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Leaders, Know Your People

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Do you walk in every morning and go straight to your office? Once you get to your office, do you focus on responding to all your emails? Then you run from one meeting to the next and before you know it your day is over. Does this happen day after day, month after month? While you were in this routine, did you talk to your employees? Did you ask them how they were doing?

Leaders, Know Your People

There are two prominent types of leaders: the work focused leader and the employee focused leader.

Work Focused Leaders

The work focused leaders stay to themselves and only do their job. They don’t make time for their employees because their work is “FAR MORE IMPORTANT”, or so they think. They are full of reasons/excuses as to why they can’t help their employees. They are great at deflecting their people’s concerns.

These types of leaders focus solely on their projects and success. They are also quick to anger when others ask them questions they don’t like. I am sure you know the type of leader I am talking about.

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Why Engineers Are Good Leaders

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There are leaders that come from all backgrounds. Some have no college degree while others have doctorate degrees. At the same time, leaders come from different areas of study. Some have studied business while others have studied engineering.Why Engineers Are Good Leaders

In addition to engineering and business, there are many other fields of study that also produce strong leaders. There is no specific template for a good leader since they come in all shapes and sizes with all types of backgrounds. There are, however, backgrounds that tend to produce more leaders than others. Engineering happens to be one of those backgrounds.

So why are does engineering produce good leaders?

When you think of engineers, you may think of the technical guru that sits behind the computer all day working out solutions to advanced equations. [Read more…] about Why Engineers Are Good Leaders

The Power of Blogging in Leadership!

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To be a good leader, you must have conviction in what you want to do and the stance you take on different issues. In many cases, beginning leaders don’t have strong convictions because they are new to leadership.  Those convictions develop over time through trial and error, or as they study examples from other leaders.

Blogging In Leadership

Writing down your thoughts can also be very beneficial in the development of your convictions. A blog is a perfect platform for this. The following video helps explain the power of blogging in leadership when developing your convictions.

Clarity of Thought

As you blog, you will develop your own thoughts on how to handle different situations. Blogging will force you to take a stance on the topics you write about. As Seth Godin and Tom Peters stated, blogging will refine your thoughts and help you in many ways.  [Read more…] about The Power of Blogging in Leadership!

The Difference Between Managers and Leaders

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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between leadership and management?  There is a big difference.  “Managers figure out what they want done and get people to do it.  Managers try to get people to do what they did yesterday, but a little faster and a little cheaper with a few less defects.”  That is not leadership.

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Leaders do so much more for organizations.  Leaders create a vision that takes the organization in a new direction.  Their vision leads change, improvement, and ultimately success.

What do you think it takes to be a great leader?

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Level 5 Leadership

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Level 5 Leadership

In the case about on level 5 leadership, the main theme was how to become a level 5 leader. Although the attributes explained in the article are good attributes to obtain, after reading the case study “Good to Great, or just Good” by Bruce Niendorf and Kristine Beck, I have the strong tendency to discount the research that he states backs up his findings.

Level 5 Leadership

Because the research that he states was not properly obtained according to a statistics analysis, I will just review the value of his thoughts as a suggestion and not as being backed by research. The two qualities he stated leaders should have are personal humility and professional will. These two qualities are very valuable and important to have.

Humility

When an individual or leader has the quality of personal humility, they are then teachable and open to change. Without change an organization will fail. Change is essential to growing the business because customer needs are continually changing. It is not good to change in the sense of sound moral values and principles; the change I am referring to is the change in product, production techniques, marketing, etc.

Leaders need to be humble to effectively create change in an organization. If the leader is not humble and he or she tries to create change, the individuals within the organization will resist the change and then when the leader is not around they will go back to their old ways. When the leader humbly instigates change, the followers will be more likely to buy in.

In addition to being humble, great leaders must also have a professional will that drives them to do their best. The professional drive must come from within. The professional will is the desire the leader has to do their very best and be great even when no one else is looking. It is the drive the leader has to continually do more with less. Professional will is the desire to succeed. As Jim Collins pointed out, professional will is essential for a leader to reach the next level in their leadership ability.

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Col. Joe Dowdy

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In the article about Col. Joe Dowdy, it showed that he was a strong leader of principle. Although he was pressed to change his principles, he was unwavering. His leaders pressed him to go faster than he was comfortable with to invade Baghdad which would put his soldiers’ lives at risk.

Col Joe Dowdy

Col. Joe Dowdy

He felt the lives of his soldiers were just as important as his mission. Because of this belief, he was forced to take a slower pace when invading Baghdad. His leaders were very against this approach. He was, however, not willing to lower his standards in order to meet their demands because he knew his soldiers would die. [Read more…] about Col. Joe Dowdy