The internet amazes me at times. I’m meeting incredible people I probably would never have had the chance to meet in person. One of these people is a kindred spirit named Jaro Berce, the author of Leadership by Virtue. One of the great divides in martial arts––and leadership––is that between “hard” and “soft” styles. Hard…
BOOK REVIEW: Leadership by Virtue by Jaro Berce.
The servant leadership philosophy and/or a set of leadership practices have been expressed and described in many ways. There is a notion that a servant leadership is an age-old concept, a term loosely used to suggest that a leader’s primary role is to “serve” employees. On the other instances the notion is around the concept…
In working environment have you ever wondered about: Does a mutual feeling of trust within the organization increase productivity and commitment to set goals? Why can’t you handle an employee that frequently appears to undermine your authority or sabotage your projects? What is wrong when you entrust to employee and still, because of him, in…
Does a leader need to have entrepreneurship knowledge and/or attitude? In my times I was an entrepreneur as well as a leader. It didn’t take much to figure that those two roles have both: differences and similarities which are evident from the behaviors, in the strategies and achievements across a wide range of settings. Summarizing…
Though it’s been around for a decade, the holacracy doesn’t have much of a track record… it is pushed by tech companies like Tony Hsieh Zappos as ‘the hot management trend for 2014’. A noun ‘-ocracy’ or ‘-cracy’ means a government / governance by a particular sort of people or according to a particular principle:…
The globalization process has an impact on all of us and almost everything we do. It impacts the environment and consequently the way how organizations are structured, teams lead and managed. People work together and embody a variety of personalities, as well as a range of ways of doing things. A modern leader is supposed…
Should a leader use mostly intelligence or should the emotions be primary in dealing with people, decision making…? Some of the definitions of intelligence say: Merriam-Webster: the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations; the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations.…
An outstanding Leadership for cross cultural team(s) (Continues from Atypical views on Leadership – 1) As the organization grows larger and more complex, management at the top begin to lead and decide less by firsthand experience, but more and more on heavily processed data. From their position they rarely see the business flowing in the…
An outstanding Leadership for cross cultural team(s) Have you met a person that was thinking in a completely different way to yours? What kind of impression does it leave on you? Do you dismiss it immediately, or you find it worthy, erroneous …? For me it is exciting, definitely because my life path is somehow…
I came across an article discussing “What Leadership Will Look Like In 20 Years” by Rick Smith. He discusses six major shifts he believes will mark how the most effective leaders will behave in twenty years. Reading the list I was kind of disappointed that future of leadership is pretty much the same as today…
Last post about “Different views on leadership” discussed the differences between Western and Eastern leadership views. In searching for those dissimilarities I came across text from Spring and Autumn – Warring States, chapter Yao Yue describing discussion between Confucius and his apprentice Zi Zhang. Discussion is obviously focused on a leadership principles and attitudes: Zi Zhang…
There are probably more studies, articles and books on “how to lead a team and building a team” than you can ever read. Therefore, I’m not going to or daring to repeat the same matters. But I would rather post a challenge – “Have you ever been a part of an international /inter-cultural team”? If…
In last two posts I have written about the difference between two, many times interchanged, organizational functions that are necessary to any organization: management (To manage people) and leadership (To lead people). As there is more to both of them, here I’d like to share with you some more of my views on leadership attitudes,…
Have you heard of many great managers of the past? Probably much less than about great leaders. That is why “to manage” and “to lead” are two distinguishing roles. They are both needed in society and organizations. The verb “to lead” has a great history down to the philosophical writings from Plato’s Republic to…
THOUGHTS FOR THE POST-2008 WORLD
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Leadership By Virtue 