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Age is no barrier to enterprise. If someone asked you to describe an entrepreneur, aside from thinking of Richard Branson or Alan Sugar, your next thought might be a younger person due to high-profile shows such as The Apprentice.
However, enterprise is not necessarily reserved for young people, comments Teresa Folkes Director of Client Services at PRIME. Between 2008 and 2012, the UK experienced a growth of self-employed workers and there are now 4.2 million of them, making up 14% of the total workforce. A significant contribution to this increase was made by the over 50s, with more than 1.7 million mature entrepreneurs in the UK. This is a 21% increase in four years and accounts for 20% of the over-50 workforce.
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“I can’t” “No one will help.” “No options.” He’d stop trying to improve the situation and was looking to numb it. Are Dumb Rules Killing Innovation in Your Company? // FM Connect. Innovation is the process of coming up with new ideas and/or putting together existing ideas, products or services in new and different ways to achieve value.
In order to do that, we sometimes have to first get rid of the obstacles that are getting in the way. One quick and simple method for eliminating barriers to innovation is to kill a stupid rule. Why you need to ‘have a dream’ This refrain, woven through Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington speech embodies the concentrated pain of his people and their deep longing for a just society.
Although a cry to free America from racial segregation, ostensibly it arouses that which in us seeks a nobler vision for humanity. We all express that differently. How CEOs See Company Culture: You Build It With Smart Daily Decisions. I write often about the importance of company culture.
Helping clients create strong cultures of recognition in which employees know how to best focus their efforts is a passion of mine. How you create the culture you want is the big question facing thoughtful CEOs and organization leaders. You cannot decree into being a powerful, supportive culture that enables and encourages employees to dedicate more time and effort to the tasks and goals you most need them to achieve.
However, you can create and strengthen this kind of culture over time through daily decisions and actions to support the culture you need. Leadership Means Developing a Community of Purpose. Leadership Means Developing a Community of Purpose ©Irene Becker | Just Coach It-The 3Q Edge™ | QBlogHelping smart people & organizations communicate & LEAD forward smarter, faster & happier Leadership means building a community of thought and action. The End of Gossip. Image source Leadership is relational.
Plans and programs shrivel compared to the relationships you create, nurture, or tolerate. Organizations are only as strong as the relationships that hold them together. Gossip weakens and destroys relationships. Gossip is about power. Integrity Matters. Integrity comes from the Latin word for integer.
Integer means something doesn’t divide easily. It’s a whole. Integrity originally meant purity, completeness, the opposite of hypocrisy. Only recently have we associated it with honesty or trustworthiness, possibly because it’s easy to make promises and present ourselves a particular way in our easy-media culture. Everything we do becomes an input for how others judge us. Stop Living Life in Your Rearview Mirror. If you want to create balance in your life instead of living your current juggling act, then living a rearview mirror lifestyle is not for you.
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Charlie Brown, in Charles Schulz’ timeless comic strip, “Peanuts” Charlie Brown had a point: relationships with other human beings are wonderful – in theory. In reality, they can be difficult and messy. But nothing determines our success in life as much as our ability to work with other people. And nothing is more messy in relationships than dealing with conflict. Leadership and the Art of Non-DominationBlair Glaser. Leadership bloggers love to tout the qualities of the ideal leader: confident, humble, fastidious, engaged, self-aware, accessible, service-oriented, visionary, personable and a good listener with a big splash of ingenuity. The list goes on. It’s a tall order, and if you actually consult with leaders, you know how impossibly rare this combination is, and how much time and effort it takes for most leaders to cultivate the “soft skills” that would enhance these coveted qualities and increase their influence.
And then, every once in a while, a leader emerges who embodies nearly all of those rich qualities that sound so good on paper. And upon contact, your being hums with recognition. This is what happened the first time I encountered Chris Guillebeau; world traveller, author (The Art of Non-conformity; The $100 Start-up), blogger, community leader and creator and director of the World Domination Summit. Chris Guillebeau and members of the WDS support team.
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I had worked very hard, I'm very competitive, and I simply expected to win. Small Business Ideas and Resources for Entrepreneurs. Free Leadership Development Guide. A FREE Leadership Development Guide enabling you to plan your own career, find the right workplace development opportunities for you, and prepare for the challenges that lay ahead. A CEO Without A Team Is . . . Not A CEO For Long.
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Research shows that we all have a limited capacity for decision making during the day. The Leadership Pendulum. Ditch the Fad-Surfing, Model the Universal Truths! Two Reasons Interviewing Fails. 5 Reasons Most Teams Underperform. How to Solve the EGO Problem on your Team. 5 Ways to Encourage Creative Thinking. 3Q Leadership™ & Leadership Posts / Video Interview about Crashing Through Glass & Cement Ceilings as first woman CEO of steel co via @shannon_skinner. Develop Emotional Intelligence. The best leader is not usually the most intelligent person in the team. Instead, the best leaders have been found to be the most emotionally intelligent. This Workplace Development Guide provides 10 activities to develop your emotional intelligence while you work. Research has found that Emotional Intelligence contributes to around 36% of the factors that determine the successful leadership. Emotional Intelligence isn't permanently fixed, everyone can develop the skills.
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