Leadership lessons of Steve Jobs, pt 8 & 9
8. Impute. Mike Markkula was an early mentor of Jobs and he encouraged three principles for Jobs to work by – EMPATHY, FOCUS AND IMPUTE. For those of you like me [...]
Ego vs. EQ, keeping in touch with the front line
Jen Shirkani contributes this article to Training Magazine, illustrating how crucial it is for leaders to drop the ego and adopt good EQ by staying in touch with the front line: [...]
Leadership lessons of Steve Jobs, pt7
7. Bend Reality. Steve Jobs had an infamous ability to push people to do the impossible, what he dubbed as his ‘reality distortion field’, a Star Trek term that was fictional [...]
Employee Engagement – It’s Importance and How to Make it Happen…
John Baldoni contributes this excellent article to Harvard Business Review with a focus on defining what really is employee enagagement, why is it important and how does it show itself in an organisation? [...]
Don’t Write Off the Coaching Leadership Style
With today's corporate environment becoming more and more time conscious and pressured, there is the temptation to dismiss coaching as a leadership style with the perceptation that it takes too long and [...]
Leadership lessons of Steve Jobs, pt6
6. Don’t be a slave to focus groups This lesson I think is quite fascinating, as it turns a multi-industry function and almost necessity right on its head to say we [...]
Leadership lessons of Steve Jobs pts 4 & 5
4. 'When behind, leapfrog'. Jobs and his products have not always been invincible, there came a realisation one day that iMac was quite far behind when it came to music – [...]
Leadership lessons of Steve Jobs pt3
3. 'Taking responsibility end to end'. As the title suggests this leadership lesson is about taking control and taking responsibility, we have a conscious choice about everything we do, who we [...]
Leadership lessons of Steve Jobs pt2
2. Simplify. Steve Jobs’s second leadership lesson is 'simplify' and with this his skill was about zeroing in on the essence of the Apple products and eliminating all unnecessary components that would [...]
The real leadership lessons of Steve Jobs
I am not sure if you agree with this, but there is an argument to say that in his lifetime Steve Jobs is someone who has made a huge impact on the world. [...]