1. Find The Obvious – Drucker looked for the obvious things in order to identify people’s greatest needs. It takes discipline to find them…and will lead to tremendous opportunities in your small business.
2. Help Employees Grow – Show the employees of your small business how to learn. In the knowledge economy we have today, Drucker believed continuous learning is the key for growth.
3. Teach – To become a better learner…teach. Drucker taught American history, Japanese art, religion and statistics during his career, because teaching requires learning new concepts, not just …

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Credited with freeing the slaves, Abraham Lincoln remains a timeless figure in American history and will forever be known as one of the greatest presidents to ever hold office. These lessons, gleaned by …

The teachings of Confucius have endured for centuries and remain influential in the thought and lives of many Asian people and other cultures around the world. Confucius was a philosopher who emphasised personal and government morality, justice, sincerity and virtuousness. I wonder what relevance the words of Confucius have to entrepreneurs in today’s world of immediate gratification, liberal morals and values and access to endless streams of information? Here is some of what Confucius had to say.
1. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do …

Do you find yourself groaning at the thought of the next meeting? When you are at a meeting, have you ever wished so much that it’ll be done quickly? As Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Death by Meeting puts it, a meeting is much more relevant and important than a movie, yet nearly no one ever finds it as half exciting. On the contrary most people are instantly put off at the mention of the next meeting. Moreover, such an experience is universal and …

‘He Ram’, the old man gasped, as his life ebbed from his body. A dull silence settled in the room, as the old man’s spirit fled, his life taken by an assassins’ bullet. ‘He Ram’ translated from the Hindu language, meant ‘Oh God’. Thus, Mahatma Gandhi, who had watched his nation unfold, had become a martyr, for the freedom of his people.
To his followers; he remained immortal in their hearts. His life, a testament to the power of influence, while showing respect for his fellow man.
Gandhi was a leader, who …

Baseball Manager Terry Francona’s leadership was key to the Red Sox success in sweeping the World Series. Separately, reporters Kevin Thomas of The Portland Press Herald and Jackie Macmullan of The Boston Globe published compelling portrayals of Francona. Here are eight essential lessons in leadership for any situation, illustrated by Francona’s winning example in their stories.
1. Stay calm. Francona is known for his patient temperament, even in the face of high stakes games. Players report that the boss’s patience helps them win. When you’re calm, those who work with you, …

How do we know that someone is a leader? Specifically, what does he do or nor do that make him stand out? Can a person be a leader simply because they fill the chairperson seat of a committee or hold managerial position?
I believe that we all would agree that leadership is not quite about the position we hold, but more pertinently the actions we do, for it is easy to conceive an immature tyrant ruling a country but has actions that is far from that of a leader. What then, …

Generals must be assessed according to the following characteristics: wisdom, trustworthiness, benevolence, courage and disciplined. – Chapter 1, Sun Tzu Art of War.
From the above you can see that the five characteristics that is required of a general by Sun Tzu are wisdom, trustworthiness, benevolence, courage and discipline. Let’s have a look at how to apply this knowledge into business.
Business Application
Wisdom
So what does wisdom means to management? It means that the manager is able to make wise decision quick and correctly most of the time. He would able to learn …

Colin Powell is one of the military generals who pursued a successful career in government under the leadership of former President George W. Bush. During his term as a military general and later as Secretary of State of the United States, he learned a lot of lessons that helped him become one of the respected leaders all over the world. He shares a lot of his leadership secrets. The leadership secrets of Colin Powell are not secrets, really. He managed to discover a number of principles he used in managing …

“Heroes are rebels with a cause. Rebels because they challenge the traditional ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd. They have a cause, a vision, that’s larger than life.” – Sharif Khan, author of Psychology of the Hero Soul
From a small-town Polish boy born to a retired army officer to become Pope; from a hard life in Nazi occupied Poland, his mother dead of kidney and heart failure, an older brother dead from scarlet fever, to become quite possibly “man of the century.” How did such an unlikely …