Leadership

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. 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?) 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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: 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. 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. 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. Jeffrey Cohn Want to be a leader? At best, a "track record" tells only half of the story.