Positive Leadership Blog Book - 1 September 2009 Thru 17 January 2011

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Contents

1 2009 37
1.1 September . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
1.1.1 Introducing Positive Leadership Limited (2009-09-01 21:43) . . . . . . . . . . . 37
1.1.2 5 Key Traits of Great Business Leaders (2009-09-01 22:42) . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.1.3 The Truth About Grit (2009-09-02 14:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
1.1.4 Jack Nicklaus shares his Leadership Insights (2009-09-02 16:05) . . . . . . . . 39
1.1.5 The Power of Positive Leadership (2009-09-02 16:42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
1.1.6 Some lessons from two of golf’s top instructors on the importance of being in the
right emotional state for peak performance (2009-09-02 17:30) . . . . . . . . . 40
1.1.7 For Best Results, Take the Sting Out of Criticism (2009-09-03 00:57) . . . . . 41
1.1.8 How to Develop a Nation of Winners (2009-09-03 03:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
1.1.9 Leadership Lessons from the late Senator Ted Kennedy (2009-09-03 04:02) . . 42
1.1.10 Sebastian Coe On Creating a Winning Culture (2009-09-03 13:06) . . . . . . . 42
1.1.11 Talking Leadership with Coach K (2009-09-03 15:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
1.1.12 Leadership Quotes from Coach K (2009-09-03 15:59) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
1.1.13 A Conference on Leadership which links Sport and Business (2009-09-03 16:13) 44
1.1.14 Inspirational Leadership and Responsible Leadership Linked Closely to Prof-
itability and Revenue Growth (2009-09-03 16:21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
1.1.15 The Spirituality of Teamwork (2009-09-03 16:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
1.1.16 Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz on the Impact of Sports (2009-09-03 17:00) 45
1.1.17 Five Leadership How-Tos for Recession Survival (2009-09-03 17:23) . . . . . . 45
1.1.18 Tiger Woods on Pressure (2009-09-03 18:01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
1.1.19 Tiger Woods on Goals (2009-09-03 18:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
1.1.20 Jack Welch on Leadership (2009-09-03 18:12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
1.1.21 Business Lessons from a World Class Athlete (2009-09-03 18:21) . . . . . . . . 47
1.1.22 7 Ways Leadership Training Helps to Recession-Proof Your Company
(2009-09-03 18:24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
1.1.23 A Brainwave in the Study of Leadership (2009-09-03 18:31) . . . . . . . . . . . 48
1.1.24 Get gratiﬁcation from what others do (2009-09-03 18:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
1.1.25 ’The Zone’ separates the great from the good (2009-09-03 18:42) . . . . . . . . 48
1.1.26 20 Ways to Win in Business (2009-09-03 18:51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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1.1.27 CEO’s say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character
(2009-09-03 21:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
1.1.28 Reinventing the Managerial Mindset (2009-09-04 17:23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1.1.29 Winning Ugly and Playing to Win (2009-09-04 17:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1.1.30 ’On-ﬁeld’ leadership at age 18 (2009-09-04 20:50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
1.1.31 Accentuate the Positive (2009-09-04 21:15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
1.1.32 The Language of Leadership - 3 Steps for Inspiring Change (2009-09-04 21:30) 52
1.1.33 Leadership Lessons from World Class Coaches (2009-09-05 13:40) . . . . . . . 53
1.1.34 Under the Floodlights (2009-09-05 13:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
1.1.35 Heroes, Villains and Velodromes (2009-09-05 14:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
1.1.36 Sporting Lessons: What business can learn from elite sport (2009-09-05 19:12) 54
1.1.37 Your Leadership Legacy (2009-09-06 12:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
1.1.38 Imagination and Resolution - the hallmarks of Sir Winston Churchill’s wartime
leadership (2009-09-07 18:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
1.1.39 Why Should Your Employees Like You? (2009-09-07 18:54) . . . . . . . . . . . 56
1.1.40 How To Inspire Employees in a Down Economy (2009-09-07 21:30) . . . . . . 56
1.1.41 Obama urges students to work hard, stay in school (2009-09-09 02:29) . . . . . 56
1.1.42 Oudin’s Wild Ride Reaches the Quarterﬁnals (2009-09-09 17:17) . . . . . . . . 57
1.1.43 The Why of Leadership (2009-09-09 17:59) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
1.1.44 A Leader Taking Responsibility (2009-09-09 18:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1.1.45 Managing Your Attitude is a Vital Component to Achieving Great Leadership
(2009-09-09 23:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1.1.46 The Importance of Self-Belief (2009-09-09 23:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1.1.47 7 Lessons for Leading in a Crisis (2009-09-11 16:27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
1.1.48 Why Greg Dyke is like the Wizard of Oz (2009-09-11 17:06) . . . . . . . . . . 59
1.1.49 Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? (2009-09-11 17:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
1.1.50 This Is Our Moment (2009-09-13 00:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
1.1.51 Excellence (2009-09-13 17:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
1.1.52 Projects as Opportunities to Practice Leadership (2009-09-14 05:20) . . . . . . 61
1.1.53 Smart People, Leading Smarter People (2009-09-14 15:04) . . . . . . . . . . . 62
1.1.54 Video Lessons in Leadership from The Wall Street Journal (2009-09-15 07:21) 62
1.1.55 The Lesson of Lehman: Do the Opposite (2009-09-16 17:38) . . . . . . . . . . 63
1.1.56 U-M Executive Education and the Center for Positive Organizational Schol-
arship Aim to Build Positive Leadership Through New Webinar Series
(2009-09-16 17:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
1.1.57 Eat Mor Chickin! A Recipe for Great Leadership (2009-09-16 18:09) . . . . . . 63
1.1.58 Is Management for Me? (2009-09-16 19:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
1.1.59 Being A Team Captain (2009-09-16 20:28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
1.1.60 Championship Team Building (2009-09-16 20:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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1.1.61 ’Lean On Me’ (2009-09-17 17:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1.1.62 Are You a Positive Critic? ...... It’s in Your Best Interest to Be!
(2009-09-17 23:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1.1.63 Europe Demonstrates Most Skepticism Towards Corporate Leadership
(2009-09-17 23:46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
1.1.64 Leadership is Plural (2009-09-18 18:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
1.1.65 How To Lead in Tough Times (2009-09-18 19:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
1.1.66 Acknowledging Others as a Leadership Trait (2009-09-18 20:05) . . . . . . . . 71
1.1.67 Winners v Losers (2009-09-18 20:11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
1.1.68 Humility in Leaders (2009-09-18 20:32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
1.1.69 Is it Better to be Loved or Feared as a Leader? (2009-09-18 21:50) . . . . . . . 73
1.1.70 The Bill Walsh Way (2009-09-19 19:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
1.1.71 Rosenfeld set ’delicious’ goals at Kraft (2009-09-22 20:26) . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
1.1.72 The Road to the Top Starts on the Sports Field (2009-09-22 20:54) . . . . . . 75
1.1.73 Obama’s Leadership Qualities Stand Out to Americans (2009-09-23 11:07) . . 76
1.1.74 Why Positive Leadership creates a productive workforce and improves the bottom
line (2009-09-23 11:15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
1.1.75 Living With a Big Leadership Footprint (2009-09-23 11:22) . . . . . . . . . . . 78
1.1.76 Building Better Wall Street Leaders (2009-09-23 11:40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
1.1.77 Decoding Leadership (2009-09-23 14:29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
1.1.78 When was the last time you took a vactaion? (2009-09-23 18:55) . . . . . . . . 80
1.1.79 High Performing Leadership (2009-09-23 19:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
1.1.80 Marygrove College Adds Five New Sports, Nearly 60 New Student-Athletes
(2009-09-23 19:59) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
1.1.81 Building on your Strengths as a Leader (2009-09-24 11:08) . . . . . . . . . . . 81
1.1.82 How Bad Leaders Stiﬂe Dissent (2009-09-24 11:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
1.1.83 FORTUNE Business Rules (2009-09-25 11:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
1.1.84 The Making of Champions (2009-09-25 12:33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
1.1.85 What does ’ winning’ mean? (2009-09-25 12:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
1.1.86 EU President calls for ’positive leadership’ (2009-09-25 19:44) . . . . . . . . . 84
1.1.87 Leadership Development in the Military (2009-09-25 22:13) . . . . . . . . . . . 84
1.1.88 How Top Companies Breed Stars (2009-09-25 22:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
1.1.89 Character Matters in Leadership (2009-09-26 15:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
1.1.90 Six Strategies for Leading in Tough Times (2009-09-26 18:31) . . . . . . . . . 85
1.1.91 Leadership Lessons from 1955 (2009-09-27 01:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
1.1.92 Leadership from Tiger Woods (2009-09-27 17:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
1.1.93 Magic Without Magic (2009-09-27 17:42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
1.1.94 Who was the real winner - the Lions or the Springboks? (2009-09-27 18:30) . . 88
1.1.95 Yom Kippur and the prerequisites to positive leadership under the Jewish faith
(2009-09-27 19:54) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
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1.1.96 Seeing things Differently (2009-09-28 14:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
1.1.97 7 Types of Leadership Stories (2009-09-28 14:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
1.1.98 Practical Leadership Lessons from Sport (2009-09-28 14:56) . . . . . . . . . . 92
