Leadership Insights

Good advice is hard to come by these days,without a price. Leadership insights, Distinctive Leadership’s monthly newsletter articles, are created to challenge you to explore your leadership paradigm.

The Importance Of Business Identity.

February 27, 2011 admin

Last year I wrote on the importance of culture and asked 7 key questions about your business. You can read the article here.

Culture defines your business. Culture is your business identity. It provides a framework for staff to operate within and assists them to understand what your business stands for. If your staff understand what your business stands for, and what it doesn’t stand for (equally important), they can identify with the business and ensure they operate within the guidelines. People need to identify with their place of work, it improves motivation. This is

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Decisive Leader – Leadership Skill

February 24, 2011 admin

Seth Godin whom is a ‘god’ in the marketing world has a saying “you don’t need more time, you need to decide.” Great advice! One of the biggest reasons or excuses people give me for not achieving what they would like to is because they have no time. Well I’d like to let you in on a little secret here and now, you will never ‘get’ the time to do anything, you need to make the time.

As part of our recent leadership survey, we asked what people were looking for

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Leadership and Intuition

February 22, 2011 admin

Can I ask you a question? Thank you! Should a leader use their intuition or not to make decisions? Do you believe intuition is a critical component to leadership? Let’s define intuition.

The term intuition is used to describe thoughts and preferences that come to mind quickly and without much reflection. The word 'intuition' comes from the Latin word 'intueri', which is often roughly translated as meaning 'to look inside'’ or 'to contemplate’ (source Wikipedia). It’s typically a right brain function.

You may have experienced ‘intuition’ telling you that

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Leadership Skill – Title = Responsibility

February 21, 2011 admin

The controversy surrounding prominent AFL Player Manager Ricky Nixon is to say the least unfortunate. Only he knows what really happened in this situation. But you really need to ask the question why? What was he thinking even considering any type of relationship with this young girl, who has a history, a long history of controversy with an AFL club and some players?

Mr Nixon is a manager to AFL football players. Many who are very young and still impressionable? By all accounts he is someone you want on your team, as he is aggressive

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Have Your Say On Leadership Today – Results Are In!

February 17, 2011 admin

Have Your Say On Leadership Today - The results are in!

What people are seeking in a leader today is very clear. And the majority is not getting it! This was a very clear message from the recent Distinctive Leadership survey.

This report is lengthy BUT we have had an enormous amount of interest in the outcomes and people requesting the results so we wanted to provide as much information as possible.

One thing that is evident, what people are looking for in a leader today has changed from

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Leadership Skill – Has The Tide Turned?

February 17, 2011 admin

I have been rather critical of Julia Gillard and her leadership in the early stages of her prime ministership. Maybe she’s been reading my articles? Highly unlikely but would be great to think so! “Julie Hyde, Leadership Advisor to the PM”, I think that sounds marvelous but I’m now back on planet earth. I’ll save that task for next year! Back to business.

I read an article on Julia Gillard in Melbourne’s ‘The Age’ newspaper. She stated in the article that she

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Leadership Skill – Has The Tide Turned?

February 17, 2011 admin

Leadership Skill - Has The Tide Turned?

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