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Leadership Styles

Is Your Management Style Limiting Your Success

Ingrid Cliff asked: I have worked with stacks of businesses over the years. Often I am asked to name the most important indicator of whether or not a business will succeed or fail – my answer is always – Look at the CEO. CEO’s and their personal style can make or break a business. A […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

How to Bring Out the Creative Juices From your Team

Kaitlyn Miller asked: In any organization, people basically have different work attitudes and habits. One may be creative in the morning, while another would much rather work late nights to get their creative juices flowing. Nevertheless, getting all of these people to work for your business goal is not that difficult. You just have to […]

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Feedback and Rewards

Different Ways to Motivate Your Team

Bertil Hjert asked: An enthusiastic team is the backbone of success to any organisation. The biggest challenge is to motivate a team. Unless the team is motivated, you cannot expect success or profits. The team should be constantly forced by the leaders rather then being given autonomy or power to perform its own actions. Remember […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

7 Easy Ways For Creative Article Writing

Evelyn Lim asked: Many complain of writer’s block. They don’t know how to get their creative juice going enough to start. On several occasions, it would appear that it is not a simple feat to simply just begin putting down thoughts into words and then typing out a content. Also, you well know that good […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

Tapping Into the Source of our Creativity

June Stepansky asked: Creativity is like algebra: a thought from column (A) plus a thought from column (B) becomes the new solution (AB), creating something extraordinary out of something ordinary. Creativity is the electricity that breaks down barriers and moves mountains. ——————————————- Being creative is a necessary part of any artistic project, but it can […]

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Defining Leadership

Leadership And Companies In Crises

Murad Ali asked: Business that were perfectly healthy one year may find themselves losing customers, decreasing in profits and difficult to manage in another year. When these businesses move into a crisis situation they need strong leadership to transform them into something stronger that can overcome any current crisis and improve the businesses position for […]

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Transformational Leadership

Leadership Coaching for Executives

Working Voices asked: One-to-One Leadership Coaching for Executives Transactional leaders use conventional reward and punishment to bring on board the people they lead. Transformational leaders offer a purpose – a vision – that those they lead can identify with. Leadership Coaching for Executives are about Transformational Leadership. Leaders who go beyond the short-term and focus […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

Building Powerful Creative Tools From Unlikely Materials

Mary McNeil asked: One of the defining characteristics of creativity is its transformational power, the fact that glorious works of art can be created from the most unpromising and unlikely of materials. Those materials don’t get more unlikely than the states of ignorance and disillusionment – two concepts that come ready packaged with strong negative […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

Have Fun Learning Creativity

Jim DeSantis asked: You have some great ideas. You toss them around in your mind. You tell friends about them. They go nowhere. Why? They go nowhere because of what your friends said or because you have the misconception that only a select few are able to unleash a steady flow of creative genius. And, […]

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Feedback and Rewards

Dare to Experiment With your Ideas.and Reap the Rewards That Come With it

Ron Balagot asked: Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ~ Mary Lou Cook ~ An excellent quality you’ll want to develop in yourself, if you want to experience more fulfillment in life, is the willingness or courage to experiment. It is one of the key qualities of […]