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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Schneiderman’s Eight Golden Rules
Ben Schneiderman worked in Human-Computer Interaction and his research revealed these eight golden rules for interface design. Strive for consistency. Use familiar icons, colors, menu styles, calls to action, etc. Enable users to use shortcuts. Users who use your product often will inevitably understand it and no longer need directions on how to use it. …
Information Facts of Life
According to an article from HBR (March-April 1994), there are rules governing information sharing behavior. Having run across these rules doing some Change Management research this morning, I find these rules relevant even 26 years later. Most of the information in organizations – and most of the information people really care about – is not …
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 …
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