8 Steps Toward Becoming The Leader You Need To Be To Succeed

If you follow these eight action steps not only you will be a better leader but also lead yourself to a more successful life.

What Leadership Is Not

Leadership is not being condescending to lesser. Leadership is not using emotional triggers to trick people into doing it your way. Leadership is not manipulating others. Anyone can do that and become a Catholic Priest. Leadership is not lying or telling stories or coaxing someone into your way of thinking.

Handling Disagreement Between Leaders - Nu Leadership Series

Explore what to do when leaders don’t agree. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

The Art of Decision - The Power of Deciding

Decision making is an art. Making decisions is a critical skill and although it is not taught in schools or professional education courses, it can be learned. There is an inherent power in decision making - the power to completely change your life or anything about it - right NOW!

How to Build Loyal Followers

Legitimate Power, also know as earned or respect power, is a combination of respect, reputation, and your history. Reputation is the sum total of how you have conducted yourself in your professional and personal affairs. If you have shown respect, integrity, and character in all your dealings, people will know it.

Sun Tzu - Ancient Author or Leadership Guru?

How far have we really come with Leadership Thinking? If we go back to Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War', a 2,500 year old book on military strategy, we find that much of its teaching is still relevant to us today.

Divine Empowerment of Christian Leaders

Luke’s understanding of the Divine Empowerment of Christian Leadership provides critical insight into shaping the values of spiritual leaders. God prepares leaders with a specific purpose and task in mind. Luke, in Acts 2, utilizes the Old Testament to highlight the importance of the divine empowerment of leaders.

Strategic Enterprise: Transforming Today's Navy for Tomorrow’s Environment

Militaries are not usually mobs of men but rather organized socio-technical systems. As technology has more impact on the way wars are fought, more detailed organization will be required. A lot of different things affect organization – tactics, training, weapon availability and deployment to name a few.

Turn Your Vague Intentions into Powerful Decisions

Every meaningful event in your life came from a Powerful Decision. It's those turning points in your life that make the difference in how much you get paid, who you are and how satisfying your life turns out to be. And yet many people no longer make the Powerful Decisions they need. Find out why your decisions are so important and what you need to do to start making them.

If You Want to Lead More You Need to ...

If you want to be more of a leader, you should check those moments where you normally are much of a follower. For instance ...

Leadership Insights from the Apostle Paul

The Pauline letters were addressed to small groups of people that he knew by name (Timothy, Titus, and Philemon) as well as large audiences (Romans, Corinthians, Galatians). These letters provide insight into why leaders exist and what knowledge, skills, and abilities are important to leaders today. In each letter Paul attempts to answer questions about the ‘meaning of life’ such as sin (Romans 3:9), faith (Romans 3:22), marriage (Romans 7:2, 1 Corinthians 7), unity (1 Corinthians 1:10), spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12), and freedom (Galatians 5:17). After carefully dissecting Pauline letters to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Thessalonians, and Philemon I identified a set of characteristics that he viewed as being critical to the development of Christian leaders.

Leadership: Modeling Corporate Values - Nu Leadership Series

Examine how leaders can effectively model corporate values to employees. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Leading and Transforming Traditional Academic Institutions - Nu Leadership Series

Explore how traditional academic institutions are being challenged by the needs of the marketplace and, more importantly, by the non-traditional students. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Leadership Training

Leadership training is of paramount importance to those who aspire to be good leaders and stand tall among others. Leadership training improves communication skills and other qualities that are key to becoming a successful and confident leader.