Leadership Wisdom

Five practices of Exemplary Leadership

1. Model the behaviour you expect from other people.

2. Inspire others to share your vision and dreams.

3. Challenge the process by experimenting and taking risks.

4. Help others act by fostering collaboration and building trust.

5. Encourage the hearts of your people to carry on.

Source The Leadership Challenge – James M Kouzes and Barry Z Posner

Great advice – easy to understand, challenging to integrate.

Favourite line – “you are the most important leader in the organisation.”

Successful companies have leaders at all levels thus the relevance of this simple sentence cannot be underestimated.

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Employee Motivation

“Help you people map out their personal goals. Ask them to apply those aspirations to what they do every day. By doing that, you build their sense of affiliation with the company and make them feel that they belong. They’ll believe that they don’t have to leave to accomplish their ambitions.”
Paul Russell
Director, Leadership and Development, Google.

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Timeless business strategy

Concentrate on creativity. It is critical for any entrepreneur to maximise creativity and to build an atmosphere that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
Be passionate about ideas. Entrepreneurs want to create a livelihood from an idea that has obsessed them; not necessarily a business, but a livelihood. When accumulating money drives out the ideas and the anger behind them, you are no
Make the most of the female element. Companies as we know them were created by men for men, often influenced by the military model, on complicated and hierarchical lines and are both dominated by authoritarian principles and resistant to change. By setting up their own businesses, women can challenge these models and will be welcomed by customers for doing so.
Believe in yourself and your intuition. There is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others do not. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
Have self-knowledge. You do not need to know how to do everything, but you must be honest enough with yourself to know what you cannot provide yourself.

Anita Roddick (founder of Body Shop)

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