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Qualities Of Resourceful Leaders
By Andrew Cox · 16 years ago
Resourceful leaders get more done with available resources than less resourceful managers. It results in outcomes that far exceed expectations. It's critical for organizations challenged by competition, technology, suppliers, customers and the economy.
The ability ...
Lessons in Survival - A Critical Leadership Skill
By Andrew Cox · 16 years ago
To survive - to hang in there - to keep your head while all around you others are losing theirs - to stay in play - is a critical skill of leaders. Let's face it ...
How Leaders Increase Their Personal Energy
By Andrew Cox · 16 years ago
I recently posted an article that dealt with ways leaders create energy in their organizations through their beliefs and behaviors.
This article deals with how leaders sustain and increase their personal energy.
In our discussions, ...
How Leaders Create The Energy Essential To Success
By Andrew Cox · 16 years ago
Leaders know high energy individuals, workgroups and organizations create success. How to create and sustain that high energy is the key challenge leaders face every day.
The following behaviors and beliefs are keys that leaders ...
A Leadership Tool To Encourage Thinking Outside The Box
By Andrew Cox · 16 years ago
Thinking outside the box is a critical Personal Skill - one that will make the difference between success or failure. The real critical leadership skill is accessing the thinking of others to help see what ...
Creating Goals - Dealing With Reality - The Power of Keeping Track
By Andrew Cox · 16 years ago
Keeping track - creating goals - dealing with reality -creates clarity and keeps me honest to myself. It keeps me accountable for my behavior - for my own choices. I don't have to share my ...
Leaders Know High Expectations Lead To High Performance
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Leaders know high expectations lead to high performance. Leaders know that the more people believe in themselves, and their leaders believe in them, the more they will accomplish - at all levels.
We often think ...
Leaders Provide Advice Critical To Success - Part Four
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Certain beliefs, convictions and statements keep being repeated in our conversations and seminars and feedback sessions with both managers and leaders. Here is Part Four, dealing with advice critical to success in the areas of ...
Leaders Provide Advice Critical To Success - Part Three
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Certain advice, in the form of beliefs, statements and convictions, keep being brought up by leaders in our seminars and feedback sessions. What follows is Part Three of our series dealing with beliefs that are ...
Leaders Manage Goals To Ensure More Is Not Less
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Leaders manage goals to know when more becomes less. Leaders know there is a place where further effort, energy, knowledge, people resources and money don't really add additional value. In fact, more of anything, after ...
Observation - A Critical Leadership Skill
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Leaders know observation skills are critically important to success - in any dimension. They work hard to develop their own, and to identify and develop the skill in their people.
Leaders rely heavily on the ...
Hire The Right People - 10 Recommendations On Using Assessments
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Assessments are powerful tools to use in hiring the right people. They can also improve communications, reduce turnover and improve retention of top people. Assessments represent an opportunity to do all these things while returning ...
12 Ways Leaders Tell Their People They Are Important
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Leaders know the old saying "How you act shouts so loudly I can't hear what you're saying" is the truth. They use it to their advantage. Leaders know the greatest sense of accomplishment and importance ...
Managing Goals - Leaders Know How To Trim The Tree
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Managing goals, leaders and trimming trees? Hang with me. Let me tell you, I am a goal junkie. I constantly set goals for all kinds of things in my life. They are all SMART goals ...
Increase Success In Selecting People
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
How do you increase your success in selecting and evaluating people? Education, technical skills, experience and industry knowledge can be defined and verified. But most people don't succeed or fail because of those elements of ...
Successfully Managing Change
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
Every successful change management process has Four Stages, as well as a series of critical conditions within each stage. Plan for the Four Stages, create the critical conditions, and succeed in managing change.
The same ...
Personal Importance - Your Success Depends On It
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
One thing I've noticed about all the successful people I've met - they all are convinced of the importance of what they do and of their own personal importance. I don't mean in an egotistical, ...
Successful Leadership - Beware The Silver Bullets
By Andrew Cox · 17 years ago
We are all tempted to keep looking for that one person, that one application, that one solution, that one customer that will make all the bad things go away and breathe new life into whatever ...