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Wittgenstein
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Leadership and recognition
An anonymous, reported by Ilead365 (http://www.ilead365.com/) spends some words on skills that characterize a leader, wether is a matter of authority, power or strength.
For those being managers or those aspiring to be so, a question is the main pillar to sit on: The fact is if we are leading from a basis of power or authority, or if the leadership comes from a recognized personal strength.
Of course is not a single and unanimous answer to this dilemma. Is a matter of using the right management technique, in the right moment.
Is a matter of fact that part of the authority comes from the hierarchical position you own and that is endorsed by company internal mechanisms.
In my opinion this side of authority is better spent externally of your organization (you peers), while internally is better to lead because of being a recognized leader.
Being or becoming a leader whose power is given and confirmed by your people (over whom that power will be exercised), is generally the key for a well performing organization.
And results will soon follow. For both you and your people.
And rewards should follow the same logical path: you and your people.
Joshua, wanna play a game?
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
WOPR, War Games
Simple systems and infinite testing
Truly simple systems … require infinite testing.
Norman Augustine
Genius and curiosity
An anonymous, reported by Ilead365 (http://www.ilead365.com/) spends some words on relation between genius and curiosity, saying that “genius is perceiving every problem as something completely new”.
Is a matter of fact that curious people are more “complete” persons, at least because of the continuous (positive) stress put on their brain.
In my opinion is very difficult to trace a clear line between genius and what is perceived as genius.
For example if you try to imagine a person capable of a real effective lateral thinking, sometimes is able to catch some links that can be perceived as “genious” while they could be only the expression of a trained mind.
So, “acting and training as a genious” could make you resemble like a genious.
And curiosity, together with an open minded approach, is the key.
Open mind enables you to explore different approaches, while curiosity (cultivated with perseverance) gives you the datas to explore.
Using an IT similitude, is like having the query tools (open mind) and the database (datas extracted using curiosity).
And though, when the mind is trained to work like this is easier to make “automatic links”.
AT&T view on communication
To communicate is the beginning of understanding.
AT&T
Learning from history
Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it.
Santayana
Thinking
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Things probability
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Eisenhower
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