 Your new post is loading...
Image by yopuz (license). “The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.” Madame Marie du Deffand Maybe the most common issue people have with personal development is that it stays a daydream.
Via kjcoach
A life of influence is always a choice never an accident. Bob Buford, founder of Halftime, was mentored by Peter Drucker for over twenty years. Yesterday, Bob told me the four contributions Drucker...
Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
Ask Great Questions: Leadership Skills of Socrates
Forbes
Building a successful venture means consistently making good decisions. The question is how to become great at making good decisions. The answer is to look to Socrates.
Via Dan Forbes
Tom Peters, well known for known for "In Search of Excellence" (co-authored with Robert H. Waterman, Jr), speaks on what attributes great leaders require.
Via Bobby Dillard, Jean-Philippe D'HALLUIN
What is the key to first hiring and then unleashing the full potential of Millennials and thus building your future workforce? And what exactly are we doing about The Class of 2012, 2013?
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
Emotionally savvy leadership CIO Magazine Let's look at five practices of leaders who genuinely use emotional intelligence to develop nimble teams and organisations that can address the challenges of ambiguity, wicked problems and resource...
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
In recent months I’ve talked at different times with two leaders, each facing the loss of his job because of a corporate merger or acquisition. Although their situations were the same, their responses could not have been more different.
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
Most people are not fans of telemarketers and their agressive tactics. Still, they can teach usa thing or two about leadership. work and life.
As a kid, I was an overt and mean bully. As a manager, I learned ways of bullying covertly by hiding behind my authority. Although I may not have been as bad as
Via AlGonzalezinfo
5 Transitions Great Leaders Make That Average Leaders Don't
Forbes
The secret to leadership is there aren't any real secrets. The best leaders have simply gone to school on improving their tradecraft.
Via John Michel, Wise Leader™
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
"Every time I think of Nelson Mandela, the great South African leader, the first thought in my mind is we need more like him. We are ready and in serious need of leaders to inspire us and motivate us with action as much as words. Leadership is hard to define, mostly because it means different things to different people. We know it requires knowledge, strength and compassion. We expect leaders to be fair, to share our values and provide direction. That to me is what leaders like Mr. Mandela represent."
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
Here's how a leader can manage their company's entrepreneurial efforts.
|
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
Remember that many of life's miracles often do not happen quickly; they require patience. Illnesses and wounds heal best with patience. Life often reveals its mysteries with patience. Difficult problems sometimes solve themselves with patience.
The game of life involves more rejections than selections. If you're always getting chosen, you're not shooting high enough. You get it. But, rejection still sucks.
Via AlGonzalezinfo
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
Even those leaders who understand strategy and its virtues are struggling to implement. Booz & Company’s survey of 3,500 global leaders, including 550 CEOs and 325 other C-suite executives, reports a serious lack of cohesion within organizations. Consider these staggering statistics: 54% of respondents didn’t believe their company’s strategy will lead to success. 53% couldn’t say whether their employees understood the strategy. Only a third believe the company’s core capabilities fully support the corporate strategy. Ouch!
When weighing up whether to take an action that could leave us vulnerable to failing or some other form or loss (of reputation, money, social standing, pride etc), science has shown that we have an innate tendency to misjudge four core elements in...
Via John Michel
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
Scientific American How to Be a Better Boss Scientific American A group of organizational psychologists at Michigan State University and the University of Akron became interested in workplace arrogance during the global banking implosion, back when...
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
How Renaissance People Think
Scientific American (blog)
According to psychologist Seymour Epstein's cognitive-experiential self-theory, humans have two parallel but interacting modes of information processing.
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
“Mindfulness lets us absorb the richness of the moment instead of going through life with half of our attention on the past or future or our own mental Chatter."
These traits, typically associated with women, make for great leaders--whether women or men.
Via Scott Span, MSOD
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
Craig Chappelow has written about how leaders can be more successful. But he'd crack One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest before the latest business book...
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
This will be the first Fathers Day since my Dad passed away in November of 2012. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of him. I still haven't deleted him from my Skype contact list.
|
|
Scooped by
David Hain
|
When we embrace our true potential, and do so with humanity, humility and the desire to serve the greatest good, we rekindle the most important fire of all; the fire of human potential-the fire of leading forward together!
|
(From the article): “Imagination is a manifestation of our memory and enables us to scrutinize our past and construct hypothetical future scenarios that do not yet, but could exist. Imagination also gives us the ability to see things from other points of view and empathize with others.”