Servant Leadership

Servant leadership is built on the solid foundation of transformation, seeking to evolve the layperson into a leader as well. A servant leader is a leader whom operates guided by an internal compass of ethical judgment. Greenleaf spoke of servant leaders as being characterized by virtuous distinction. “A servant leader’s ability to lead with integrity depends on his or her skills for withdrawal and action, listening and persuasion, practical goal setting and intuitive prescience. The focus is on goals, success, learning, and assisting”. (Cunningham, Cordeiro ,1999,pg.196).

Excerpt: Way of the E-lightened Mind

“...I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.”
-Poe

Fear is the foe of a thousand lives and shapes for it
manifests in our lives in so many expected and unexpected
ways. The greatest accomplishments the world has ever
seen are the products of people who have conquered their
fears. Within all endeavors, a decisive moment arises, a
moment when a person must come face to face with their
deepest fears.
 
Excerpt: 4 Steps to Conquer

Concentrate

The first law of success...is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

- William Matthews

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Point to ponder

Does the type of encouragement desired vary from a person who is a high achiever and a person who is not?

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With Love

Accomplishments of note can only be attained with Love.

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Plan and Be Fearless

Plan your vision and execute. Are roadblocks really roadblocks? Or perhaps it is fear in disguise? Fear clouds judgement and causes one to base actions on false premises.

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D’Amato on Fear

CUS D’AMATO TALKS ABOUT FEAR
Posted by MMATraining.com Staff

Cus with Tyson in the 80s


Fighters are the most exposed athletes in the world. During a fight, the crowd observes every twitch and movement. Still, spectators rarely see fear in a quality fighter. “That,” says D’Amato, “is because the fighter has mastered his emotions to the extent that he can conceal and control them.”

But whatever a fighter says, the fear is there. It never goes away. He just learns to live with it. “And the truth is,” D’Amato continues, “fear is an aspect to a fighter. It makes him move faster, be quicker and more alert.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently. On the morning of a fight, a boxer wakes up and says, ‘How can I fight? I didn’t sleep at all last night.’ What he has to realize is, the other guy didn’t sleep either. Later, as the fighter walks toward the ring, his feet want to walk in the opposite direction. He’s asking himself how he got into this mess. He climbs the stairs into the ring, and it’s like going to the guillotine.

Maybe he looks at the other fighter, and sees by the way he’s loosening up that his opponent is experienced, strong, very confident. Then when the opponent takes off his robe, he’s got big bulging muscles. What the fighter has to realize,” concludes D’Amato, “is that he’s got exactly the same effect on his opponent, only he doesn’t know it. And when the bell rings, instead of facing a monster built up by the imagination, he’s simply up against another fighter.”

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Generous

Be generous with your practice. Do not skimp on the investment you make into anything you classify as "your craft". Generosity is the root of competency and prosperity.

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Stop and Listen

Look around, there are sources of strength everywhere. Stop and become aware. Aware to the subtle presence of opportunity that lies just beneath the surface. Hidden by the loud clamor of the obvious.

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Strength in Diversity

The economic situation forced companies and workplace learning and performance professionals to focus on improving performance--not just an employee's poor, adequate, or superior performance in the workplace, but also an organization's vision about talent management, human and environmental sustainability, and the work environment.

The trend, a move toward an organizational approach to performance, examines the health of the whole organization, including the work, the worker, and the workplace, to find where it is weak and not performing. The most successful companies during this recession aligned people, processes, and systems to effectively manage their overall performance.

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Try Harder

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

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Let Go

Most of our energy goes into upholding our importance. If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe.

Carlos Castaneda

Learning in a Tough Economy

The economic situation forced companies and workplace learning and performance professionals to focus on improving performance--not just an employee's poor, adequate, or superior performance in the workplace, but also an organization's vision about talent management, human and environmental sustainability, and the work environment.

The trend, a move toward an organizational approach to performance, examines the health of the whole organization, including the work, the worker, and the workplace, to find where it is weak and not performing. The most successful companies during this recession aligned people, processes, and systems to effectively manage their overall performance.

Source:
ASTD.org

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Refusal

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

-Ghandi

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Education, Experience and the Cultivation of Human Agency

Education is an outgrowth of what a given society views the nature of the world to be. The defining characteristics of any academic system are merely a reflection of society's paradigm of itself and its neighbors. A belief in the personal capacity of people and commitment to embracing human agency is also an outgrowth of paradigm. Curriculum built upon the belief in human capacity will challenge learners to engage the world in a meaningful fashion. A "curriculum of belief" will value the ideas and insights of learners and use them as catalysts for further student growth and evolution. A "curriculum of belief" is a pedagogy firmly committed to the notion that learners possess the capacity to assess reality for themselves taking responsibility for where their path to discovery takes them.

 

 

Excerpt:

Adams, R (2008) Education, Experience and the Cultivation of Human Agency.

Question Thinking™

is actually a theory that posits that thinking occurs as an internal question-and-answer process. What people typically think of as statements are actually answers to questions that they’ve asked themselves. That links questions and statements, which are the two parts of language, in relation to each other.

If you think of a statement as an answer to a question, then it starts to get very important and interesting to notice what questions are being asked. Because questions basically program and direct how we think, feel, behave,relate, and even the results and outcomes we get.

-Marilee Adams

Source: ASTD.Org

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Difficulty

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Seneca

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Career Development

"Traditional images of achievement do not capture today's more complex career development realities. Approaching career development as a long-distance expedition can help professionals in addressing the strenuous challenges they face, in seeing that a career can be built in many ways, and in taking a long-term view of their journeys. Skills are like muscles, self-efficacy is like sturdy boots, advancement how-to's are like maps, and mentors are like trail guides. Among the tasks each hiker faces are selecting destinations, navigating through rough terrain and weather, and balancing their packs. To further their hikers' resilience, departments should pay more attention to the career development ecology, including improving access to qualified trail guides and to alternate paths".

 

Source:

Bickel, J. (2009). Career development as a long-distance hike. Journal Of General Internal Medicine, 24(1), 118-121.

Small

Life shinks without Love.

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Mindfulness in the Workplace

Mindfulness will be like the introduction of seat belts in cars; at first no one thought they were important and now they are a safety requirement. Mindfulness may become the seat belt of mental health and one day it will be taught in schools for all people to practice.

-Diana Winston, Director, Mindful Awareness ResearchCenter, UCLA

Dhiman, S. (2009). Mindfulness in Life and Leadership: An Exploratory Survey. Interbeing, 3(1), 55-80.