In the pursuit of my doctorate and ultimately my pursuit of learning to be a leader, I started this website as a searchable resource for myself – a journal of gems that I am learning or have learned.
Strategic Leadership
“Leadership is communicating to another person their worth and potential so clearly they are inspired to see it in themselves.”
– Dr. Stephen Covey
Strategic Leadership is the ability of influencing others to voluntarily make decisions that enhance the prospects for the organisation’s long-term success while maintaining long-term financial stability. Different leadership approaches impact the vision and direction of growth and the potential success of an organization. To successfully deal with change, all executives need the skills and tools for both strategy formulation and implementation. Managing change and ambiguity requires strategic leaders who not only provide a sense of direction, but who can also build ownership and alignment within their workgroups to implement change.
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Leadership is Empathy
Through my research I settled on a statement that I think everyone should become aware of: “The human heart desires to be heard, understood, and acknowledged.” As a husband, father, and leader, I try to “practice what I preach” so I listen to my wife and my kids. In some of the conversations and media …
Understanding ITIL Change Management
Notes from a great talk on the do’s and don’ts of Change Management, specifically related to ITIL. Key take-aways from this IDC Report from 2014: the average cost of an infrastructure failure is $100,000 per hour. 80% of failures are due to custom adjustments of current tools to meet DevOps practices – meaning: a breakdown …
Book Review – Every Job is a Sales Job
The pandemic that is currently deteriorating economies globally is causing businesses to take a hard look at why they do what they do. I feel that the businesses that add value will be able to weather this storm. I believe we will see businesses that are not making “win-win” sales, let’s call them greedy (i.e. …
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