The Leadership Secret Most Leaders Haven’t Mastered photo: Amplified Group, Creative Commons I admit it: I’m a bit of a leadership junkie. I love reading books about leadership, hearing about the newest theories, and studying the techniques of great leaders. One of my new favorites is called The Profit, where successful businessman Marcus Lemonis partners with failing businesses to both bail them out and help them up. It resembles Shark Tank slightly, because Lemonis invests large amounts of money into these businesses. It’s not just about the money. Recently, I watched an episode about a used car dealership that was about 7 million dollars in debt. “I’m going to be 100% in charge,” is Lemonis’s catch phrase, and it fits. Of course, the owner of the company protests at first. In this case, the owner of the dealership had invested a good portion of his money in big screen TVs for the waiting room and an arcade in one corner. When Lamonis took over the dealership, he really took it over. But that was not the owner’s reaction.
Types of Meditation - An Overview of 22 Techniques | High Existence Welcome to HighExistence :) HighExistence (HE) is a community of conscious individuals centered around pondering, exploring & expanding this wondrous experience called life. Join Take a tour Hide This Site not loading correctly? Click here for the original link » Posted by Shubham Kashyap You must sign in or join to comment! Click here to join the our site-wide 30 Day Meditation Challenge! More Posts Like This Today February 4, 2015 New psychedelic species of lichen discovered Must Read Researchers have tentatively identified tryptamine, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT in the lichen. Our True Common Ground Are we all so separate after all? A 15 Minute Mind-Hack to Massively Enhance Your Brain Power A 15 Minute Mind-Hack to Massively Enhance Your Brain Power and Emotional State. I Spent 3 Minutes Inside a -264 Degree Cryotherapy Machine elease an eight ball's worth of endorphins, improve sleep, boost the immune system, reduce inflammation & smooth wrinkles The truth behind the secret TTIP trade deal Must Read
The forgotten interview with Cambridge spy Guy Burgess - BBC News An interview with Cambridge Five member Guy Burgess remained lost for more than 50 years after its significance was overlooked by Canadian broadcasters. It has now been discovered, as BBC Newsnight reports. In a Moscow cemetery close to the flat he shared with his partner, Guy Burgess appeared on screen in January 1959 in his Eton tie and favourite camel hair overcoat - the very picture of an English toff. He was appearing on Canadian television's CBC, in what is believed to be the only time one of the infamous spy ring spoke in Moscow to a Western camera crew. The Cambridge Five passed information about the UK to the Soviet Union throughout World War Two and into at least the 1950s. After Burgess fled to the Soviet Union along with fellow Foreign Office diplomat and Cambridge Five member Donald Maclean in May 1951, nothing was heard of him for the next five years - although press interest and speculation in the UK and USA was particularly intense. Unreported by British press
Överlevnadsbutiken - Överlevnadsbloggen Black friday är ett amerikanskt uttryck som betecknar dagen efter tacksägelsedagen, det vill säga sista fredagen i november. Det är traditionellt första dagen på julhandeln och många butiker i USA har specialrabatter denna dag. Begreppet började dyka upp även i Sverige 2013. I Överlevnadsbloggen idag ska vi istället tala om black i betydelsen strömlös. Statistik om elavbrott Några siffror från Energimarknadsinspektionen (från 2010):Av Sveriges ca 5 miljoner elkunder drabbades nästan hälften av minst ett oplanerat strömavbrott.5% av kunderna drabbades av 6 eller fler avbrott. Sedan år 2011 får enligt lag inga strömavbrott vara längre än 24 timmar. Vad händer vid ett längre strömavbrott? Efter ett par timmar tar batterierna i mobilnätets basstationer, vilket leder till att det inte går att ringa med mobiltelefoner. Engelskspråkiga böcker på temat överlevnad finns det i mängder. Böcker om överlevnad i vildmarken Överlevnadshandboken. Uteliv med överlevnadskunskap. Handbok överlevnad Armén. 1.
The Hierarchy of Needs for Employee Engagement Has your company cracked the employee engagement piece yet? Very few companies that I’m aware of seem to be happy with their levels of engagement and are constantly looking for new ways to tackle the issue. Our friends and staff survey specialists at Scancapture have looked at employee engagement from a psychology point of view in the graphic above. Do you remember Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs theory was fully expressed in his 1954 book Motivation and Personality. According to Wikipedia, the hierarchy remains a very popular framework in sociology research, management training and secondary and higher psychology instruction. So why not apply it to employee engagement. Maslow’s idea was that people have to satisfy basic human needs like eating, being safe and comfortable in your environment before you can start thinking about personal growth and intellectual development. So how can we apply this in a workplace context? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
5 Powerful Exercises to Increase Your Mental Strength | Amy Morin Building mental strength is about regulating your emotions, managing your thoughts, and behaving in a positive manner, despite your circumstances. Mental strength involves more than just willpower; it requires hard work and commitment. Growing stronger requires you to establish healthy habits, while also giving up the unhealthy habits that could hold you back from becoming better. Although it's easier to feel mentally strong when life seems simple -- often, true mental strength becomes most apparent in the midst of adversity. Many exercises exist that can help you develop mental strength. 1. Sometimes, core beliefs are inaccurate and unproductive. Identify and evaluate your core beliefs. 2. Save your mental energy for productive tasks, such as solving problems and setting goals. 3. Identify and replace overly negative thoughts with thoughts that are more productive. 4. Sometimes it makes sense to behave contrary to your emotions. Practice behaving like the person you'd like to become.
