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Leadership & Belief (Part 1)

Boy on a high dive, Norman Rockwell, 1947 ‘Whether you think you can, or you…

Leadership Excellence = Getting Past Good Enough

An impossibly large number of people think they are above average drivers. Most students assess themselves as better than average and a study of college professors found that ninety percent of them thought they were above average teachers. No doubt, most leaders would assess themselves as above average too. These…

Why We’re Probably Predestined To Awful Leadership Forever

Principle | ˈprɪnsɪp(ə)l | noun. A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning. Leadership performance in any domain; business, politics, education, religion or the military seems over time to be firmly stuck. Leadership has not got better and in many cases a cogent case could…

What’s The Value of Leadership – Really?

There are no bad teams, only bad leaders. Instinctively we recognize there is more than a grain of truth to this statement. It’s not a new sentiment, Napoleon declared ‘There are no bad Regiments, only bad Colonels’. We know leadership has a value but we are not sure how to…

Leading Back To Work = Getting A Grip

In the military, grip is often viewed as a key component of a leader’s performance and potential. Rarely defined, nonetheless it is a quality that is obvious when you see you it and equally obvious when it’s absent or lacking. Right now (July 2020) lots of businesses and organizations are…

1-Big Reason Leader’s Don’t Get Any Better

Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Turning food into energy and the nutrients needed for health takes a comprehensive and complex digestive system. Turning knowledge into action requires no less of a system. The system that enables us to improve performance starts with knowledge but knowledge is the easiest part of the equation,…

Leaders Aren’t Born; So How Do You Build One?

This is the half remembered distillation of a conversation that involved a very long run, half a bottle of extremely expensive scotch and a Cuban cigar. I don’t believe leaders are born. Leadership is a skill, you can get better at it and you can develop your potential, maybe…