The central blog question is: “How to successfully lead a group of people coming from different cultural backgrounds?” Today we are facing important and challenging (new) factors in leadership and management: different languages, time zones, channels/modes of communication, physical distance, and consequently a large and variable mixture of cultural factors. All these factors influence work…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxcl1Tz4gJA https://www.linkedin.com/in/jberce The story is showing from a first-person perspective the internal growing up of a leadership process based on non-Western approach. The main character, brought up in Europe and therefore used to Western “cultural background noise’ although practicing Chinese martial arts, has to learn and understand the differences brought by…
A teacher should by default be a leader: he/she teaches new things, influences others, has listeners, defines personal growing path, can define task and workload. Anything wrong with it? Teacher as a leader ensures improvements in instruction he or she gives and thus enhance learning process. But a teacher can (unfortunately) lack autonomy in workplace…
“Please call my secretary for a meeting – she knows when I’m busy” is often heard from an important CEO? If you yourself do not manage your time, how are you able to manage the time of the people you lead? To develop a time management skill means to become aware of how one uses…
Within lots of studies and researches on and about the nature of leaders, many aspects of leadership still remain a secret. There are books and programs that teach how to be a leader. They give a list of what constitutes a leader. With over 200,000 respondents describing 20,000 leaders Zenger, Folkman, and Edinger conducted a…
“The ego” – a positive or a negative feature? Is it a necessary ingredient, an essential to had by an exceptional leader? We all seem to be able to spot a strong ego in others. Brain studies cannot point to the place in a brain where ego could exist, what could it be? Outside of…
THOUGHTS FOR THE POST-2008 WORLD
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Empowering Leaders 300 Words at a Time
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