1.1.99 View from the Corner Office (2009-09-28 15:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
1.1.100 Lessons From Lance’s Coach (2009-09-28 15:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
1.1.101 Innovative Leaders (2009-09-28 15:22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
1.1.102 Tomorrow’s Global Leader (2009-09-28 15:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
1.1.103 Better Today than Yesterday - Tiger Woods (2009-09-28 18:04) . . . . . . . . 95
1.1.104 The Value of Mentoring Future Leaders (2009-09-28 18:11) . . . . . . . . . . . 96
1.1.105 Xerox s Groundbreaking Woman to Woman Leadership Succession
(2009-09-28 18:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
1.1.106 MHTA’s ACE Leadership Programme Provides the Connection
(2009-09-28 20:24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
1.1.107 Respect (2009-09-29 10:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
1.1.108 Classic CEO ’Pitchmen’ (2009-09-29 11:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
1.1.109 Are You Practicing Positive Leadership? (2009-09-29 13:25) . . . . . . . . . . 99
1.1.110 Leadership Development (2009-09-29 16:00) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
1.1.111 The Top Five Managerial Fallacies Concerning Layoff Survivors
(2009-09-29 16:33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
1.1.112 Learning from Failure (2009-09-29 19:52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
1.1.113 Leadership Best Practice (2009-09-29 20:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
1.1.114 Are you a Leader or a Manager? (2009-09-29 21:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
1.1.115 Heart-warming to know Sir Alex Ferguson sees the true value of defeat
(2009-09-29 21:26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
1.1.116 Leadership Lessons from the Financial Services Market (2009-09-30 19:21) . . 104
1.1.117 What can Leaders and Followers expect of each other? (2009-09-30 19:34) . . 105
1.1.118 Leadership is not exclusive - Sporting Lessons (2009-09-30 19:58) . . . . . . . 106
1.1.119 Becoming an Energiser (2009-09-30 20:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
1.2 October . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
1.2.1 Welcome to the Positive Leadership Limited Blog (2009-10-01 11:16) . . . . . 107
1.2.2 Controlling the Controllables When Under Pressure (2009-10-02 12:41) . . . . 107
1.2.3 Cassel has spent years preparing for leading role (2009-10-02 12:49) . . . . . . 108
1.2.4 Why Smart Chief Executives Make Strange Decisions (2009-10-02 12:59) . . . 108
1.2.5 Conversations with Global Leaders (2009-10-02 13:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
1.2.6 Engagement is Not Enough - The Passion Pyramid (2009-10-02 13:20) . . . . 110
1.2.7 Ten Principles for Leadership Communication (2009-10-02 13:34) . . . . . . . 110
1.2.8 Applied Materials CEO’s best advice: ’The Buck Stops Here’ (2009-10-02 16:35) 110
1.2.9 What Wayne Gretzky Can Teach Us About Leadership (2009-10-03 14:26) . . 111
1.2.10 20 Questions to Ask Other Leaders (2009-10-03 17:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
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1.2.11 You Can’t Manage People - You Can Only Manage Their Environment
(2009-10-04 17:11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
1.2.12 Getting To The Top (2009-10-04 17:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
1.2.13 Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
(2009-10-05 12:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
1.2.14 Leadership Lessons from The New York Times (2009-10-05 12:55) . . . . . . . 114
1.2.15 Using College Sport to Build Leadership (2009-10-05 13:57) . . . . . . . . . . . 115
1.2.16 The Benefits of Writing a Blog (2009-10-05 16:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
1.2.17 Lessons in Life From Sport - Authentic Leadership (2009-10-05 17:07) . . . . . 117
1.2.18 ’Anticipating Mind’ Leadership (2009-10-05 17:55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
1.2.19 Redefining Success (2009-10-05 18:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
1.2.20 Leadership in Education (2009-10-05 18:59) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
1.2.21 How Should Leaders Manage Crisis and Resolve Disputes? (2009-10-06 09:16) 120
1.2.22 Why Talent is Overrated (2009-10-06 09:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
1.2.23 Great Leaders Are Great Communicators (2009-10-06 13:07) . . . . . . . . . . 122
1.2.24 Don’t Lose Faith - Find What You Love (2009-10-06 13:29) . . . . . . . . . . . 123
1.2.25 Lance Armstrong and Livestrong (2009-10-06 21:50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
1.2.26 Bringing Global Citizen Corps to Scotland (2009-10-06 21:58) . . . . . . . . . 123
1.2.27 Leadership Lessons for Difficult Times (2009-10-07 09:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
1.2.28 The Art of Good Leadership (2009-10-07 12:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
1.2.29 The Best Leadership Advice I Ever Got (2009-10-07 16:31) . . . . . . . . . . . 125
1.2.30 The Importance of Candor in Business (2009-10-07 20:30) . . . . . . . . . . . 126
1.2.31 How to Lead in Times of Crisis (2009-10-07 20:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
1.2.32 Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring (2009-10-08 14:41) . . . . . . . . . 128
1.2.33 Leading at the Edge (2009-10-08 14:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
1.2.34 The Power of Full Engagement (2009-10-08 15:51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
1.2.35 Crazy Bosses! (2009-10-08 16:32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
1.2.36 Talent Management in a Recession (2009-10-09 15:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
1.2.37 Fierce Leadership (2009-10-09 15:17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
1.2.38 President Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (2009-10-09 16:26) . . . . . . . 133
1.2.39 Nothing is Impossible! (2009-10-09 17:42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.2.40 Have a Purpose as a Leader (2009-10-09 17:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.2.41 The Leader in You (2009-10-09 17:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.2.42 Desmond Tutu on Leadership (2009-10-09 17:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.2.43 Never Give Up On Your Dreams (2009-10-09 17:59) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.2.44 Succeed with a Positive Attitude (2009-10-09 18:00) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.2.45 Inspiration (2009-10-09 18:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.2.46 What It Takes to be Number 1 (2009-10-09 18:27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
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1.2.47 The Reason Tiger Woods Is Number One (2009-10-09 18:28) . . . . . . . . . . 135
1.2.48 Learning from Legends (2009-10-10 13:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
1.2.49 Be Aware of How Your Behaviour Affects Others (2009-10-11 09:25) . . . . . . 136
1.2.50 The Importance of Leadership Development (2009-10-11 09:37) . . . . . . . . . 137
1.2.51 Winning is all in the Mind (2009-10-11 12:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
1.2.52 The Importance of Exercise (2009-10-11 20:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
1.2.53 The Role of ’Soft Power’ in Effective Leadership (2009-10-12 09:24) . . . . . . 139
1.2.54 Leadership That Inspires (2009-10-12 11:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
1.2.55 How Do Teams Win? (2009-10-12 11:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
1.2.56 Seven Ways Inspiring Leaders Communicate (2009-10-12 15:48) . . . . . . . . 141
1.2.57 Leading Through Change (2009-10-12 16:24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
1.2.58 Positive Leadership Pays Off (2009-10-12 22:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
1.2.59 Why Do Some Leaders Succeed and Some Fail? (2009-10-13 10:20) . . . . . . 144
1.2.60 How Much Do You Trust Your Leader? (2009-10-13 10:53) . . . . . . . . . . . 145
1.2.61 Surviving Tomorrow’s Challenges (2009-10-13 11:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
1.2.62 Is It Possible To Motivate Everyone? (2009-10-13 12:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
1.2.63 The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership (2009-10-13 12:59) . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
1.2.64 The Power of Mentoring (2009-10-13 18:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
1.2.65 Positive Leadership Limited - What We Do (2009-10-13 18:52) . . . . . . . . . 149
1.2.66 How to Boost Morale and Engagement in the Current Economy
(2009-10-13 20:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
1.2.67 Women in Leadership (2009-10-14 09:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
1.2.68 Thoughts about Leadership (2009-10-14 10:15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
1.2.69 21st Century Leadership (2009-10-14 11:23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
1.2.70 12 Lessons in Leadership (2009-10-16 12:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
1.2.71 What kind of leader do we need for 2010? (2009-10-17 02:04) . . . . . . . . . . 153
1.2.72 The Tensions Inherent in Good Leadership (2009-10-17 02:37) . . . . . . . . . 154
1.2.73 Keeping Criticism of Leaders Positive (2009-10-17 12:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
1.2.74 Managing Your Emotions (2009-10-19 02:59) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
1.2.75 Feedback and Debriefing Can Deliver Higher Performance in Professional Service
Firms (2009-10-22 13:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
1.2.76 Lead Like A Coach (2009-10-22 13:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
1.2.77 Recognising Leadership? (2009-10-22 14:22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
1.2.78 Leadership is a Choice Made Daily (2009-10-22 14:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
1.2.79 What Makes Joe Torre a Special Leader? (2009-10-22 15:07) . . . . . . . . . . 159
1.2.80 The Importance of Leadership in Education (2009-10-22 15:56) . . . . . . . . . 160
1.2.81 Standing Up For What You Believe In (2009-10-22 16:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
1.2.82 Imagining a World of No Annual Reviews (2009-10-22 16:15) . . . . . . . . . . 161
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1.2.83 Thought Leaders - The Most Influential Management Gurus (2009-10-22 16:53) 163
