The Importance of Leadership

How great leaders inspire.

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:16:55 +0000

A great clip on how great leaders inspire people into action. It is all about turning the thinking on its head.

We follow those who lead because we want to not because we have to is my favourite line from the clip. What is your favourite leadership line from this clip?

The Leadership Greatest Speech Ever Made

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:12:11 +0000

This is such an inspirational speech on leadership I just had to share it. If the leaders of the world and the workers of the world started to listen to Charley the world would be a better place to live in. We all must start to take up leadership roles in society.

It cannot just be left to the people who have the self-confidence as far too often they have the confidence to do the wrong thing for the world and the correct thing for themselves.

Why some people do & some people dont

admin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:23:43 +0000

I have been thinking this week about why some people just get stuck into things and get them done and while some other people like to talk about doing things, meet about doing things and then in the end don’t do things.

I think the major thing that is missing in so many groups, schools & governments is the magic ability to get things done and to get people doing things. I firmly believe that when you start to get people doing things tha the world will be a better place to live in.

For even if people start to do the wrong things they will at some point learn from the fact that they have done something wrong & if for some reason they do not learn well someone else will surely learn from their mistakes.

That is why it is so important for people in society to turn off the TV, think about something good to do and then to do that thing. It is all about doing in my opinion.

What do you think? And more importantly what have you done recently?

Liz Coleman on Education and ABC of Learning

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:12:30 +0000

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.

I have really enjoyed listening to this TED presentation where Liz has suggested that we need to promote a generalist education. She is calling for Active Citizens to do things that will help change the world for betterment.

What do you think of what she has to day? You have a mind and you have other people, start with those and change the world!

Military leadership

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:49:26 +0000

Genghis Khan, Rommel, Saigo, Alexander, napoleon, Patton and Nelson are all names that are sonorous with being great leaders of men. These heavy weights of leadership were able to get men to give up their lives for their countries.
One of their great skills lay in the ability to have the vision to see things as they actually were in the battle. This gave them the advantage of being able to deploy troops where the key battles were going to be fought.
Some of them would refer to it as a gut feeling and others just the right thing to do or even a sixth sense. Their ability to process large quantities of information about the pending battle in their brain was splendid. Then the nerve to make a split second decision and the bottle to take so many men’s lives into their hands must have been hard to handle at times.

Today in business the top leaders have to do the same things if they are going to navigate the high seas of recession. It is no longer a broad side that a great leader has to face it is banks phoning him about lone problems or a competitor capturing your best staff and not your soldiers.
There is so much that we can learn about leadership from the great military leaders of the past! My favourite is the Japanese samurai and leader Saigō Takamori who is yours?

Leading through Active Citizenship

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:20:11 +0000

I was going into Dublin on last week and there were three young girls about eight or nine on my street with a little table selling stuff. I went over to it and they were selling sweets.

They asked me did I want to buy something and that the money was going to a good cause. I asked them what the cause was and they told me all the profits were going to help the people that were affected by the Haiti earthquake.

Needless to say I was delighted to see three young Active Citizens who were leading through Active Citizenship at such a young age. There are quite a few people out in the world who are three and four times the age of these young girls that would not show such great leadership.

I paid €10 for a bar of chocolate and the young girls were delighted and I was so happy to see some young active citizens on my street. I also let them know about Active Citizenship week that is happening in Ireland from the 3rd to the 10th of October and pointed them to the website www.fifty-ways.com

This was a great example to me that sometimes we can overcomplicate simple things and that it can be good to just get out and do something simple like selling chocolate bars.

Thoughts of a great teacher

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:41:17 +0000

What do you think of what George Kohlrieser had to say to me about leadership? I was so impressed with the fact that you have to Practice, Practice & practice at being a leader. Have a look at his book here http://www.hostageatthetable.com/

It is so true that leadership is a skill that we have to develop, it is a muscle that we have to exercise and it is vital in this age!

Pursuit of Leadership

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:46:47 +0000

Here is my blog on my experience of leadership and how we develop it. I am a leader who is still early in his leadership career so I am looking forward to learning more and sharing it with you. I am also looking forward to sharing with you some of the things I have learned so far.

If you have any thoughts on leadership I am looking forward to hearing them from you also. Leadership is in my opinion the most valuable think in the universe. Leadership is something that unites nations, helps large companies excel and gives people the purpose and drive to do the impossible. Leadership does all these great things and much much more and it is something that is free if we just practice it.

We need to learn leadership by looking at great leaders from the past and present, then trying to emulate there leadership styles. Leadership is about doing and then learning from doing. If we do something and it is does not work we learn from this and try something new the next time.

Tell me who is your favourite leader? I will tell you a little bit about mine in my next post and why he is my favourite.