Leadership
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Welcome to our Leadership section where you’ll find more than simple leadership definitions. Here you’ll find a growing collection of articles, tips, tools and resources on leadership.
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You can start with our challenging featured articles, or read our mini-series on leadership gurus, or just dip in and out of our leadership tips and tools.
We’ve also put together a comprehensive set of resources, packed with ideas and practical tools, to help you become a better leader. You can purchase individual e-guides which will help you define leadership and understand its essentials.
Perhaps purchase others which will help you to develop your own leadership style and focus on the skills needed to make it succeed. Or refer to our e-guide designed to give you some leading insights and fresh thinking, alongside our tips, tools and techniques.
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So whatever your needs, whether:
- You’re about to become a team leader
- Looking for a refresher
- Studying a course
- Wanting to be stretched with fresh thinking
- Thinking about progression and improving your skills further
- An educator of trainer looking for resources
… you’ll find our affordable, comprehensive resources can make a real difference for you and the people you lead. And best of all, you can get the complete set for half price!
But if you’re just looking for some inspiration, there is something here for you too – from famous quotes to our mini-series on leadership stories. Packed with great examples of how to lead others, there is something here to make you stop and think.
Here you’ll find fresh thinking that generates new ideas and better ways to work. All conveniently organised to help you lead the way to better management.
And you’ll be in good company…. these pages are some of the most widely read on the site. But before you start browsing our pages on leadership, here is one of our favourite quotes from the great Peter Drucker:
“Leadership is the lifting of a man’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a man’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a man’s personality beyond its normal limitations.” Peter Drucker
Ideas
… Put Their Legacies First! What separates goal setting leaders from the crowd? In any given situation, true leaders are inclined to look at the bigger...
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Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow If you were to list the qualities of a leader, how many could you think of? Renowned leadership...
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What makes a great manager? There are many different ways of answering this question but how many would include a reference to happiness? Ours does! We...
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The most important aspect of good management? Workplace motivation may be a complex, frustrating issue, but unless it is understood, and managed effectively, few organisations will flourish. Some...
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Leadership stories: the essence of leadership Can leadership be learned? We think so and reading our growing collection of leadership stories is an excellent way to illustrate this....
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Motivate with motivational stories… Motivational stories have the power to go where no business plan has ever been! In business, as in life, stories can captivate the heart,...
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Peter Principle: A ‘Bad Boss’ Early Warning System? How can you spot a boss who may turn out to be bad? Can the ‘Peter Principle’ be used as...
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Leading With Vision: Bridging the Gap The essentials of leading with vision are beautifully captured in “The Bridge Builder”, by the acclaimed poet, Will Allen Dromgoole. This poem...
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Leadership Quality – Seeing the Bigger Picture… Which leadership quality would be at the top of your list? Many might say the ability to see the bigger picture...
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Seeing Triumph in Tragedy. Here is a story which poignantly illustrates the essence of leadership. In “Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success”, Jim...
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It’s the Little Things That Count! If you were asked to consider a basic leadership philosophy, what immediately springs to mind? – Lead with vision? – Focus on...
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Leadership Concept: Valuing Ideas A key leadership concept is to create a positive culture. There are real benefits to be gained from getting the basics right. This short...
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Seeing Things Differently Here are two lessons to illustrate an unusual characteristic of leadership. The two stories, one about Tom Watson Jr. and the other about Thomas Edison,...
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What is strategy? Students, managers and leaders alike can often struggle with this question. Of course, it’s a very important question to struggle with! This is evidenced by...
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Leadership Exercises: Putting the Best Ideas to Work One of the most valuable leadership exercises you can perform is to routinely analyse and apply what you learn from...
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by Learning from the Best! Good leadership qualities can be learned but it’s a good idea to try and learn from the best. But who are the “best”...
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Good leaders learn from the best. Why? Because you can see further on the shoulders of giants. In the business world, the best thinkers are often labelled “gurus”....
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Define Leadership Excellence? Easier Said Than Done! How do you define leadership excellence? There are thousands of books, resources, classes and experts, together forming what amounts to a...
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Tips & Tools
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge Peter Senge, founder of the Center for Organizational Learning...
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Wisdom from the giant of giants! Searching for Peter Drucker quotes? Peter Drucker (1909 to...
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“The ultimate measure of a man…” In a famous leadership quote Martin Luther King once...
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Here’s a selection of famous leadership quotes shedding more light on the nature of leadership....
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Quotes About Leadership Success: 3 Things Successful Leaders Have in “Common” There’s no shortage of...
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Leadership Quotes This page of leadership quotes is one of our growing resource of thought-provoking,...
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What makes a good manager? Well, effective management does require the co-ordination of analytical, administrative...
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Asking Good Questions: In a Minute? We think asking good questions is the one of...
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