1.2.84 Evaluating Leadership Development (2009-10-22 17:01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
1.2.85 How (not) to be an Effective Leader (2009-10-22 17:18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
1.2.86 Women in Leadership (2009-10-22 17:27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
1.2.87 Why Leadership Development Matters (2009-10-22 18:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
1.2.88 Do you Inspire and Motivate as a Leader? (2009-10-22 19:10) . . . . . . . . . 166
1.2.89 The Importance of Keeping Top Talent Engaged (2009-10-22 19:18) . . . . . . 167
1.2.90 What does it take to be an inspirational leader? (2009-10-22 19:57) . . . . . . 167
1.2.91 Leadership in the Classroom (2009-10-22 20:11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
1.2.92 America’s Best Leaders 2009 (2009-10-22 20:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
1.2.93 Leading out of Recession (2009-10-23 11:18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
1.2.94 Learning from the Arts (2009-10-23 16:17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
1.2.95 What Conducting and Leading have in common (2009-10-23 16:20) . . . . . . 172
1.2.96 The Importance of Positive Values (2009-10-23 16:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
1.2.97 Leadership (2009-10-23 16:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
1.2.98 Wall Street s Near-Death Experience (2009-10-24 11:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
1.2.99 Being a Boutique is a Badge of Honour (2009-10-24 11:31) . . . . . . . . . . . 174
1.2.100 Dealing with Difficulties (2009-10-24 11:54) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
1.2.101 The Necessity of Open Disagreement (2009-10-24 12:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
1.2.102 Lessons from Sports (2009-10-24 12:39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
1.2.103 The Mindset of a Winner (2009-10-24 12:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
1.2.104 First Impressions Can Be Wrong (2009-10-24 13:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
1.2.105 The ’Never Say Die’ Attitude of Winners (2009-10-24 13:29) . . . . . . . . . . 180
1.2.106 The Benefits of Having a Mentor (2009-10-24 18:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
1.2.107 Being a Person of Disproportionate Influence is the Essence of Leadership
(2009-10-25 11:46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
1.2.108 Does Talent Matter? (2009-10-25 12:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
1.2.109 Leader Wanted (2009-10-25 16:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
1.2.110 What seems like a selfless act often really isn’t (2009-10-26 08:38) . . . . . . . 183
1.2.111 Mentoring contributes to Success (2009-10-26 08:54) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
1.2.112 Does a President’s Personality Predict his Performance as President?
(2009-10-26 10:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
1.2.113 Effective Mergers and Acquisitions (2009-10-26 15:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
1.2.114 Developing New Leaders for Tomorrow (2009-10-26 16:11) . . . . . . . . . . . 186
1.2.115 Your Choices are Being Watched (2009-10-26 19:54) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
1.2.116 Inspirational leaders & Mandela, Moses, Martin Luther King, and, er, Simon
Cowell (2009-10-26 20:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
1.2.117 Inspirational Leaders (2009-10-27 10:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
1.2.118 Just Enough Leadership (2009-10-27 10:29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
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1.2.119 Styles of Leadership (2009-10-27 11:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
1.2.120 Focus On What You Do Best (2009-10-27 11:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
1.2.121 How Lessons from Sport Shape a Leadership Style (2009-10-27 11:54) . . . . . 191
1.2.122 Challenging Young Employees (2009-10-27 11:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
1.2.123 Leaders are Dealers in Hope (2009-10-27 14:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
1.2.124 The Four Capabilities of Leadership (2009-10-27 14:28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
1.2.125 A Formula for Success (2009-10-27 15:33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
1.2.126 How to Find Joy at Work (2009-10-27 15:46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
1.2.127 The Significance of Positive Leadership Within an Organisation
(2009-10-27 16:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
1.2.128 Go Phillies! A Lesson in Positive Leadership (2009-10-27 20:25) . . . . . . . . 195
1.2.129 Practicing Positive Leadership in a Small Business (2009-10-27 20:34) . . . . . 196
1.2.130 Is Ford or GM throwing good money after bad? (2009-10-28 08:25) . . . . . . 197
1.2.131 What is Success? (2009-10-28 09:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
1.2.132 Planning for the next recession (2009-10-28 17:50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
1.2.133 The Blind Loyalty of a Leader (2009-10-28 18:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
1.2.134 What Business Leaders can Bring to Education (2009-10-28 19:00) . . . . . . . 198
1.2.135 How Business can help develop the Leaders of Tomorrow (2009-10-28 19:15) . 200
1.2.136 Confronting Threats (2009-10-29 07:55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
1.2.137 Learning from Failure - What makes Silicon Valley different (2009-10-29 08:11) 201
1.2.138 Want to find leaders for your organisation? (2009-10-29 13:54) . . . . . . . . . 201
1.2.139 Heavy-Handed Management? (2009-10-29 19:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
1.2.140 How to Develop Good Coaches in an Organisation (2009-10-30 09:19) . . . . . 203
1.2.141 Leadership Essentials (2009-10-30 10:23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
1.2.142 How to be a leader others want to follow (2009-10-30 10:30) . . . . . . . . . . 204
1.2.143 The Qualities of a Leader (2009-10-30 12:46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
1.2.144 Does Your Leadership Change as Your Organisation Changes? (2009-10-30 13:32) 206
1.2.145 Trust in Leadership (2009-10-30 14:11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
1.2.146 Off Field Leadership by a Sporting Role Model (2009-10-30 19:57) . . . . . . . 207
1.2.147 How to Speak like a Leader (2009-10-31 11:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
1.2.148 The Importance of a ’Go-To Strategy’ when Performing Under Pressure
(2009-10-31 13:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
1.2.149 The Importance of a ’Go-To Strategy’ when Performing Under Pressure (2)
(2009-10-31 19:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
1.2.150 What is ’Solid Leadership’ ? (2009-10-31 19:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
1.2.151 Leadership Lessons from the Military (2009-10-31 19:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
1.3 November . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
1.3.1 The Dangers of ’Dark Side Personalites’ (2009-11-01 11:34) . . . . . . . . . . . 211
1.3.2 Putting the Team before the Individual (2009-11-01 12:33) . . . . . . . . . . . 211
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1.3.3 How to Discover Your Strengths and then Maximise Them (2009-11-01 14:15) 212
1.3.4 Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership (2009-11-01 15:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
