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The Leadership Dilemma: Should You Set Short- or Long-Term Objectives? [Guest Post]

Stephan De Villiers — Fri, 10 May 2013 10:23:57 PDT

About the author Greg Dorban is a Demand Generation Professional helping global companies to create more opportunities in their marketing and sales programmes. He is Head of Inbound Marketing with strategic consultation on search, social, web, conversion and content at Ledger Bennett, a specialist B2B agency. When you are in a leadership role, a large part [...]

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9 Warning Signs Your Leadership is Failing

Stephan De Villiers — Fri, 03 May 2013 05:47:00 PDT

I have failed. Not to long ago I had a very difficult conversation with a talented supervisor in my business, explaining to him the reasons why we have to downsize our business and his job was one of the jobs we have to cut. We made some mistakes in our decisions, which turned out to cost our business dearly. I [...]

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How To Develop Your Leadership Skills For Career Success

Stephan De Villiers — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:53:26 PDT

”Geniuses are born but leaders are made.” If this saying is true, its good news for aspiring leaders. It means, even if you are not born with strong leadership traits, you can still develop into an excellent leader. Leadership skills are important for career advancement and it is therefore important to develop your leadership skills [...]

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9 Reasons a Leader Should Use Groups in Decision Making [Guest Post]

Stephan De Villiers — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:00:10 PDT

This guest post by Shaun Rosenberg highlights the importance for a leader of involving the team or group in the decision-making process, thereby helping them to grow as well. He is the author of the Shaun Rosenberg Blog. His blog is for everyone looking to change for the better. He writes about personal growth and motivation. As a leader you make decisions [...]

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The Top 20 Leadership Blogs You Should Read

Stephan De Villiers — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:00:26 PST

“Leaders are readers” I’m sure you’ve heard this saying before. I for one believe it, although maybe a bit clichéd, to be true. I created this resource list of the top 20 business and leadership blogs specifically based on this “cliché”. I believe the business and leadership writers featured in this list will provide you with a [...]

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A “TO-BE” List for Aspiring Leaders [Featured Post]

Stephan De Villiers — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:00:19 PST

This featured post was first published by Angela Maiers on her blog at AngelaMaiers.com. She has graciously given me permission to make some structural changes and to republish it on my blog. I have the privilege each year of speaking to auditoriums full of aspiring young leaders, anxious to go out into the world and make their mark. [...]

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6 Benefits for a Leader of One-on-One Employee Conversations [Guest Post]

Stephan De Villiers — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:00:29 PST

As a business leader, you know your focus must be on the customer 100% of the time. Right? What about the people looking after the customer? – Our Employees. How often do you spent time with individual employees and engage in a structured one-on-one conversation with your Employees? In this guest post, Valerie Cecil outlines [...]

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The Introvert’s 2013 Business and Leadership Success Pledge [Featured Post]

Stephan De Villiers — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:00:46 PST

This post by Lisa Petrilli, author of ”The Introvert’s Guide to Success in Business and Leadership“ first appeared on C Level Strategies, Visionary Leadership. She has graciously given me permission to make some structural changes and to republish it on my blog. Leadership Success Comes from Within My fellow introverts, if you take this pledge [...]

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Colin Powell’s View on Future Leadership

Stephan De Villiers — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:08 PDT

In this short video, Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, talks about future leadership in the world the new generation of leaders will have to negotiate to be successful. He highlights the following aspects of future leadership: New generation leaders will be totally digital and have a fundamentally different way of communicating and networking with [...]

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6 Indispensable Qualities of a Successful Social Leader

Stephan De Villiers — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:57 PDT

I am sure those of you filling the role of a social leader, working to bring lasting social change to your community, will agree with me – social leadership is hard. It is definitely not for the easily discouraged. Sometimes you work for months, even years to bring about change and seldom see any progress [...]

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