receive the series by joining the email list if you have not done so already. Also we are happy to share … Continue reading

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The Challenge of Leadership: Managing Disappointment

People will disappoint you I was sitting with my wife today discussing a story of a monumental mix up of a process and this thought came to me. People will disappoint you. It will happen, unfortunately it will happen often. … Continue reading

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Linked In Leadership: An exchange with Suresh Srinivasan

One of the cool parts of linked in is the ability to ask thought provoking questions of people all over the world. I am regularly impressed with the quality of responses I receive.So a week ago I launched a question … Continue reading

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Balancing our Frenetic Lives

If we are not careful it is easy to fall into the trap of running a nonstop marathon called life. What with work, family, church, volunteering, school, hobbies, and fitness it seems to have no end. Now consider the external … Continue reading

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No! A Leader would not lie for his boss…

A few weeks back a question was asked relating to leadership integrity, would leader lie for his boss? A case study was laid out in which our hero Steve was asked by is boss Reed to attend a meeting on … Continue reading

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