1.3.5 If you have to announce that you are the leader - YOU RE NOT!
(2009-11-01 18:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
1.3.6 Leadership Without A Secret Code (2009-11-02 09:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
1.3.7 Leadership is like conducting an orchestra (2009-11-03 08:16) . . . . . . . . . . 215
1.3.8 What is the key to building a successful corporate culture? (2009-11-03 08:25) 216
1.3.9 Working with Top Performers to Improve the Team (2009-11-03 08:41) . . . . 216
1.3.10 Leaders Must Take Risks (2009-11-03 08:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
1.3.11 The Means of Expression are the Steps to Leadership (2009-11-03 09:01) . . . 218
1.3.12 Brett Favre’s Lessons on Leadership (2009-11-03 10:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
1.3.13 Gavin Hastings joins the Board of Positive Leadership Limited (2009-11-03 11:06) 219
1.3.14 Operating on Data vs Instinct - An Opportunity for Leaders to Out-Perform?
(2009-11-04 17:13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
1.3.15 Why Leadership Depth Matters in an Organisation (2009-11-05 08:47) . . . . 221
1.3.16 General Colin Powell Receives American Patriot of Character Award
(2009-11-05 15:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
1.3.17 Why Do Women Leaders Often Get a Poor Press? (2009-11-05 19:14) . . . . . 223
1.3.18 What Leaders Can Do To Reduce Stress in the Workplace (2009-11-06 08:51) 223
1.3.19 Failure is NOT the Opposite of Success (2009-11-06 12:37) . . . . . . . . . . . 225
1.3.20 ’Attitude’ - The Difference Maker in Leading Others (2009-11-07 08:48) . . . . 225
1.3.21 The Qualities of Winners (2009-11-08 09:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
1.3.22 Lest We Forget (2009-11-08 11:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
1.3.23 Get a Life!: Leadership Lessons from White House Fellows (2009-11-09 09:56) 227
1.3.24 Life’s Rewards are Directly Proportional to the Efforts We Make
(2009-11-09 10:24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
1.3.25 The Importance of Mentors (2009-11-09 18:23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
1.3.26 The Principles of Leadership (2009-11-09 20:24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
1.3.27 Respect - The Single Most Important Quality in Leadership (2009-11-10 07:42) 228
1.3.28 Inspired Leadership (2009-11-10 17:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
1.3.29 Poor Management Drives Half of Workers to Resign From Their Jobs
(2009-11-10 20:36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
1.3.30 The Benefits of Open Dialogue about Leadership (2009-11-11 10:02) . . . . . . 230
1.3.31 The Benefits of Being a Mentor (2009-11-11 10:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
1.3.32 How to Develop the Leadership You Need (2009-11-11 10:31) . . . . . . . . . . 231
1.3.33 Mentoring Programmes for Professional Service Firms (2009-11-11 10:56) . . . 232
1.3.34 The Effectiveness of Leadership (2009-11-11 13:27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
1.3.35 The Bottom Line Effectiveness of Leaders and the Importance of Inspiration
(2009-11-11 14:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
1.3.36 Is the Recession Over? (2009-11-11 15:51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
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1.3.37 Leading by Example (2009-11-12 06:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
1.3.38 Getting the Most from a 360 degree Leadership Assessment (2009-11-12 16:54) 235
1.3.39 The Psychology of the Winner (2009-11-12 17:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
1.3.40 Helping Leaders Excel Under Pressure (2009-11-12 18:52) . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
1.3.41 Next Gen Leaders (2009-11-13 08:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
1.3.42 Improving Your Performance Under Pressure - The 1% Solution
(2009-11-13 08:32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
1.3.43 The Lessons Elite Athletes Can Bring to Business Leaders (2009-11-13 08:46) 239
1.3.44 Lessons from the Military (2009-11-13 18:50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
1.3.45 Five Leadership Lessons From Abraham Lincoln (2009-11-13 19:12) . . . . . . 241
1.3.46 Five Characteristics of Weak Leaders (2009-11-13 19:13) . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
1.3.47 The Wider Implications for Business Leaders of Corporate Social Responsibility
(2009-11-14 08:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
1.3.48 How Leaders Should Communicate in Difficult Times (2009-11-15 09:08) . . . 243
1.3.49 The Power of Vision (2009-11-15 11:21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
1.3.50 Learning from Failure - The Secret Sauce of Silicon Valley (2009-11-15 17:32) . 244
1.3.51 Why Would People Want to be Led By You? (2009-11-16 08:27) . . . . . . . . 245
1.3.52 Why Failure leads to Success (2009-11-16 12:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
1.3.53 Respect (2009-11-16 13:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
1.3.54 Are You a Transformational Leader? (2009-11-17 09:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
1.3.55 Inspiring Confidence - The Role of Visualisation (2009-11-17 09:42) . . . . . . 248
1.3.56 The Qualities of an Influencer (2009-11-17 11:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
1.3.57 Four Things You Can Do to Become a Better Leader (2009-11-17 18:02) . . . 249
1.3.58 Losing Touch - Power Diminishes Perception and Perspective (2009-11-17 18:04) 249
1.3.59 Some Thoughts On How To Be Mentally Tough under Pressure (2009-11-17 18:38) 250
1.3.60 What is Mental Toughness? (2009-11-17 19:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
1.3.61 Moving Beyond Survive to Thrive and Win at Work (2009-11-17 20:00) . . . . 251
1.3.62 Lessons from Five Decades in Business (2009-11-18 07:37) . . . . . . . . . . . 252
1.3.63 The Attributes of Successful Leaders (2009-11-18 13:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
1.3.64 What Skills Will It Take To Lead Successfully In The Future? (2009-11-18 14:07) 253
1.3.65 Why Leadership ’Purpose’ is a Bottom Line Issue (2009-11-18 20:21) . . . . . 254
1.3.66 Passion Matters (2009-11-19 07:26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
1.3.67 How to Lead in a Recession (2009-11-20 09:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
1.3.68 Becoming a Better Listener (2009-11-20 09:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
1.3.69 What Business Can Learn From Elite Athletes (2009-11-20 10:50) . . . . . . . 256
1.3.70 The Race for Top Talent (2009-11-21 11:12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
1.3.71 The Top Companies for Leadership - 2009 (2009-11-21 11:19) . . . . . . . . . . 257
1.3.72 Effective Internal Communications Help Engage and Retain Top Talent.
(2009-11-22 08:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
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1.3.73 What is the CEO’s Role in Driving Performance Culture? (2009-11-22 08:59) 258
1.3.74 68 Rules? No, Just 3 Are Enough (2009-11-22 12:00) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
1.3.75 So Whatever Happened to Command-and-Control Leadership?
(2009-11-23 12:17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
1.3.76 Leadership Lessons from the Military - For Women (2009-11-23 12:19) . . . . 260
1.3.77 5 Ways to Manage Like a CEO (2009-11-24 06:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
1.3.78 New Leadership Study Focuses on People-Led Economy (2009-11-24 06:52) . . 261
1.3.79 Leadership Lessons from the past 18 months (2009-11-25 07:25) . . . . . . . . 261
1.3.80 Expressing Gratitude for Your Colleagues (2009-11-26 09:40) . . . . . . . . . . 263
1.3.81 Thanksgiving Thank You’s (2009-11-26 09:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
1.3.82 Links Between the Lack of Positive Leadership and Stress in the Workplace
(2009-11-27 07:40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
1.3.83 Building a ’Leaderful’ Team (2009-11-27 07:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
1.3.84 What do M&S and Chelsea Have in Common? (2009-11-27 18:11) . . . . . . . 265
1.3.85 Are Leaders Made or Born: Hard Work vs Talent (2009-11-27 20:22) . . . . . 266
1.3.86 Making Tough Decisions (2009-11-28 08:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
1.3.87 Why Ants Are Great Team Players (2009-11-28 08:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
1.3.88 How a Leader’s Emotions Affect Workplace Performance (2009-11-29 08:43) . 267
1.3.89 What It Takes to Be a Remarkable Leader (2009-11-29 09:16) . . . . . . . . . 268
1.3.90 Why Connectors are the New Influencers (2009-11-30 07:42) . . . . . . . . . . 268
1.3.91 Why Every Leader Needs a Coach (2009-11-30 09:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
1.4 December . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
1.4.1 Make the Impossible Possible (2009-12-01 09:33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
1.4.2 Integrity (2009-12-01 09:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
1.4.3 Charisma vs Character: Style vs Substance : What Kind of Leaders Do We Need
in 2010? (2009-12-01 14:26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
1.4.4 All Leaders Have a Brand (2009-12-02 06:36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
1.4.5 What Leadership Looks Like: Bill Walsh (2009-12-02 19:01) . . . . . . . . . . 274
1.4.6 Practice Positive Leadership (2009-12-02 19:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
1.4.7 Leadership Lessons From Peter Drucker (2009-12-03 00:07) . . . . . . . . . . . 276
1.4.8 Let People Do Things (2009-12-03 08:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
1.4.9 Optimism Leads to Academic, Athletic, Military, Occupational and Political Suc-
cess (2009-12-04 16:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
1.4.10 Success and Failure Begin and End in What the Mind Believes is Possible
(2009-12-05 09:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
1.4.11 What History Tells Us About Effective Leadership (2009-12-05 10:39) . . . . . 279
1.4.12 Hard Work Pays Off! (2009-12-06 10:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
1.4.13 4 Leadership Lessons From Carolina Coach Roy Williams (2009-12-06 10:06) . 280
1.4.14 The Six Factors That Drive Confidence in Leaders (2009-12-07 07:17) . . . . . 282
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1.4.15 Leading Through Crises (2009-12-07 09:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
