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Leaders Are Initiative-Creators
2007-09-11 18:00:00 This post by Seth Godin is short but insightful. Why? Because leaders are supposed to be “initiative-creators” (regardless of how “small” the initiative may be). This post, in my opinion, could as well have been called Random Acts of Lead ers hip. Random Acts of Initiative More About: Links , Leader
25 Simple and Easy Ways to Lead
2007-09-11 12:58:00 Let’s face it. Leadership is not an overnight thing. Very few of us are handed the power to influence large masses or even small corporate departments. But we can do small, simple things each day to put our leadership skills to practice, and develop those that we need to improve. Here are some of those ... More About: Action , Confidence , Simple , Easy , Details
10 Metaphors That Changed The World
2007-09-10 12:58:00 The language of metaphors is the language of leaders. Throughout history the greatest leaders have set themselves apart not only by dreaming a grand dream, but also by communicating it and moving people toward its realization. To do this, metaphors are the vehicle that most of them have used to achieve that. Here are 10 of ... More About: Communication , World , Goals , The World , Chang
More Links
2007-09-05 12:58:00 Enjoy the links about leadership that I’ve discovered in the last few days… 10 Keys to Great Management Learned From an Inner City Mission Worker I found this to be a very inspiring post. Reminded me of how many true leaders there must be in every walk of life throughout every type of neighborhood. 21 Irrefutable Laws of ... More About: Links
Why Leaders are Authors of Greatness
2007-09-04 12:58:00 Why is it that time passes by so fast when we’re reading a great book? There’s something about it that just enthralls you into a hypnotic state of mind and sort of fall into a deep trance. When you wake up, you’re done with the book. Time was accelerated. You rode a spaceship through a ... More About: Relationships , Goals , Authors , Confidence , Leaders
Slow Down?Think?Act
2007-09-03 12:58:00 Picture yourself five years ago. What are your dreams? What are your goals? What are your plans? Are you pretty sure that you’re gonna’ reach them? How confident are you? Do you have your next five years planned out to perfection? Now come back to the present. Did you actually reach them? To what extent? Of ... More About: Action , Change , Goals , Decision , Failure
Slow Down?Think?Act
2007-09-02 12:58:00 Picture yourself five years ago. What are your dreams? What are your goals? What are your plans? Are you pretty sure that you’re gonna’ reach them? How confident are you? Do you have your next five years planned out to perfection? Now come back to the present. Did you actually reach them? To what extent? Of ... More About: Action , Change , Goals , Decision , Failure
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2007-09-02 12:00:00 As The Art of Leading grows, more new content will be frequently added. Original and linked posts and articles will, as always, continue to appear. But the future also holds the possibility of weekly book reviews, more useful resources, and most important of all, FREE original information products. These will be available only as a ... More About: Subscribe , Subs , Scribe
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2007-08-31 19:03:00 Do you find yourself with extra time to further your leadership knowledge and skills? Then check out these resources, which I found so useful and I’m sure you will too. The Art of Schmoozing This is an old post from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It makes it easy to understand the mechanics of relationship-building, or schmoozing in his ... More About: Links
Why I Cried For The First Time In My Adult Life
2007-08-30 12:58:00 Imagine a full-grown, 6′3″ 200 lb. man weeping like a baby. Doesn’t sound right, huh? Well that was me a couple of years ago. What made me cry for the first of two times in my life, you ask? In short, my Architecture Design 202 professor. Why? Well, that’s a somewhat ... More About: Life , Relationships , Time , Decision , Failure
The Manager?s Cheat Sheet
2007-08-28 12:58:00 Once in a while, an article comes by that condenses a tremendous amount of information into an easily digestible format. I was recently alerted about such an article in Inside CRM called The Manager ’s Cheat Sheet : 101 Common-Sense Rules for Leaders. Please take a look at it…I’m sure it’ll interest you. More About: Cheat Sheet , The Man
Brains, Guts, and the Capacity to Act
2007-08-27 12:58:00 Brains, Guts, and the Capacity to Act By Stephen H. Baum author of What Made jack welch Jack Welch What allows a leader to take the steps needed to solve a problem or master a difficult situation? What keeps the desire to act from being impetuous and uninformed, as in “ready, fire, aim” behavior? The answer is that the capacity to ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Action , Decision , Confidence
Therapeutic Leadership
2007-08-23 17:44:00 Treatment that produces an emotional and psychological impact is said to have therapeutic effects. Therapists dedicate themselves to help patients reach states of positive emotions and psychological well-being. Leaders can exert those therapeutic effects through their leadership methods. I would call that therapeutic leadership. Leadership is a social force with concrete consequences. When the level of ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Change , Erap
Blog Action Day
2007-08-22 12:58:00 The Art of Leading will participate in Blog Action Day. Here’s what it’s about: The goal is to bring the blogging community together, for just one day, talking about one issue — and for Blog Action Day 2007 (Oct. 15, 2007), that issue is the environment. I look forward to contribute to this initiative by writing about leadership in environmental issues, so stay tuned!
