Feb
04

Management – Looking for Leaders – the Problem Persists

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I recently read four unrelated articles that stressed what was both needed and proving hard to find for businesses now and into the future. The excerpts offered here are intended to give some insights into what young employees can develop in regard to personal attitudes and attributes to take advantage of this obvious opportunity for… Continue reading »

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Jun
13

Leader or Despot Which Management Style is More Like You?

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Sometime back a friend asked me if I could come up with a leadership anagram. Bearing in mind that in reality our leadership or management style is probably somewhere along a continuum between despotic through democratic to laissez-faire perhaps the following anagram extremes can at least serve as reminders of the best and worst of… Continue reading »

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Jan
10

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP part ONE: WHY EMBRACE “TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP”

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To better understand why transformational leadership is a concept we should consider, a look at more traditional approaches is at first appropriate. Autocratic, army or public service style ‘instructional’ leadership encompasses hierarchies and the top-down use of power. This type of leader is supposed to know the best way to administer the business, conveys instructions… Continue reading »

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