3 Leadership Practices
Leadership lessons from Lee Kuan Yew
Critical Choices
Lead, follow, or wallow
Maverick Leadership
Leading undisciplined great service
Leakproof Leadership
The security of character
3 Leadership Practices
Leadership lessons from Lee Kuan Yew
Critical Choices
Lead, follow, or wallow
Maverick Leadership
Leading undisciplined great service
Leakproof Leadership
The security of character
Who is a smart leader? Who is a powerful leader? Who is a next generation leader? Though there are no set definitions for them, one thing that makes a leader really stand out is his/her adaptability to change. If a leader is not ready to change according to the needs of the time, then probably that leader will not be able to stand any challenges that time brings in. Well, if we start discussing about various leadership topics, this one-page will never be enough. So, let us check out what we have for you in this edition of Leadership Excellence Essentials.
In this article, we speak with Janice Marturano, former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at General Mills and Founder and Executive Director of The Institute for Mindful Leadership. She was invited to speak on mindful leadership training at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Janice is a visionary trailblazer paving the way for employees at Fortune 500 and organizations including Target, Medtronic, Intel, and the U.S. Army, by teaching them how to discipline their minds and find the space to innovate and lead with excellence.
“Talent is out there. It’s our approach to finding the talent that is inappropriate” Raghu Krishnamoorthy, one of the informative speakers at the LEAD 2015 event shares insights into the challenges of a new era, and the steps leaders and organizations can take to embrace change and forge ahead
“The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.” ― Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
I recently facilitated a development and team planning retreat with a group of vice presidents of a large company. The group had a dinner the evening before our session to provide each other with updates and discuss common issues.
She was over-the-top friendly. Her eye hugs made you feel you were in the presence of a forever friend. As she rang up my purchase at the checkout counter of the super-sized, well-known department store, she commented on my cowboy boots. “You’re either from Texas or you got a heap of cowboy in your blood,” she teased as she put my purchases in a shopping bag. Then she added, “I put a discount coupon in your bag for apple cider. You know you are gonna need extra cider this winter; they say it’ll be a cold one!”
In a time when everything is someone else’s fault and serious wrongdoing often goes unpunished, it often seems as though we’ve lost all sight of what it means to be a business person of character and integrity. Every day, from community leaders to elected officials, from clergy to corporate executives, it seems like we hear about a major character lapse from someone so trusted by the public that they definitely should have known better.
Scrolling through your news feeds, you see the profiles of Zappos and Google and all the amazing anecdotes of their corporate culture and how much fun their teams have at work. You see the flip side as well - the stories of long hours, horrible managers and the employees who can’t wait to tell the world about them.
“How good a leader do you want to be?” Part of your answer will be based on your understanding of what a leader does, but it is equally important to consider what “blows your hair back” and gives you the sense that you are making a difference. One of the factors that you should seriously consider is the nature of the reputation you want to earn. Do you want people to say: “Oh, yeah, I worked for him” and how important to you is it that they also say: “. . . and he made a real difference in my life”?