Smart People
2007-08-21 12:58:00 Yesterday I talked about stupid people. Today I’ll talk about smart people. Both stupid and smart people hold strong to their beliefs. But the beliefs of stupid people are prejudicial and close-minded. The beliefs of smart people are well analyzed and open-minded. The first step to being smart, as opposed to stupid, is to exercise your intelligence and adaptive capacity, which set you apart from ants and lizards. I told you how human beings are supposed to be “smart”. It isn’t too difficult. Just look for whatever caused you to screw up, fix it, and try not to repeat it. Read and learn about different ways to attack the same problems. Explore and search for new answers to old questions. Make new questions. Fix old answers. Learn from your mistakes and apply those lessons. Accept your errors and amend them. Adapt to circumstances. Be open to change and criticism. All these are somewhat simplistic ways of being what human beings are supposed to be: smart. More About: People , Smart
Enriching The Art of Leading
2007-08-20 21:18:00 Leadership covers many areas, but I can’t cover every single one. For that reason, I’ll start posting, now and again, different posts and articles from other websites and blogs that I believe contribute in one way or the other to the development of leadership skills. They’ll be useful, I hope, for most people most of the time. This is not to say, though, that the main source of information in The Art of Leading won’t continue to be original material that I write myself. I just hope that the site is enriched and complemented by other material. So here is the first. An article was posted over at Lifehacker that gives negotiation tips that pet-owners may use when looking for a place to rent. Negotiation is definitely a tremendously important skill for all leaders to develop, and this article may get some points through. It’s called Apartments and pets - how to make it work. Hope you enjoy. More About: Lead
Stupid People
2007-08-20 12:58:00 Just as imperfection makes us human, so does logical reasoning. When humans screw up, they normally look for whatever caused that screw-up, fix it, and try not to repeat it. That is what I consider a very elemental level of intelligence. That “mistake-recognition” skill also shows what many call adaptive capacity. Other species in the animal kingdom, like ants and lizards, don’t have the capacity to go through this marvelous process. These other animals don’t learn from their mistakes; they just endlessly repeat them. They don’t recognize mistakes, and they aren’t able to adapt in the same logical way that human beings do. Stupid people are very much like ants and lizards. But ants and lizards can be forgiven. Stupid people cannot. They’re human, and they’re supposed to have intelligence and adaptive capacity. They obviously make mistakes, as does everyone else. That makes everyone human, so that doesn’t make them particularly st... More About: People
Self Confidence to be a Leader
2007-08-16 18:14:00 There are multiple traits, characteristics, skills, and abilities that you should develop to discover your leadership. There are many ways to go about this growth process. But whatever method you use, you should first take care of yourself. In other words, you should lead yourself before you lead others. How do you lead yourself? Well, the ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Confidence , Lead , Leader
When Words Decide
2007-08-15 20:12:00 The same thing told in different ways will be heard differently and have different effects. In a recent post (Who Needs Charisma?), I mentioned an article in the August/September 2007 issue of Scientific American MIND magazine (The New Psychology of Leadership). In that same issue, there is another extraordinary article which I want to ... More About: Words , Failure , Recognition , Mentorship , Cide
Let Them Find Consensus
2007-08-15 00:13:00 Amiable people are the so-called “nice guys”. Women like them as husbands, not one-night stands. That’s not bad, mind me. I’m a “nice guy” myself. But there are ways to be more effective with them: 1. Focus on people’s feelings - They want to make people happy. They base many of their decisions on the impact ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Goals , Find , Negotiation
