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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Words of wisdom.....Stephen R Covey


Stephen Richards Covey words of wisdom:

Live by principles or natural laws rather than going along with today’s culture of quick fix. Timeless principles are fairness, honesty, kindness, respect, service, integrity and contribution.

Body is a natural system. It is governed by natural law. No amount of positive mental attitude could get around the literal limits of muscle conditioning.

Values are social norms – they are personal, emotional, subjective and arguable. Principles are impersonal factual, objective and self-evident. Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore value principles.

There is a “law of harvest” that governs character, all human greatness and all human relationships. It stands contrast to our culture of quick –fix, victimism and blame.

Common sense is not common practice.

You cannot think or live independently in an interdependent world.

We are a product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. 

Hitler’s vision, discipline and passion was driven by ego. Gandhi’s vision, discipline and passion was driven by conscience.

Discipline is will power embodied.

Online the disciplined are truly free. Undisciplined are slaves to mood, appetites and perversion.

Form the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.

Leadership is communicating peoples worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.

Philosophy of influence is called: ethos: means your ethical nature, your personal credibility, the amount of trust or confidence others have in your integrity and competency. Pathos is empathy; Logos basically stands for logic.

Relish the “little” assignment or “chore” that no one else wants! Seek it out! It’s a license for self empowerment whether it is the redesign of a form or planning a weekend client retreat—you can turn it into something grand and glorious and wows.
90% of all leadership failure is character failures 

In an interview for a medical school a person asked whom e would prefer: an honest surgeon who was incompetent, or a competent surgeon who was dishonest. He reflected and said: “It all depends on the issue. If I needed the surgery I ‘d go for the competent person. If is was a question of whether to have the surgery or not, I would go for he honest one.” 

Character and competence makes a good leader.


About Leadership and Comunication


Wednesday, October 24, 2018

About Loyalty


Effective Management

Likert's characteristics of an effective management are:

Motivating your employees and associates to work must be done by using modern techniques and principles. Stop using the old ways of threats and rewards.

Your employees are individuals with personal needs, values and dreams. It is important to support them in their self worth and enhance their self esteem.

The organization will achieve the organizations objectives and goals when you build closely knit, highly effective teams within your company. Each employer must be committed to the goals.

Each team must have supportive relationship between its members. It may not be actual support, but they must have respect for each other.

Source: Susan Bagyura , " Visionary Leader" Macmillan Publisher India Ltd . 2011 p 59-60


Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Quotes



The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

The entrepreneur is only Visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel and experience. It is developed, nurtured and given space to flourish and is squelched, thwarted without air of stimulation and dies.


Friday, September 28, 2018

Courageous Leadership


Courageous leadership simply means:

·         Conviction that is stronger than any fears.
·         Vision that is clearer than my doubts.
·         Spiritual sensitivity that is louder than popular opinion.
·         Self – esteem that is deeper than self-protection.
·         Appreciation for discipline that is greater than the desire for leisure.
·         Dissatisfaction that is more forceful than the status Quo.
·         Poise that is more unshakeable than panic.
·         Risk taking that is stronger than safety seeking.
·         Right action that are more robust than rationalization.
·         A desire to see potential reached more than to see people appeased.
      ……….John C Maxwell