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Understand the Impact of Leadership Decisions

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When you are a leader, your leadership decisions impact those you lead and others. When you make a good decision, it has a positive effect on others. Additionally, when you make a bad decision, it can have major negative effects on others. Often your leadership decisions have a very long lasting impact on others.

Understand the Impact of Leadership Decisions

Affordable Healthcare Act

In 2009, the U.S. passed the Affordable Care Act (Known as Obama Care). This Act was branded as a law that would make healthcare much more affordable for all Americans and provide additional healthcare benefits to more than 30,000 uninsured people. When the law was introduced there was a strong push to pass the law and do it very quickly. The law was over 1,000 pages and no one had time to read much of it. Because of the push to pass the law, many lawmakers went ahead and voted yes to the law without reading it or even knowing much of what it said.

Leadership Decisions Impact: Affordable Healthcare Act

Fast forward to today and the major parts of the law are starting to take effect. The Wall Street Journal had an article about the Affordable Health Care Act today called Wal-Mart to End Health Insurance for Some Part-Time Employees. In the article, it explained that “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cutting health insurance for another 30,000 part-time workers and raising premiums for its other employees, as U.S. corporations push to contain costs in the wake of the federal health-care law.” [Read more…] about Understand the Impact of Leadership Decisions

Take Leadership Responsibilities Seriously

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As a leader, you have many leadership responsibilities.  Those you lead also have many responsibilities.  In many cases, however, their responsibilities are your leadership responsibilities delegated to them.  As a leader, you need to own up to your leadership responsibilities.

Does President Obama Understand His Leadership Responsibilities?

Recently there was an article in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Scandals Prompt Doubt About Honesty” written by Patrick O’Connor and Rebecca Ballhaus. The article said, “Recent controversies surrounding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other government agencies have sown doubts about the honesty of the Obama administration, but most people don’t hold the president personally responsible for the agency actions, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.”

The article explained that the results of a recent poll showed that 55% of respondents felt that there was a significant lack of honesty in the IRS.   Those polled, however, did not feel the president was responsible for the dishonestly.  “Americans at this point don’t hold the president personally responsible for any of the three major controversies that have dominated Washington since early May, the Journal/NBC poll found.” [Read more…] about Take Leadership Responsibilities Seriously

Should Leaders Be Transparent?

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This week the President of the United States, President Barack Obama, will give the State of the Union address.  His goal is to outline his plans, expectations, and personal agenda for 2013.  In an attempt to be transparent, he is expected to let the country know what he plans to do to address each of the major domestic issues facing the country.  Some of those issues include immigration, gun control, and education.  In addition, he is expected to address some of the international issues the U.S. faces like the war in Afghanistan and global climate change.

Transparent Leadership

Many people throughout the country are anxiously waiting to see what he has to say because it will likely coincide with the federal budget for this year.  After his speech, however, there will be a lag time before people will really know the specifics of the federal budget because President Obama has not finished his 2013 budget.  He is not expected to send it to Congress until mid-March.  (In years past, the President gave his State of the Union address at the same time as the budget was released.)

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Leadership in a Changing World – Adaptability or Compromise?

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This is a guest post by Debbie Nicol. She is the Managing Director of ‘business en motion’ and the Creator and Author of ’embers of the world’ change concept.  She is a 25-year HR professional.  She has provided consulting services internationally since 2006 when she founded ‘business en motion’ in Dubai. She has many areas of expertise, some of which include organization development
, change management, strategy and implementation, strategic think tanks, and executive coaching.

Twitter: @leadershipember
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbienicol
Website:  http://embersoftheworld.com/

When contemplating what it takes to make sure leadership is truly done right the first exploratory question to be asked may be ‘right for what’?  The reply that automatically flows for me is: right for facilitating service to all equally in a changing world.

What Does the Changing World Really Want?

The changing world cherishes alignment and cohesiveness.  Just as a healthy backbone holds us up effortlessly, gifts us with free-flowing movement and allows us to hold ourselves high, so too does aligned activity to a purpose. When it is absolutely clear that a personal or business activity will contribute in a connected way, serving to add value to all, success will flow.

In a recent executive think-tank session with a group of government employees from Africa, I was asked this question: When does adaptability become compromise? I reflected for some time before I replied.  As my perspective took shape, through the lens of the ’embers’ model of leadership, my reply, as always, was another question:  When our actions result in a move away from purpose or a vision of greater good, what can happen?

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How Do You Get Your News As The Leader? – Flipboard

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Have you heard of Flipboard before?  In today’s fast paced world, leadership is becoming more demanding than ever before. Leaders are expected to know what is going on all over the world across a wide variety of industries. They are also expected to be able to make quick decisions based on that knowledge to lead their organization into the right direction.

There are many ways that leaders can get this information. Some leaders have personal assistants that scour the news and then feed them the highlights while others have specific websites, blogs, news outlets, or smartphone apps they follow to get their insight into the world. With smartphones, as common as they are, there are more apps than ever for leaders to get the news. [Read more…] about How Do You Get Your News As The Leader? – Flipboard

Should Leaders Be Paid Based On Performance?

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During the last few months, there have been a number of articles in the news about leaders and their compensation. In March, I did a post about an article that showed statistics stating that CEO compensation increase for new CEOs had only increased by 1.5% in 2011 compared to 11% in 2010. This was significantly down from past years even though their performance had improved and the performance of the company had improved.

I did a post about Carmelo Anthony because he was paid a high salary to help the New York Knicks become a top team and win a championship. The organization has not been as successful as expected since he joined the team and they have paid him a very high salary for results.

Once again there was an article in the news about compensation and performance. The Wall Street Journal article CEOs That Delivered The Most And Least Bang For The Buck by Joann S. Lublin and Dana Mattioli stated, “A Wall Street Journal analysis of compensation data for 300 top U.S. companies assembled by Hay Group found that while pay generally tracked performance last year, some CEOs delivered far more bang for the buck when it came to shareholder returns.”

The article went on to explain that although the results discussed in the March article showed that in many cases the compensation during the last year was equilivalent to performance, there were also companies that didn’t follow suit with compensation based on performance. The article explained the stories of four CEOs that were significantly underpaid or overpaid.  The graphic above shows some of the statistics related to the performance and compensation based on the CEO.

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