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"In the West we tend to think of leadership as a quality that exists in certain people. This usual way of thinking has many traps. We search for special individuals with leadership potential, rather than developing the leadership potential in everyone."

Peter Senge really get's his head around the leadership issue. But he has even more to say that is oh so profound.

The inimitable Peter Drucker said ... "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things"

Which is more important?

Is it a case of one or the other?

May be it's both?

There are times in everyones life when some thing or a lot of things get on top of you.

I find it happens when I bite off more than I can chew ... "What was I thinking , why did I take on all these things?"

I'm currently in a space where there is a lot of "unproductive" work needing to be done, a couple of projects have been put on hold by clients, I put a personal project on hold to give them priority and now have to restart it ... to be blunt I've run out of momentum.

What I learnt by watching the Olympics

I'm an athlete from way back and an accident meant that I didn't have to face the reality that I wasn't as good as I needed to be to continue on with the sport.

Much has been written about the Olymipcs, and sport in general, and how it is a metaphore for life and to that end this piece is not any different.

Here's what my observations were from the recent Games in relation to business.

Viral marketing was the buzz word of of the internet back in 2000, particularly highlighted by the book Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin. Since then every online marketing guru has had a go at creating their own product to get "sneezed" around the world.

Stepping out of the faceless online business world, the use of viral marketing is still alive, working well for small business and nowhere more so than a rural city in North West Queensland.

If you think 'leadership' is a concept that only applies to certain people in business, government or community organizations, think again!

Everyone is a leader to someone. Whether that someone be an employee (or thousands of employees), your spouse, a child, or at the simplest level, oneself; you are a leader. - Tracy Brinkmann

Brilliant words Tracy.