22. Leaders can laugh. 
At themselves. One of the aspects of a mature seasoned leader is confidence. Confidence is an interesting thing, when you have it you know when to take yourself seriously and when to realize you are being ridiculous. Being able to laugh at yourself is one of the best ways to build trust […]

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21. Leaders love to work with other leaders. 
The other day I met a guy who was in charge of a large corporation. I knew from the minute he opened his mouth to talk I was going to like working with him. He was a leader. Not because of his title or position but rather he […]

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20. Leaders make mistakes — and make no bones about it. 
Yes they do and they do not like to make them. Ultimately they realize that making mistakes is a prerequisite of learning. Learning is at the very core of effective leadership. So a great leader gets over his ego quickly and goes into the learning […]

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19. Leaders bring in different dudes. 
Who is the best person for the vacancy in your team, department, division etc? The person with the best skills abilities and cultural fit. Certainly there are other factors as well but you want the best person. If you stop there you could potentially end up filling a vacancy with […]

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18. Leaders are good at forgetting. 
I was amused to read Peters’ discussion on this point. He used Enron as an example. How inappropriate does that seem NOW?! No I am not going to talk about Enron. I won’t do it, forget it…!
When I played hockey I used to love to be the goal tender. It […]

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17. Leaders are natural empowerment freaks. How can a leader magnify the efforts of the team toward a goal without regularly and ruthlessly empowering others? Trick question they can’t. The real question is do you know how to effectively empower your team?No?There is model developed by Hersey and Blanchard quite some time ago that has formed the […]

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I read an interesting article by Patrick Lencioni this morning that reminded me of the post I put up the other week. Patrick argued in his article
“Well, so far I’ve resisted jumping onto the “down economy” bandwagon, not wanting to contribute to any self-fulfilling prophecy or culture of victimization that can make a bad situation worse.” Pat Lencioni (you […]

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It’s been a while since I last posted here on the site. Sorry about that but the day job gets in the way from time to time and the last 6 months have been at my capacity constantly.
 
What is new?
 
The economy!
 
Are we in a recession or not? I took an economics course last summer, part […]

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Confidence

There are some things that you just know. Confidence is one of those things. We know it when we see it. No there is no confidence behavior rather there are a number of behaviors that tell us that a person is confident. Most leaders I have known have exuded confidence. They were not arrogant, not […]

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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 heart of the matter and begin to follow in the right direction. I would think this […]

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