1.4.16 Maintaining a Positive Attidude in Diﬃcult Times (2009-12-08 07:24) . . . . . 283
1.4.17 Developing Young Leaders in the Military (2009-12-08 07:24) . . . . . . . . . . 284
1.4.18 US Leadership (2009-12-08 13:50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
1.4.19 Coach John Wooden - A True Leader (2009-12-10 14:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
1.4.20 Leadership What s Love Got To Do With it? (2009-12-10 14:50) . . . . . . . 286
1.4.21 John Wooden - The Values of a Great Leader (2009-12-10 15:58) . . . . . . . . 287
1.4.22 Renewing American Leadership (2009-12-10 19:15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
1.4.23 Crisis = Danger + Opportunity (2009-12-10 22:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
1.4.24 How To Build Consensus (2009-12-11 14:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
1.4.25 What Makes a Boss a Winner? (2009-12-11 14:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
1.4.26 What Do You Do Under Pressure? (2009-12-11 15:52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
1.4.27 The Use of Open-Ended Questions (2009-12-12 12:13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
1.4.28 What is the DNA of the Top Ranked Companies for Leadership Development?
(2009-12-12 12:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
1.4.29 ’Mr. Watson Come here I want to see you.’ (2009-12-12 14:22) . . . . . 293
1.4.30 High Altitude Leadership (2009-12-13 00:15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
1.4.31 Success (2009-12-13 00:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
1.4.32 Results Matter (2009-12-13 19:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
1.4.33 Colin Powell’s Leadership Principles (2009-12-14 13:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
1.4.34 Becoming a Successful Leader (2009-12-15 00:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
1.4.35 The Cause of the Present Recession (2009-12-15 00:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
1.4.36 The Need for Leaders to Encourage their Teams to be Outward Looking
(2009-12-16 02:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
1.4.37 Is Shareholder Value ’the dumbest idea in the world’ ? (2009-12-16 02:04) . . . 298
1.4.38 Invictus (2009-12-17 03:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
1.4.39 The Man in the Arena (2009-12-17 03:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
1.4.40 ’Conﬁdence in Leadership’ Index Reveals Cautious Optimism (2009-12-17 23:13) 299
1.4.41 Suggestions on How to Develop Positive Children (2009-12-18 00:09) . . . . . 300
1.4.42 Moving into a Leadership Role (2009-12-18 00:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
1.4.43 Derek Jeter - Sports Illustrated’s 2009 Sportsman of the Year (2009-12-18 14:17) 302
1.4.44 (2009-12-18 16:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
1.4.45 Leadership is Not Something You Do to People; It s Something You Do with
Them. (2009-12-19 01:54) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
1.4.46 Keeping Your Team Positive During The Recession (2009-12-19 01:55) . . . . 304
1.4.47 Motivating Employees (2009-12-20 00:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
1.4.48 A Plea for the Return of the Collegial Style of Leadership (2009-12-20 00:07) . 305
1.4.49 Looking for Talent? (2009-12-20 13:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
1.4.50 The Seven Nolan Principles (2009-12-21 00:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
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1.4.51 Great Leaders Keep On Learning (2009-12-21 00:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
1.4.52 Jack Welch on Leadership (2009-12-22 00:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
1.4.53 Quiet Leadership (2009-12-22 00:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
1.4.54 Measuring the Success of Business Leaders (2009-12-22 13:32) . . . . . . . . . 308
1.4.55 Everyone Can Achieve ’World-Class’ Performance (2009-12-23 01:39) . . . . . 309
1.4.56 Crisis May be the Deﬁning Moment for a Leader (2009-12-23 01:39) . . . . . . 310
1.4.57 Leading Into 2010 - Creating Cycles of Success (2009-12-24 12:29) . . . . . . . 311
1.4.58 Love Leadership (2009-12-24 12:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
1.4.59 Without vision the people go astray (Proverbs 29:18) (2009-12-25 00:14) . . . 312
1.4.60 No Excuses! (2009-12-25 01:51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
1.4.61 Making Memories this Christmas (2009-12-26 01:18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
1.4.62 Leadership by Example (2009-12-26 01:18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
1.4.63 Learning from the Past (2009-12-27 03:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
1.4.64 Winners Never Quit Or Do They? (2009-12-27 13:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
1.4.65 Why Command and Control Leadership Does Not Work in Business Today
(2009-12-28 00:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
1.4.66 Leadership is About Behaviour (2009-12-28 00:17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
1.4.67 Leadership Tactics Which Impact the Bottom Line (2009-12-29 23:06) . . . . . 317
1.4.68 The Impact of Positive Leaders Within an Organisation (2009-12-29 23:08) . . 319
1.4.69 Coaching: How the Best Leaders Teach (2009-12-30 00:05) . . . . . . . . . . . 319
1.4.70 From the Court to the Boardroom (2009-12-30 00:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
1.4.71 Focus on Leadership in 2010 (2009-12-30 17:29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
1.4.72 Leadership Resolutions for 2010 (2009-12-31 01:23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
1.4.73 Moving from ’Survive to Thrive’ in 2010 (2009-12-31 01:24) . . . . . . . . . . . 322

2 2010 325
2.1 January . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
2.1.1 (2010-01-01 00:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
2.1.2 Characteristics of Greatness (2010-01-02 02:27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
2.1.3 Who Would You Rather Follow? (2010-01-03 17:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
2.1.4 Discovering Your Strengths (2010-01-04 05:15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
2.1.5 Treating People with Respect (2010-01-05 00:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
2.1.6 Leadership Lessons for the New Year (2010-01-05 00:21) . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
2.1.7 Leadership Lessons for the New Year (2010-01-06 04:52) . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
2.1.8 Avoiding the Unforced Error (2010-01-06 04:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
2.1.9 Driving Positive Leadership (2010-01-07 04:36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
2.1.10 Leadership Challenges Facing the Military (2010-01-08 21:33) . . . . . . . . . 331
2.1.11 Leadership Traits (2010-01-08 21:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
2.1.12 Building Your Own Business (2010-01-09 13:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
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2.1.13 New Leadership Styles Emerging from the Economic Crisis (2010-01-09 19:29) 334
2.1.14 Why Integrity and Values Matter in Business (2010-01-09 22:28) . . . . . . . . 336
2.1.15 How do You Define Ethical Leadership ? (2010-01-10 11:55) . . . . . . . . . 338
2.1.16 Dealing with Tough Days (2010-01-11 09:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
2.1.17 A Test of Character (2010-01-11 13:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
2.1.18 M&A Skills Honed as Athletes (2010-01-11 15:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
2.1.19 Leadership Coaching (2010-01-12 10:50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
2.1.20 Driving Bold Change (2010-01-12 13:12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
2.1.21 Harvard Wins Fans for Advanced Leadership Course (2010-01-12 14:46) . . . . 341
2.1.22 Staying Cool Under Pressure (2010-01-13 08:21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
2.1.23 Mistakes a Leader Can Make (2010-01-13 19:52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
2.1.24 The New Breed of CEO (2010-01-14 10:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
2.1.25 CEO Changes (2010-01-14 12:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
2.1.26 The Test of a Positive Leader (2010-01-15 10:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
2.1.27 Encouraging a ’Check-Six’ Culture in Business (2010-01-16 12:50) . . . . . . . 343
2.1.28 Leading Is Not Easy (2010-01-16 12:50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
2.1.29 Managing Stress and Improving Performance by Getting Into ’The Zone’
(2010-01-17 09:33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
2.1.30 The Right Decisions Aren’t Always Easy (2010-01-18 08:54) . . . . . . . . . . 346
2.1.31 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership (2010-01-18 16:10) . . . . . . . . . 348
2.1.32 Aligning Tasks and Talents (2010-01-19 09:26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
2.1.33 Resilience (2010-01-19 10:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
2.1.34 Passion (2010-01-19 10:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
2.1.35 The Best of Us (2010-01-19 18:21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
2.1.36 Hard Work (2010-01-19 18:22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
2.1.37 Mental Toughness (2010-01-19 18:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
2.1.38 Confidence (2010-01-19 18:28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
2.1.39 Failure (2010-01-19 18:51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
2.1.40 Seize Your Leadership Day: Ann Mulcahy, John Chambers And Jacqueline Novo-
gratz (2010-01-20 09:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
2.1.42 Determination (2010-01-20 18:32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
2.1.43 You’ve Got to Work Hard to Win (2010-01-20 18:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
2.1.44 Team Spirit (2010-01-20 18:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
2.1.45 Influence (2010-01-20 18:52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
2.1.46 Helping Leaders Excel Under Pressure (2010-01-21 08:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
2.1.47 Determination (2010-01-21 19:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
2.1.48 What Does a Positive Leader Look Like? (2010-01-22 09:40) . . . . . . . . . . 353
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2.1.49 Never Waste a Good Crisis (2010-01-22 09:40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
2.1.50 What Motivates Staff? (2010-01-22 14:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
2.1.51 Debriefing as a Key Element in High Performance Leadership (2010-01-23 16:30) 355
2.1.52 Why is Leadership so Important? (2010-01-24 12:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
2.1.53 Arrogance is the Mother of all Derailers (2010-01-25 07:54) . . . . . . . . . . . 359
2.1.54 Upside Down Management (2010-01-25 14:12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
2.1.55 Leadership - Building a Strong Corporate Culture (2010-01-25 18:18) . . . . . 361
2.1.56 Improving Workplace Communications for Improved Results (2010-01-26 09:08) 361
2.1.57 Business Leader becomes Sports Leader (2010-01-26 15:53) . . . . . . . . . . . 362
2.1.58 Leadership Skills Lacking in Over 50% of US Managers (2010-01-26 19:12) . . 362
2.1.59 Building a Leadership Community of High Commitment and High Performance
(2010-01-27 07:21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
2.1.60 Leaders of the Pack (2010-01-27 16:55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
2.1.61 Positive Leadership (2010-01-28 07:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
2.1.62 Attitude is a Key Value of Positive Leadership (2010-01-28 16:54) . . . . . . . 367
2.1.63 US Business Leaders Lack Credibility (2010-01-29 09:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
2.1.64 Removing Negative Self-Talk (2010-01-29 09:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
2.1.65 People Centred Leadership Delivers Outstanding Performance (2010-01-29 14:11) 369
2.1.66 How To ’Manage Up’ A Difficult Leader (2010-01-30 09:32) . . . . . . . . . . . 369
2.1.67 The Quiet Mind and Innovation (2010-01-31 08:32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
2.1.68 British Leaders - They’re Not What They Were (2010-01-31 12:48) . . . . . . 372
2.2 February . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
2.2.1 Leadership Requires an Ability to Deal with Adversity (2010-02-01 08:50) . . . 372
2.2.2 Increased Spending on Leadership Development Predicted in 2010
(2010-02-01 11:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
2.2.3 More Evidence Showing the Importance of Leadership Development in 2010
(2010-02-01 11:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
2.2.4 Leadership Award Announced by NFL (2010-02-01 14:23) . . . . . . . . . . . 374
2.2.5 What Sets Roger Federer Apart as a Sporting Leader (2010-02-01 16:53) . . . 374
2.2.6 Francois Pienaar on Nelson Mandela (2010-02-02 08:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
2.2.7 Lack of Leadership Holding Back Growth in the Scottish Economy
(2010-02-02 16:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
2.2.8 54% of US Employees Feel Their Senior Leadership Team Is Effective
(2010-02-03 10:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
2.2.9 Positive Leadership - Success, Heroes and Role Models (2010-02-03 11:43) . . 377
2.2.10 The True Test of Leadership (2010-02-03 17:50) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
2.2.11 Keeping Your Word (2010-02-04 06:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
2.2.12 Diamonds in the Rough (2010-02-04 20:32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
2.2.13 Toyota’s no-show leadership (2010-02-04 21:39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
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2.2.14 Leadership Vision (2010-02-05 06:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
