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And welcome to the world of Leadership on the Leadership Platform, where we strive to share much of what we have learned from more than a decade of interviewing, training, consulting, and writing while enjoying our own personal leadership journeys as individuals and as an organisation.

Leadership Platform can be described as a movement with a vision to create a more "seamless" society by removing barriers to excellence through:

multiplying Leaders
improving attitude
researching and teaching universal principles
and implementing strategic projects that improve society

We now invite you and your organisation to join our movement as you embark on your personal and organisational leadership journeys.

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We look forward to walking with you.

Adriaan Groenewald, Co-Founder LP

Featured Articles

Cutifani Leads by Putting People First

16.02.2012 02:20 Comments: 0 Categories: Business Report LP Tags: mark cutifani seamless leadership anglogold ashanti

Mark Cutifani leads AngloGold Ashanti, a gold company that has presence in twenty five countries. It is the most globally spread and balanced gold company in the world, with approximately 63 000 employees, half of whom are in South Africa. They generate about $9 billion revenue a year, with approximately $3bn cash with which to pay dividends, capital, etc. What they do is technically not simple as they mine some of the deepest mines in the world. There are challenges like safety, environmental management, community relationships, and a whole range of other complexities.

Q&A with Mark Cutifani, CEO of AngloGold Ashanti

16.02.2012 01:53 Comments: 0 Categories: Business Report LP Tags: mark cutifani seamless leadership anglogold ashanti

BRLP: Tell us something interesting about your childhood that helped prepare you for leadership Cutifani: I was born and raised in an industrial town just south of Sydney where coal mining was prevalent. I am a product of a mixed family. My father was Italian, a migrant at about nineteen years of age and he couldn’t speak a word of the language. My mother is from an Irish background but Australian born. Her family owned pubs. So you had a young Italian migrant and an Australian girl with an Irish background. Quite a volatile paring.

8 Habits of Seamless Leaders to Measure Ourselves Against

15.02.2012 05:49 Comments: 0 Categories: Star Workplace Tags: seamless leader habits measure your leadership

What kind of a leader or aspiring leader am I? This article is about a few key parameters that we can use to measure our leadership attitude. Leadership Platform uses the term ‘seamless leader’ to describe a specific kind of leader that we believe most of us can become. Several of these universal principles have been discussed in articles in this column in the past. See how you measure against these standards! But first, consider a seamless attitude: A seamless attitude: It is a positive attitude coupled with the ‘mastery of universal principles that govern the ability to move barriers to full potential and excellence’.

Seamless Leader Attitude to Honesty and Openness

08.02.2012 22:46 Comments: 0 Categories: Star Workplace Tags: honesty honesty exercise authentic leadership

Thomas Fuller, an English churchman and historian who lived in the 17th century, penned this truth: “He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.” Seamless leaders do not fall trap to this truth. They strive to be honest with themselves, others and towards society. How many times do we want to say something in a meeting but don’t because of fear or concern for what others may say or think, or what the boss may do to you? When this happened you were not being honest and therefore authentic, and chose to be manipulated by fear. Seamless leaders learn to be honest in a diplomatic or caring way. Some leaders however, go so far down the path of diplomacy or so called caring that they forget to be honest and therefore authentic.

Tribute to Louis Von Zeuner, Deputy CEO of ABSA

08.02.2012 22:43 Comments: 0 Categories: Star Workplace Tags: louis von zeuner absa proactive leading

Louis Von Zeuner the Deputy CEO of ABSA will be retiring in approximately a year. I reflected on a leadership conversation I had with him some time back. Here are just a few highlights: At the time the two of us had a very intense and interesting discussion around certain leadership principles. He came across as a humble, teachable, loyal, approachable, down to earth man that can be tough when he needs to be. I remember thinking to myself that ABSA and Maria Ramos were very fortunate to have him on the team.

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