Business Leadership Management and You – What’s the Connection?

Business leadership management combines the unique elements of who you are as a person, as someone others will follow and as a manager – someone who can lead their followers in the right direction.
Because your business leadership management persona is yours and yours alone, it the only competitive advantage you have that will endure against [...]

Key Leadership & Management Messages – What Are You Saying and Who Are You Saying it To?

Remember that, in a void, employees will fill in the blanks with meaning and interpretation typically much worse than the truth! They will MSU (make stuff up). 

We are all quite good at it; interpreting body language, tone and inflection and often jumping straight to conclusions based in very little data! Right now, all of us are surrounded [...]

Leadership and Business Management Are The Keys to 21st Century Business Success

Leadership and business managements are the only competitive advantages you’ll ever have that will endure against all others.
Are you then an effective, 21st Century leader?  Are your leadership and business management skills where they need to be for your company to survive and profit during these challenging times?
What would your people say about your leadership [...]

Effective Business Leadership Management Requires Trust

As a leader you must be trusted, because you have demonstrated that you are worthy or trust. You must have both the intelligence and the integrity to always provide the correct honest information because leaders who lack credibility based on trust will never gain the influence required to lead. They will soon find themselves removed, [...]

Empathy, The Often Hidden Quality Of Leadership and Business Management Success Stories

Historically we thought of successful leaders as General Patton types, with their chrome plated helmet with their riding crop slapping their tall shiny black boots. They were our leaders because we were told they were.
Theirs was the “don’t do what I do, do what I say do” model. Command and control were usually what [...]

What Does Stamina Have To Do With Leadership and Business Management?

While leadership and business management are defined differently by everyone – especially those who are selling business leadership management training and consulting services, leadership is simply the ability to meet the needs of those who are part of their organization, those who depend on the organization directly or indirectly in any way, and other individuals [...]

Leadership, You Know It When You See It

That’s about the size of it. You can’t define leadership, not in any way that everyone will agree with or that is universal in its application.
So how can you tell if someone is a leader? It used to be that you could look at how many people are following them. That’s pretty much a non [...]