the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible...
This article mainly focuses upon four primary styles of leadership. These styles are strategic results-based leaders, vision-based leaders, people-based leaders and information-based leaders. These types of leadership have been explained in the article as they form a core of the business. Thus, by tapping into own energy and opening up...
The events of late 2001 sent a tsunami over the collective psyche and economy in the United States and around the world. The most noticeable impact of this shock wave is that many people feel psychologically uncertain about the future. They are searching for dependability and reliability for their futures....
What an exciting time to be a leader! There are more opportunities and more stimulating challenges than ever before. Never has there been a greater opportunity to contribute more and to grow more. With the opportunities and stimulating challenges of course must also come potentially stress-inducing challenges. There is a...
From the executive summary: ‘Most strategic plans fail to deliver their goals because there is insufficient focus on implementation. In particular, insufficient attention by the leadership team on the management of strategic change. If the plan is an incremental one compared to the previous plan, and the organization has well-developed...
From the executive summary: ‘Leadership is the process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective. Although, some individuals have the good fortune of possessing an apparently innate ability for leadership, the rest of them develop leadership potential through self-study, dedication, education, experience, and hard...
Employees form an essential part of an organization. Thus, managers and team leaders should motivate the people to work efficiently for the organization. However, it has been observed that companies do little on their part to motivate the employees to work better. As a result, the company’s performance declines considerably....
It is easy to ‘speak’, but often difficult to be ‘heard’, that too attentively. There are numerous business leaders that are invited to parties; conferences and seminars to ‘say a few words’, but the leaders are rarely heard. Hence, it is essential for business leaders to make their speech as...
Article looks at how leaders stifle and restrict thinking in their organizations - usually unintended but destructive nonetheless. It describes that a leader's perspective about how to lead is built from a set of assumptions. These assumptions result in a series of self-fulfilling prophecies. A leader whose management style is...
It has been widely observed that big companies often highlight the values and the quality policy of the organization. However, whether the values are enforced by the companies or not is a different story altogether. Most companies’ boast about their principles and the core values, but there are indeed very...
From the executive summary: ‘There has been an attempt to develop a general theory of leadership. Trait, transactional, transformational, path-goal, contingency and situational theories, all abound. The theoretical constructs seek to define and explain leadership. Today, there is no generally accepted or even widely disseminated theory of ethical leadership. Without...
A business cannot be established in one day. The process calls for devising innovative techniques that help a business to prosper. Business model innovation is one such task, which needs to be mastered by companies to achieve success. Business model contains combined elements of who, what, when, why, where, how,...
"Constant innovation has become an inarguable strategy for business survival. An organization's long-term viability can be ensured through consistent forward-looking analysis and a willingness to initiate change. For many companies, a major roadblock to realizing outstanding business results is a difficulty using innovation effectively. Innovation is approached in a traditional...
An organization should judiciously chart out the motivational plans for improving the employees’ performance. However, before plunging into action, a company must eliminate the ‘demotivators’, which hamper the process of motivation. The company should focus on providing meaningful benefits to the employees rather than short-term freebies that only give momentary...
One of the most insidious problems for managers and their organizations is the failure phenomenon called the Success Trap. The term has been used in studying organizations, which show great promise and then hit a plateau or decline. Article diagnoses the similar pattern, which often occurs in the careers...
There is this sense of urgency in today’s economy, even in the best companies, with no guarantees that tomorrow will bring the same success as today. Changes often fail, and employees are sometimes adversely affected; therefore change that we perceive as negative is resisted or ignored. Some ways to become...
The success of an organization largely depends on the organization’s ability to think strategically and work towards achieving the set goals. Strategic thinking helps the companies in adjusting to dynamic environment of the organizations. The ability also calls for possessing thinking skills in all the employees of the organizations. Strategic...
Most ‘business process development’ focuses on improving or replacing existing processes and activities that are long-standing and well-understood. Researches indicate that a business process development is required when the company lacks the process, which possesses the potential of sustainability. The paper examines how to establish a continuous business model innovation...
This article mainly focuses upon Character-centered Leadership. When people make mistakes of judgment, the cost to companies is staggering. Litigation, plunging share prices, and loss of market share directly affect the bottom line. For this the code of conduct have been made. Frequently, these codes of conduct are drafted without...
The set of skills, attributes and attitudes of the independent business professional are precisely those needed by individuals and organizations alike to respond effectively within a turbulent environment. There are several key themes suggested throughout this series on the high performance attributes of independent business professionals. Many individuals and organizations...
As organizations face rising customer expectations and competitive demands, it is essential that the executives leading those organizations achieve higher and higher levels of personal effectiveness. Given the interdependent and complex transactions that characterize most modern organizations, there is no way for executives to improve their personal effectiveness unless they...
