Unlike trained leaders who both act and teach following by-the-book guidelines, transformational leaders encourage and inspire people around them to become more through their very existence. 

So be the change you want to see in the world.

This is the ability and willingness to make a leadership change that will positively enhance organizational and personal growth.

Leadershift is the act of nimbly adapting one’s leadership in the midst of rapid change.

Diversity, according to Malcolm Forbes, is “the art of thinking independently together.”

And it is the hallmark of a great leader.

In a fast-changing world, maintaining best practices should be balanced with creating, and leaders should teach their employees to stop thinking in terms of “I do what I have always done” and start accepting as a motto the “creative zone” adage: “I attempt to think what I have never ...

1. Continually learn, unlearn and relearn. Update yourself constantly.
2. Value yesterday but live in today. Focus on current challenges, and leave the past glories to the past.
3. Rely on speed but thrive on timing. 
4. ...

There are three kinds of people in the world:

• those who merely do a job
• those who want to have a career
• those who have a calling.

Great leaders can only be born out of those in the third category. So, it’s not about becoming a l...

Leadership, by definition, means challenging others to go beyond their comfort zone, and people don’t like to be uncomfortable.

Thirty years ago, being a leader was all about being a soloist, being the one who can do everything on his own and doesn’t need a backing orchestra.

Today leadership is much more akin to being a conductor: the one who directs everyone in the right directio...

• “How high can I go?” was the question of the ladder-climbers of the greedy 80s. Then it evolved to something a bit more human as “How high will others go with a little help?”
• These ladder-holders recently became ladder-extenders, and started positing themselves the question: “how hi...

The 21st century is the age of virtuous leadership. The mere position of leader doos not grant one authority: we are more inclined to leave our jobs if our leaders are not morally authoritative as well.

Strive for moral authority, “the recognition of a person’s leaders...

The leaders of tomorrow are the leaders who connect today: they are trustful and talkative, they listen, they ask questions, and they have answers.

Become one of them, become a connector.

• To learn something new. Ask yourself, “When’s the last time I learned something for the first time?”
• To try something different. Ask yourself, “When’s the last time I did something for the first time?”
• To find something better. Ask yourself, “When’s the ...