http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=John+Dueme Business Management John Dueme Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101659&ca=Business+Management Many leaders understand the importance of achieving goals, but have little skill at motivating their subordinates to meet these goals. Often leaders in this position end up blaming the people they lead. Most often the fault lies with the leaders in ability to focus effort toward a specific result. A... Leadership John Dueme Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101663&ca=Leadership Leaders must lead by their own example. If subordinates see their leader doing one thing and saying another, they may follow the letter of the law and obey what is said without really following the spirit behind what the leader is trying to accomplish. Not following the spirit behind a rule can resu... Business Management John Dueme Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101666&ca=Business+Management Leaders recognize that in order to lead effectively they need to give their followers success. Some leaders are concerned that if they reveal their goals to their subordinates there is the possibility that they might miss the goals. The leaders are concerned that they might lose credibility if this... Leadership John Dueme Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101669&ca=Leadership As a leader you need to cultivate and build your team’s confidence. Your team should have confidence in them self as well as confidence in your leadership skills. In general people will judge the probability of future success based on past performance. As you work with your team you will build a con... Leadership John Dueme Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101681&ca=Leadership Management skills are a necessary subset of the skills of a leader. Some people claim to be leaders, but not managers. Usually they consider themselves a visionary. If you look up visionary in the dictionary you’ll find: visionary – noun. One whose ideas or projects are impractical. This is a very g... Leadership John Dueme Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101667&ca=Leadership In any organization effort can be divided into two categories. Effort that helps achieve the vision and effort that does not. It is probably impossible for an organization to operate at 100% efficiency. When information is lacking the mind becomes creative. In a study people were exposed to a situat... Leadership John Dueme Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101181&ca=Leadership A good leader can take a team and accomplish things that no one believed was possible. In order to do this they must make incremental changes that are challenging, but not impossible. By giving their organization a string of successes they will build momentum and attitudes that will help them overco... Business Management John Dueme Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101187&ca=Business+Management In the U.S. education system the goal is to leave no one behind. As a result a great many graduates have never been allowed to fail. This isn't because they are actually skilled or talented. It is because the system doesn't allow for failure. As a result many adults don't know how to look for failur... Leadership John Dueme Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101189&ca=Leadership Many people assume that if someone is successful it is because they have good leadership skills. Some people assume that if a business is successful it is because it has good leaders. Leadership isn't something that is particularly easy to pass on to other people. Sometimes a company is successful b... Leadership John Dueme Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=101193&ca=Leadership Many inexperienced leaders fail to sufficiently convey a vision to the subordinates they lead. If you are not skilled in telling everyone which direction to head you’ll have confusion. Worse yet, you’ll have a situation where people start creating their own direction. For some leaders their deficien...