Are You Strong, Intelligent or Responsive to Change? "Never Lose Your Enthusiasm" 16 Ways to Create Good Fortune. Ask any successful person how they achieved success and many will mention good fortune. Some will say, “I was lucky.” For instance: Jay Elliot told me he met Steve Jobs in the waiting area of a restaurant after leaving Intel for a job at a start-up. The start-up failed. Jay had no job. Andy Grove, Intel’s president and Jay’s former boss, gave Jay this parting message, “You’re making a big mistake – Apple isn’t going anywhere.” Jay became a V.P. at Apple and Jobs’ right hand man. Serendipity! I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it. The Sweet 16 of creating good fortune: Stay open.
Bonus: Do your best where you are. Successful leadership includes good fortune. How can leaders create good fortune? Like this: Like Loading... Learning as leaders. From Scott McLeod’s Pinterest As part of Pennsylvania’s Inspired Leadership (PIL) program, as a principal I have the opportunity to participate in professional development sessions offered through the National Institute for School Leadership. I’m now involved in the fourth and final course of the program, which includes three units: The Principal as Driver of Change, Leading for Results, and a culminating simulation.
The program is comprehensive, and over the past few years I’ve experienced sessions that have greatly enhanced my understanding of my role as a leader, and others that have barely made an impact on my practice. Sessions are led by various educational professionals, both retired and practicing administrators, and I can definitely say the quality of the session and my learning is highly dependent upon the skills of the facilitators.
(Sound familiar?) In my first few courses, taken about two years ago, we were given strict instructions to “power down.” Inspiration for World Changers / 22 Inspirational Bits of Wisdom! 10 mental traits of truly innovative leaders. Photo via Bigstock Ever since I was young I’ve always loved thinking of ways to fix things, build products and make money. And, over the years, I’ve been fortunate to have worked with so many creative and innovative people. I’m talking about people like Whitepages’ Alex Algard, Cheezburger’s Ben Huh and BuddyTV’s Andy Liu. These guys are absolute masters at drawing profitable conclusions from problems and ideas from totally unrelated fields. The businesses that these new ideas trigger speak for themselves.
So I thought I would put down on paper what it is that makes these guys innovative thinkers and leaders, and tips that you can use to help you reach their kind of success, too. Recognizing patterns Truly innovative people have an ability to see connections across data and ideas, and then turn those patterns they see into even better ideas. A good innovate leader will blend information from different sources to come up with solutions and products.
Predicting Questioning Coordinating Mastering. Weekly Leadership Favs. How Leaders Can Nurture Their Emotional Intelligence. Aside As a leader, you’re required to utilize more than your logical management skills. It is also necessary to connect and understand yourself and those around you to make informed decisions. In order to do this you need to be connected with your emotions and the emotions of the people you are managing. One way to do this is to nurture your emotional intelligence. According to CatalystConsultingPartners.com, “Emotional intelligence (EI) is one of the most important ideas to hit the business world in recent years. With Your Self While it’s critical that you understand the emotions of those who you are managing, first you need to be in tune with yourself.
Bias: Are you subconsciously bias to certain people? In The Social Setting Being in a leadership role in an office can put you on the sidelines of the employee cliques. Within Relationships It’s important that you are able to connect with employees on a one on one basis. Photo Credit: Big. Create a Rock Star Team. Have you ever enjoyed the sounds of a rock and roll band? Would you like to have a team that performed as well as your favorite band? With the five tips below you can be on way to creating that rock star team. Have a clear vision and purpose. The band needs to know the style and flavor of the music. They need to know what separates them from other bands. Your team needs to know exactly why they exist, too. What is their goal? Recruit star players / Find your team’s star power.
Help the team know their strengths and the strengths of others. Let people play to their strengths. Let them be stars. Building a great team will take time and it requires that all the members want to be a part of the team. Rock on! Photo credit ValetheKid Tagged as: team building. 6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them. You don’t need an MP3 player, a turntable, or a CD player to listen to Tristan Perich’s new album, Noise Patterns. All you need is a pair of headphones—"not earbuds," says the composer—and a willingness to hear music in noise. The 34-year-old Perich’s compositions push the border between white noise and electronic music, frequently straddling the two as if the static on your old television started emitting a strangely beautiful pattern of sound.
