Crisis spawns leaders

"Return of Gordon Brown" screamed the headlines yesterday. Gordon Brown who was the faltering PM of Britain is now hailed as a "crisis leader."

Crisis does spawn leaders.

Hard understanding has taught me that real leadership is about understanding myself first. A leader's decisions are definitely clouded if the leader is blinded by fear, ego or habit.

My team's job is market share war; the company's purpose is profits. But I will achieve neither by ordering people to perform as I wish.

My experience has shown that by helping people achieve their full potential can lead to achieving goals which are otherwise near impossible to attain under command-and-control mode.

Leaders are born : from left: Grace, Chloe, Elly, TiTin