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Leadership
Lets clear all our Misunderstandings Hurt, and Anger, Resentment, Guilt, and fears, Rejections, Failures, Envy, Misbehavior, Mistakes and all Negative Feelings Close these Accounts A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd - Max Lucado Power can be threatening to others, and if not used consciously for good, it can make the leader blind to the problems it creates. Leadership tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today-especially in science, technology, engineering and math. (STEM)" - President Barack Obama, September 16, 2010 Visionary Leadership If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain, If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees, If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people. - Confucius Leaders need: "people skills" - versatility, pyramid learning, feedback "character skills" - charisma, integrity, altruism "thinking skills" - problem-solving, fostering linkages, assisting in ,evolution and change "action skills" - decision-making, initiating activities nice one... Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.! My Diary - Listening a starting point of Learning Yesterday I attended a program conducted by Mckinsey for senior leadership development. Learning was one of the most important trait was highlighted during the session. I am enclosing a quote from great educationist and thinker about learning here. "Learning is an action or a movement always in the present, without conformity to the past. Learning is not listening with one's knowledge. If you listen with knowledge, with what you have learned, then actually you are not listening; you are interpreting; you are comparing, judging, evaluating, conforming to a certain pattern that has
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