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Category: Leadership

“Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker. We bring together the best leadership thinking from around the world. These leadership articles provide the knowledge and inspiration you need to be a great leader.

How to fine-tune your vision for effective change

Glenys Barton

Driving successful change isn’t simply about knowing what you want to achieve and getting the economics and technology right.

If you want your teams fully engaged, you will need to create and communicate an appealing vision of a better future.

Five steps to being a better boss

Friedemann Hahn

You've started your own company. You are a successful entrepreneur – so successful that you have been able to hire people to work for you. You are the boss. Finally.

But being a good boss is not the same as being a good entrepreneur.

Make learning creative and dynamic in your firm

Tim Lewis

Top-down formal training methods popular during the 1990s do not equip staff to deal with unpredictability and rapid change, write John Hagel III and John Seely for Harvard Business Review.

Instead of relying on process manuals to tell staff what to do, empower them to learn on the job, creating knowledge and developing new ways to share it.

How to compete in the new borderless economy

Bernard Cohen

The onward march of digitisation will change the nature of the game for everyone – including your company – over the next ten years.

It's time to recognise and accept this impending change and create a gameplan for a borderless economy.

Here are your four new critical priorities. 

Engaging employees who struggle with change

Shen Wei

When you instigate any change in your organisation there will always be team members who cling doggedly to the status quo.

But ignoring the dissenters can build a virtual wall between those with conflicting viewpoints and encourage a culture of “us” and “them”.

Here's how to steer the two sides to meet in the middle.

Should your leaders seek dominance or prestige?

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The two key motivations driving people to become leaders are dominance and prestige.

But which trait will work best in your organisation? And do you need someone capable of displaying both?

Here's how to find the leader who best suits your organisation’s culture and goals.

Five tips for success when you’ve inherited a mess

Aleah Chapin

It pays to avoid classic pitfalls when the business you take on has been left in a mess by your predecessor. Taking over leadership of any business, especially as an outsider, is a challenge. 

Over half the leaders who take over a mess will have failed within a year and a half.

Here are five ways to avoid stepping on the land mines that were left for you.

Why meetings should never mix strategy and operations

Richard Smith

As a senior executive, you need to balance the long-term strategic and short-term operational needs of your company. This is not easy, writes Sabina Nawaz for Harvard Business Review, when meetings so readily become dominated by day-to-day concerns.

Here's how to maintain your focus on the long term and stick to the bigger picture.

Seven steps to forming a new habit

Cedric Christie Habit

If you want to form and sustain a new habit you should adopt the “7S Model”, writes Steven MacGregor for European Business Review.

Forming a new habit is hard – making sure that new habit sticks is even harder. Here's MacGregor's a seven-step plan for forming and sustaining your new habit.