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With just four days left in the year, Americans are eagerly watching and waiting for governmental leaders to reach a budget agreement to avoid the “fiscal cliff” – a series of tax increases and spending reductions that will be triggered in 2013. A failure to find a solution will not just send the U.S. economy off a fiscal cliff, it will represent our political leaders falling off a “leadership cliff” as well.
(From the article): From my perspective, the most damaging leadership cliff from which leaders fall is that of breaking trust with their followers.Repairing broken trust can be a long and arduous process, and the best way to build trust with others is to not break it in the first place. But how does a leader go aboutintentionally building trust? There are four ways:
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We put together an infographic that describes some leadership qualities that can be developed and put in your own skills filing cabinet. ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES 
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February 21, 11:14 AM
There it is... the challenge of management on one page. Being all of these things is a tall order. Many are up for it, few really live it.... great infographic! Delete the scoop?
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Critical Thinking From The Ground Up
Images of critical thinking in full bloom abound—teams in furious concentration to send rockets to Mars, the ferment of ideas in businesses like Apple and Google, and the patient concentration of a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. ==================================================== Gust MEES's insight: Read also my curation about Critical-Thinking here: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?q=critical+thinking ==================================================== Via Gust MEES
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“Cast your net broadly. Learn a lot and have confidence in what you know. Be able to express it, learn from others, and think about it.” Delete the scoop?
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Do you have what it takes to be a leader in the businesses of the future? Plenty of companies are worried that the pool might not be big enough to pick from in the future, so check out this infographic by NowSourcing to see if you’ve got the right stuff to succeed.
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So how do you learn to back off the defensive?
I've always envied people who can graciously accept constructive criticism. It seems I was not born with that trait, and throughout my career I've struggled with receiving feedback, even when it was entirely accurate. At the moment I hear the words of critique, my heartbeat quickens and my mind begins to race—first in search of an explanation for this assault on my person and then for a retort to rationalize whatever actions are in question.
So how do you learn to back off the defensive? The next time you receive constructive criticism from your manager or a peer, use this six-step process to handle the encounter with tact and grace. Via Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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In an era dominated by constant information and the desire to be social, should the tone of thinking for students be different?
In a world full of information abundance, our minds are constantly challenged to react to data, and often in a way that doesn’t just observe, but interprets. Subsequently, we unknowingly “spin” everything to avoid cognitive dissonance.
As a result, the tone of thinking can end up uncertain or whimsical, timid or arrogant, sycophant or idolizing–and so, devoid of connections and interdependence. The internet and social media are designed to connect, and with brilliant efficiency they do indeed connect—words and phrases, images and video, color and light, but not always to the net effect they might.
The nature of social media rests on identity as much as anything else—forcing subjectivity on everything through likes, retweets, shares, and pins. Instead, we might consider constant reflection guided by important questions as a new way to learn in the presence of information abundance.
But this takes new habits. Via Gust MEES, David Hain Delete the scoop?
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Career Coach | In today’s complex environment, continual learning is more important than ever.
None of us can afford to remain stagnant in our knowledge. Organizations need to ensure that individuals keep learning. To do this, they must create a culture of self-directed learners who are excited about learning and incentivized to advance knowledge and skills.
We can no longer view learning as a one-time event where we attend a college or university, get a degree and are then “done” learning. Instead, learning should be an ongoing process. We have to keep enhancing our skills in critical thinking, creativity and innovation, analytics, people and leadership and networking, among other knowledge and skills.
To do this, create a continual learning development plan and identify personal and professional goals and a realistic timeline for achieving those goals. Via Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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By Matthew E. May
"Neuroscientific research is beginning to shed light on the idea that to be more productive and creative, we need to make break-taking a regular practice. In his recent bestselling book Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer writes:
“While it’s commonly assumed that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to relentlessly focus, this clenched state of mind comes with a hidden cost: it inhibits the sort of creative connections that lead to breakthroughs. We suppress the very type of brain activity that should be encouraged.”
"The challenge, though, is that we’re generally reticent to take those breaks, especially when it comes to our work and business. But many of us might not know an effective brain-rest technique aside from the obvious (take deep breaths, close your eyes) and the time-consuming (who has time to meditate for hours or take yoga three days a week?). So here are three targeted, quick and easy ways to rest your brain and maximize productivity." Via Jim Lerman, Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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Thumbnail descriptions of the thinking strategies commonly used by creative geniuses.
How do creative geniuses generate so many alternatives and conjectures? Why are so many of their ideas so rich and varied? How do they produce the "blind" variations that lead to the original and novel?
