Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Don Norman wears many hats, including co-founder of the Nielsen Norman group, Professor at Northwestern University, and author, his latest book being Emotional Design.
As an author on usability, Don seems to think that simplicity is highly overrated.
But what has that got to do with leadership? Well, it seems that we as consumers favor stuff with MORE features, not less. And therefore, it becomes a strategic issue for leaders who want to ’simplify’ things, especially their organizations products and services.
Check out Don’s post here.
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
How Are You Serving The World ?
Are you holding back at what you do, or yearn to become? Do you know that you have, right now, within you all of the resources that are necessary to ‘play big’ and become a high performing leader, at whatever it is you have a true passion for? Do you know that?
In his acceptance speech as President of South Africa, that great leader Nelson Mandela, put it squarely to his people when, in quoting author Marianne Williamson, he said:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”
It’s your choice…
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Guy Kawasaki gave a rousing speech to entrepreneurs recently. Apart from the content, which is good, pay close attention to the passion and authenticity he delivers it with…
The Art of the Start
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
In this podcast I outline five characteristics of high performance leadership. These characteristics are drawn from our own work with leaders, and from our anlaysis of what great leaders actually do, as opposed to what the theorists say they should do.
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