Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people's, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others — and surprised even him. Source: Ted...
[embed]https://www.flickr.com/photos/imichaelvicente/albums/72157699953278895[/embed] Here are the photos of Washington State Capitol. Click the image for photo details....
[embed]https://www.flickr.com/photos/imichaelvicente/albums/72157698814917425[/embed] Here are the photos of Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, AB Canada on July 2018. A long exposure photography using a Nikon D750 (Photo details available on Flickr)....
[embed]https://www.flickr.com/photos/imichaelvicente/sets/72157699731311055[/embed] Here are the photos I took during our Yale University Art Gallery tour last July 2018. The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. [Wikipedia] For photo details visit my Flickr profile at https://www.flickr.com/photos/imichaelvicente....
How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World When some people hear the words "positive leadership" they roll their eyes because they think “Pollyanna positive” where life is full of unicorns and rainbows. But the truth is that we are not positive because life is easy, we are positive because life can be hard! As a leader, we face numerous obstacles, negativity, and tests. There will be times when it seems as if...
What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that while we may not always have control over the events affecting us, we can have control over how we approach things. Massimo Pigliucci describes the philosophy of Stoicism. Lesson by Massimo Pigliucci, animation by Compote Collective. Meet The Creators Educator Massimo Pigliucci Director Asparuh Petrov Script Editor...
Introduction The Learning Leadership book by James Kouzes and Barry Posner focused on five fundamentals of becoming an exemplary leader. Kouzes and Posner's earlier title, The Leadership Challenge, published 30 years ago, has contributed to the creation of this book and is widely regarded as one of the books worth reading on the subject of leadership. The authors are among "the respected leadership gurus" as stated by Stefan Stern (2016) of the Financial Times Ltd. This article is...
Political astute is recognized as a set of skills, knowledge, and judgments about the interests, goals, and values of stakeholders (Parr & Hartley, 2014). For leaders, political astute is important because it brings self-awareness, self-control, and influence. Also, they have the ability to negotiate, to stand up to pressures from others, and achieve constructive outcomes from conflict (Hartley et al., 2013, p 12). A politically astute leader develops the skills in knowing people, having personal and...
The difference between a leader and a manager can be viewed at different angles, and it can be about value, work, people, power or influence. Leaders create value to people in "leading by example and leading by enabling people as the hallmarks of leadership" (Nayar, 2013, para 4) while managers count people's value based on work and builds power on positions and titles. A leader can be anyone; it can be a manager, co-worker, and staff....
"Management is about arranging and telling, and Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing." ~ Tom Peters We all know that management and leadership are distinctly different to each other. Management is described as an act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively (Boundless, 2016, para 1). Whereas, leadership is a process of social influence which maximizes efforts of others towards the achievement of a goal (Kruse, 2013, p. 2)....