Russian Spies and the Nuns Next Door - The Daily Beast Meet the New York nuns who had no idea the neighbors' pet birds they were tending belonged to Kremlin agents. The two Catholic nuns who reside on Liebig Street asked the family next door to keep an eye on their house while they got away from the Bronx to Miami for nine days. The nuns, Sister Anne Queenan and Sister Catherine Naughton, had happily done the same when their neighbors went on ski trips. The nuns had taken in their neighbors’ mail and even tended their pet bird. “We had the cage in our house. What can I say?” But unbeknownst to the nuns, the FBI had also been keeping on eye on the neighbors’ house, where 39-year-old Evgeny Buryakov lived with his wife, Marina, and their two children, a boy said to be 10 and a girl said to be 7. The nuns were still away last Monday morning, when a dozen unmarked cars pulled onto the block. That was the day of what meteorologists warned might be a snowstorm of historic proportions, perhaps the worst in the city’s history. “A Russian spy?”
Don’t Hold People Accountable—Do This Instead Managers often miss the most important part of performance management conversations by focusing only on results and accountability, says Susan Fowler, author of the new book Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work … and What Does. In an interview for The Ken Blanchard Companies’ Ignite newsletter Fowler recommends that managers shift their focus from holding people accountable for results to looking at creating the type of environment where people will take on the responsibility for those results themselves. “There is a huge difference between seeing your job as holding people accountable for results versus helping them to be accountable. “People are always motivated,” explains Fowler. Fowler encourages leaders to recognize different Motivational Outlooks—or reasons people are motivated. Suboptimal Motivational Outlooks are generated by external incentives such as money, rewards, status, and power, or negative repercussions if targets aren’t met. Take a Different Approach Like this:
Here's what happiness looks like when you buy it. Don't be that person. "Alan Watts" isn't exactly a household name. Click image to Zoom Recognize this guy? Yeah, neither did I. Watts was a British philosopher. But I hope most households will one day tune in to his way of life. The ideas are a little shocking, but hear them out. You hear that? "Making plans for the future is of use only to people who are capable of living completely in the present." Cheers to that. If you wanna listen to Watts' full six-minute spiel, hit play on the video below.
BBC News - The spy who came in from al-Qaeda Aimen Dean is a founder member of al-Qaeda, who changed tack in 1998 and became a spy for Britain's security and intelligence services, MI5 and MI6. Interviewed by Peter Marshall, he describes his years working in Afghanistan and London as one of the West's most valuable assets in the fight against militant Islam. Bosnia Dean was brought up in Saudi Arabia, where opposition to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s made military jihad a noble concept. I would say it was the most eye-opening experience I ever had. And also at the same time, being in the military training camps, receiving knowledge that I never thought in a thousand years I would be receiving about warfare and war tactics and military manoeuvres, and to be receiving it alongside people from many different nationalities, with the one common factor among them that they were all Muslims. Q:You weren't afraid? Q:You didn't fear death? Q:Did you want martyrdom, did you want to die? A:Yes. Jihad school A:Absolutely. Doubts
6 management styles and when best to use them - The Leaders Tool Kit - Leaders in Heels | For Successful Women in Business Think back on your career and the managers you have had. I am sure that you have had good managers and others who were maybe not so great. When I ask people to list what made the good managers “good”, most of the examples they give me are to do with behaviour, or style. One of the interesting things about style is that managers with the most flexibility in style get the best outcomes from their people. According to Hay-McBer there are six key leadership or management styles. The DIRECTIVE (Coercive) style has the primary objective of immediate compliance from employees: The “do it the way I tell you” managerClosely controls employeesMotivates by threats and discipline Effective when: There is a crisisWhen deviations are risky Not effective when: Employees are underdeveloped – little learning happens with this styleEmployees are highly skilled – they become frustrated and resentful at the micromanaging. Clear directions and standards neededThe leader is credible Ineffective when:
Muse Brain Sensing Headband During my senior year of college I was very into meditation. Apart from knowing full well all its virtues (I’d read all the studies), I needed it pretty desperately. There was the looming tempest of graduation and all its requisite preoccupations, and then there was my living situation: a closet-sized two-bedroom apartment I shared with a nocturnal (though otherwise lovely) computer programmer, two passive-aggressive women and their equally passive-aggressive cats. So I bought incense. I bought a sitting cushion. I made a makeshift shrine on my windowsill with plants and a votive candle from a bodega. MORE MINDFULNESS: Cell Phones vs Seneca | In Search of Mindfulness at a Roving Yoga Festival | A Week with the Fruitarians As mentioned, plenty of studies have shown the benefits of meditation. Well, InteraXon Inc. has done that and more with the Muse Brain Sensing Headband ($299), a therapeutic piece of wearable tech that measures its wearer’s brain waves, and the accompanying Calm app.