Thought provoking posts on Leadership by Leadership Circle, brought to you by Spearhead Management and Dr. ir Johannes Drooghaag
Judge people based on what they do, not on what they say they do. Some people claim “you can see who I am by looking at what I do” but as soon as you have a closer look at what they actually do, you will quickly discover that they mean “listen to what I say […]
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Great leaders have kindness, gratitude and humility in common. That is why they speak about the accomplishments of their teams. The best way to learn about the values of a leaders is to pay attention to the way they communicate during successes and failures. Great leaders have in common that they appraise their team for
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. – Henry Ford One major challenge when trying to find solutions is being able to divide the problem at hand into logical and understandable steps. Not only is this essential to increase the chances of solving the problem, according to Henry Ford it even
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No leader should give orders they are not willing to accept and execute themselves. Leadership comes with responsibility, and should come with accountability. As Peter Drucker once said “Every leadership decision should be made after asking yourself if you would be willing to do what you are about to decide, are you willing to accept
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The right mindset will not solve every problem, but the wrong mindset will make it worse. We hear a lot that we need the right mindset to be able to deal with challenges and that is very true. Some even go as far as suggesting that having the right mindset is all it takes to
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. – Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker There is no shame in making mistakes. There is only shame in denying mistakes. Because that will not only lead to denying responsibility for the mistakes we make and set us up for
Teamwork implies all team-members doing their share of work, team-spirit will not compensate for that. We have a lot of focus on softskills in our corporate hiring and evaluation systems. A likeable persons tends to get better feedback than the ones who might be doing a bigger load of work but are less likeable. Yet
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Every attempt to hide your weaknesses will only make you weaker. Being vulnerable is part of being human. The courage to show those vulnerabilities takes courage not every human being has. Our society is conditioned on admiring those who appear strong, and with that we have also created an atmosphere in which weaknesses and vulnerabilities
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Imposter Syndrome is a real challenge for many people including myself, you are not alone! Imposter Syndrome appears to be something we basically do to ourselves at first glance. A closer look into the personal history of people struggling with imposter syndrome shows however that they is always some level of toxic influence that creates
Let’s destroy one myth: yes, blind people surf the Web and they do it quite well — until they reach a roadblock of inaccessibility. Providing more accessible content for millions of users Websites are often a visual experience, excluding millions of people with blindness or vision loss. According to Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, “Globally,
Is your website inclusive for people with vision loss or blindness? Read More »