Let Them Decide
2007-08-13 17:23:00 They want to dominate. They want to control. They are the “drivers”. You’ll have to deal with them in the most effective manner if you want to be the outstanding leader you strive to be. There are four tactics you should employ when dealing with them: 1. Concentrate on the bottom line - When trying to ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Negotiation , Cide
Let Them Talk
2007-08-08 19:09:00 We all know them. They’re the ones that make themselves be heard by the volume of their voice or by the sheer amount of talking they do. A true leader knows how to get into their brains and influence them by playing to the following characteristics and habits that are typical of Expressive people: 1. They ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Goals , Talk , Recognition
Who Needs Charisma?
2007-08-07 17:07:00 The August/September 2007 issue of Scientific American MIND Magazine has an extraordinary cover story: The New Psychology of Leadership. I didn’t even finish reading the cover before I had bought it. I had wanted to write about the relationship between psychology and leadership for some time now, so this came at the perfect moment. ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Charisma , Goals , Loyalty
New Squidoo Lens - The Art of Leading
2007-08-07 03:09:00 I just created a Squid oo lens about this blog, The A rt of Leading . I want to use it to put some additional information and resources about leadership that may be more difficult to include here. It’s still sort of lacking a nice amount of content, but I’ll add to it as I go along. It ... More About: Lens
Analytical People
2007-08-06 16:02:00 Analytical people are those that need to think long and hard about every decision they make before they finally make it. There’s nothing wrong with that, but as a true leader you need to know how to get to them if you want to influence them. They want four main things to make them feel O.K. ... More About: People , Relationships , Communication , Confidence , Mentorship
When To Lose
2007-08-03 12:58:00 Persuasion, which is what leadership centers on, many times takes place in a negotiation environment. Each time you persuade your counter-party to do something, you may be considered to have achieved a victory for you or your organization. The best situation to be in and strive for is the one where all parties have “won” ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Goals , Failure , Negotiation
Mistakes Happen: How Do You Respond?
2007-08-03 00:23:00 Everyone commits mistakes everyday. True leaders pride themselves on their capacity to learn out of them. But not everyone has the same attitude when faced with this situation. I believe there are three basic ways to respond to your own mistakes: 1. Deny, repeat - Many people are conditioned to automatically deny any wrongdoing. They think ... More About: Failure , Stakes , Mista
?Responsible? People Don?t Make the Grade
2007-08-02 02:00:00 It’s nice to meet people who get the job done. You can rely on them for many things. But don’t count on ‘responsible’ people when you need true change. People who are merely ‘responsible’ strive to maintain the status quo. Granted, they do it in the best way possible, and run the present state of ... More About: Relationships , Change , Goals , Confidence
How to Deal With Envy
2007-08-01 22:19:00 Many people don’t want you to be successful. They cannot deal with the fact that someone other than themselves is the center of attention. Call it envy, jealousy, or whatever you want. Some people will just be unhappy when you develop as a leader. You, as a leader, need to know how to deal with this ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Goals , Deal , Recognition
Silly Fears and Criticism
More articles from this author:2007-07-31 17:45:00 Sometimes we feel like the only way to make something work is to do it ourselves. This is especially true when we’re talking about our “baby”. We all know what that is. It’s that special project that is born out of our own creative spaces. We want to control every last detail of that creature ... More About: Relationships , Communication , Failure , Silly , Criticism 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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