What Today’s Leaders Can Learn From Nelson Mandela’s Leadership Style

Parallels  Between USA and South Africa

The USA and South Africa are oceans apart in geography, culture and history.  And yet, as someone who was born in South Africa and lived there for more than half my life, and who is now a US citizen, I see several fascinating parallels.  Today South Africa is […]

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The Eyes Show it All

Leaders – Do Your Employees Have Shining Eyes?

Last Monday I had an experience that I think you will find very interesting.   The wonderful people out there who read my blogs know that my leadership development concept is called Spirited Economics™ which simply means that when leaders know how to ignite the spirit of the […]

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The ONE Ability that made Nelson Mandela A Great Leader

If you haven’t seen the movie ‘Invictus’ yet, I can highly recommend it.   Apart from a truly astonishing performance by Morgan Freeman as Mandela, this movie beautifully depicts the unmatched, absolutely unique leadership style of Nelson Mandela.

Mandela spent twenty seven years in a tiny prison cell on Robben Island for opposing […]

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Where There is No Vision the People Perish…Proverbs 29:18

Nothing Happens Without  a Vision First

The companies that will make it through the recession are those in which the leaders know where they are going and can articulate it in a way that everyone ‘gets it.’  Carl Sandburg put it succinctly when he wrote, ’nothing happens unless first a vision.’ The good news […]

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Healthy Leaders Create Healthy Organizations

“No!  No! No!  This Is Not What I Wanted”

Here’s the scenario.  I will bet that you have been there, done that!  We all have.

You are in a meeting and things are not going well for you.  Others are dismissing your ideas and point of view and they are making decisions that you do […]

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