I sometimes fall into reading CIO magazine or Cnet stuff and mostly about IT geek oriented articles and sometimes about IT Leadership too. And I liked the one I read lately about New and Old rules… It was something like: Old: IT locks down any end-user device (of course with a very intrusive MDM) New: […]
Watching the below video, I recall a sequence we had in a course where we had to use the right arguments, having the right behavior to maximize our capability to pass the message across. This while being filmed and with a face to face debriefing. Let’s see what happens in this hard talk:
ICT for Development Huge subject!
It is clear that groups are strange animals. They never act as foreseen, they disrupt, they can be running amazingly for weeks and suddenly fully dysfunction for one small (perceived) parameter change. And that is fab! What is key is to remember few concepts:
I remember an excellent moment during the MBA and self-leadership seminar where we basically tried to better understand the human mind and its constituent influences (the controller, the adventurer, the attacker, the defender, etc.) and thinking’s. It was a role play related to a higher belief “Big Mind” I think and a sort of “Voice […]
The more I watch this one, the more I like it!
SelfLeadership brings a lot. And sometimes it gets too complex. Sometimes, the number of piled up “Why” is a no sense. Sometimes, you need to be able to only breathe and “don’t worry, be happy!”. Sometimes, you need to accept that personal alignment is not possible, that alignment should not even be a goal! Sometimes, […]
It is a great documentary about animals, social animals: The human species. A strong talk with sentences like: “Our jobs are killing us…” “Leadership is not a rank, Leadership is not a position, Leadership is a decision, Leadership is a choice, […], Leadership is a willingness to sacrifice a little for someone”
Simon Sinek is pretty much on vogue. No wonder why. It feels great, yes it feels great to hear this. This will to humanize what we have been taking years to robotize. Ourselves. This talk is about you, your company and society at large. But not every society, not every company, not everyone… In a […]
Have you ever received a feedback such as you simply don’t understand what to do with it? Never…? Me neither! See some samples: – You need to delegate more! – I’d like you to be more committed – You are not strategic enough – I heard that it was said that you… – … you […]