A series for aspiring leaders at Griffith Uni

Sep 8, 2016

Are leaders born or made?

The first thing people want to know about leadership is usually ‘are leaders born or made?’. Here at LEAD we like to believe that leaders can be made — and so does Dean of the Leavey School of Business and Professor of Leadership, Barry Posner. “Leadership abilities are distributed…

Verbal Fluency

When you’re a leader it helps if you’re fairly knowledgeable and can rattle off a bunch of different words like hyperbole, superfluous, chrysostomatic and… aubergine. Sure, you might sound as though you’ve swallowed a dictionary, and people might roll their eyes — but you know that you’ll be moving…

Embracing Mindfulness

We all know the feels — we want to be great leaders, great students, all round great people….but the more we try to become amazing at everything, the more we become stressed out messes, crying into our cornflakes at breakfast.