Leadership

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Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you’re working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

They say that some people are born leaders, but the truth is that anyone can hone their leadership skills even if they weren’t “born” leaders. Some people are born with better abilities in certain areas that lend themselves to being a great leader, but that doesn’t mean that these skills are impossible to learn or…

It has become a stock answer by those against systemic reforms that we should first “reform” ourselves before we can do that. And yet we do nothing to “reform” ourselves. We continue with bad habits and old attitudes and expect to change. So there is a smack of insincerity to that answer. They do not…

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MANILA – The Philippines has the highest proportion of women managers among Asian countries, according to a new study by the ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities.

You made all the right moves the last few years, difficult as they may have been. You took a firm hold of the leadership mantle, turned a discerning eye to your business and streamlined operations to ensure your organization would remain viable.

A few weeks ago, we were asked to analyze a competency model for leadership development that a client had created. Its was based on the idea that at different points in their development, potential leaders need to focus on excelling at different skills. For example, in their model they proposed that a lower level manager…

If you have room in your head for only one nugget of leadership wisdom, make it this one: the most powerfully motivating condition people experience at work is making progress at something that is personally meaningful. If your job involves leading others, the implications are clear: the most important thing you can do each day…

MANILA, Philippines – How do you really deal with Filipino white-collar and blue-collar workers most effectively? Win them to your side and you have the most loyal and productive people in your company. Understanding the Filipino psyche and the cultural diversities among the different regional groups in the Philippines can boost your leadership and management…

WHAT do Nelson Mandela, Teddy Roosevelt and Golda Meir have in common? They all possessed the essential traits of great leadership. “Leadership is one of the most complex undertakings anyone will face,” says Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st Century Leaders (Agate). “If we take the easy way out,…

Being likeable will help you in your job, business, relationships, and life. I interviewed dozens of successful business leaders in my last book, Likeable Business, to determine what made them so likeable and their companies so successful. All of the concepts are simple, and yet, perhaps in the name of revenues or the bottom line,…

WHO DOESN’T WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET MORE DONE? OR GET THINGS DONE MORE EFFICIENTLY? WE ASKED SOME OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE WE KNOW HOW YOU CAN TACKLE THE NEW YEAR’S WORK. BY KATHLEEN DAVIS Last year I used a kitchen timer to force myself to focus; I blocked the Internet and…

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The opportunity is mind-boggling. The honor is undeserved. Yet my partners and I have been given the privilege to train thousands of executives from the middle- up to the senior-le-vel management of top business corporations in our country on the subject matter of leadership.

Real leaders foster collaboration, encourage communication, push for innovations, advance discussions and consensus and nurture their team. Growing a successful and productive team starts with the leader’s mindset and attitudes. They enjoy work life and become friends in and outside of work.