The Phylotopian: Corporate BS

Have a look at this for when there is a lack of emotional maturity in leadership. To me this screams of would be leaders skipping to the action page without reading the content. "COVEY = SELF AWARENESS". This is what can happen if that is ignored.. think about what you would do to turn this around if you were the leaders in this case...The Phylotopian: Corporate BS: "Corporate BS
The company I work for (which for Dooce-like reasons will of course remain anonymous) has only been in existence for a couple of months, having been formed by the merger of several smaller companies. Not uncommon in the present economic climate and in the industry in which I toil. What this means in reality is that a bunch of speccy tw@ts have been paid a small fortune to �re-brand� us. The results of this are beginning to filter down to those of us on the coalface. That�s an analogy, I�m not a miner. I get dreadful claustrophobia and on the rare occasions I have been to underground tourist attractions (there are several in Yorkshire, go visit) I�ve always found it a terribly unpleasant business."

Leader 2 Leadership - Situational Leadership

Leader 2 Leadership - Situational Leadership: "The three other ways to be a successful coach:

Until I found out about this, I generally coached everyone the same. Only in about one out of four cases it seemed to work. Thats because there are three other ways of coaching that I simply did not know about.

Ken Blanchard's Situational leadership II is all about the leader (read coach) making a conscious decision on their behaviour to best encourage and support each specific staff member.

How logical does that sound? Its one of those statements that is so obvious, and yet I knew straight away its something I simply have never done. "

Sublime leadership

Sublime leadership: "7 Awe-Inspiring Leadership Power-Generating Strategies!

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- this is a good article with some great conceprs - see if it rings some bells for you.....