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Phil Dourado ~ Author, Speaker, Leadership development, Journalist and Editor

		Phil Dourado

	Author
	Speaker
	Leadership development
	Journalist & Editor

	Leadership blog
	Customer blog
	What s on my wall
	60 Second Leader book
	The Leadership Hub
	Leadership Paper

Phil who?

	Contact me
	CV/Resume
	What's on my wall

The 60 Second Leader™

	The book

books

	Living with Huntington’s
	Seven Secrets of Inspired Leaders
	The 60 Second Leader™
	The Little book of Leadership

Work with me

	Columnist
	Customer focus
	Email newsletters
	Leadership development
	Speaking

Some of my work

	Corporate publications
	Newspapers & Magazines
	Web & Journal editing

People I like

	Aidan Halligan
	Anita Roddick
	Chris Daffy
	Happy Henry
	Happy@work
	Kjell Nordstrom
	Marion Janner
	Peter Fisk
	Rene Carayol
	Ricardo Semler
	Robert Levering
	Ron Kaufman
	Shaun Smith

February 2012 News

	Time to Vote! Maybe for me if you like…

	See the email I just received, below, and do please vote. For me if you think I deserve it, but for someone else if I don’t. I didn’t put myself up for this, I should add. Phil Dourado

	PS If you get ‘failed’ when you try voting using their drop-down list of the Top 30 candidates (hey, why am I in small print in there ) , then just write into the field a bit further down that says ‘nominate’ and submit that instead – my name if you like, or someone else’s if not www.Leadershipgurus.net 

	“Dear Global Guru Candidates

	We are finalizing the ranking for 2012. And your originality, works and impact have qualified you as one of the world’s top 30 Leadership gurus. And as you know, 40% of the ranking is based on peer voting.

	So, please get your fans to vote for you at: www.Leadershipgurus.net . The final calculations will be completed by March 1st. We will inform you individually when we tabulate the results.

	All the best,

	Athena

	PS. As usual, if anyone contacts you and asks for money or donations representing Leadership Gurus or Global Gurus, it is NOT us. We will never request or accept compensation or gratuities for this award”

	Vote here: www.Leadershipgurus.net 

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	January 2012 News

	How to Lead in 2012: Happy Henry s Recipe

My friend Henry Stewart has released a new book. We ll do a quick summary of that one soon. But, in the meantime, there are some learning points from his previous book, Relax!, based on how he and his colleagues Lead at the award-winning Happy group of companies (including Happy Computers) on the blogs in this website (click one of the blog links, above, to find it).

	It makes a pretty good manifesto, in my view, for how to Lead in 2012. Happy New Year!

May News

	Leaders Lounge wins another award

	Renee Stevens, VP, Global Talent development, and her team from IHG in the US are pictured picking up an American Society for Training and development (ASTD) crystal plaque

	Renee Stevens, VP, Global Talent development, and her team from IHG in the US are pictured picking up an American Society for Training and development (ASTD) crystal plaque annual Learning in Practice award for the IHG Leaders Lounge. The Leaders Lounge is IHG s online community of Leadership practice. It accelerates the global hotel company s Leadership development by sharing learning fast across the globe. The Leaders Lounge was developed, built and is run by Phil Dourado Business Communications Ltd. For a Research Paper explaining how this kind of Leadership community works, including the Attention-Based Learning Model on which it is based, click here.

March News

	Phil voted 17th Top Leadership Guru in The World

	Seriously. Whenever we in the office ask him anything he says I don t know. What do you think? He also runs two global Leadership communities where, whenever they ask his advice, he says I don t know. Let s ask the rest of the community, shall we? But, apparently that doesn t stop him being voted into the www.Leadershipgurus.net World s Top 30 Leadership Gurus for 2011 list, coming in at Number 17. Here s his badge to prove it

February News

Leaders Lounge wins another award

	The IHG Leaders Lounge - an online global Leadership community, built and run for InterContinental Hotels Group by Phil Dourado Business Communications Ltd - has won a 2010 Best Practice award from Training Magazine. The award will be made at the 2011 Training Conference and Expo in San Diego, in February.

