If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
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Month: March 2013 (Page 1 of 2)
You might be around people who could be ideal for your life, or who know someone who could be important.
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The Diplomatic Courier in 2011 launched the “Top 99 Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders,” a project that captures the impact of 99 leaders under the age of 33. The selection committee makes its evaluation on the basis of the following leader archetypes:
- A Catalyst is from a field not typically associated with foreign policy who has had an impact on international affairs.
- A Convener brings people together in creative ways to address a pressing international issue or enhance the foreign policy community.
- An Influencer mobilizes people in the foreign policy community with bold new ideas.
- An Innovator designs a new solution to a critical global challenge.
- A Practitioner changes foreign policy from the inside through extraordinary professionalism and skill.
- A Risk-taker takes a chance and sees it pay off.
- A Shaper changes the public discourse on an aspect of foreign policy or raises awareness on a critical issue.
For further details: http://www.diplomaticourier.com/special-features/top-99-under-33
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If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
Any growth process includes the inevitable stumbling blocks. Leadership growth is no different.
Brian Evje, Management Consultant in the Organization Effectiveness practice of Slalom Consulting, in the past few months, has worked with several leaders who were navigating significant new challenges in their roles. The differences between those who managed these situations successfully and those who didn’t often showed itself in their responses to these very common blocks to leadership growth:
- Believing that it can’t happen to you
- Ignoring the usefulness of mistakes
- Refusing help
- Not asking for the right things
- Not letting your team do its job
- Lack of functional credibility
- Lack of leadership process credibility
- Not enough courage to let go of yesterday’s tools
- An inability to face the power dynamics of leadership
- A good memory. Too good
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Google maps is a versatile service that can be used for many purposes. Here is an example applied to the Diplomatic network of Italy. The map includes all the Italian Embassies, Consulates and Permanent Representations in the world.
http://bit.ly/ZB89J6
Every flag in the map offers a link to the mission website containing useful information.
If you think you’re leading and no one is following you, then you’re only taking a walk.
Afghan Proverb
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K.I.S.S. matters more than ever!
The third annual Global Brand Simplicity Index released last week surveyed 6,000 customers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America to determine “perceived points of complexity and simplicity.” You can read the survey but here is the point (to be simple): Simplicity equals revenue.
“…people equate complexity with lack of trustworthiness”. the more you can KISS them by keeping your messaging-including your emails – clear, transparent and relevant, and KISS them by keeping it simple for them to take the next step toward completion of the sale, the more you can expect to sell. (Howard Belk)
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According to Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder of the Riverside School, if learning is embedded in the real-word context, the children go through a journey of “awareness”, where they can see the change, “enable it”, then “control it”, and finally to lead the change.
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