2.2.15 Character The Key to Sustaining Leadership Momentum (2010-02-05 18:38) 380
2.2.16 Irsay’s Leadership Alters the Image of Indianapolis Colts and the City of Indi-
anapolis (2010-02-06 08:46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
2.2.17 Are You Afraid of Success? (2010-02-06 15:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
2.2.18 A Leadership Task - Aligning Strengths (2010-02-07 09:15) . . . . . . . . . . . 382
2.2.19 Controlling your Thoughts and Emotions (2010-02-08 08:19) . . . . . . . . . . 383
2.2.20 Leadership Development in the Public Sector (2010-02-08 09:41) . . . . . . . . 383
2.2.21 Being a Champion (2010-02-09 00:12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
2.2.22 Does Your Leader Keep You Mentally Engaged When Times Are Tough?
(2010-02-09 09:51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
2.2.23 Why Leadership Complacency Hurts (2010-02-09 10:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
2.2.24 Great Decisions and Consistent Execution Lead to Great Outcomes
(2010-02-09 12:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
2.2.25 Obtaining the Most from Your Team (2010-02-09 17:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
2.2.26 Leadership and the Onside Kick (2010-02-09 20:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
2.2.27 How Leaders Can Develop More Effective Thinking in their Organisation
(2010-02-10 05:24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
2.2.28 Great Teams Should Always Have an Enemy (2010-02-10 10:46) . . . . . . . . 389
2.2.29 Purpose: An Essential Component of Positive Leadership (2010-02-11 04:10) . 390
2.2.30 A Positive Video That Every Leader Should Watch (2010-02-11 19:12) . . . . 390
2.2.31 Five Ways for a Leader to Motivate the Team (2010-02-12 08:56) . . . . . . . 391
2.2.32 Leadership is Critical to Success (2010-02-12 11:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
2.2.33 Leadership Means Getting The Best From Your Team (2010-02-12 19:10) . . . 392
2.2.34 Four Actions to Survive the Recession and Emerge Triumphant
(2010-02-13 09:01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
2.2.35 Leadership Requires Self Discipline Throughout the Organisation
(2010-02-13 18:42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
2.2.36 Leading through Facilitation (2010-02-14 08:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
2.2.37 Ideas for Developing Your Leadership Skills (2010-02-14 08:59) . . . . . . . . . 395
2.2.38 Leadership Means Building a Winning Team (2010-02-14 14:34) . . . . . . . . 396
2.2.39 The Most Effective Leaders Focus On Their People’s Strengths (2010-02-15 07:35) 397
2.2.40 The Top 5 Deadly Sins for Leaders (2010-02-15 14:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
2.2.41 Constant Communication is a Key to Effective Leadership (2010-02-15 16:29) 398
2.2.42 The Role of ’Positivity’ in Peak Performance (2010-02-16 07:35) . . . . . . . . 398
2.2.43 Why Sport Matters (2010-02-16 21:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
2.2.44 How to Become a Positive Leader (2010-02-17 07:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
2.2.45 The Power of Positive Interactions (2010-02-17 17:11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
2.2.46 The 20 Best Companies in the USA for Leadership 2010 (2010-02-17 19:02) . . 401
2.2.47 Positive Leadership Begins With Values (2010-02-18 06:44) . . . . . . . . . . . 401
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2.2.48 Leaders Who Build Trust Will Accelerate Their Organisation’s Success
(2010-02-18 18:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
2.2.49 Role Models for a Leader (2010-02-19 07:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
2.2.50 Enemies Deﬁne Our Leadership (2010-02-19 08:29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
2.2.51 Leadership is Linked to Financial Results (2010-02-19 09:41) . . . . . . . . . . 402
2.2.52 Tiger Woods (2010-02-19 17:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
2.2.53 The Priorities of Leadership (2010-02-20 08:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
2.2.54 Leadership Development Requires the Involvement of Leaders (2010-02-20 17:12) 404
2.2.55 Are You a CEO of Something? (2010-02-21 08:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
2.2.56 The Victorious Army Attacks the Defeated Enemy (2010-02-21 13:08) . . . . . 406
2.2.57 Mental Toughness Matters in Elite Sport and in Business (2010-02-21 18:20) . 406
2.2.58 Teaching Leaders How Not to Behave (2010-02-22 07:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
2.2.59 Will Smith on Leadership and Other Inspiring Thoughts (2010-02-22 18:59) . 409
2.2.60 What it takes to Win an Olympic Gold Medal (2010-02-22 19:26) . . . . . . . 409
2.2.61 Preparing with a Purpose (2010-02-22 22:26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
2.2.62 Athletes as Role Models (2010-02-23 07:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
2.2.63 Leadership Trends for 2010 - If your business isn’t looking ahead, you’re already
behind (2010-02-23 07:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
2.2.64 Leaders Need To Be Energisers (2010-02-23 18:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
2.2.65 Leadership Lessons from the Life of Gandhi (2010-02-24 08:16) . . . . . . . . . 413
2.2.66 Leadership Lessons from the Winter Olympics 2010 (2010-02-24 11:47) . . . . 414
2.2.67 How Leaders Can Reap Big Results From Collaborating (2010-02-25 09:16) . . 415
2.2.68 Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People (2010-02-25 12:02) . . . . . . . . . . 416
2.2.69 The Power of Charisma in a Leader (2010-02-25 16:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
2.2.70 Winter Olympics 2010 - Moments of Excellence (2010-02-25 17:03) . . . . . . . 417
2.2.71 Winter Olympics 2010 (2010-02-25 18:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
2.2.72 The Winning Mentality (2010-02-26 09:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
2.2.73 Ten Rules of Good Followership (2010-02-26 15:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
2.2.74 Corporate Role Models Re-Emphasise Values and Ethics (2010-02-27 05:04) . 420
2.2.75 A Spectacular Failure of Political Leadership (2010-02-27 18:00) . . . . . . . . 420
2.2.76 Values Based Leadership (2010-02-28 14:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
2.3 March . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
2.3.1 Do you know what Greatness is? (2010-03-01 02:12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
2.3.2 ’Shall Be Done’ (2010-03-01 15:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
2.3.3 Tiger Woods (2010-03-02 03:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
2.3.4 Leading by Collaborating (2010-03-03 00:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
2.3.5 Leading with Dignity (2010-03-04 01:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
2.3.6 Leadership Lessons from the Movies (2010-03-05 11:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
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2.3.7 Leaders Must Display Courage (2010-03-05 12:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
2.3.8 How To Drive A Positive Corporate Culture (2010-03-05 20:27) . . . . . . . . 427
2.3.9 Leading From The Front (2010-03-05 20:40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
2.3.10 What’s the Difference Between a Leader and a Manager? (2010-03-06 13:04) . 427
2.3.11 Andrew Carnegie’s Science of Success (2010-03-06 14:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
2.3.12 Top Obama Aide Reflects on Her Life and Leadership (2010-03-07 00:16) . . . 429
2.3.13 Find a Good Mentor (2010-03-07 19:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
2.3.14 Communicating for Impact (2010-03-08 05:51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
2.3.15 Leading With Values (2010-03-09 07:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
2.3.16 The Essence of Leadership (2010-03-09 07:40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
2.3.17 How Not to Use a Coach! (2010-03-09 16:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
2.3.18 HM Revenue & Customs criticised by MPs (2010-03-09 17:19) . . . . . . . . . 433
2.3.19 Creating Competitive Advantage through Strategic Leadership
(2010-03-10 07:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
2.3.20 A Story About Motivation (2010-03-11 09:53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
2.3.21 Leadership Involves Trust (2010-03-11 14:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
2.3.22 How Positive Leadership Uses Sport To Help Develop Inspiring Leaders
(2010-03-11 18:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
2.3.23 The Business Case for Leadership Development (2010-03-12 09:22) . . . . . . . 437
2.3.24 Exercise and Leadership (2010-03-12 09:54) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
2.3.25 Building Consistent Leadership Competencies Throughout the Organisation
(2010-03-12 09:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
