8 Steps Toward Becoming The Leader You Need To Be To Succeed

If you follow these eight action steps not only you will be a better leader but also lead yourself to a more successful life.

Surviving the Management of a Lazy Boss - Nu Leadership

What can be done with your lazy boss? Examine how to cope with a laissez-faire leader. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership.

Strategic Leadership: The Million Dollar Solution?

A lot has been written and said in recent years about strategic thinking and strategic leadership.

Follow the Leader

Father's Day is soon approaching and it's a day to recognize the leadership that our own father's had in shaping us into what we are today. For many families, a father hasn't been a major role in their lives and without this strong example to follow, many children don't know and may never know just what it means to have a father and what it will mean to become one. God made fathers to be like Him, an upstanding man who instills good morals in his children so that they too may leave a legacy for future generations. A father should be a leader and someone we are proud to follow.

How to Effectively Lead a Hip Hop & MTV Generation - Nu Leadership Series

Examine how an effective leader understands his cultural environment and can adapt to a Hip Hop & MTV Generation. Are you flexible enough to lead? Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership.

Leadership Through Being Yourself

Real leaders are not only prepared to reveal their weaknesses, because they know they are not super-human, but to use them to their advantage. Obviously this doesn’t mean revealing technical weaknesses or functional failings as this would fatally flaw their performance. Instead, what is meant is that leaders can and perhaps should, reveal their personality quirks – maybe they are bad tempered in the morning, are somewhat shy with new people or even a little disorganized. Such admissions show they are human and this resonates with others confirming that the leader is a person – not merely a role-holder.

The Five Levels of Leadership

We can, over a period of time, increase our leadership potential if we can understand and accept the five levels of leadership.

Seven Ways to Improve the Results of Your Leadership Development Efforts

This article outlines seven specific things you can do to improve your leadership development efforts. Implementing any one of these suggestions will prove a valuable supplement to what you are already doing. Implementing most or all of them will yield or more confident, competent and prepared leaders than your existing development efforts by themselves ever will.

Government Leadership: Getting to Understand the Real Deal - Nu Leadership

Examine the nature of federal leaders and followers. Learn why government life can appear inefficient, and determine the real organizational secrets. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership.

Leadership Captured in a Political Machine - Nu Leadership Series

Discuss how leaders can support man-machine systems so that they reinforce and strengthen organizational values. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development. Learn how to manage the new workforce of Generation X and Y employees.

Leadership & Group Dynamics: The Historical Perspective - Nu Leadership Series

Gain a better understanding of leadership from the historical perspective. Learn how concepts such as group dynamics are not new management initiatives. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development. Learn how to manage the new workforce of Generation X and Y employees.

Leadership Changes: Ten Quick Ways to Transition with Leadership - Nu Leadership Series

Discover how to conduct succession planning before the death of your founder and leader. Many organizations are too busy and ignore the realities of life.

How To Make The Power Of Mastermind Work For The Ordinary You

It can be quite a daunting prospect trying to form your mastermind group for the first time. You start to wonder where can you find the right people, questions start to be asked, you doubt the practicality of your efforts and eventually a cloud of uncertainty pollutes your mind. Soon enough, you may even drop the whole idea! To avoid descending into this pitfall, you must learn to make the power of the mastermind work for you, regardless of what you are pursuing.

How to Rate Your Role Model!

This is review of the quality charteristics required of a worthy role model. The article looks the influence of role models in our lives and its significants, against their value as appropriate examples for positive self improvement.