They have the ambition and work ethic to
be a great leader in the Canadian tech ecosystem, and they're showing continuous growth in their revenue and employee numbers.
If I remember correctly, when it came time to determine which Gospels were to be included in the cannon and which ones were not, the decision making process was largely influenced Irenaeus, who
was a great leader in the early church.
Sometimes God
is the great leader in the ministry of your disappointment.
«What I take from Roy Keane apart from
him being a great leader in his playing days — is that maybe he found club management difficult at times,» he said.
«[Harris]
was a great leader in the locker room and on the field, but we have some young guys in that linebacking corps,» Wilkerson said, via NewYorkJets.com.
«We still love the people, love the games, love the company, it just had to succeed without us and we wanted to make sure there
were great leaders in place to make that happen,» he said.
I think both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan
were great leaders in their own right who probably embody these two traditions the best.
Not exact matches
The
greatest influence on a team member's willingness to embrace desired values and behaviors
is company
leaders modeling those values, coaching those values and celebrating those values
in others.
It won't
be easy, but if you present to them a
great opportunity that they can believe
in, you'll have a new
leader.
If entrepreneurs who have the passion and innovation to start their own businesses can develop these five skills of
great leaders, they will
be most effective
in leadingthose businessess into growth and a bright future.
The act of simplification
is great for
leaders because it encourages new ways of looking at old problems, and sets a standard of continuous improvement that can (and will) become infectious
in your business or organization.
These
are leaders who, as I wrote in my book Great CEOs Are Lazy, prioritize wearing the «Coach's Hat»: their entire goal is to build a safe and accepting environment where people are encouraged to do their best wo
are leaders who, as I wrote
in my book
Great CEOs
Are Lazy, prioritize wearing the «Coach's Hat»: their entire goal is to build a safe and accepting environment where people are encouraged to do their best wo
Are Lazy, prioritize wearing the «Coach's Hat»: their entire goal
is to build a safe and accepting environment where people
are encouraged to do their best wo
are encouraged to do their best work.
But there
's actually another framework that we've had
great success with
in terms of helping
leaders and their direct reports get on the same page when it comes to how issues get delegated on a daily basis.
But I
was especially interested
in the last section of her talk, which focused on what she feels
are the factors that consistently — and often abruptly — derail
great leaders who looked to the outside world to
be cruising along.
This isn't required to
be a
great leader, but it
is to
be a respected
leader, which can make all the difference
in your business.»
These
are indeed admirable qualities for a person to have and,
in some situations, displaying them will serve you well, but both research and history suggest that
great leaders aren't always paragons of unbending moral correctness.
«All of the
great leaders have had one characteristic
in common: It
was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people
in their time.
However
in many organizations that I work with, they say it
's great that the new
leaders get training and development
in order to
be effective — but the more veteran
leaders do not get training and development whatsoever.
And the
great leaders of the world
are ideally placed to help us with that often overlooked stage
in the journey.
After a company has
been in business for a few months or years, company
leaders may realize their original, brilliant idea wasn't as
great as they initially believed.
Great leaders have walked a mile (or several thousand)
in someone else's shoes and
in a world driven by decisions and dollars, experience — good and bad —
is a vital asset.
In my ongoing studies of the world's
greatest leaders, I have realized that there
are actually three strong reasons that we need to thank our critics:
Great leaders know that
in order to
be successful they have to
be hard - nosed ahd not letting their reactive emotional responses get
in the way of a current business opportunity.
It
is her responsibility, not as a daughter, but as a business
leader, to always act
in the interest of all the constituencies that make a company
great.
Great leaders, like the ones we
are celebrating
in this issue,
are building companies for the long haul: companies that can weather storms and anchor the nation
in good times and
in bad.
A
great leader is someone who
is clear
in their values, shares those values and represents those values.
There
's a tendency
in sales pitching to rely on the words of mentors,
great business
leaders, and politicians.
The
leader's job
is to inspire people to work together
in the service of something
greater than themselves.
«You can't have a
great culture over time if you don't have
leaders who
are modelling it and living it and behaving
in a way that supports that culture.»
«I think we
're seeing a
great potential for synergy between
leaders like McConnell... and then the new blood that
is coming
in with this new energy, and I think they
are going to continue to work together,» Benton said.
Wisdom, vision, fearlessness — they
're all qualities you'd expect
in a
great leader.
In any organization, knowledge
is power, and
great leaders ensure that every employee, from the very top to the very bottom of the org chart,
is provided with complete and up - to - date information about the organization's goals, performance, successes and failures.
And while
great leaders may sometimes
be born that way, there
are certain traits that
great leaders share
in common that anyone can practice and adopt to become more effective.
A group of 103 Canadian business
leaders were polled by COMPAS Inc. about the
greatest challenges
in the workplace, and the ability of communications devices to disrupt meetings (and likely annoy those
in attendance) came out on top.
Birchbox
is a
leader in a current industry trend: curating
great experiences for consumers.
Hosting fundraisers, participating
in tradeshows or even meeting with other business
leaders is a
great way to make your presence known within the surrounding neighborhoods.
The bureaucracy
in Brussels
is largely made up of officials from the smaller countries, who saw the EU as a method of enabling themselves to exercise far
greater influence than they could as
leaders in their own governments.
I would argue that the willingness to seek out bad news and take remedial action
is a
great reason to pay a
leader more than others
in an organization.
With the world of startups becoming more competitive than ever, it
's important that a business
leader be as proactive as possible
in getting his
great idea out there to avoid the competition sweeping
in and capturing his intended customer base.
Great leaders understand communication and sell that huge vision, but don't lose sight of the details that
are necessary
in getting there.
«The title alone of this book has
been a
great lesson for me, and I think it
is something that every
leader has to do or learn to get comfortable with to manage stress and stay productive, effective, and happy
in their role.
And that
's what makes a
leader great: his or her decision to take responsibility
in the midst of chaos.
It
's great to reference some the
leaders in your space, but when you
are developing your own brand, it
's important to create unique content on a single hub.
«My jobs as a
leader is to make sure everybody
in the company has
great opportunities, and that they feel they
're having a meaningful impact.»
Now it
is up to local business
leaders to show investors there
are great opportunities
in Puerto Rico.
In her opinion, the key to shaping her work and journey as a leading social advocate
is authenticity, and that seeing
great authenticity among her fellow Leadership WA Signature Program
leaders was enlightening for her.
My hope
is that every person gets the opportunity to have at least one
great leader at some point
in their professional career because the impact on their will
be so
great it
's too hard to measure.
Great leaders rarely second - guess themselves and once they've committed to a decision, they
're all
in.
«The future of humankind isn't exclusively
in the hands of politicians, of
great leaders, of big companies.
Fortune
's fearless
leader, Cliff Leaf, had a
great take on the March
in today
's Brainstorm Health Daily that
's well worth your time: