Graeme Nichol asked: Leaders are people who achieve results. Leaders are those whose attitudes and actions lead to positive results. Sending your staff to leadership training may not deliver the goods you’re looking for! It helps them build a foundation for achieving the objectives, if they get to implement the knowledge. Big IF, some never […]
Category: Defining Leadership
Muna wa Wanjiru asked: Army Leadership requires encouraging innovation and must reinforce warrior culture in every soldier. The army leadership policy aims at meeting the objectives of Global war On Terrorism (GWOT) and in Contemporary Operating Environment (COE). It also aims at creating self awareness among leaders and the willingness to be adaptive. Major responsibilities […]
Sajin Nair asked: Most entrepreneurs spend 16-18 hours working on their laptops, taking calls and spending lot of hours with different department heads to improve the business results. They spend lot of hours in improving their processes in the hope that one day they would be able to improve their productivity and satisfy their customers. […]
Mikeal Whitemore asked: The leadership, a term borrowed from English, defines the capacity of an individual to carry out or lead other individuals or organizations with an aim of achieving certain goals. It will be said whereas a leader is somebody who is able to guide, to influence and inspire. A leader is distinguished from […]
Peter Peterka asked: Introduction You browse through a handful of Six Sigma books hoping to find a definition for leadership. Chances are you’d be hard pressed to find one unifying definition. Instead, you’ll get a garden variety of definitions that will help you zero in on the true essence of leadership. Given evolving business and […]
Tom Smith asked: Any major change initiative requires a clearly defined supporting infrastructure to drive the program. Infrastructure is defined as the underlying foundation and basic framework of personnel and supporting systems needed to support Six Sigma deployment activities. Because every part of a company participates in Six Sigma activities, the infrastructure must be clear, […]
Per Christensen asked: An organisation’s basic philosophy is more important to its result than technological and/ or economic resources, organisational structure, innovation and choice of time. Thomas Watson Jr. This article contains no information about technological trends, economical predictions or market analyses. It lays out five principle insights into how and why any enterprise in […]
Nikos Apostolou asked: Big Daddy Lipscomb, the Baltimore Colts 300 pound all-pro tackle in the 1960s perceived the simple center of what was perceived to be the complex game of football. “I just wade into players,” he said, “until I come to the one with the ball. Him I keep!” ? and changed the way […]
Bill Benjamin asked: “Shhuuut uuup!” said the sassy Gen Y to her astonished manager. “Excuse me?” replied the shocked manager, a Boomer. This conversation took place recently in the boardroom at one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies. It is a moment that crystallizes the challenge of managing across generations in workplaces today […]
Corey Rozon asked: A head hunter can be a savage who cuts off the heads of his enemy, a baseball pitcher who deliberately throws the baseball at a batters head or an executive recruiter who looks to fill open positions in a corporation. The following article will give the brief Etymology, or history, of the term […]