Did you just establish your business? Like other businessmen, you certainly want to succeed running the business so that you can achieve your goals, right? Three things explained below are some of the keys to run a business successfully. (more…)
How to Run Business Successfully
Having Dinner with Clients
One of the ways to strengthen relationship with clients is having dinner together. Unfortunately, some business owners often make their clients feel disappointed when having dinner because they come late, choose inappropriate restaurant, wear wrong cloth, etc.
If you are a business owner who also plans to have dinner with your clients, you have to prepare everything perfectly so this way can run smoothly. To help you avoid mistake when doing this activity, apply several tips below: (more…)
Learning Leadership from Experience: Narrative and Storytelling
By accidentally bumping into the narrative approach I discovered a potential solution to the problem of making explicit the imperceptible leadership learning that occurs through our lived experience. Narrative is argued to be most appropriate for exploring tacit knowledge (Wengraf, 2001) for the following reasons: (more…)
Learning Leadership from Experience: A Problematic Beginning
The first pilot interview occurred with a colleague, John, at the University and this was significantly unsuccessful. Not because of the interviewee but because of the nature of the subject I wanted to explore and the way I constructed the interview process. (more…)
Transformational Leadership: Can It Be Developed?
The prominence of ‘new leadership’ in the form of transformational and authentic leadership has been indentified before. Exponents of this model of leadership advocate its potential significance to organizational performance (Parry, 2001). (more…)
Leadership Development: Reflection Rather Than Training? (2)
He argues that just because someone goes through an experience, it does not mean that they have learnt from that experience. For example, it was shown that most managers were not active and continuous learners (Bunker & Webb, 1992). The point is amplified by Velsor and Guthrie: (more…)
Leadership Development: Reflection Rather Than Training?
Drawing on Conger’s (1996) and Burgoyne et al.’s (2004) concerns about the efficacy of leadership training, and linked to Day (2000) and Drath’s (1998) argument for leadership development to be oriented towards social systems, should formal leadership development emphasize education more than training? (more…)
Leadership: Need for Contextualization
Various reviews of leadership best practice (James & Burgoyne, 2001; Fulmer & Wagner, 1999; Conger, 2004) have highlighted that although there are a number of dominant themes common to organizations perceived as offering best practice, the emphasis is towards contextualization. (more…)
Leadership Development: an Act of Faith? (2)
The lack of empirical evidence on leadership development emphasizes significant question marks on the efficacy of interventions and the return on the organizational investment (Moxley, 1998; and more recently by Burgoyne et al., 2004). (more…)
Leadership Development: an Act of Faith?
The final theme explores four interrelated issues. The first examines whether leadership development can be measured or whether it is simply best understood as an act of faith. The second theme explores the essential need to contextualize any form of intervention if any progress is to go beyond the act of faith. (more…)
