The following listings provide a good checklist of traits, characteristics, and attributes effect leaders should have or want to develop. Compare your leadership assets and talents with those discussed here to determine how current your leadership skills are. How are your critical thinking skills? Check out the listing devoted to developing and improving critical thinking skills. Also, see if you agree that leading a group is different from managing a group.
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By Bill Breen
- As a leader, what can you do to find the clarity your followers require? Marcus Buckingham has identified three approaches that will help.
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By Brent Filson
- It's a common occurrence, a CEO leads a company to record earnings, retires and in just a couple of years, those once high-flying earnings are dropping like shot ducks. Observers blame the new leadership team. But most likely the observers are wrong. It's not just the new leaders who are screwing up. Instead, it was most likely the former CEO. Yes, the former, supposedly great CEO. Look to him for what went wrong — and what went wrong provides lessons for leaders at all levels.
(Added: 12-Mar-2007 Hits: 327
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By Pamela Kruger
- It's not easy to become as disastrous a boss as Dennis Kozlowski, Jean-Marie Messier, or Jill Barad -- but you can, if you work at it. And here's the best part: Each of the qualities that you need to be a spectacular failure is widely admired in today's business world.
(Added: 16-Feb-2007 Hits: 319
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By n a
- This article is of particular importance to women in leadership positions and those women aspiring to corporate leadership positions. A nicely defined attribute is discussed intelligently.
(Added: 2-Feb-2007 Hits: 307
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By David Dorsey
- Twenty years ago, as CEO of PepsiCo, Andy Pearson was named one of the 10 toughest bosses in America. Now at Tricon, Pearson has found a new way to lead -- one based on personal humility and employee recognition.
(Added: 16-Feb-2007 Hits: 327
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By Dr. Marilyn Manning
- Meetings are great opportunities to share information with your team, to build skills, to motivate, and to give your team a chance to sound off. But even the best planned meetings can be a total loss if difficult people are not handled in effective ways. Try the suggestions here for being a better meeting manager.
(Added: 5-Nov-2007 Hits: 143
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By Dr. Nancy Huber
- There are four characteristics of effective leaders which I consider foundational. They are not traits which you are either born with or not. Neither are they attributes that you might acquire by learning more about them. I believe these essential leader characteristics are CHOICES that we make. Exemplary leaders are passionate, authentic, credible, and ethical.
(Added: 12-Mar-2007 Hits: 369
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By Barry Wolfson
- Leadership has sometimes been described as taking people to a place that they would not normally go to on their own. Barry Wolfson explores the leadership attributes that managers within an organization must have to successfully implement their company's strategic vision.
(Added: 6-Sep-2003 Hits: 299
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