Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Bad leadership

Currently, I am reading a book called "Bad Leadership" which is written by Barbara Kellerman, got some interesting idea from the book... :) Have read a lots of books about stories of good leaders and what they did, how about bad leaders? Interesting perspectives.

When I read the book, I reflected the differences between Leaders and Leadership, also the writer, Barbara, she divided awful leaders into seven categories: callous, corrupt, incompetent, insular, intemperate, rigid or downright evil. Some of them are about the leader's personality while some of them are about behaviour description.

I haven't finished the book yet, but I found it pretty interesting and would like to share with you guys :)


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Monday, March 26, 2007

Johari window

Hey,

I hope you all remember talking about the Johari window during one of the sessions at IPM 07.

Here's an online website that allows you to set up a Johari window for your friends to contribute to. Or you could set up a Nohari window, which is an inverse of the Johari window and maps your weaknesses instead of strengths.

Don't forget to let your friends know so that can contribute!!

P.S: Access mine by visiting my blog: nida.nomadlife.org

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Leaders in Action - PIMPED

Hidiho global AIESEC leaders!

As the original blog-appearance wasn't really overly outstanding I took the liberty to make a few adjustments to our blog with the hope to help kick-starting it by doing so.
I admit it is still not branded and I didn't have a mandate from the global legislation for it - I hope you forgive me.



The most important feature I added to the blog is the labelling function:
When you create a blog-entry you will be able to enter labels below the field where you enter the main text. These labels will be added to your entry and - if clicked on - will lead you to all entries labeled with the same word.
As it doesn't make sense labelling around randomly (because you will always only find your own post after clicking on this randomly chosen label) I decided to provide a standardized labelling-system (can still be changed) with the following topics:

Leadership
External input (articles, books, etc.) and our own reflections and experiences about the topic leadership

Methods
Sharing methods and BCPs for our everyday work

Countries
General reports and experiences regarding our (AIESEC) countries

AIESEC
Thoughts, explanations and (provocative) statements about AIESEC as such

Reflections
Your personal thoughts about the state of the world, society and related topics

Random
Fun stuff and random topics

If all your entries are labelled properly (you can of course also give more labels to one entry, but please stick to the above topics and use at least one of the above labels), everybody can quickly get a decent overview about everything we wrote e.g. about leadership. So I would ask you to always use these ones.

That's it for today, feedback is always welcome, stay tuned for more!



By the way: thanks to http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/ for providing the awesome template.

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WHO WILL CARE?

Also, I want to share this letter of George Carlin
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin) which was written to his deceased wife.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less
wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive to fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up tired, read too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to our life not life to our years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are times of fast food and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Remember, to say, " I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007

The purpose of leadership

I will like to share this extract:

The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the old-age question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of "optimism training" is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light. Through repeated counseling and coaching, you might be able to make a person less pessimistic then she was before, but "less pessimistic" is not synonymous with "optimistic", any more than "less rude" is not synonymous with "charming". To lead effectively, you must be unfailingly, unrealistically, even irrationally optimistic. Like it or not, this is not learnable.

This is from a book i am reading right now "The One Thing You Need to Know ...about great managing, great leading and sustained individual success" By Marcus Buckingham.

Ralph Nader said:
"The purpose of leadeship is to create more leaders
not more followers!"

How do we distill our passion, compentecies and leader capacity to fulfil this goal?

Hugs

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Saturday, March 3, 2007

.the team.

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Friday, March 2, 2007

Our first experience together

Isn't MCP experience worth sharing? Isn't inspiring enough to be exposed to global network?
Weren't we all talking about ONE AIESEC, need for cooperation and inclusiveness in our diversity?

Let's invite ourselves to show the power of individuals coming together!

...:: Welcome to a team blog of MCPs 2007-2008 ::..

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