It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Photo by RightIndex “The mediocre manager believes that most things are learnable and therefore that the essence of management is to identify each person’s weaker areas and eradicate them. The great manager believes the opposite. He believes that the most influential qualities of a person are innate and therefore that the essence of management [...]
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Fast Company discusses the “Ten Habits of Incompetent Managers” by Margret Hefferman which are as follows: Bias against action: “There are always plenty of reasons not to take a decision, reasons to wait for more information, more options, more opinions. But real leaders display a consistent bias for action. People who dont make mistakes generally [...]
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In his book “The Effective Executive” Peter Drucker discusses the five essential practices that are hallmarks of effective executives: Effective executives know where their time goes. They work systematically at managing the little of their time that can be brought under their control. Effective executives focus on outward contribution. They gear their efforts to results rather than work. [...]
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Harvard Working Knowledge published an article by by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer, “Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation” on motivation that really resonated with me. A large part of a leaders job involves initiating and leading change and this requires of leaders the ability motivate and inspire others to join them on the journey. Unlike [...]
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Motto Magazine published an interview with Deepak Chopra in the interview he is asked the question “How can companies and individuals bring more passion and soul to the workplace?” I thought that his answer was deeply insightful: The way to get more passion in the workplace is to actually change the way we select people [...]
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