2.3.26 Being a Great Coach (2010-03-12 11:46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
2.3.27 On Leadership: Giuliani’s 9/11 ’defiance’ (2010-03-12 13:02) . . . . . . . . . . 439
2.3.28 Leadership Lessons from an Undercover Boss (2010-03-13 09:35) . . . . . . . . 440
2.3.29 The Contribution of Scouting to Leadership (2010-03-14 06:08) . . . . . . . . . 441
2.3.30 The Power of Leadership Quotes (2010-03-14 12:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
2.3.31 Leading and Learning from a Crisis (2010-03-14 13:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
2.3.32 The Power of Motivation (2010-03-14 13:18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
2.3.33 Communication is a Key Aspect of Leadership (2010-03-14 18:25) . . . . . . . 442
2.3.34 MOJO v NOJO (2010-03-15 07:28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
2.3.35 The Benefits of Positive Leadership (2010-03-15 07:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
2.3.36 Leadership is a Decision (2010-03-16 06:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
2.3.37 Don’t Keep Secrets From Your Staff (2010-03-16 07:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
2.3.38 Don t Be Sniffy About Personality Politics (2010-03-16 07:53) . . . . . . . . . 444
2.3.39 Leadership is the Surest Route to Joy at Work (2010-03-17 06:43) . . . . . . . 445
2.3.40 Patriots Addressing Leadership Questions (2010-03-17 08:07) . . . . . . . . . . 446
2.3.41 Why England Will Miss David Beckham (2010-03-17 21:03) . . . . . . . . . . 446
2.3.42 Leadership, the West Point way (2010-03-18 06:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
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2.3.43 Leadership Skills Undervalued in M&A Transactions (2010-03-18 06:46) . . . . 448
2.3.44 Compassion is an important Leadership Skill (2010-03-18 07:36) . . . . . . . . 449
2.3.45 Cathie Black on Leadership (2010-03-19 08:21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
2.3.46 Live for Ideas (2010-03-19 15:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
2.3.47 Leadership Lessons from Adversity - Simon Cooper of Ritz Carlton
(2010-03-19 19:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
2.3.48 Leaders Have Energy (2010-03-20 09:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
2.3.49 It’s What You Learn After You Know It All That Counts (2010-03-20 14:23) . 451
2.3.50 Most Student-Athletes go pro in something other than sports (2010-03-20 14:37) 451
2.3.51 Physical Fitness is a key to Leadership, and not just for soldiers (2010-03-21 08:16) 451
2.3.52 Ford CEO Alan Mulally on the ’liberating clarity’ of his mission
(2010-03-22 08:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
2.3.53 Leadership is a Key to Winning (2010-03-22 08:29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
2.3.54 Leadership and Hiring Creative People (2010-03-22 19:23) . . . . . . . . . . . 452
2.3.55 Top Company Secrets of Leadership Development (2010-03-23 07:18) . . . . . 453
2.3.56 We are entitled to better from those who would be superior (2010-03-23 14:15) 454
2.3.57 What’s the Talk Like Where You Work? (2010-03-24 08:22) . . . . . . . . . . 454
2.3.58 Presence v Charisma in a Leader (2010-03-24 08:42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
2.3.59 How Not to Lead in a Crisis (2010-03-24 13:42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
2.3.60 The Positive Leadership Strategy For Growth Programme (2010-03-24 19:32) . 456
2.3.61 Leadership Decisiveness is About Timeliness (2010-03-25 17:00) . . . . . . . . 457
2.3.62 Leaders Must Communicate With All Means At Their Disposal
(2010-03-26 09:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
2.3.63 Commitment is a Key to Success (2010-03-27 07:12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
2.3.64 How James Cameron Leads (2010-03-27 09:54) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
2.3.65 Meg Whitman Builds a Team (2010-03-27 18:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
2.3.66 Leaders Need to Focus on More than the Bottom Line (2010-03-28 09:10) . . . 460
2.3.67 Have the Courage to Follow Your Heart and Intuition (2010-03-28 11:31) . . . 461
2.3.68 What Leader-Coaches Do To Help Their Teams Win (2010-03-28 17:28) . . . . 461
2.3.69 Leaders Stand for Something (2010-03-29 00:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
2.3.70 Social Media and Leadership (2010-03-29 08:11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
2.3.71 Talent Management and March Madness (2010-03-29 21:08) . . . . . . . . . . 464
2.3.72 A Positive Communications Environment Predicts Team Success
(2010-03-30 07:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
2.3.73 Winners Learn From Failure (2010-03-30 08:00) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
2.3.74 Empowerment, Vision and Positive Leadership (2010-03-30 17:06) . . . . . . . 465
2.3.75 Why Flattery is Eﬀective (2010-03-31 08:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
2.3.76 From the Basketball Court to the Boardroom - Leadership Lessons
(2010-03-31 11:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
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2.3.77 What Makes A Good Leader (2010-03-31 16:39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
2.3.78 How an Innovation Leader became FedEx s Secret Weapon (2010-03-31 16:44) 466
2.3.79 Shareholder Value No Longer The Holy Grail For Business Leaders
(2010-03-31 19:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
2.4 April . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
2.4.1 Being a Leader Means Picking the Best Athletes (2010-04-01 08:10) . . . . . . 467
2.4.2 Why Nerves Help Leaders Perform at their Best Under Pressure
(2010-04-01 10:52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
2.4.3 Caution: May Cause Leaders to Excel! (2010-04-01 15:04) . . . . . . . . . . . 468
2.4.4 Exemplary Leadership (2010-04-02 08:23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
2.4.5 The Gesture of a Winner That Means Victory and Hope (2010-04-02 08:56) . 469
2.4.6 Leadership Lessons from India (2010-04-03 10:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
2.4.7 Respect (2010-04-03 17:21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
2.4.8 The Beneﬁts of Being Positive (2010-04-03 18:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
2.4.9 Integrity and Character (2010-04-04 07:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
2.4.10 The Truth About Grit (2010-04-04 07:36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
2.4.11 Passion and Attitude (2010-04-05 06:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
2.4.12 Where Are You As A Leader When the Going Gets Tough? (2010-04-05 06:49) 472
2.4.13 Simply Ask (2010-04-06 06:39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
2.4.14 Honesty and Responsibility (2010-04-06 06:39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
2.4.15 Five signs that a CEO is too in love with himself (2010-04-06 20:07) . . . . . . 474
2.4.16 Determination and Energy (2010-04-06 20:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
2.4.17 Hard Work (2010-04-07 07:26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
2.4.18 Heart Power is the Strength of Your Company (2010-04-07 07:27) . . . . . . . 475
2.4.19 Competence (2010-04-08 11:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
2.4.20 The Perils of Leadership (2010-04-08 11:13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
2.4.21 Leadership is the Ability to Excel Under Pressure (2010-04-08 11:41) . . . . . 477
2.4.22 How Video Games Build Leaders (2010-04-08 11:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
2.4.23 Leadership Means Acting as a Role Model (2010-04-08 13:38) . . . . . . . . . 477
2.4.24 Earl and Tiger (2010-04-08 15:22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
2.4.25 Vision (2010-04-09 08:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
2.4.26 What Drives Your Leadership Strategy? (2010-04-09 08:33) . . . . . . . . . . . 479
2.4.27 Purpose (2010-04-10 00:18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
2.4.28 Preparing for Peak Performance (2010-04-10 00:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
2.4.29 One Shining Moment (2010-04-10 10:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
2.4.30 Initiative and Curiosity (2010-04-11 08:42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
2.4.31 FC Barcelona - ”Més que un club” (More than a club) (2010-04-11 08:43) . . . 481
2.4.32 Judgement (2010-04-12 09:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
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2.4.33 Happiness Helps Performance (2010-04-12 09:32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
2.4.34 Leadership and Uncertainty (2010-04-12 17:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
2.4.35 Winners Take Calculated Risks - Mickelson’s guts, talent came together for shot
that defined the 2010 Masters (2010-04-12 20:23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