A growing cadre of scholars are offering evidence that one can characterize the way geniuses think. By studying the notebooks, correspondence, conversations and ideas of the world's greatest thinkers, they have teased out particular common thinking strategies and styles of thought that enabled geniuses to generate a prodigious variety of novel and original ideas. Via Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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Benjamin Franklin (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Nearly three hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin came up with an approach to changing habits that has yet to be surpassed. Via Gust MEES
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(From the article): Modern psychologists recognize three key elements in Franklin’s three-hundred-year-old procedure for changing habits: He started out committed to the new behavior.He worked on only one habit at a time.He put in place visual reminders.
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January 2, 9:50 AM
Check out also my curation about it here (will get updated often):
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-tools-for-teaching-people-and-learners?tag=Time-Management
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November 30, 2012 by Angela Maiers
Love this great post from the folks at Always Prepared entitled: ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology‘ and the infographic it inspired from Mark Bates. Both highlight “The Habitudes” of educators who are effectively using technology to enhance and impact teaching and learning. Hat tip to Shawn McCusker for this awesome Twitter find!
A MUST read: http://www.angelamaiers.com/2012/11/7-habits-of-highly-effective-teachers-who-use-technology.html
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jillyfrees's curator insight,
December 14, 2012 2:22 AM
A very useful Top 7 for E-champions and E-mentors... 
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January 21, 7:26 PM
Applicable to all learners, whether students or teachers or carrerists. Delete the scoop?
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Is Twitter one of the most important phenomena for the future of learning and business?
Read more, a MUST: http://community.paper.li/2012/09/17/nigel-cameron-time-for-leaders-to-get-twitter/
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Creativity is often associated with elementary students who are encouraged to draw or color as a means of self-expression.
Creativity is often associated with elementary students who are encouraged to draw or color as a means of self-expression. For college students, it’s often thought of as courses or degrees that require specific creative skills such as art or writing majors.
Yet for many students, the idea of intentionally being creative is lost. Business students, for example, must have a “serious” mindset because they are working with theories, developing critical thinking skills, and examining real-world problems. But creativity is not just about using crayons or drawing; it’s about developing innovative ideas and solutions.
If you learn how to tap into your creative side you will likely find a new source of ideas and inspiration for your schoolwork. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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The thoughtLEADERS Blog covers leadership, communications, strategy and operations. All posts are practical and applicable to help you apply the methods we teach.
It’s nauseating to hear – someone soft-shoe dancing around an issue because they’re afraid of hurting someone’s feelings. They do so because they might receive negative feedback in a 360 review that they were abrupt or too direct in delivering feedback on that issue. So rather than going the direct route, they water down their message until it’s a mealy mouthed blathering stream of meaningless crap (yes, I’m fired up as I’m writing this).
Let me ask you this – do you want to follow a “leader” who doesn’t speak his or her mind? Someone who is more concerned with how their actions will be perceived rather than saying what they really think? Do you want to follow a leader who is more interested in doing nothing wrong (and hence not doing much of anything) or would you rather follow someone who takes a stand for what they believe in and suffers the consequences as appropriate?
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An infographic designed to assist in leadership development courses by helping participants to increase their awareness of leaders and leadership theory.
Read (view) more: http://visual.ly/leadership-through-ages
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The Internet's reach is so pervasive, it feels as though it has always been around. The reality is that the web is still in its infancy, and we don't really understand the risks it poses to our mental health. In fact, various experts, such as Larry D. Rosen, a psychologist and author of "iDisorder," believe that personal gadgets are making us mentally ill and are exacerbating other problems such as narcissism, depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Other mental health professionals have already identified disorders ranging from "Facebook depression" to "phantom vibration syndrome."
Realistically, most of us don't have the luxury of disconnecting from the Internet, particularly communication professionals whose work depends more and more on it.
However, there are various things you can do to curtail the negative effects it may have and prevent digital burnout.
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Tom Kelly, general manager of IDEO, the world-renowned design firm, likes to quote French novelist Marcel Proust, who famously said, "The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes." What goes for novelists...
Today, the challenge for leaders at every level is no longer just to out-hustle, out-muscle, and out-maneuver the competition. It is to out-think the competition in ways big and small, ===> to develop a unique point of view about the future and help your organization get there before anyone else does. <===
Which is why a defining challenge of leadership is whether you can answer a question that is as simple as it is powerful: Are you learning as fast as the world is changing? Via Susan Bainbridge, Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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(From the article):From my perspective, the most damaging leadership cliff from which leaders fall is that of breaking trust with their followers.Repairing broken trust can be a long and arduous process, and the best way to build trust with others is to not break it in the first place. But how does a leader go aboutintentionally building trust? There are four ways:
Let's pray they take one - wish I was confident they have the breadth of vision to think about the environment and the people rather than the politics