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Business Leadership
Business Leadership is a never ending pursuit
Business Leadership
In my opinion business leadership is very different to management, influence or planning. Read on if you want to learn more. Leadership comes from not just who you are, but how you are perceived by others. We all need leadership skills in our lives – no matter what role you play in your business.
The role of the business leader is to inspire those around them and this will deliver commercial results. Also, I believe the role of the leader to create a vision, set the values, and align everybody to those and also to make sure that every team member is aligned to the plan.
Much of my time I spend exploring every aspect of Business Leadership and in this selection of posts I share what I have learned myself, and also what I have discovered and applied from reading books, and attending seminars.
Content
- Business Goals
- Business Ideas
- Business Plan
- How to be a leader
- Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
I think you will find that there is much to explore about Business Leadership in these blogs and I have sorted them into several sections to help you navigate. And ultimately get the most value from them. Perhaps you could consider this a one stop shop on becoming a leader.
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Catch up on the Leadership blog posts by ‘chapter’. below:
One million RedBalloon experiences delivered
One million RedBalloon experiences delivered Today is momentous, for me personally and for the amazing RedBalloon team. Today, RedBalloon is celebrating the sale of a million RedBalloon experiences. It seems like yesterday that I launched RedBalloon (during the dot...
Five lessons From Legendary Brands
Lessons From Legendary Brands I'm at the Marcus Evans CMO (chief marketing officer) Summit on the Gold Coast - listening, and learning. Richard Sauerman told us today he 'does not want to tell us how to suck eggs'. When marketers speaking to marketers, you'd want to...
Three Lessons For Sustainable Growth From Maccas’ First Employee
Lessons For Sustainable Growth I had the delight of my colleague Jemma (Redii GM) sharing with me her insights from the former CEO of McDonalds Australia, Peter Ritchie, who started back in 1973 as McDonald’s Australia’s first ever employee and the first employee...
How To Find Inspiration
How To Find Inspiration Facing a blank page, a lack of creativity and a deadline for a blog, I always ask myself how to find inspiration. This leads to the following questions: "What is going on for me right now? Is it interesting for anyone else? What am I learning,...
The Next Generation of Female Leaders
Female Leaders Presenting to 150 fifteen-year-old girls is probably one of the tougher gigs that I have had. Not helped by the fact that my daughter said, just before I left home, "Don't be embarrassing - they really aren't interested at all..." I looked at these...
What RedBalloon Did In The ‘Downturn’
Leadership In Crisis In 2009, RedBalloon made the BRW fast list for the sixth time - even despite the economic downturn. In the end, it came down to brave strategy and leadership in crisis mode. The team was pretty chuffed. Not a bad effort given that it was all...
Urgent VS Important – How To Prioritise
How to Prioritise Some days I just need to get things in perspective. Too much drama and chaos doesn't make for a productive day. Being a leader is all about learning how to prioritise. I began my career in the most corporate of all - IBM in New York in the eighties....
Are you unscrupulous – 11 questions to find out.
We all want to be doing business with people we trust. This sort of sounds obvious doesn't it. We like doing business, or working with people that we know we can count on. Does it really matter? Do you find yourself trying to get away with a few small things that just...