Leadership

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Do you enjoy your work? Are you happy to get out of bed each morning and dress for the office? If you answered ‘no’ to either of these questions, you are not alone. In a 2014 Conference Board survey, 52 per cent of Americans claimed to be unhappy at work and in a recent CIPD study 23 per cent of Britons claimed to be looking for a new job. In the same survey only about one-third claim to feel engaged with their work. You can see the effects of this in absence, stress and depression. In fact, you can see it in the rush hour in the tired and sad-looking faces of so many commuters.The majority of people I coach are unhappy or dissatisfied with their working lives. They describe their work in so many depressing ways – as ‘boring’, ‘tedious’, ‘mind-numbing’, ‘stressful’, ‘painful’ or even ‘scary’. I hear similar opinions as I travel the world from all types of people no matter what their background, education or choice of career.

- Nigel Cumberland, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living

Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they’ll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.

- Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational

- Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business

Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights.

- Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

- Geoff Dyer, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

An idea that does not take some risks, is probably an idea not worth taking.

- Alin Sav

In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training.

- Marcia Conner, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media

If you're focused, you can't get bored.

- Alin Sav

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

- Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts