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Steve Cartwright, in this article on Web Design, points out the five common mistakes made by leaders:
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In this TED Talk, Lorna Davis, explains the difference between traditional “heroic leaders” and “interdependent leaders”.
There are three big differences between the two ways of leading:
According to Davis, we don’t need heroes. We need radical interdependence, which is just another way of saying we need each other. Even though other people can be really difficult, sometimes. There’s no recipe here, but time together has to be carefully curated and created so that people know that their time is valuable and important, and they can bring their best selves to the table.
Why does hero culture persist, and why don’t we work together more? Interdependence is a lot harder than being a hero. It requires us to be open and transparent and vulnerable, and that’s not what traditional leaders have been trained to do. However, the joy and success that comes from interdependence and vulnerability is worth the effort and the risk.
What makes you a leader is not a title but your attitude and your actions. Leadership is about how you interact with people and how you motivate them to work with you toward a goal together.
In this article you’ll find practical tips to improve your leadership:
In an article published on Web Design, Steve Cartwright points out the five common mistakes made by leaders:
In an article published on Lifehack, Joe Vennare identifies some 15 best books especially would-be leaders need to read to define leadership and how to apply it, to communicate and motivate teamwork, and to keep going on.
According to John Coleman, ‘broad reading habits are often a defining characteristic of our greatest leaders’. Reading has shown to lead many benefits in leadership development. It improves communication, emotional intelligence and organizational effectiveness and reduces stress.
Nowadays business people seems to be reading less. Sometimes because they are not sufficiently convinced of the importance of reading. In other cases because they don’t know what they should read or they think they don’t have the time.
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In our everyday life, we have to get in touch with negative people. Those people have one thing in common: boundless negative energy that ends up affecting everyone around them. How can we interact with those negative or difficult people? People who seem chronically critical, belligerent, indignant, angry, or just plain rude. How to maintain a sense of compassion without getting sucked into their doom? And how to act in a way that doesn’t reinforce their negativity–and maybe even helps them?
This article provides 10 simple tips to deal with those difficult people:
It’s hard to offer someone compassion when you assume you have them pegged. Even if it seems unlikely someone will wake up one day and act differently, we have to remember it is possible. Try coming at them with the positive mindset you wish they had. Expect the best in them.
If you show negative people you support their choice to behave badly, you give them no real incentive to make a change. It may help to repeat this in your head when you deal with them: “I understand your pain. But I’m most helpful if I don’t feed into it.”
Dealing with them, try to do two things, in this order of importance:
Listen compassionately for a short while and then help them focus on something positive right now, in this moment. Don’t try to solve or fix them. Just aim to help them now.
Negative people often gravitate toward others who react strongly–people who easily offer compassion or get outraged or offended. People remember and learn from what you do more than what you say. If you feed into the situation with emotions, you’ll teach them they can depend on you for a reaction. It’s tough not to react because we’re human, but it’s worth practicing. Once you’ve offered a compassionate ear for as long as you can, respond as calmly as possible with a simple line of fact.
We often get something out of relationships with negative people. You can’t make someone think, feel, or act differently. You can be as kind as possible or as combative as possible, and still not change reality for someone else. All you can control is what you think and do–and then do your best to help them without hurting yourself.
Research shows that people with negative attitudes have significantly higher rates of stress and disease. Someone’s mental state plays a huge role in their physical health. If someone’s making life difficult for people around them, you can be sure they’re doing worse for themselves. When you remember how much a difficult person is suffering, it’s easier to stay focused on minimizing negativity.
Conventional wisdom suggests that you should never take things personally when you deal with a negative person. Accept that you don’t deserve the excessive emotions in someone’s tone, but weigh their ideas with a willingness to learn.
If you know someone who seems to deal with difficult thoughts or feelings often (as demonstrated in their behavior), don’t wait for a situation to help them create positive feelings. You’re more apt to want to boost them up when they haven’t brought you down. This may help mitigate that later and also give them a little relief from their pain.
The best you can do is accept them as they are, let them know you believe in their ability to be happy, and then give them space to make their choices.
Leaders are often described as powerful and headstrong individuals, certain of their position and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals or ambitions.
Recent researches have advanced a new model for understanding and improving effective leadership: leading with humility. Scientific inquiry has shown that humility offers a significant “competitive advantage” to leaders.
Humble leaders consider their own strengths, weakness and motives in making decisions; demonstrating concern for the common good, and exercising their influence for the benefit of all.
Managers who exhibit traits of humility resulted in better employee engagement and job performance.
In this article, Gwen Moran explains how to use humility to be more effective in the following 6 ways:
The contemplative life requires discipline and hard work, for sure. But it also seems to require some time indulging pleasures.
There is much fascinating variety in the daily habits of celebrity and creative humanists to be discovered browsing their biographies.
Monkish and lonely Nietsche used to eat incredible amounts of fruits at lunch, and a much loved beefsteak, before setting himself for long mountain walks in the Swiss Alps.
Prodigious Karl Marx was accustomed to working long hours at night, accompanied by ceaseless smoking.
Rather predictable and orderly Immanuel Kant tried to stick to the rule that he would smoke only one pipe, but the bowls of his pipes increased considerably in size as the years went on…
Remember Gustave Flaubert’s quote?
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Maybe, the addition of a little “bad habit” or two might help too!”
Discover more in this article of Openculture …
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It is essential to manage our emotions when we work with people we dislike. But how can we work effectively with them when we dislike so much members of our team? There are some strategies for managing negative relationships, in order to reduce stress and enjoy work far more.
Read more on: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/bad-working-relationships.htm#np
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How many times have we faced rejection in our lives? Probably more than we can count. Probably more than we can even remember. Yet every time we are rejected we feel wounded inside and sometimes those wounds can have a hard time healing. Yet in the workplace, we must learn to learn from rejection and bounce back from it rapidly, using it as a means to build our experience and resilience.
Cam Adair was able to bounce back from rejection and build his very own path as a successful entrepreneur. Listening to his story might just encourage you to do the same!
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