leadership Archives - Strategic Leadership

16 Mar

Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill

In Leadership, VUCA

Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill | Here are five ways to rise up to the challenge of leading the troops while things are falling apart. No one thinks much about a certain leadership quality — until the you-know-what hits the fan. The quality I’m referring to is crisis management. Thankfully,...

07 Oct

Mindset – The psychological challenge of business growth

In Business

Mindset - The psychological challenge of business growth - When a business changes faster than employees’ thinking there is a problem! Individuals’ assumptions, priorities and expectations become obsolete - mindset becomes a big obstacle to change and growth. Employees continue do a great job, but in some respects its yesterday’s...

23 Sep

Jack Ma’s Leadership Approach

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership

Jack Ma's Leadership Approach by Chris Atkinson - At his retirement party, Jack Ma stepped onstage to celebrate Alibaba’s 20th anniversary looking every inch the rock star complete with a leather jacket, shades, guitar, and jewellery. He sang and spoke to an emotional crowd in Hangzhou, China. It's fair to...

16 Sep

Rest – Investing Time to Become a Better Leader

In Leadership

Recently, one of the team members at the John Maxwell Company shared an interesting struggle in his life: he’s forgotten how to rest. Some of the team was gathered for lunch and he volunteered his thoughts as everyone was talking.

22 Jul

Top Rated CEO of 2019 Shares a Simple Formula for Leadership Success

In Leadership

Everybody loves a good top 100 list. It could be the best cities to live in, the top restaurants, or in this case, the highest rated CEOs in America. I love Glassdoor's annual list of the Top CEOs because it's based on how employees of major corporations feel about their culture...

20 May

Moral leadership in the 4th revolution

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership

Our mission to develop conscious and strategic leaders is fuelled by our belief that success during the 4th industrial revolution will require a large shift in the levels of consciousness of leaders across the world. We were delighted when our UK Managing Director, Chris Atkinson was invited to the...

15 Apr

How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great Leader

In Leadership

How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great Leader Great companies are built by great leaders. (That’s why the ability to identify and attract talented people is almost as critical as the ability to develop talented people.) But since leadership is more art than science,...

17 Dec

Why Warmth Is the Underappreciated Skill Leaders Need

In Leadership

Why Warmth Is the Underappreciated Skill Leaders Need When it comes to success in leadership, there has never been just one playbook. Some leaders are extroverts, natural mentors, and charismatic speakers; others prefer to lead by example and take a more hands-off approach. There is, however, one simple fact that leaders...

10 Dec

A Brilliant Lesson in Emotional Understanding from Microsoft’s CEO

In Leadership

Companies are encouraged to get ever-larger, yet is there really much evidence that big is often better? Big certainly makes a few people richer, but that's not quite the same thing. For years, indeed, Microsoft was famous for using its size to bully the reluctant into using the often...

03 Dec

Four Ways CEOs Can Lead With Empathy

In CEO, Leadership

Many years ago, I was elected president of our company’s field leadership association. Brimming with new ideas about how to make our company better, I attended a strategic planning meeting between field officers and company executives and felt my innovative contributions were dazzling. On the drive home I asked...