Leaders' Personalities

Organisations, countries and political parties tend to fall apart when the leader:

- dithers
- procrastinates
- is indecisive
- does not communicate with his/her colleagues
- does not tell others clearly what he/she wants
- backtracks

Dysfunctional Leaders

Dysfunctional leaders pass on their neuroses and dysfunctionalities to the people who they are leading.

Such individuals need to be removed from their positions of authority without delay.

Leadership

Not every leader is Churchill, and those that aren't shouldn't delude themselves that they are!

Absurd Leaders and Absurd Situations

Sometimes absurd situations require absurd leaders in order to resolve them!

The Measure of Success

The measure of success of a leader (be it political or business) is that person's legacy (financial, crime statistics, general standard of living, wars being waged etc), and the nature of the leader/system that follows.

Leadership

It takes more than just appealing to people's baser instincts to be a true leader.

Advice To Eurozone "Leaders"

Stop publicly falling over yourselves contradicting what each other says.

Question To Eurozone "Leaders"

What fresh instabilities will you be inflicting on the markets and the global economy this week?

Advice To The "Leaders" of The Eurozone

Making it up as you go along is not an effective economic policy, nor does it inspire confidence in your "leadership".

Advice To The "Leaders" of The Eurozone

Dithering is not an effective or viable economic policy.

Advice To Leaders

Don't start fires in locked rooms.

Leaders

Beware leaders who rush to war without any doubts, they will lead themselves and their people to destruction.

Leadership By Example

Organisations where management lead by example tend to be well run.

Organisations where management opt for the "do as I say, not as I do" technique of management, fail.

Compromise

Leaders who claim to practice "leadership of compromise", don't understand leadership.

Advice To Presidents

Stubbornness does not equate to leadership.

Sanctions

Sanctions are the most effective method of unifying a country, and strengthening the leadership of that country.

Don't believe me?

Just ask Fidel Castro.

Leadership

A good leader often has to ask people to make sacrifices to achieve goals.

The best leaders sometimes have to sacrifice themselves.

Leadership

A good leader never shies away from tough decisions.

Good Leadership

A good leader does not leave his men on the beach.

PERIOD!

Leadership

A leader, in order to be effective, must stamp his authority and personality on an organisation within the first 100 days of taking power.