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Naked Leader Week – 197 (w/c Monday 12 March 2007) Those Chinese and their fables! Thank you for all the Chinese stories, quotes and anecdotes that followed from the special Chinese New Year a few weeks back. A special thank you to those who sent through contributions in Chinese! I have read through them all,…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 199 (w/c Monday 26 March 2007) Leadership from a brief perspective Boris Yeltsin, the first-ever democratically elected leader of Russia, had a reputation for never using a few words, when many would do. At one press conference, with deadlines short, this was the interchange: Journalist: “Mr Yeltsin, How’s it going? And…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 195 (w/c Monday 26 February 2007) Leadership from a different perspective – Joan Clint I have a very, very good friend in Stephen Clint. He has overseen all of Naked Leader’s Web presence from the very beginning – through good times, and tough. Stephen works quietly, he always delivers, and his belief…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 194 (w/c Monday 19 February 2007) Leadership from a different perspective – A Chinese Parable on Choices… On this Chinese New year a wonderful story that truly shows how meaning, reality and life are matters of choice… Good Luck Bad Luck! There is a Chinese story of a farmer who used…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 193 (w/c Monday 12 February 2007) Leadership from a different perspective – Alan Hutchinson I love this experience of Alan’s, and it very much fits in with my own experiences with Anthony and Olivia. If you have teenagers, enjoy and do, if you may have teenagers one day, enjoy and file,…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 192 (w/c Monday 5 February 2007) Persistence from a final perspective – Rule Number One With thanks to Peter Burke Last week’s action on persistence was around “hope,” and how it keeps us going – due to a technical error our end many of you received it, many times. Just under…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 196 (w/c Monday 5 March 2007) Leadership from two different perspectives! In 2003 I was in discussion with Tony Buzan, the founder of Mind Maps, and we were musing on questions human beings might ask computers, and vice versa. Four years later, it is reproduced here, word for word. Enjoy! David…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 191 (w/c Monday 29 January 2007) When do you give up – A different perspective! OK – This persistence / giving – up / failure thing is clearly the biggest thing in many people’s minds – the overwhelming response continues, and there will now be four NL week’s on this subject…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 189 (w/c Monday 15 January 2007) Leadership from a different perspective – Edgar A Guest At the time when you may be thinking of giving up on that New Year resolution, that dream you have started, or someone you know is talking about giving up… DON’T QUIT by Edgar A. Guest…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 190 (w/c Monday 22 January 2007) Last week’s NL Week on keeping going prompted a massive response, mostly with that one, repeating question, “OK David, I read what you write and I hear what you say, but surely there comes a time when the sensible thing to do is to simply…… Continue Reading