2.4.36 Friendship and Compassion (2010-04-13 10:24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
2.4.37 Leaders Have To Take a Risk (2010-04-13 10:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
2.4.38 Team Spirit (2010-04-14 07:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
2.4.39 Visualising Leadership (2010-04-14 08:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
2.4.40 Confidence in Leadership (2010-04-14 08:39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
2.4.41 America’s Inspirational President (2010-04-14 12:42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
2.4.42 Accountability (2010-04-15 08:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
2.4.43 The Pygmalion Effect - How High Expectation Creates High Performance
(2010-04-15 08:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
2.4.44 Influence and Respect (2010-04-16 08:12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
2.4.45 Values Based Leadership from P&G (2010-04-16 08:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
2.4.46 Does Your Passion as a Leader Match Your Ambition? (2010-04-16 17:11) . . 492
2.4.47 Resilience and Courage (2010-04-17 09:18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
2.4.48 Coaching Teams for Success (2010-04-17 09:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
2.4.49 Sharing Your Positive Leadership Vision With Your Team (2010-04-17 14:35) . 493
2.4.50 UK General Election 2010: Nice Nick Clegg can’t believe his luck
(2010-04-17 15:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
2.4.51 Openness and Communication (2010-04-18 09:15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
2.4.52 The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership (2010-04-18 09:16) . . . . . . 495
2.4.53 Self-Discipline (2010-04-19 08:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
2.4.54 Why Leaders need to talk about Honesty and Integrity in the Work Environment
(2010-04-19 08:11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
2.4.55 Why Integrity, Honesty and Character are foundation values of Positive Leader-
ship (2010-04-19 12:24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
2.4.56 Do you know the difference between being an Innovator and an Idiot?
(2010-04-19 14:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
2.4.57 Leadership Parallels from the Marathon (2010-04-20 06:41) . . . . . . . . . . . 499
2.4.59 Excellence (2010-04-20 15:55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
2.4.60 Confidence and Poise (2010-04-21 08:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
2.4.61 Leading in Rough Seas (2010-04-21 08:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
2.4.62 Managing in an Era of Mistrust (2010-04-21 17:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
2.4.63 Service (2010-04-22 07:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
2.4.64 Failure Can Be A Step On The Road To Success (2010-04-22 07:10) . . . . . . 503
2.4.65 Why Blog? (2010-04-22 10:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
2.4.66 Debriefing (2010-04-23 08:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
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2.4.67 Why is it that some Leaders speak so well in public? (2010-04-23 08:17) . . . 504
2.4.68 Imagine Yourself........Leading (2010-04-23 09:29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
2.4.69 Can Scottish Enterprise help to build better businesses? (2010-04-23 15:25) . . 505
2.4.70 Citizenship in a Republic (2010-04-23 16:54) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
2.4.71 Excellence Under Pressure (2010-04-24 09:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
2.4.72 What is Success? (2010-04-24 09:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
2.4.73 America’s Favourite Bosses (2010-04-25 09:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
2.4.74 Ross Perot on Leadership (2010-04-25 12:33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
2.4.75 The Art of Leadership (2010-04-25 22:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
2.4.76 Are You Squandering Your Intelligent Failures? (2010-04-26 07:38) . . . . . . 509
2.4.77 What Leaders Need To Do To Keep Top Talent Happy (2010-04-26 16:50) . . 510
2.4.78 Developing Leaders from the Military (2010-04-27 07:01) . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
2.4.79 Signs of a Positive Leader (2010-04-27 19:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
2.4.80 Excellence: Don’t Fear Failure (2010-04-28 07:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
2.4.81 True Leadership (2010-04-29 10:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
2.4.82 Preventing Leadership Failures (2010-04-29 10:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
2.4.83 Leaders Need ’Presence’ (2010-04-30 08:01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
2.4.84 Emotional Control Matters for Peak Performance (2010-04-30 16:09) . . . . . 514
2.5 May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
2.5.1 Inﬂuencing the Decision Maker (2010-05-01 08:29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
2.5.2 Army Lessons in Leadership (2010-05-01 14:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
2.5.3 How Trust Creates Wealth (2010-05-02 08:28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
2.5.4 Great Leaders are Fair Leaders (2010-05-02 08:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
2.5.5 What Hurts Large Companies (2010-05-03 08:09) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
2.5.6 Uncommon - A Diﬀerent Way of Leading (2010-05-03 11:58) . . . . . . . . . . 517
2.5.7 How Should Your Company Look at Leadership? (2010-05-04 07:03) . . . . . . 517
2.5.8 10 Ways to Train Your Brain (2010-05-04 11:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
2.5.9 Leadership on the Rugby Pitch (2010-05-04 16:22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
2.5.10 Decision Day Tomorrow - Who Should Be Our Next Leader? (2010-05-05 06:58) 518
2.5.11 BP Boss Needs to Do More (2010-05-05 22:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
2.5.12 Make Expectations Clear (2010-05-06 06:44) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
2.5.13 Character Matters (2010-05-06 10:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
2.5.14 What is ’Failure’ ? (2010-05-07 00:00) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
2.5.15 The Message to Britain’s Political Leaders (2010-05-07 10:03) . . . . . . . . . 521
2.5.16 Why a Collaborative Culture is Essential in Business (2010-05-08 09:44) . . . 522
2.5.17 The Power of Positive Leadership (2010-05-08 22:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
2.5.18 The Foundation of Positive Leadership (2010-05-09 00:20) . . . . . . . . . . . 523
2.5.19 It s All About Bench Strength (2010-05-09 11:31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
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2.5.20 To invent future leaders, General Electric redefines ’tough love’ (2010-05-10 09:05) 524
2.5.21 Great Leadership (2010-05-10 19:18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
2.5.22 Keeping a ’LeBron James’ on your team (2010-05-11 07:10) . . . . . . . . . . . 525
2.5.23 Insights on Coaching Olympic Athletes (2010-05-12 09:00) . . . . . . . . . . . 526
2.5.24 Now We Have a True Test of Leadership (2010-05-12 11:15) . . . . . . . . . . 527
2.5.25 Bono at 50: The Leader We Need (2010-05-13 08:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
2.5.26 Leadership - Building Capacity (2010-05-13 12:33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
2.5.27 Team Spirit (2010-05-13 15:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
2.5.28 There is No ’Off Switch’ for Leaders (2010-05-13 15:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
2.5.29 Because I Do (2010-05-13 15:41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
2.5.30 Trust Starts With Clarity (2010-05-14 08:30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
2.5.31 Accountability (2010-05-14 09:38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
2.5.32 The Importance of the Right Team Attitude (2010-05-14 11:21) . . . . . . . . 531
2.5.33 Purpose and Goals help you to be Productive (2010-05-14 19:47) . . . . . . . . 532
2.5.34 Ego Strength (2010-05-15 10:57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
2.5.35 Resilience (2010-05-15 11:51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
2.5.36 ”Self-Made People” (2010-05-15 12:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
2.5.37 Vision (2010-05-16 09:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
2.5.38 Effective Managers are Excellent Leaders (2010-05-16 09:09) . . . . . . . . . . 534
2.5.39 Business Leadership - The India Way (2010-05-16 14:43) . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
2.5.40 Passion (2010-05-17 08:01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
2.5.41 An ’Exploit and Explore’ Approach to Leadership (2010-05-17 08:02) . . . . . 536
2.5.42 Honourable Compromise (2010-05-18 07:00) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
2.5.43 Purpose (2010-05-18 17:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
2.5.44 The Importance of Positive Energy (2010-05-18 17:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
2.5.45 A Recipe for Greatness (2010-05-19 05:55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
2.5.46 The Importance of Positive Emotions (2010-05-19 18:35) . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
2.5.47 The Physiology Of Leadership (2010-05-20 07:55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
2.5.48 How to Develop Creative Leadership in Your Business (2010-05-20 08:47) . . . 541
2.5.49 A Leader’s Values Are Always ’On The Clock’ (2010-05-21 13:40) . . . . . . . 542
2.5.50 Judgement (2010-05-22 09:04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
2.5.51 Philosophy of Life (2010-05-22 09:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
2.5.52 Confidence & Poise (2010-05-23 00:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
2.5.53 Visualising the Finish Line (2010-05-23 00:07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
2.5.54 Hard Work (2010-05-24 08:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
2.5.55 Visualisation Techniques (2010-05-24 08:06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
2.5.56 Character (2010-05-25 07:15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
2.5.57 Summer Reading (2010-05-25 07:16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
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2.5.58 A Winner’s Philosophy (2010-05-26 06:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
2.5.59 Excellence Under Pressure (2010-05-26 06:03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
2.5.60 What Is Your Leadership Brand? (2010-05-27 07:34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
2.5.61 Values Based Leadership (2010-05-27 18:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
2.5.62 Control the Controllables (2010-05-28 09:17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
2.5.63 Do Leaders in Your Organisation have the Skills to Lead Change?
(2010-05-29 09:08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
2.5.64 Are you Feared or Respected as a Leader? (2010-05-30 12:28) . . . . . . . . . 549
2.5.65 Leadership (2010-05-31 08:14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
2.6 June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
2.6.1 Increase your Self-Awareness to become a Better Leader (2010-06-01 08:02) . . 551
2.6.2 Jose Mourinho and Leadership (2010-06-01 20:37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
2.6.3 The Importance of linking Job Descriptions to Corporate Strategy
(2010-06-02 05:19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
2.6.4 The Scoreboard Can’t Tell You Everything (2010-06-02 19:13) . . . . . . . . . 552
2.6.5 The Diﬀerence Between Business Champions and Sporting Champions
(2010-06-03 07:26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
2.6.6 Oops!! - BP chief apologises for ’I’d like my life back’ comment (2010-06-03 16:17) 554
2.6.7 See the Opening and ’Go For It’ ! (2010-06-04 00:10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
2.6.8 Teamwork Matters in Business as well as in Sport (2010-06-04 08:05) . . . . . 555
2.6.9 Talent Is Overrated (2010-06-05 02:20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
2.6.10 Coach John Wooden (October 14, 1910 June 4, 2010) - An Appreciation
(2010-06-05 23:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
2.6.11 Outliers: The Sory of Success (2010-06-06 12:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
2.6.12 Coach Wooden on Leadership (2010-06-06 13:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
2.6.13 The Diﬀerence between Leaders and Others (2010-06-07 02:01) . . . . . . . . . 558
2.6.14 Character (2010-06-08 02:36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
2.6.15 Honesty is the Safest Path to Making Money (2010-06-09 03:02) . . . . . . . . 560
2.6.16 What Every Leader Should Know (2010-06-09 11:47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
2.6.17 Going the Extra Inch (2010-06-10 01:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
2.6.18 Becoming a Great Leader (2010-06-11 01:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
2.6.19 The New 21st Century Leaders (2010-06-12 03:05) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
2.6.20 The Importance of Role Models (2010-06-14 12:56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
2.6.21 Leadership Means Responsibility (2010-06-15 17:23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
2.6.22 Authenticity (2010-06-16 07:58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
2.6.23 Life Lessons (2010-06-17 06:48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
2.6.24 Kindness (2010-06-17 18:49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
2.6.25 Psychology and Business Success (2010-06-18 00:02) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
2.6.26 How to Motivate Your Board (2010-06-19 08:45) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
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