Leadership - Successful People are not Necessarily Good Leaders

Just because someone is successful doesn't mean they are going to be a good leader. Many successful people thrive in spite of their poor leadership skills not because of having good skills.

Five Steps to Business Success

You've heard it said that it's lonely at the top. That may be true but that's because the leader has to get there before everyone else. Here's some very practical suggestions on achieving business success.

How's Your Love Life?

We are bombarded everyday with conflicting messages of love. Everyone is seeking true love, but mostly in the wrong people and in the wrong places. It is even difficult to see real love in the church. As a leader, how deep is your love life?

New Approach to Leadership

Leadership is a word that is widely used and poorly understood. The challenge is not how to develop more and better management. Society has looked for a few leaders ate the top, and expected everyone else to be a manager or a worker-bee when, in fact, what we need is more honest and courageous leaders at all levels.

Lessons In Leadership From Earnest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth bar none” for saving the lives of twenty-seven men stranded with him on an Antarctic ice floe for almost two years. Unlike most of the polar expeditions, every man survived – not only in good health, but also in good spirits – all due to the leadership skills of Shackleton.

Insight

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein

The Five Main Drivers For Improvement Within Organisations

Whatever got you where you are today will not be sufficient to keep you there. A rapidly changing environment is the regular background against which organisations must develop. Change is continuous and will become more rapid as we move forward over time. Senior management must be capable of reacting to those changes and be prepared to take advantage of them and yet stay within the overall framework and agreed strategy.

4 Things You Must Do Before You Hire or Fire a Vendor

Do you need to hire a vendor for a business project? Have you always wanted a way to sift through all the vendors for hire? Here's the 4 things you want to do before you hire or fire a vendor.

Formal Leadership – A Simple Yet Complex Concept

Leadership, straight forward simple concepts; easy to understand and implement; improve your leadership skills. Much has been written about the personality characteristics of leaders; and while leaders exhibit a varied range of characteristics there are those characteristics that emerge universally in all leaders such as...

How We Relate Maslow's Theory To Induction

Even though newcomers will have anxiety, they will also be feeling enthusiastic and motivated to do a good job. The main goal of induction is to maintain this enthusiasm and motivation for as long as possible. This will result in more effective performance.

How To Conduct A Successful Interview

It is easy to forget that the recruitment interview is a selling event: Obviously the interviewee is doing everything he or she can to impress the interviewer(s) and provide sufficient evidence of their suitability for the vacancy, ahead of the other candidates. However, it is also important to remember that we need to sell our company in order to attract the very best staff and during that first interview, candidates will begin forming their opinions of our professionalism and our suitability as potential employers.

Leadership

Leadership is the ability to get other people to do that which they would rather not, without hesitation.

Leadership In Society

It is historically given fact that each society needs a leader in order to move in one directions and, therefore achieve success and happiness. But who are those leaders?

Is There An Increasing Need For Leadership, Or Is It Just Hype? 5 Pointers for Potential Leaders

What does leadership mean today? Should it be left to those who have the formal responsibility for leading, or is there a role for everyone? This article suggests some practical ways in which leadership can be developed and implemented on a day to day basis

Trust: a Leadership Value - Nu Leadership Series

Examine how to defeat cynicism in today’s workplace and foster trust. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.