from: ncara.edublogs.orgCommunicating in today’s world requires both a new mindset and a new toolset. Like a maestro conducting a symphony, savvy leaders pay attention to the sound, the effect, the and the instruments needed to strike just the right notes.Some organizations have a full time communications person. Others have none. Regardless, a leader can set just the right tone with …
15 Classic Leadership Books That Every Leader Should Read
Whether you are commanding a military unit, starting a Small Business or coaching a basketball team, you must possess great skills in leadership. Leaders can either make or break a military unit, team, or company. Hence... a compiled list of the most important leadership books for your leadership book library. adapted from: addicted2success.com Strategic Leadership: The …
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10 Things Agile Executives Need To Do Differently
By Kelly WatersAgile adoption is sometimes driven from the top by courageous executives boldly declaring “We’re going agile!”. They see a vision of a better, happier place, where development is better, faster, cheaper, and they want it. That’s understandable, of course. But some don’t realise the implications. When moving to agile methods, it’s not just teams that …
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20 Reasons Why People Get Their Best Ideas in the Shower
During the past 25 years, I've asked more than 10,000 people where and when they get their best ideas. I get all kinds of answers, but the one that has always fascinated me is "the shower" -- maybe because I also get so many of my good ideas there. And so, at the risk of …
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Four Primary Leadership Roles and Responsibilities
by Timothy F. Bednarz, Ph.D. A leader’s specific roles are determined through the four basic leadership responsibilities of directing, coaching, supporting and delegating. Specific responsibilities will fall into one of these four categories. In leadership practice, one must master skills in all areas in order to effectively lead others under their direction. Effective leadership is …
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How To Be a Great Leader (in under 300 words)
The six psychological factors that make a really great leader. Want to lead others? Well, much has been said and written about what makes a great leader, so here are the crib notes. These are the factors that psychologists consistently find make a good leader (Hogan & Kaiser, 2005): Decisiveness: good leaders make frequent decisions …
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The Process Center of Excellence
Much talk today on Centers of excellence....now there is something to focus on
Eight Traits of Great Leaders and One Lesson from a Monkey by Shari Roberts
A recent company leadership offsite in Bangalore, India provided fresh reminders of the leadership behaviors needed to build a strong leadership legacy. I view the leadership traits shared by management consultant Mohit Chhabra as critical components of leading change in digital communications and navigating the unchartered waters of social business. Great leaders: 1. Are continual …
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Explanation and Motivation
Now David said on that day, "Whoever climbs up by way of the water shaft and defeats the Jebusites...he shall be chief and captain..." Then David dwelt in the stronghold, and clled it that City of David. - 2 Samuel 5: 8-9 Another piece of Maxwellian wisdom from this mornings reading... in this world of …
The ‘Dayton’ Lesson For America’s Shrinking Military
Wall Street Journal March 13, 2012 Pg. 13 Three years into America's post-World War II drawdown,not a single U.S. nuclear bomber could hit a large, undefended target in Ohio. By Warren Kozak It was simply called the "Dayton Exercise" and for obvious reasons it was kept secret for decades. It was also one of the …
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