Professional Leader 2017-2021
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Professional Leader Magazine Issues 11–20
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Issues 11-20 Summaries
Issue 11
The Max Weber Lessons
Max Weber, one of the founding thinkers of sociology, inspires this issue through his influential work on authority, structure, bureaucracy, and organisational order. Nicholas C. Hill explains how systems shape behaviour, how authority gains legitimacy, and how clear roles support performance. Themes include responsibility, discipline, hierarchy, decision making, accountability, and the balance between order and effectiveness.
Spring/Summer 2017
Issue 12
The Estée Lauder Lessons
Estée Lauder, founder of one of the world’s most recognisable beauty businesses, inspires this issue with her personal selling, brand discipline, and relentless customer focus. Nicholas C. Hill explains how your reputation is built on trust, how standards foster loyalty, and how ambition turns relationships into results. Themes include personal influence, customer understanding, excellence, persistence, reputation, and commercial leadership.
Autumn/Winter 2017
Issue 13
The Norman Vincent Peale Lessons
Norman Vincent Peale, best known for The Power of Positive Thinking, inspires this issue through his influence on belief, attitude, resilience, and perseverance. Nicholas C. Hill explains how your inner dialogue shapes action, how expectations influence performance, and how optimism helps people persist under pressure. Themes include self-belief, confidence, hope, resilience, motivation, emotional regulation, and constructive thinking.
Spring/Summer 2018
Issue 14
The Rosa Parks Lessons
Rosa Parks, whose courageous refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 became a defining moment in the civil rights movement, inspires this issue. Nicholas C. Hill explains how principled action can influence others, how quiet courage strengthens credibility, and how values guide decisions under pressure. Themes include conviction, dignity, integrity, patience, moral courage, personal responsibility, and principled influence.
Autumn/Winter 2018
Issue 15
The Robert Greenleaf Lessons
Robert Greenleaf, best known for introducing the concept of servant leadership, inspires this issue on humility, service, trust, and responsibility. Nicholas C. Hill explains how listening strengthens influence, how service-centred leadership improves commitment, and how stewardship supports long-term performance. Themes include service, listening, empowerment, humility, ethics, trust, responsibility, and building others through leadership.
Spring/Summer 2019
Issue 16
The Jim Rohn Lessons
Jim Rohn, one of the most influential personal development speakers of the modern era, inspires this issue through his teachings on discipline, ambition, and personal responsibility. Nicholas C. Hill explains how daily habits shape results, how your philosophy drives action, and how growth requires consistent effort. Themes include self-discipline, mindset, goals, accountability, communication, ambition, resilience, and long-term success.
Autumn/Winter 2019
Issue 17
The Eleanor Roosevelt Lessons
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady, diplomat, author, and human rights advocate, inspires this issue with her courage, public service, and enduring moral influence. Nicholas C. Hill explains how your voice can strengthen others, how values guide action, and how confidence grows through responsibility. Themes include courage, dignity, service, influence, social responsibility, communication, resilience, and principled leadership.
Spring/Summer 2020
Issue 18
The Steve Jobs Lessons
Steve Jobs, the driving force behind Apple and one of the most influential innovators of the modern era, inspires this issue through his vision, standards, and product focus. Nicholas C. Hill explains how clarity improves decision making, how design thinking supports value, and how disciplined focus converts ideas into results. Themes include innovation, simplicity, excellence, vision, focus, creativity, standards, and decisive leadership.
Autumn/Winter 2020
Issue 19
The Katherine Johnson Lessons
Katherine Johnson, the pioneering NASA mathematician whose calculations supported landmark space missions, inspires this issue with precision, courage, and commitment to excellence. Nicholas C. Hill explains how trustworthiness grows through accuracy, how perseverance overcomes barriers, and how problem-solving strengthens performance. Themes include precision, problem-solving, preparation, judgement, and contribution.
Spring/Summer 2021
Issue 20
The Jordan Belfort Interview
Jordan Belfort, the former stockbroker whose rise and fall became a cautionary tale for ambitious businesspeople, is the focus of this interview. Nicholas C. Hill examines how persuasion can yield results or erode trust, how greed distorts judgement, and how accountability shapes recovery. Themes include ethics, influence, discipline, excess, consequences, credibility, responsibility, and cautionary lessons on the perils of success at all costs.
Autumn/Winter 2021