Takis Athanassiou

Takis Athanassiou is a Business Consultant, Author, and Trainer, active in the areas of leadership, business consulting, marketing, e-Learning, social media, and personal growth. He aims at the development of people, business and assets! You can check out his blog, listen to Leadership Execution podcast, and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram.

How To Lead With Impact?

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Lead with impact is one concept, that among other is very elusive! Leadership is all about impact. But the real question, here, is the following: how to influence a lot of people in order to better their lives and those of the others? How you can make things change? Or, how to make things, different (better!), influence a lot of people to change small bits of their lives, towards a much better society (the world, maybe!).

Lead With Impact

The answer is not always an easy one! In its core, lays one crucial element, taunting, for long time now, the limits of our understanding; the one that defines the how you (I, We [!]) can lead with impact, providing a positive mental and emotional balance sheet, towards ourselves and our society?

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The Leadership Selection Funnel!

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What you choose identifies you, as a person, a social or business, role and as an intelligent being. I choose, for instance, PC vs Mac, or both, or Ubuntu, or iPad or Android, or anything for that matter. And that selection shifts your way and many of your decisions toward the one or another direction!

Choose your leaders carefully

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The Burden Of Selection

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Why making a selection is so difficult? And why are so difficult to narrow down your selections, to fewer, but better and efficient options? You have taught that an abundance of choices is the base for the freedom of choice (and that of the will)! But, most of the times, the too many choices, can create you a much greater psychological problem. The one that may lead you directly to a problematic, poor or non-selection at all! And, in many situations, your inability of taking solid decisions in certain situations, can create you a lot of troubles!

The Burden of Selection

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So You Want To Do A Startup, Eh?

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Startups, seem to draw a huge attention, nowadays! It is a subject, that it is discussed low and high and has many repercussions, both for our business as for our social life. Mind you that the successful startup companies propagate new ideas, products, lifestyles, concepts and ways of making business and enterprise ventures and push forward the “since” boundaries of our entrepreneurship knowledge!

So You Want To Do A Startup, Eh - think about startups

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A Preparation Drill For Your Next Meeting

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What are you going to do, in the next meeting you are summoned to attend? Only too often, you found yourself to be indulged in the practice of meeting people for various business purposes and ventures. There are many reasons for that. Some more convincing than others. But the fact is, that most of the times you spend much valuable time in meeting ventures, without clear agendas. For this reason, it is essential to have in hand a preparation drill to safeguard your precious time, energy and resources!

A preparation drill for your next meeting

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On Personal Boundaries – How To Set Your Personal Limits

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Personal Boundaries

In our frenzy way of life, it is important for you, today, to set your personal boundaries. Setting your personal boundaries, in a clear, straightforward and unquestionable manner, is a way for you to protect yourself from the requirements of other people (including family, friends, co-workers, business associates, partners, etc). It is also, a personal responsibility and commitment to the things you want to do (in your life and for your life and the life of other people)!

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On Accountability

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Personal Accountability

Accountability has a pivotal role in our culture and society. Today, in our modern and complex life, it is important for you to realize that you and only you, you are accountable for your actions or omissions. Moreover, you have to realize that you are responsible for the sum of all your actions (small or large, intended or unintended) in your course of life. It is an attitude in life that is not easily implemented. But worth the effort for its acquirement!

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How to Regain Your Momentum

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Regain Your Momentum

There are times, things go in the wrong direction and you strive after for ways that would permit you to regain your momentum. Is not always an easy task. Regaining your momentum, the most of the times is an intended and conscious effort that needs to re-invested every time you think, that you need it!

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WorkFlowy: A Very Special Note-Taking Application!

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WorkFlowy WorkFlowy is one of these little applications, that makes your life more easily.

In essence, is a simple online application for taking notes! As it been described by its developers:

WorkFlowy is an organizational tool that makes life easier. It can help you organize personal to-dos, collaborate on large team projects, take notes, write research papers, keep a journal, plan a wedding, and much more

WorkFlowy sports a simple and elegant interface, hiding cleverly its powerful features and capabilities. It allows you to take notes, to build your to-dos list, to write and develop ideas, etc. You can use it as a simple electronic tool for taking notes or as a more sophisticated productivity tool, for collecting, tracking, monitoring, processing, etc your tasks.

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