October News

Personnel Today 2010 awards

	The IHG Leaders Lounge - the online Leadership community built and run for the world s largest hotels group by Phil Dourado Business Communications Ltd. - has been announced as a finalist in the Personnel Today 2010 award for Excellence in HR Through Technology or Social Media. The award results are announced November 30th

August News

Our family book on Learning to Live with Huntington s Disease just got a rave review from Dr Vivienne Raper, science editor of BioNews. Here are a couple of quotes

	Huntington s is a horrible disease, but the family are so upbeat they re bound to inspire others. The book is littered with humour in adversity.

	So who would I recommend this book to? Well, it boasts recommendations to patients, relatives and healthcare professionals. Appealing to such a wide audience seems like a tall order but, after reading it, the book succeeds.

	Here s a link to the review. Only takes a minute to read

	Here s the book s website

June News

Feedback on Phil s latest speaking session at the IHG Asia Australasia 2010 Leaders Meeting, Singapore, June 2010:

	I wanted to thank you for joining our first AA Leaders Meeting and agreeing to be our guest speaker. I ve heard some fantastic feedback on your lunch session. Part of the Growing to Great key message was about growth and development, and your session on Learning Agility will play a big part in helping our Leaders going forward. - Jan Smits, MD, Asia Australasia, IHG.

	You are fast moving from The Coach to The Legend if the chat around the business was anything to go by. I ve just now managed to go through your deck and I must say it s great - no wonder you were getting such good press. - IHG senior manager

May 2010 - IHG Leaders Lounge wins third award

	May 2010 - IHG Leaders Lounge wins third award

	Last week, the IHG Leaders Lounge - built and run for the world s largest hotel company by Phil Dourado Business Communications Ltd - won its third award. At the American Society for Training & development s Workplace Learning & Performance award ceremony, held in Chicago on Monday evening, IHG received a citation for excellence in practice for The Leaders Lounge. The pic is of IHG folk receiving the award, including Randy Lummus in the middle and Cheryl Ross to his right. We get two plaques, one for IHG and the one on the right, held by Renee Stevens, IHG s VP, Global Talent development, is for our office wall here at PDBC Ltd. Last year the Leaders Lounge helped IHG win a BEST award from the ASTD. The Leaders Lounge also recently won the UK s Chartered Institute of Personnel development (CIPD) annual award for Excellence Through Technology (see below).

CIPD/People Management Excellence Through Technology award 2009

	Pictured are InterContinental Hotels Group

	The award was for the IHG Leaders Lounge, an online Leadership development community built and run for the world s largest hotel group by Phil Dourado Business Communications Ltd. IHG also won in 2009 an American Society for Training and development (ASTD) BEST award, ranking them as one of the best companies in the world at people development. The IHG Leaders Lounge formed 50% of the submission that won this award, the other half being Holiday Inn Stay Real training.

FREE book The Little book of Leadership

	The Little book of Leadership is now available as a free Powerpoint download. Click the image to download it from Slideshare and, if you like it, pass it on as a gift to anyone else you think may like it, too.

The Leadership Hub for Corporates

	The Leadership Hub, the world s first collaborative Leadership development platform, is now available as a closed, in-house corporate Leadership development platform.

	The in-house version of The Leadership Hub is designed in particular for large organizations that have a globally dispersed Leadership group whom the organization wants to bring together virtually to build a Leadership culture.

	The Leadership Hub for Corporates lets you disseminate best practice Leadership from hotspots of good practice out to the rest of the Leadership community.

The Leadership Hub

	The Leadership Hub, the world s first online collaborative Leadership development community, is now live. Think MySpace or Facebook for Leaders and you re in the right kind of territory - a Leadership collaboration and development site that uses social networking principles and tools. To join The Leadership Hub click here. The Hub is a community of Practice, where Leaders share their best practice, experiences and insights and learn from each other, so you need to be willing to contribute.

	If you have read The 60 Second Leader book, this is the online Leadership community mentioned in that book that you are now eligible to join.

	As far as we know, it s the first online community for Leadership that is based on Web 2.0 tools (with members writing their own Leadership diaries, blogs, messaging each other, emailing within the platform, uploading your own video clips, documents and other useful tools to share with the rest of the community) so that Leadership experts and practitioners from all over the world can collaborate with each other.

	I ve written a paper on Open Source Leadership which explains how this kind of collaborative Leadership development works and how an in-house version can be built for large organizations who want one sitting on their intranet to grow...