Get your brain in motion
Mind Tools lists 10 of the most common leadership and management errors.
1. Lack of Feedback
2. Not Making Time for Your Team
3. Being Too “Hands-Off”
4. Being Too Friendly
5. Failing to Define Goals
6. Misunderstanding Motivation
7. Hurrying Recruitment
8. Not “Walking the Talk”
9. Not Delegating
10. Misunderstanding Your Role
If you want to know more on what you can do to avoid them read the full article.
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
[…] imagine what that does to the adult learner who’s embarrassed to go back and learn stuff that they should have before […]
Being bilingual makes you smarter and can have a profound effect on your brain. Is it really so? Read the article published on NYT on March 17, 2012 by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee.
Diplocalendar 2012 explores in both a serious and lighthearted way, some elements of interpersonal relationships and management that can help in daily activities.
The subject for the month of March is Credibility.
“Regardless of our position in an organisation, credibility is fundamental to our effectiveness as professionals and as individuals. Without it there can be no trust; without trust, organisations become frozen in inactivity and negative feelings. Credibility is hard to build, but well worth it.
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“Has word processing changed the way we write?”
In his Blog on “The Observer” John Naughton tries to answer this question, thirty years after Microsoft Word was invented.
Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do – something people who take showers discover on occasion.
from Nassem TALEB “The bed of Procrustes“
Alex Knapp (Social Media Editor at Forbes since October, 2011) analyzes the leadership qualities of the famous Captain Kirk. 
“In his many years of service to the Federation, James Kirk embodied several leadership lessons that we can use in our own lives. We need to keep exploring and learning. We need to ensure that we encourage creativity and innovation by listening to the advice of people with vastly different opinions. We need to occasionally get down in the trenches with the members of our teams so we understand their needs and earn their trust and loyalty. We need to understand the psychology of our competitors and also learn to radically change course when circumstances dictate. By following these lessons, we can lead our organizations into places where none have gone before.
“The use of metrics by individuals is rather less widespread, with the notable exceptions of people who are trying to lose weight or improve their fitness. Most people do not routinely record their moods, sleeping patterns or activity levels, track how much alcohol or caffeine they drink or chart how often they walk the dog.
But some people are doing just these things. […] What they share is a belief that gathering and analysing data about their everyday activities can help them improve their lives—an approach known as “self-tracking”, “body hacking” or “self-quantifying”………”
Read the article published by the Economist on this subject
Sue Hershkowitz-Coore is one of the most in- demand workshop and keynote speakers in the US. She has an interesting site (SpeakerSue) full of useful information on communication. She also publishes an email Ezine with many useful tips.
Here is the link to an article on “Boost Influence! 8 Tips to Get Best Results in Email”
And if you think you will never be able to publish a book, take a look at her short video
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