Get your brain in motion
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. – Nelson Mandela
18 July is Nelson Mandela International Day. Photo: Nelson Mandela Foundation
PowerPoint 2010 Advanced – Slides, Animation and Layouts, is a free ebook downloadable at Bookboon.com, about the presentation software in the new Microsoft 2010 Office Suite. It allows you to create amazing slide presentations that can integrate images, video, narration, charts and more.
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals.
Do you ever wonder what makes some speakers so successful? Have you ever been in awe of a speaker and pondered, “How did she do that?”
The answer is through a lot of work.
There are some people who are naturally gifted at speaking, but most of us have to work really hard at it.
I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. – Ken Venturi
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The idea that Creativity is needed only by artists and dreamers is long gone. Nowadays managers are aware that to run a business, an administration, an office a lot of skills are required: flexibility, intuition, vision, inventiveness. In one word what managers need is Creativity.
Hubert Jaoui understood that almost thirty years ago and is spending his life explaining to others what creativity is and how useful it can be.
Here is an interesting definition by Hubert Jaoui:
Creativity is neither imagination, nor the opposite of rationality: it is a multi-logical approach
A lot of interesting demonstrations of how Creativity is an essential tool for managers can be found on the site: http://www.gimca.net/, e.g. the 6 pillars of management: human behaviour, motivation, delegation, time management, creativity.
image source: Mr Fish in http://loft22.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/cognitive-dissonance-over-creativity/
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
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In her TED Talk Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows that body language affects how others see us and it may also change how we see ourselves.
Amy Cuddy’s research on body language reveals that we can change other people’s perceptions — and even our own body chemistry — simply by changing body positions.
Having a vision is not as simple as saying that you want something. Creating a vision is the process of building understanding on it.
According to the authors: “For a leader, vision is all about helping others see that bigger picture and begin to make those connections to a larger effort. As a leader, you need to focus on being the effective communicator of direction to your team.”
To learn more, read the article by E. Yaverbaum and E. Sherman.
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10% of conflict is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to the wrong tone of voice – Anonymous
image source: http://www.atcampus.in/communication-a-must-have-skill-for-almost-every-profession/
Dan Ariely, Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Economics, examines the mechanisms at work behind dishonest behaviour, and the implications this has for all aspects of our social and political lives.
Ariely sets our behaviors in two opposing motivations: we would like to view ourselves as honest, value-driven people, but we would also like to make as much money as possible or achieve other goals to get us ahead in life. In order to reconcile these dueling aims, we employ what he calls “cognitive flexibility”: the ability to minimize the extent of our cheating in order to still view ourselves as wonderful human beings.
Watch Ariely’s animation on: http://tiny.cc/tpfrnw
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