Leadership Lessons Learned

Leadership Lessons from Mickey Rooney and a Telegram Boy

This is a true story. In 1938, when he was seventeen, my father-in-law (first name Guy) worked as a telegram ...
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On Leadership, Complexity and Achieving Simplicty

 [slideshare id=826022&doc=keithdelaruecynefin03-1228653571270108-8] Dealing with complexity is one of the key leadership challenges that any leader needs to successfully face. And ...
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Creating Organisations Fit for Generation Y

If you are already a leader, you are most likely not from Generation Y (Millennials.) You are more likely to ...
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4 Fundamental Vital Signs for Healthy Organizations

In Patrick Lencioni’s latest book The Advantage, he points out that in today’s competitive world a healthy organization is likely ...
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On Leadership, Playing Sports and Achieving Business Excellence

I have long recognized the strong correlation between having a history of playing sports and success in business. And as a ...
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Growing Strong Leaders: 15 Traits that Mark an Effective Leader

We are often told that management and leadership are two different things—that the ability to manage a business, department, project, ...
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6 Leadership Lessons of a Machiavellian Manager

Desperate to get control over her misbehaving children, Suzanne Evans turned to Niccolo Machiavelli’s famous sixteenth-century book about politics, The ...
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Wise Leaders Embrace “Benign Subversives”

We all hate naysayers, snipers, and backroom gossips. They subvert our vision, undermine our message and divert attention from our ...
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Leaders: Are You Serving Wine In The Office?

A while back the following question was asked by one of my team members who had resigned and I was trying to retain ...
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Startup Success: The 7 Most Common Mistakes New Entrepreneurial Leaders Make

Entrepreneurs bring a lot of self-confidence to the table. Most abandon careers, often lucrative careers, at which they excelled to ...
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