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The Happy Jar


I just delivered a free speech. I am a great believer in free speech, but an even greater believer in paid speech.

Leadership Success and its Greatest Barrier: the Law of Administrivia


Years ago, a very wise, and often cynical boss of mine asked me for a definition of management. After reflecting on the question I proceeded to give him an intellectually careful and, I thought, accurate definition.

Leadership Styles and What We Need For the Future:


By definition a leaders leads a team to take action in favor of the vision.The most well know methods for assessing leadership styles, such as DISC, have outlived their usefulness!· Are leadership styles really captured in a neat questionnaire like DISC that measures Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness?· Can we predict the leaders from the profile that DISC generates?· Can we test great leaders and say people with the same profile will have similar success?It seems the answer is less obvious.

Why You Should Ignore This Advice


Doesn't make too much sense does it? Am I really going to give you some advice that asks you to ignore the advice I'm giving you? Well, that's not strictly true. I am however going to show you how to qualify the advice you are given, so you can sort the wheat from the chaff, and help you to survive the information overload on the Internet.

Evil, Hostile Grumpy Listeners? Think Again


I hated Kyle Sisk*. A notorious bully, Kyle punctuated my grade school years with misery.

Reveal the Leader Within


A Leader is not a certain type of person or position of power. It is not the one at the top of the golf leader board at any specific time or the person at the top of an organisation.

Mentor? Who Needs A Mentor?


Who needs a mentor. .

Extraordinary People in Mediocre Times


My grandfather used to speak of the days when people drove the world. It was a time when people were proud to contribute and move society and industry forward at full steam.

Five Surprisingly Hip Politicial Ideas From Plato


Don't you love politics?Me, neither. But I do like thinking about politics.

Leading In The Face Of Disaster


The date was Saturday, April 11, 1970, the time 13:13 CST. The event to take place was to be one of NASA's finest hours; the launch of Apollo 13.

Would Socrates Be A Celebrity Today?


Last week, as I was standing in the checkout line of my local grocery store, I found myself staring at the dozen or so magazines on display. As I gazed upon the various photos and headlines praising or trashing the celebrity du jour, I got to thinking.

How To Party Like Leonardo Da Vinci


After studying scores of great thinkers like Leonardo Da Vinci, I think I've stumbled upon what really set them apart from the rest of the folks living (and thinking) at the same time.It's remarkably simple.

From Failure To Victory; The Cats Out Of The Bag!


Did you ever think that all of the great heroes we read about may not have been particularly great men in and of themselves? They may not have been born with any great skills, talents or abilities. But, each of them did have one special quality that we would all do well to cultivate.

The Personality of Leadership


Have you ever wondered what type of person or personality makes the best leader? Most would consider the answer to that question to be the person that has the greatest success, the largest organization, or the best staff. Conversely, have you ever wondered how it is that a person with little drive or entrepreneurial skills ends up in a leadership position? You know the type person I am writing about, a person that couldn't lead a dog on a walk, but has been given the responsibility of leading a large and well-established organization.

The Essence of Leadership


What is more important, leadership or teamwork? Leadership or consensus management? Today we hear frequently about teams, team-building, and teamwork on the one hand and management by consensus on the other. Although both teamwork and consensus building are critical skills in a leader, neither are substitutes for capable leadership itself.

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6% - Leadership and Gender (Pew via Yahoo! News)

While the public rates women has superior to men on a host of issues associated with leadership, like honesty and intelligence, a mere 6% say women make better leaders than men. Brown Leadership 'Threat' (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

A small number of Labour MPs have requested Labour leadership nomination papers, according to Sky sources. BJP leadership meets to mull poll winning strategy (Calcutta News)

Major roads in Bangalore's central business district were awash with saffron flags Friday as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership looked for a plank to take on a nuclear-deal buoyed Congress in the Lok Sabha polls due early next year. Philly Museum Begins Search For New Leadership (Arts Journal)

"The Philadelphia Museum of Art has assembled a search committee to... find a successor to Anne d'Harnoncourt, the longtime director who died unexpectedly June 1." There is no timetable for the search, and the museum's board chair says that the interim arrangement of splitting the artistic and business sides of the leadership is likely to remain in place after a new director is hired. Community Foundation reorganizes leadership (El Paso Times)

EL PASO -- The El Paso Community Foundation, the city's largest public community foundation, will undergo leadership changes to ensure its continued support and impact on the region, the organization's board announced. West Salem?s rec department will have change of leadership (West Salem Coulee News)

West Salem lost its Park and Recreation director last month when Mary Freybler resigned to take a job with Viterbo University, but the transition to new leadership looks to be relatively painless as Michelle Czerwan, who has been with the parks and recreation department for eight years, has moved up to the acting director position. Leadership spill 'within days' (Adelaide Now)

BRENDAN Nelson could face a leadership spill as early as next Tuesday after Peter Costello's declaration that he will not accept being drafted as leader of the Opposition. Nigeria: Abaji Council Trains Staff on Leadership Qualities (AllAfrica.com)

The management of the Abaji Area Council, Wednesday began a two-day workshop to train its staff on leadership development and better service delivery. Groton Electric Light commissioners honors for outstanding leadership (Groton Landmark)

GROTON -- Each year, commissioners who have provided outstanding leadership to their public power system for three full terms, or at least 10 years, may be nominated by their utility to receive the NEPPA (New England Public Power Association) Commissioner Service Award. An election about vision, leadership and trust (Scoop.co.nz)

The 2008 general election will be fought over who has the vision and leadership to take New Zealand into the future, Grant Robertson the Labour Candidate for Wellington Central said today.
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