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

How to build a successful brand

How to build a successful brand

Business Branding and Purpose I have lived and worked my whole life in and around business owners; even when I was in marketing for Ansett and Apple, my role was working with business owners. One campaign I ran for Apple was about how as a business owner, you need to...

How to run a successful business

How to run a successful business

The 10 hardest things about running a business As this financial year closes, we begin our next 12 month phase and look to the future. As an entrepreneur for more than two decades, I completely resonate with an article penned by Lee Polevoi, outlining the 10...

Anatomy of a great workplace

Anatomy of a great workplace

Five lessons from my visit to the Facebook Campus It is no coincidence that as you enter 1 Hacker Way — Facebook global headquarters — it feels like Disneyland… literally. In 2009 when Facebook purchased the site in Menlo Park from Sun Microsystems (they reversed the...

The Future of Work for business owners

The Future of Work for business owners

There is a massive shifts in the way we work - and what the future of work will look like. There are shifts in key trends for business owners that they highlighted, fascinating. A study acknowledged that the nature of work has changed and as a result, so has our...

Start Up challenges… reality check up!

Start Up challenges… reality check up!

Start Up Challenges Whilst I share much of what I learned from my own business experiences, the reality is I learn as much if not more from other founders and business owners that I meet. The energy of a founder (especially a startup founder) is infectious as well as...

Small Business Success Stories

Small Business Success Stories

Local business awards offer recognition where it's due I find myself sitting in a room full of people who all appear to be very clever and smart… I am seated at the back of the room – it is 2004, I have been in business for just 3 years and I don’t get out much. All I...

Lessons from top CEOs

Lessons from top CEOs

What can Small Business learn from Big Business CEOs What can Small Business learn from Big Business CEOs? We buy from them, we sell to them, and we can learn from them. We have a symbiotic relationship with big business - we are all part of the same eco-system and we...

What is going on for startups?

What is going on for startups?

StartUp Advice Startup Muster released its third annual survey of Australian startups, recently. It has much to say about the thoughts, aspirations and achievements of the community, but also outlines what is next. Any business is subject to risk, and the startups...