Effective Leadership:

Managerial Leadership

Principle-Centered Leadership

Building Natural Principles Into the Centre of Your Life and Work

"There are three constants in life... change, choice, and principles."

– Stephen R. Covey 

"If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling"

 – Stephen R. Covey  

Principle-Centered Leaders Defined

Principle-centered leaders are men and women of character who work on the basis of natural principles and build those principles into the center of their lives, into the center of their relationships with others, into the center of their agreements and contracts, into their management processes, and into their mission statements.

New Paradigm

Responding to classic dilemmas of modern living, principle-centered leadership presents a new way of thinking that is to help you to:

• achieve and maintain a wise and renewing balance between work and family, personal and professional ambitions, in the middle of constant crises and pressures

• adhere to simplicity in the thick of increasing complexity

• maintain a sense of direction in today's wilderness, where well-developed road maps (strategies and plans) are rendered useless by rapid change that often hits you from the blind side

• look at human weaknesses with genuine compassion and understanding rather than accusation and self-justification

• replace prejudice (the tendency to prejudge and categorize people in order to manipulate them) with a sense of reverence and discovery in order to promote learning, achievement, and excellence in people

• get empowered (and empower other people) with confidence and competence to solve problems and seize opportunities  –  without being or fearing loose cannons

• encourage the desire to change and improve without creating more pain from the gain

• become a contributing member of a complementary team based on mutual respect and the valuing of diversity and pluralism

• know where to start, when and how to recharge your batteries to maintain momentum for learning, growing and improving.

18 Leadership Lessons from Colin Powell

• By treating everyone equally "nicely" regardless of their contributions, you'll simply ensure that the only people you'll wind up angering are the most creative and productive people in the organization.

• Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. In well-run organizations, titles are also pretty meaningless. But titles mean little in terms of real power, which is the capacity to influence and inspire.... More

Inspirational Leadership: 10 Roles

Inspirational leaders create an inspiring culture within their organization. They supply a shared vision and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible. They are able to articulate a shared vision in a way that inspires others to act.

People do what they have to do for a manager, they do their best for an inspirational leader... More

Develop a Clear Vision

The one quality that all leaders have in common is that they have a clear and exciting vision for the future. This is something that only the leader can do. Only the leader can think about the future and plan for the future each day... More