Definition of Leadership
What is your definition of leadership? Does it have something to do with leadership traits or characteristics? Can our potential for leadership be developed? Or is leadership an innate skill? Why ask...
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From experience I have learned that successful change occurs when there is commitment, a sense of urgency or momentum, stakeholder engagement, openness, clear vision, good and proper communication,...
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Leadership As a Lens — A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
Leadership As a Lens Search for leadership models on Google and you’ll get about 375,000,000 results. There’s information on the 3 levels of leadership model, situational leadership, Tuckman’s model of...
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The Art of Strategy — A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
The Art of Strategy In Leadership As a Lens we started a series on leadership models. And, to kick things off, we’re going back almost 2,500 years to learn from Sun Tzu … the great military strategist....
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Situational Leadership Theory — A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
Situation Influences Leadership Styles In The Art of Strategy we learned the importance of fully understanding a situation before even considering action. And we briefly introduced the Hersey and...
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Transactional Leadership — A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
Transactional Leadership Transactional Leadership isn’t about changing the future. It’s about getting the job done. For the most part, it is a directive leadership style. Directive behaviour is telling...
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Transformational Leadership — A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
Transforming Leadership Transformational Leadership was first coined by the historian and political scientist, James MacGregor Burns in the late 1970s, and was used to distinguish the inspirational...
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Dealing With Complexity — A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
Complexity In Transformational Leadership we learned that one characteristic of the transforming leader is dealing with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. So, let’s take a look at a leadership...
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A Framework for Leadership — A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
A Framework for Leadership — The Hare and Tortoise Michael Fullan describes organisational change as rocket science. He says this because we are inundated with complex, unclear, and often contradictory...
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Leadership and Motivation — A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
Leadership and Motivation Our next sortie into leadership models and theories brings us to leadership and motivation. We’ll first take a quick look at some commonly held theories and views of...
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