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If you look at the lifespan of high-growth, successful businesses, they all seem to go through similar phases. It makes sense that as a successful leader you have to change your focus along with those phases.

We’re at the halfway point in the seven levels of leadership consciousness. This is the point at which managers become real leaders, shifting from a personal focus to a focus on others and the organisation.

The second level in the seven levels of leadership consciousness is all about communication and relationships. At this level, effective leaders are great communicators, handling difficult situations easily and setting great store on good working relationships.

In leadership skills development, the ‘seven levels of leadership consciousness’ model offers a particularly useful way of developing leaders. Based on the work of Maslow, it describes positive qualities and potentially limiting values for each level.

Small businesses that survive from generation to generation are few and far between, but all business owners can learn from what they do well. To survive recession, adapt to changing trends and new technology, and to maintain your place in your market, takes certain key attributes. Here are some tips for building a business to last:

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive….

I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened to life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.