Posts Tagged‘leadership’

Aspiring Business Leaders Should Follow These 6 Pieces of Entrepreneurial Advice

Launching your own business is a daunting prospect. If this is your first time serving as your own boss, you would do well to heed the advice of those who’ve come before you. These six pieces of advice are particularly salient for ambitious young entrepreneurs. Find a Dependable Mentor, Perhaps More Than One First, find a dependable mentor and maintain a fruitful relationship with him or her. While your mentor cannot (and should not) run your business on a day-to-day basis, he or she can step in at inflection points and provide incisive advice born of personal experience. No matter…

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Leaders are Built Not Born – Here’s How

When we see someone at the top of their game, whether it is a sports star, a political leader or a business icon, we imagine that this person was born with all of the natural skills and qualities to lead. This is hardly ever the case. Instead we are seeing the result of long process of honing a set of skills until the person is an expert in executing them. Along the way, the person came up against and got past failures and disappointments that ultimately strengthened him or her and helped create the leader you see in front of…

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Understand Team Members Better To Be A Better Leader

If you read leadership books you will quickly figure out the fact that there is a lot of focus that is put on management. This is not actually enough to be a really good leader. It is really important that you are patient and that you focus on your team members. One of the reasons why Charles Phillips role as president of Oracle was so successful and why the work he does at Infor is even better is the focus put on the team. If you understand the members of your team, there is a much higher possibility that you…

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