But Perich doesn’t just compose music: His music is the instrument itself. He composes sound in code, carefully stringing together each 1 and 0 to transform numbers into a symphony. Perich, who studied math, music, and computer science at Columbia and received a masters from NYU's fabled hacking-meets-art Interactive Telecommunications Program, has spent the last dozen years of his life exploring the frontiers of one-bit sound, transforming those lines of 1s and 0s into a living art form. A recorded excerpt from Noise Patterns. 5 Things That Waste Your Time at Work [INFOGRAPHIC]
Aside from the time you purposefully waste at work — checking Facebook or playing Draw Something, as the kids do — there's a lot of other stuff that can slow you down at the office. The productivity of a "knowledge worker" (read: non-farmer) hinges on communication and the ability to locate information quickly. VoIP communications company Fonality conducted a survey to find out which mundane office tasks suck the most time out of the day. Pinpointing and compiling all those wasted man hours could save companies some substantial coin. The folks at social performance management tool Rypple compiled the infographic below based on that data.
The top time stealer? Trying to contact customers or colleagues. SEE ALSO: The Internet Is Ruining Your Brain [INFOGRAPHIC] The study also proposes that "unified communications" (UC) solutions can reduce much of this waste, though it's difficult to determine by how much. Thumbnail courtesy of iStockphoto, daneger. How Geniuses Think.
109Share Synopsis Thumbnail descriptions of the thinking strategies commonly used by creative geniuses. How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced "Mona Lisa," as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einsteins, Edisons, daVincis, Darwins, Picassos, Michelangelos, Galileos, Freuds, and Mozarts of history? What can we learn from them? For years, scholars and researchers have tried to study genius by giving its vital statistics, as if piles of data somehow illuminated genius. Academics also tried to measure the links between intelligence and genius. Genius is not about scoring 1600 on the SATs, mastering fourteen languages at the age of seven, finishing Mensa exercises in record time, having an extraordinarily high I.Q., or even about being smart.
Most people of average intelligence, given data or some problem, can figure out the expected conventional response. GENIUSES PRODUCE. The Five Personalities of Innovators: Which One Are You? Why Do You Need Charisma? On some level, we’d probably all like to be more charismatic. But for leaders, enhancing one’s charisma comes with a paradox: The best way to do it isn’t by focusing on your own needs and desires. It’s by determining how you can best advance the larger needs of your company In Understanding Charisma, the first installment in this series, I discussed a definition of charisma as a set of capabilities, or personal attributes. These include: the ability to project confidencean inner sense of purposethe capacity to engage othersskill in articulating ideas, vision, and goals While it may seem that certain people are born with these characteristics, they can also be learned, refined, and improved.
There are four basic steps to becoming a more charismatic leader: 1) Decide which attributes of charisma you want to focus on, and why 2) Practice over time 3) Recognize that not all charisma is equally positive, and that leaders don’t always have to be charismatic 4) Practice over time. Who Will You Be? Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel was a clever yet shy raconteur who created timeless work. For example; "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. " It's one of my all-time favorite sayings and it's brilliant. It's not suggesting we disrespect those around us and for us to become unbearably arrogant. It points to the simple genius that says we need not worry so much about what others think about us. There will always be naysayers and complainers. Don't Matter.
Simon Sinek says leaders find others who believe in what they believe. Seldom does someone who fails to stand for something, find others who are interested in what they have to say or offer. Be who you are, and say what you mean, or someone else may try and make that decision for you. Kneale Mann image: dr. seuss. Stop Working Hard to Remain Stupid. Inexperience is under rated. Inexperienced people enjoy the courage of ignorance. They say, “Why not” rather than “we tried that.” Ignorance allows them to see what could be. They see fewer problems and more opportunities. They try because they haven’t failed. Stupid and experienced: Benjamin Franklin said, “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
I’ve enabled my stupidity by working hard at not changing. I’m the victim of perseverance gone wrong. Right experience: Thomas Edison wisely said, “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” The wisdom of perseverance is adaptability. These days, I’m including inexperienced people in my circle of friends. Three Benefits of inexperience: Open minds.Quick to complain.Don’t know it can’t be done. Three Drawbacks of the inexperience: Talking too much.Neglecting relationships.Discounting ramifications. Six strategies for leveraging the inexperienced: Are Successful People Nice? - Art Markman. Why we pick bad leaders, and how to spot the good ones. Ricky Gervais plays inept boss David Brent in the British version of TV show "The Office. " Business leaders often picked based on charm or academic credentials, says Jeffrey CohnHe says past results have little bearing on whether someone will succeed once promotedCohn lists seven qualities a potential leader must possess to be effective Editor's note: Jeffrey Cohn was most recently a succession planning and executive assessment expert at Spencer Stuart.
He is former fellow at both the Harvard Business School and the CEO Leadership Institute at Yale, and his latest book is "Why are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? " (CNN) -- I recently interviewed more than 60 chief executives of very large global companies. Virtually all of them said that recruiting and promoting general managers with true leadership potential was the key ingredient to their organization's long-term success.
Fair enough. Jeffrey Cohn Want to be a leader? At best, a "track record" tells only half of the story. Integrity Vision.