Saturday, March 25, 2006

Investing money - some basic rules

Investing money - some basic rules: "Investing Money in the share market

Investing money in anything is a risky business, but that's why there is a return. As many students of economics and the investment market before me, I tried to invest money and recently acquired education into practice in the share market. It was fun, I made a bit of cash, but it was never going to feed and clothe me. Here are my top five survival tips to investing money.Http://2leadership.com/investingmoney "

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Leader 2 Leadership - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Leader 2 Leadership - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: "I have decided to start with this text as simply far too many people have said to me I should - it clearly has an enormous following of people who found the message rang true for them.

In the introduction to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Covey talks about how we perceive reality based on certain beliefs or paradigm."

Saturday, August 20, 2005

O. M. M. and The Art of Making Things Happen

O. M. M. and The Art of Making Things Happen: "Definition as in Dictionary.com:

1: the activity of leading; 'his leadership inspired the team' 2: the body of people who lead a group; 'the national leadership adopted his plan'3: the status of a leader; 'they challenged his leadership of the union' 4: the ability to lead; 'he believed that leadership can be taught'"

I still like the idea that managers have to do thing the right way, but leaders have to dothe right things...

Thursday, August 18, 2005

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!

Here's a really simple way you can use your personal infrastructure to increase your leadership power, create new innovative solutions and nurture your growth opportunities.
Failing to invest in your power-producing abilities will definitely prevent you from realizing success on the job and rob your future career efforts of enjoyment.
This article will show you 7 self-empowering ways to transform your ordinary power-deficits into:
=> Power-packed acts
=> Powered-up impacts
=> Power-generating results
Employing these time-tested strategies will boost your influence, improve your effectiveness and energize your leadership talents."

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

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

cali: What effective leaders should keep in mind

cali: What effective leaders should keep in mind: "Great leadership is not measured merely by the success of a business at a single point in time. The test is building an organisation that is adaptive, resilient and ready for the challenges of tomorrow and beyond.

That requires leaders to emerge throughout the organisation, almost continuously over time. The challenge, therefore, is to develop and inspire effective leaders. As every manager and leader knows, this is easier said than done."......

Research has shown that people can improve on the behavioural habits that determine how effective they are as leaders. These habits include cognitive skills (such as thinking about systems and pattern recognition), skills of emotional intelligence (such as self awareness, self confidence and emotional self control) and social intelligence competencies (such as empathy and communications).

.. Another great article with some interesting thoughts..

HOW TO BE A LEADER

???: HOW TO BE A LEADER: "My boss stressed again and again that we should pay more attention on details, and had to tell her everything we had done to ensure the process of daily work. I debated that we had to keep our own ideas and space, we also made our own decision some times; and, a daily working report seemed entirely useless. I also argued that a leader should not blame the executives so roughly as she did, otherwise, enthusiasm would be deeply hurt. She stressed to be a leader meant not only encouraging but sometimes critical and pressing. Only in that way would the executive realize their responsibility and finish on time with quality. She didn�t mean to blame but only want them to be vigilant about their works. " Read the rest of this interesting article. - Its a position i am sure many would relate to... each with our own choice of resolution..

Monday, August 15, 2005

Welcome to Leadership Survival!

Welcome aboard!

Here I am going to collect together all the news and tips about how we are going to survive leadership. - and believe me there is lots and lots.

Who is not sure they are up to the task?

Would it surprise you to hear nearly everyone?

If you know a leader who thinks they have it all worked out, there is a good chance they are missing something.

I'd love to hear from you, just click on the comment button below and introduce yourselves.

Cheers

Steve