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Leadership Lessons From The Geniuses Of Jazz

According to Frank J. Barrett book nurturing spontaneity, creativity, experimentation, and dynamic synchronization is the only approach to leadership.

The controlled chaos of the social web sounds a lot like jazz. That means it’s time to reinvent the standards. Following practices can help your organization emulate what happens when jazz bands improvise.

  • Improvise through the chaos
  • Embrace errors as a source of learning
  • Perform and experiment at the same time.
  • Rely on minimal structure and maximum autonomy.
  • Jam and hang out
  • Lead using “provocative competence.”

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Reorganisation

The subject of the Diplocalendar 2012 for the month of November is Reorganisation.

“Have you ever met a person who wants to be a loser? This explains why change is resisted and the outcome of a reorganisation is invariably change.”  (Absurdistan Chapter on “The Games”).

More inspiring subjects on Diplocalendar 2012 that explores in both a serious and lighthearted way, some elements of interpersonal relationships and management that can help in daily activities.

E-Diplomacy

Use of remote participation through videoconferencing has become a normal activity for diplomats; the use of this Internet tool is increasingly standing out to the practice of diplomacy.

This is one of the many interesting illustrations on e-diplomacy that DiploFoundation created to better describe the changing diplomatic world.

Illustrations focus on:

  • Internet driven-changes of environment in which diplomacy is conducted.
  • Impact on the two pillars of diplomacy, information and communication.

You can see some illustrations of the original gallery at: http://goo.gl/O01gC

Measuring stress

The text, ‘Stress measurement in less than one minute’, free download at Bookboon.com, presents the development of a measurement tool called the Emotional Stress Reaction Questionnaire (ESRQ).

The first part of the book (chapters 1-9) is solely devoted to the ESRQ instrument and its theoretical foundation. The second part (chapters 10-14) provides an illustration of how the presented framework and tool can be practically used in personal coaching focusing on stress management.

Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals

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