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Business Leadership

Naomi Simson

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.

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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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And I have made plenty of mistakes. In these blog posts I share the ups and the downs. You may want to subscribe to my Monday Xpresso Newsletter so that you can get a weekly dose of motivation.

Catch up on the Leadership blog posts by ‘chapter’. below:

Four top future trends

Four top future trends

Just listening to Richard Watson of nowandnext.com  – the Futurologist who wrote Future Files. First of all, I like a bloke who will make up words to suit the occasion (see some of them below). Secondly who will poke fun about his own profession and thirdly who, when...

Innovation is the key to continued success

Innovation is the key to continued success

Tough times or times to be opportunistic... it depends on how you look at it. By nature, I am a very positive person. But of course, I have no more idea than anyone else on what will happen over the next few months. It is only six weeks since I was listening to the...

Four key elements to authentic leadership

Four key elements to authentic leadership

Thoughts about authentic leadership I was asked to speak recently to an audience about difference between leadership and management, and this led me to consider many aspects of authentic leadership, If you read my blog regularly you will know that I have some very...

First Impressions.

First Impressions.

I have quoted the figure that a third of people will decide in their first month when they are going to leave an organisation in this blog before.  Yet the numbers I got from the Human Capital Institute are even more alarming. It claims that 87% of new employees make...

Success to Significance.

Success to Significance.

It's all about the why. Simon Sinek is a consultant based in NY who worked out after some years of operating his small consulting practice – that he needed to establish 'why' he did what he does. And since he has discovered why he has been in business, his business...

Now discover your strengths

Now discover your strengths

I just attended a keynote from the author of Now Discover your Strengths - Marcus Buckingham. His job in part was to entertain – but he had a strong message, that is the power of positivity. “Build on your strengths and manage around your weaknesses.” If we are...