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Top Five Reasons People Fear Being A Leader

Top Five Reasons People Fear Being A Leader written by Denis G. Mclaughlin, President of Leadership GPS, is an interesting article concerning  fear.

Denis G. Mclaughlin tells us that being afraid is one of the benefits and at the same time detriments to the human condition. For example, this is a good thing when it protects us from making harmful mistakes; on the other side, it is a bad thing when it prevents us from achieving success to our full capability.

Accepting the responsibility of leadership is one of those fears that some have developed over their years of experience.

After this he provides us the top five reasons some fear being a leader:

  1. I am afraid to fail
  2. I have failed before
  3. I am not a born leader
  4. I don’t know enough about leader
  5. I don’t know everything my team does

Read the full article at: http://goo.gl/EHY3f

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Cyberspace insecurity

Cyberspace is inherently insecure. Achieving acceptable information security requires building awareness of what it takes to achieve it, mitigating vulnerabilities in people, processes and technologies and constant adaptation to a rapidly changing environment.

Ed Gelbstein’s ‘Information security for non-technical managers’, downloadable for free at Bookboon.com, provides a concise overview and some useful suggestions covering the information security “problem”.

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