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To SER With Love

In the movie “To Sir, With Love”, Sidney Poitier was brilliant in the role of a black teacher in a tough Lo...

Episode #257: The Real Cost of Stupid People at Work

Stupid people in organizations aren’t always easy to spot. They can appear confident, energetic, and articul...

Common Leader Achilles’ Heels

We know the name Achilles because of Brad Pitt and Hollywood or we may have read the Iliad. He was a famou...

Are You Authentically Aggressive Or Assertive As A Leader

In today’s business world, leaders need to be “authentic” leaders. We have all come across this somewhere, ...

Three Tools To Engage Your Team

Engaging your team as a leader is a relatively new idea. When I first started work in the early 70s, none ...

How To Be A Role Model As A Leader

Smirks emerge quite quickly when you mention “role model” and “leaders” in the same breath. Most peoples’ ...

The New Leader Mindset Shift Needed

We are recognised for our capabilities and potential and promoted into our first leadership role. We have ...

Four Superheroes Of Coaching For Leaders

We have seen Hollywood pumping out comic heroes as movie franchises to get the money flowing into the studi...

Working Through Others Who Are Not Working

The chain of command is a well established military leadership given. I have three stripes, you have none,...

House Clean The Team Every Year

Japan has a wonderful year end tradition where the entire house is given a massive clean up. Dust is dispatc...

Is Japanese Leader Charisma The Same As Western Charisma

I met the owner of a successful business recently. He had bought the company twenty years ago and then piv...

Leadership Silk Purses From Sow’s Ears

The ad on social media said, “we are looking for sales A players”. I know the guy who put out the ad and he...

Namby Pamby Kids Today and Tough Love Leaders

Years ago I inverted the pyramid and promoted the best salespeople to become the branch leaders. The existi...

Micro Leadership Techniques

Time is the enemy of good leadership. It takes time to develop a team of individuals. A common metaphor is...

The Leadership Equation

  I remember reading once about a President reflecting on the cost controls he had instituted inside his orga...

As A Leader How To Provide Guidance Your People Will Follow

  Giving people orders is fine and fun, when you are the leader. Not so great when you are on the receiving ...

Leadership Principles Are An Absolute Must

Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School and INSEAD Business School are all awesome institutions. ...

How Decisions Are Really Made Inside Japanese Companies

The President of a company is a very powerful force. They drive the direction, the strategy and the culture...

Leaders Need To Empty Their Cup

Tokusan the scholar visited Ryutan the Zen Master to learn about Zen. Tokusan was a very smart fellow and v...

Leadership-Key Competencies Needed To Lead Others – Part Two

  In Part One we looked at two broad categories of leadership competences around being Self-Aware and having ...