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The Leadership Battle: Contained vs. Contagious
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
There are 2 kinds of leaders, contained leaders and contagious ones.
Contained leaders, as their name states, play it small, keep things to themselves, and normally center on defending who they are and what they ...
9 Habits of Highly Contagious Leaders
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
There are 9 specific behaviors that identify highly contagious leaders. Decide for yourself if these qualities appeal to you and if you are able to enforce them within your business, some are culture driven while ...
What Can I Do? 5 Ways to Lessen Your Leader's Workload
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
In any successful business, a good leader will have invested significant amounts of time selecting and building an efficient team; one that he values and treats well. In return, team members work diligently to reach ...
Understanding the Vision Challenge - Why Others Sometimes Don't Believe
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Creating a vision is not generally difficult for great leaders and managers. More often than not, the difficulties come in getting others to embrace that vision as wholeheartedly as they do. To be able to ...
Leadership Traits That Create a Following
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Great leaders understand that people will not follow you just because you want them to, or because you say they must. Leaders create a following only by being the type of leader that people want ...
10 Benefits of Good Team Building
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Most business professionals agree that good team building is a vital element of a productive company. Some leaders and managers, however rate team building very low on their scale of importance; often because they fail ...
5 Ways to Make Your Business Writing Count
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Every hour of every business day is filled with communications of some sort: e-mails, text messages, cell calls, phone calls, memos and letters. With so much information filling up every inbox we own, it's hard ...
6 Effective Tips to Deal with Leadership Stress
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
True leaders know how powerful a certain level of stress can be to keep you focused, to make you competitive, and to encourage action. Anytime you have to give a big presentation or talk to ...
5 Key Traits of Compassionate Leaders
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
We put labels on people, everyone does. Labels are convenient, and they are also very dangerous. When you label someone, you put him or her inside a small container and automatically hold back the possibilities ...
How to Do What Great Leaders Do
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Successful managers and good leaders share certain practices that enable them to continue, day after day, to motivate others, grow companies and achieve personal as well as professional success. True leaders know that the qualities ...
What Makes a Strong Leader
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
To become a strong leader who inspires all of those around you, one who instills trust and confidence in everyone they meet, while still holding them accountable, you must first understand what qualities make a ...
How to Become a More Charismatic Leader
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Having charisma is an important quality in any leadership position, and this is often overlooked by traditional leadership standards. But having charisma is a very important quality to any successful leader, and will help open ...
How to Become a Better Leader
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
If you are striving to become a better leader for your job, a stronger leader to better run your own business, or looking to develop the leadership skills you've always known you've had, there a ...
Happy Employees Means Happy Clients
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
It has been found that it is impossible to keep a foundation of loyal customers without a foundation of loyal employees. The best employees prefer to work for companies that provide the type of exceptional ...
Personal Accountability - How Mental Roadblocks Stop You from Success
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Do you think Bill Gates had his success handed to him on a silver corporate platter? He took personal responsibility for his success. A leadership speaker will tell you that Gates didn't allow fear, or ...
7 Tips for Self-Motivation
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Motivation is crucial to achieve your goals, and it is also something you can achieve by yourself if you know how.
The following are 7 tips to attain unstoppable self-motivation:
1. Keep the right focus ...
Motivational Speakers Outside of Business: Affecting Disaffected Youth
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Most people seem to think that a good motivational speaker should be an A-list celebrity or perhaps a politician or sports star. The reality is that, according to the Home Affairs committee of the UK's ...
Leadership Speaking: The Software of Your Employees
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
As a professional leadership speaker, I am firmly of the belief that motivation is the 'programming language of the soul'. Professionals like myself can improve the lives of employees, and thus the bottom lines of ...
What DOES a motivational speaker do?
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
To most observers, the transformation that a motivational speaker can effect on a person seems like an apotheosis -- something divine, unaccomplishable by mere mortals. Top executives of major corporations think of a motivational speaker ...
Be a Good Leader! Bring Out Your Inner Child!
By John Hersey · 14 years ago
Studies have shown that successful leaders have something very interesting in common; they all demonstrate certain positive personality traits that are normally associated with children. If you consider yourself a good leader, check and see ...