Leaders are prone to being victims of ego. This could be an individual or a corporation. This article will share examples of individuals and corporations that have fallen as a result of unchecked ego. Ego is an enemy that needs to be conquered. It’s an enemy of success. It prevents an individual or an organization […]
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Managing teams requires you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each of your team members. This must be considered in allocating tasks. Giving assignments to someone you know does not have the capacity for delivery shows that the intention is to humiliate that individual or you are not interested in getting results ab initio.
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One of the risks of leadership is that your followers are most likely to tell you what you want to hear. The management committee in any organization is where many strategic decisions involving multi-million-dollar projects are made. However, there are times when the personality of the individual leading the team may scare some other directors
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You must ensure that your team members are constantly learning something from you and that means you must constantly be searching for knowledge. Leaders are readers and therefore must be an embodiment of knowledge. Your team members must constantly be learning something from you. You must show them that your leadership position is not a
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Some weeks ago, there was a question in the comment section of one of my articles titled: “Leadership: Beware of Scandals.” The question was: “What do you do in a case where you are punished for something you didn’t know anything about?” I answered with the above caption, “Watch and Pray,” and added the words
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There is no single person, regardless of position or experience who has a monopoly of good ideas. It can be extremely limiting if you must depend on the versatility of your ideas alone. The reason you have team members is because you can’t do the job alone. Likewise, your ideas aren’t sufficient to move the
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Leaders must be extremely careful and circumspect as they approach the zenith of their career. In the fast-paced business world where results are expected at the speed of light, it is imperative to balance the desire for impact with the consideration for reputation that has been built over the years with a lot of hard
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In today’s intense and competitive business environment, it is not enough to have the five-talent man and the two-talent man in your team, you must be able to manage them and most importantly, retain them. Ironically, the one talent man must also be managed. Recall, the one talent man is a lazy drone, waster, complainer
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Reflecting on the parable of the talent, the “one-talent man” was a waster, a complainer, an underperformer, a lazy drone, someone who will not do anything to improve his situation and who will always blame everyone except himself for whatever happens to him. There are people like this in the workplace who have never made
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In the complex nature of human potential, a profound truth often goes unnoticed: everyone possesses a unique form of genius. This concept, eloquently captured by Albert Einstein’s words, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is
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