Best Leadership Articles

Just like anything in life, there is an art an a science. In this article I outline the step by step science to using dissonance effectively. Take the material I teach you and use your art to apply the most effective method in a given situation. STEP ONE: GET A COMMITMENT You can create or reveal commitments in your prospects by ensuring that the commitments are public, affirmative, voluntary, and effortful (PAVE). PUBLIC Make your prospect's stand as public as po...

This article takes a critical look at organizational, governmental, educational, and corporate leadership, or the lack thereof, and explains the level and degree of courage that it will take to fix serious problems in each. The article is an affront to cowards posing as leaders.

One of the most important reasons to encourage regular gatherings with your team is to provide you with the opportunity to recognize individuals for their accomplishments ? large and small. Each of us has a need to be recognized for our efforts. Team meetings and trainings give you the perfect venue to do that. Just as a coaching call from you can have a positive effect on a Consultant, recognition in front of a group of peers can also have an immeasurable impact on the attit...

Success in any creative endeavor depends on trust. If your colleagues trust you, they will give in ways they didn?t know were possible. If banks and investors trust you, they will finance your projects. In deep personal work, if a client trusts you, he or she will see and release life-long patterns that have held them bound. Without trust nothing much will move. Many of the people I have coached feel nervous around earning the trust they need from others. We all seem to st...

Today many of us frequently feel stuck in overdrive - days crammed with too much to do mixed with an unhealthy dose of frequent distractions, all vying for our attention at the same time. This can cause our minds to be constantly racing which, in turn, can make focusing our attention seem like an impossible task. Is it any wonder we find it difficult to pay attention for more than ten seconds at a time without a sense of dread that we might miss something?

A while ago a massive study was conducted in America, England and Australia to try to determine the most important characteristics of successful managers. They asked over 100,000 successful managers what they believed was their most valuable skill. The number one answer was hiring the right people.

Everyone wants to be a leader, not a manager. Management has been unfairly thrown out the window. It is time to upgrade management and make people see that it is just as important as leadership.

I was recently asked ?What would you say is the one real key to finding and keeping people?? After thinking for a moment, I said ?Leadership.? The reason is that an inspirational leader in any field - business, sport, politics - draws in great people to work with them through their own magnetism. But what is it that these leaders do that makes them stand out? And how can this help you recruit and retain the right people?

Branding is a hot topic these days. It?s not only related to products, but to the ?brand? of celebrities, political campaigns, and even cities. What is a brand anyway? Let?s clear up some misconceptions. Branding is not the logo, or the tagline, or the celebrity face. This would be branding at it?s shallowest. The reason that great brands thrive is because of something much more than a huge advertising budget and slick marketing campaigns. People and communities are ...

I always watch the Olympics on television. I don't mean that I don't want to be at the real goings-on, but generally, that's not possible. Now, mind you, I am not obsessed by it. I just like to watch. I just like to see the champions, the aspiring gold, silver and bronze medal winners. I like the pomp and ceremony, the excitement of a world-class event. As I watched the games of the XXVII Olympiad, I found myself holding my breath as the participants won or lost by mere fr...