By Contributing Author | 5 mins read | Jul 28, 2016 | Entrepreneurship & Business Growth, Leadership & Coaching
Today’s excellent post on a different aspect of leadership is written by Charles Dearing. Charles is a blogger and contributor to various marketing and business blogs around the world. Today he is focusing on how you can manage and develop a team from people coming from different cultures.
Leadership is an absolute necessity for businesses aiming to achieve long-term success. Oftentimes, when a business struggles, it can be directly attributed to their lack of effective leadership.
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By Contributing Author | 6 mins read | Jul 14, 2016 | Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
What does it take to be a “good” businessman or woman? An ethereal question answered through this fundamental truth, retired military members do very well in the private sector, some amassing large fortunes.
(source: dananton.com)
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By Contributing Author | 6 mins read | Jul 4, 2016 | Content Creation, Leadership & Coaching
Today’s post is by Veronica Hunt. Veronica is a professional copywriter and blogger writing frequently about blogging, writing, education and new technology.
In the business world, it is impossible to always get what you need, but you can make your arguments more convincing to move closer to this kind of mightiness. Too often, leaders underestimate the power of email communication and strong motivating speeches composed wisely. However, written word is still a great tool of communication, especially in the sphere of leadership. After all, leaders do not have enough time and energy to talk to every consumer, employee or partner personally and there is nothing left but reaching these people via email.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 3 mins read | Jun 20, 2016 | Entrepreneurship & Business Growth, Leadership & Coaching
Odd situations! Have you ever wonder if someone with the ingenuity of Edison or Tesla had access to a device like Mac. What would happen if Edison met Apple? Where the innovation would be today, when the ingenuity of a thinker like Edison met the processing power of a device like MacBook. What would have happened?
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By Takis Athanassiou | 3 mins read | Jun 2, 2016 | Entrepreneurship & Business Growth, Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
Leadership has many dimensions and stories to tell. Myths, fairy tales, storylines, daily stories, and anecdotes have tied together to provide a solid foundation for leadership myths to grow up and flourish. It is exactly of those myths though that leadership can provide us with the live examples needed in our lives to help us improve and assume the responsibility for our life and society.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 11 mins read | May 30, 2016 | Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
It might be a truism to repeated it again and again, but leadership is closely related to productivity and effectiveness. The one cannot exist (or co-existed) or function without the other! Whatever the leadership style may you employ to lead your life and business, whatever infrastructure or organization you have in place, you cannot be truly successful before you learn to integrate your productivity schemes in your leadership style.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 5 mins read | May 23, 2016 | Entrepreneurship & Business Growth, Leadership & Coaching
The job market is very difficult today! Especially in Europe. There are many unemployed high-skilled people seeking for a job, and very few positions for work.
Many people keep on thinking according to old working standards, expecting to find a work in a company, as employees, just to gain the resources needed to have an acceptable life.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 8 mins read | May 16, 2016 | Entrepreneurship & Business Growth, Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
The work is not what used to be! The working conditions in 21st century have changed a lot under the pressure of many factors as is the arrival of digital economy, the deregulation, the globalization, the downsizing of many former, might, companies, the huge demand for new skills and services, the slow adaptation of the working force to new condition, etc., to mention only a few! But this truism does not make justice to the full propositions of the problem.
Work should be one of the fundamental rights of our post-modern societies, but it is not. Not anymore, at least! And now we are responsible to re-define it and find our place in the new “working” market.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 8 mins read | May 9, 2016 | Entrepreneurship & Business Growth, Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
When I was young, my parents used to get me to various museums, theaters, archeological grounds in Greece, exploring the real places the history have been written. Since then, my love for history and strategy has grown, let me consumed vast volumes of historical, autobiographical, philosophical and strategical oriented texts of the past, trying to find more reasons and causes for the how’s and the what’s that have become self-evidence in our days.
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