Apr 30, 2010

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Theories of leadership

Theories of leadership
Leadership in a company has never emerged tremendously as it is emerging today; more and more people are getting in to the loop of following a particular leadership for the betterment of their organization. It was not until the early twentieth century, that leadership started gaining interest. The early leadership mainly focused on two prospects that focused between the leaders and the followers. Today the leadership is much more than these two, there are other variables involved with factors like skill levels, situational factors, etc. let take a deeper look at some of the theories of leadership which will help us distinguish  [...]

Apr 29, 2010

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Famous leadership quotes

Famous leadership quotes
Since my childhood, I have always admired leaders and always thought what makes them special, how they are special, what is their behavior like? As I grew, I learned that leaders have particular traits that they become leaders. No one teaches them to be one; they are born with in-built skills. I have some amazing list of famous leadership quotes that I have collected in my dairy since I was 10 years old. I had always been collecting them whenever I came across some. Below are just the few of my favorite famous leadership quotes; I always refer to keep motivating me: “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where  [...]

Apr 28, 2010

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Leadership skills

Leadership skills
For the organization to run successfully, it is really very important to have a LEADER who can guide a team to the perfect path. More than this, there are effective leadership skills that matter a lot in bringing success to an organization. A perfect leadership approach is necessary for leader to lead his team of future leaders. Lets take a brief look at John Adair’s Action centered leadership that has a pretty straightforward approach focusing mainly on the team, task and the individuals involved. The theory consists of overlapping circles of competence comprising the elements of achieving the tasks, managing the team and  [...]

Feb 16, 2010

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Effective leadership skills

Effective leadership skills
The Leaders are the main contributing factors to a rise or down fall of an economy, companies, nations, political parties or whatever you might term it as. A successful leader may have all the qualities to take the company on the top ladder while a failing leader may get your company nowhere, in fact helps in degrading the status of the company. A leader is the one who has followers; people blindly follow their leaders because of the trust and bond they share for years together. In a way we all are leaders, we too have followers like our children follow us and share our opinion before taking any major steps and even we as leaders  [...]

Feb 8, 2010

Posted in  Business Planning, Leadership

Reflect, the key to Self Awareness!

Reflect, the key to Self Awareness!
In our fast paced lifestyle we hardly get any time to reflect on our past or present situations, when you look back at yourself and your life over a specific period of time, you get better at understanding yourself and become aware of your life’s dwellings. Some people might find this a little difficult but as you get accustomed to the idea of reflecting on yourself, you feel comfortable and at ease for the amount of time you spent with yourself. Self-reflection is asking yourself a specific set of questions and answering them in a correct manner. Here are a brief list of questions you can ask yourself teaching you how to  [...]

Jan 11, 2010

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Is Disruptive Leadership, the rise of an un-welcomed Storm?

Is Disruptive Leadership, the rise of an un-welcomed Storm?
While many argue about leadership dilemmas ever rising in organizational management system, it really can create havoc when disruptive leadership challenges the smooth functioning in an organization. Managers and leaders are the sole persons running an entire management and processes system in a company, these are the extraordinary people handling the hiccups in the company that disrupts its functioning. Managers are hired to solve company problems while paradoxically leaders are meant to create problems, in some cases creating problems welcomes a new change and in some cases it can collapse the whole working system. Problem  [...]

Jan 7, 2010

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Ways Leaders Communicate Change

Ways Leaders Communicate Change
Leadership issues are bombarding across all the industries and not many of them work seriously in to fixing these issues. The more organized a company, the larger the leadership problem, at least, this is what I have noticed in my journey of last 2 years. Most of the times, people take their leaders for granted and some are the serious followers and some are forced to follow them so they come up with the issue of disliking their leaders. Companies work their best in communicating with the last hierarchy of employees but nothing seems to be actually working up to solve their leadership problems. The working pressures are way  [...]

Jan 7, 2010

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The Top Point of a Successful Business Enterprise!

The Top Point of a Successful Business Enterprise!
It feels really nice to be at the top point of a successful business enterprise, the fascination of being at the top may give some of you goose bumps like it did to me for the first time but its no different when you get at the top after all, who likes working for someone or following the boss’s commands. Reaching at the point where you always wanted to reach is simply exhilarating and overwhelming, till the time you have something on your own life you cannot afford to command respect and recognition from your fellowmen. Its one type of a thrill I got when I started off, with my business 10 years back, today the position  [...]

Jan 7, 2010

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Leader’s Excuses!

Leader’s Excuses!
Well, you might have been used to hearing, employees giving an excuse for not doing the work on time but with by-gone recessionary times I have learned quite a few lessons from our managers. There are not just employees who are always at fault; our creative managers have worked up their mental muscles in giving kind excuses for the lay-offs or not incrementing the salary of an employee. How much ever, the stronger reasons the leader’s might give, it’s a proven fact that they are not always superior in their thoughts, they can go wrong in their calculations and they always have foolish reasons to not grant the leaves of  [...]

Jan 7, 2010

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Leaders with Purpose!

Leaders with Purpose!
Leaders with a purpose are a boon to an organization, where the spirituality of a person and the professional qualification of a person are both mixed in harmony to get the needed output. Productivity of a company goes a long way in determining the prospects of individuals working in. The leader is a person who has the power to influence and organize his and other’s tasks well, leaders are born out of experiences, whatever good or bad experiences he have had in his life determines his vision, its not always the case though, a good leader is the one who understands his commitments, the work he is liable to get done from the  [...]

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