Leadership Under Fire
Leadership Under Fire

An Australian Soldier Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith received the highest military decoration today, the Victoria Cross. This is an incredible and inspiring story of true leadership under fire. What this soldier was confronted with was unimaginable, yet he demonstrated such courage, conviction, decisiveness and gallantry.

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Retailers Sweat Because of Lack Of Leadership

 

A very prominent, high profile Business Leader who has a huge presence in the retail industry caused quite a ruckus recently in his quest to level the tax playing field between brick and mortar and on line retailing. I do agree with him that his message has been very poorly communicated, badly timed and

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Untested Leadership in 2011.

I’ve never really been interested in politics. But now I find it fascinating! It’s certainly not the policies. It’s the people! It’s not because they are dynamic either, it’s because they’re so….welll……bland!

Now I am only guessing here because as I said I wasn’t

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Disaster Can Determine A Leader.

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, you will be aware of the devastating floods in Queensland Australia. The devastation caused by this act of Mother Nature is of biblical proportions and for the people involved, it is not only enduring the actual floods, it’s the recovery and the aftermath that

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Press Release – “The Year of The Leadership Crisis”

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Julie Hyde     
Email: Julie@distinctiveleadership.com.au

2011 – THE YEAR OF THE LEADERSHIP CRISIS
Leadership expert explains how rapid economic change, unseasonable weather, the absence of client service and

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Has He Got What It Takes?
Has He Got What It Takes?

Leadership in Sports is interesting to watch and incredibly volatile. If your team is doing well, people love the captain and believe he/she must be doing a great job. In contrast when your team is losing, people are looking to blame and the blame generally

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The Year That Was Twenty10.

Not sure about you but I think this year went really fast. Though it did lag a little for me during one of the coldest and longest winters that Melbourne has experienced for a number of years. Changes came thick and fast throughout the year from the change in Government in Australia to

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Release the Pressure
Release the Pressure

There is nothing more frustrating in business when people are just not pulling their weight. After you have clearly defined what they need to do, believe they know how to do it and they just don't! And then come the excuses as to why things have not been done as they should.

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Free Reign Leadership
Free Reign Leadership

The final leadership style we’ll be exploring is the free-reign leadership style,  also known as the “hands-off¨ style. It is one in which the leader provides little or no direction and gives employees as much freedom as possible, even though the leader is responsible for the final outcome. All authority

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Democratic Leadership
Democratic Leadership

The democratic leadership style is also called the participative style as it encourages employees to be a part of the decision making. However, the leader maintains the final decision making authority.

This style of leadership is more accepted and certainly encouraged in today’s work environment. People today are much more

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