Get your brain in motion
Geoff Smart, a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), in his new book “Leadocracy” explains that there are many leaders without a good training and a private sector- experience, so he provides them some advices to improve their skills: the three “A”
Analyzing;
Allocating;
Aligning.
Are the most important actions that all leaders should keep in mind.
Read full article at http://ldrlb.co/2012/09/3-things-leaders-do/
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A good leader must be a persuasive motivator and a good story can be a powerful leadership tool.
Well told stories can be used by leaders to inspire and motivate their people. According to Annette Simmons, author of “Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins” there are six types of stories that can be used at work:
Whatever story you tell, just keep in mind the following tips:
To learn more: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/BusinessStoryTelling.htm
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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them”. Paul Hawken
In his TED talk, statistics guru Hans Rosling, makes a stunning presentation on broad social and economic trends. By any logic, a presentation that tracks global health and poverty trends should be boring; but in Rosling’s hands trends come to life.
Rosling’s presentations are based on solid statistics, illustrated by the visualization software he developed. The animations transform development statistics into moving bubbles and flowing curves that make global trends intuitive and clear.
The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you’ll be… the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.
Tony Buzan
Tony Buzan is the inventor of MindMapping
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Assertive behaviour allows us to maintain effectively our point of view, without prevarication of or suppleness to the counterpart’s position. An assertive way of communication goes beyond the perfect balance between two poles: passivity and aggressiveness. It involves the conversation partner and aims at finding a common solution.
Among other things, to achieve assertive communication it is essential to:
– Listen proactively (not avoiding eye contact, using gestures to express approval);
– Summarize and reformulate what has been said by the interlocutor;
– Share one’s point of view;
– Confirm that there is a relationship with the interlocutor that goes beyond the issue under discussion;
– Show empathy and propose to solve together.
Many more useful gimmicks are available at http://bit.ly/VYb147 with a selected bibliography. Now, try to put them into practice!
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3 Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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It is often said that a good negotiator is the one who is capable of turning a win-lose situation into a win-win situation. The only way to do so is generating fresh ideas and options which could at least partially satisfy the interests of the parties. However, reaching this goal is extremely difficult, for negotiations are usually characterized by objective (e.g., time constraints, difficult procedures) and subjective (e.g., strong feelings and emotions, misperceptions) obstacles. In order to overcome these obstacles, it is of the utmost importance to get ready for the negotiation. In this post, and in another one that will be online next week/tomorrow, two tools are introduced. They are taken from a great book, Beyond Machiavelli, written by Roger Fisher (founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project and co-author of Getting to Yes), Elizabeth Kopelman, and Andrea Kupfer Schneider. Check it out on Amazon to have more information on the negotiation tools, on how to use them, and on many other interesting ideas they put forth.
The first tool is the Four Quadrants. Before sitting at the negotiating table, try and think analytically and go through with the four categories shown in the chart below. According to the authors of Beyond Machiavelli, “a Four-Quadrant Analysis encourages systematic yet creative problem-solving.”
| A four-quadrant analysis for problem-solving | |||
| Quadrant I | Quadrant II | Quadrant III | Quadrant IV |
| What is wrong?
Perceptions of: |
General Diagnoses
Possible reasons why the problem hasn’t been resolved or the conflict settled. Possible causes (about which somebody could do something) of the gap in Quadrant I. |
General Approaches
Possible strategies for overcoming the identified diagnoses. |
Action Ideas
Ideas about who might do what tomorrow to put a general approach into action. |
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