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admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:26:50 +0000

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From past experiences of your company’s ( or perhaps your personal life) success, you already have a pre-defined concept of how success comes. But it is being re-defined continuously in other markets; and one day you will learn after you pay the price. Its like how you had missed the something big by keeping your eye fixed on the moving ball. An unfortunate fact is when your brain goes over a certain thing several times, it switches itself off! You will be surprised to learn how many important things we miss due to this strange function of the brain. Spare some thought on these aspects: Are you on autopilot most of the time like taking the same route to work daily? Do you take the same old approach to solving problems and make the latest decisions based on age-old assumptions? How hard do you try to see different standpoints? How do you propose to keep your brain from switching itself off?

Leadership Tip: Keep an eye on the surroundings.

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Obedience to Authority

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:08:44 +0000

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Stanley Milgram, (Social Psychologist) who researched on the relationship between obedience and authority concluded that basically 2 factors motivated obedience to authority: (1) through fear, and/or (2) to co-operate to the extent of acting against one’s own conscience at times. Despite the controversial nature of his experiments, these classics emphasised the following traits in human obedience to authority relationships: (1) reluctance by people with less or no authority to challenge power abuses practised by superiors: e.g. subordinates rarely question their boss’ authority for fear of repercussions like adverse performance ratings etc.

Findings from a similar research conducted by Bennette J. Tepper into aspects of obedience and authority in a strictly work environment at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte illustrate deeper manifestations of Milgram’s conclusions. The research themed “Subordinates’ Resistance and Managers’ Evaluation of Subordinates’ Performance” tested two perceptions of the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Models that exist in workplaces. The results of the two research studies have led to an interactive model that predicts the existence of low quality LMX relationships under a system of Uniformly Dysfunctional Perspective (superiors rate their subordinates lower when they ask probing questions) while higher quality LMX prevails under a system of Multifunctional Perspective (superiors rate their subordinates higher when they ask probing questions).

Leadership Tip: Ask constructive probing questions.

Achieving the Impossible? The Erik Weihenmayer Way …

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:44:27 +0000

This is a story of dreams, heroism, grit and determination, and a blind man’s passion to achieve the impossible…. Erik Weihenmayer is that extraordinary mountaineer, skier, author, premier motivational speaker, teacher philosopher and visionary, all in one. He was born on September 23, 1968 and was diagnosed with a rare eye disease at the age of 3 years; and was totally blind at the age of 13. His true to life adventures and achievements since then border on legend and fantasy. He is a man with the daring to dream of impossible conquests when surrounded with nothing but emptiness, darkness, hostility and challenges with the heaviest odds. Erik’s enthusiasm to harness one’s adversity to great advantage and the fortitude with which he struggles to accomplish these dreams without eyesight inspires not only those millions differently disabled; but also many more millions across the world blessed with the functioning of all their faculties to the fullest without any impediment. On May 25th 2001 he became the only blind man ever to conquer the summit of Mount Everest. He created yet another impossible landmark in the timeline of history, when on August 20, 2008, he stood atop the Carstensz Pyramid – the tallest peak in Austral-Asia; thus realizing one of his burning quests to conquer the Seven Summits – the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. In one of his missions impossible, he led a team of 6 Tibetan blind teenagers in 2004 to a mountain peak 21,500 ft. high in the shadow of Mount Everest. Eric has co-authored a few novels with renowned author/researcher Paul Stoltz. Touch the Top of the World and Adversity Advantage are two of his classics where he gives honest and vivid descriptions of his adventures spicing them with humor and fortitude that characterizes him. Among other documentaries and videos put out by him is further than the eye can see – a winner of 20 International Film Festival Awards and Blindsight. Well known for his inspiring motivational speeches, one of his latest was in 2008 at the inauguration ceremony of President Obama. In 2009, he was awarded a PhD in Humane Letters by the Babson College.

Think about his achievements. Is he a leader? What do we learn from Erik? I am certain we could use some of his leadership values in our day-to-day tasks.

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