Leadership is a willingness to get out in front to get your people moving in the same direction not because they have to, but because they want to. It is not only about predicting change, it is about creating and implementing change. The best way to predict the future is to invent it, not simply to sit back and let it wash over you.'
-Trevor Boucher (The Boucher Principle)
Be of Good Cheer suggests John Baldoni in the Darwin Magazine - Cheerleading is enthusiasm channeled toward a cause. Work can be hard and, yes, boring at times. Someone with a fresh take on the work, backed by conviction and passion, can energize people and impart a jolt of energy Champion the people and the projects, and you'll all win
Art of Working & Googling Across Frontiers: Balkan Fringe of Evolutionary Leap
John Lukacs has described the way we often feel better than I possibly can:
This is the knowledge that the mystery and the reality of our lives consist in the understanding that we are coming from somewhere and that we are going somewhere, and that between these two mysterious phases God allows us to live and to know that we live while we live. Out of what is darkness to our imperfect minds, for sixty or seventy or eighty years we are living in the light, in the open.
I am a writer from the Balkan Fringe, a part of Europe which has long been notorious exclusively for news of human wickedness. My firm hope is that European and world opinion may henceforth realise this region... can also give rise to other kinds of news and be the home of other kinds of achievement in the field of the arts, literature and civilisation
Women are still a closed book to men Men Stick With Men Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has won the inaugural Booker International Prize, beating British authors Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing and Ian McEwan
• Work at first rescues us, then ravages us [Constitution expands to fill the time allotted Australian Constitution - lightness of humour ; Map of the world ;-) ; The simplest ideas sometimes hide in the obvious Creating Space For Balance]
• · Images of Native American art morph into a crisp shot of the moon orbiting the earth, which in turn becomes a pregnant belly framed against a clear morning sky. So begins Hope ... A little bit of hope ; Mrs Schindler's List Based on a true story, a courageous band of women stands up to the Nazis to save their Jewish husbands in Rosenstrasse ; Recognizing that independent booksellers were grappling with competition for consumers' attention from a growing number of media, Georfe Soros told the audience, "I hope there will be independent booksellers in the years to come, for our society will be weaker and poorer without them... Contemporary America is an "open society that doesn't subscribe to the principles of an open society. We have to recognize our fallibility.... The first principle of an open society is, we may be wrong." Continuing, Soros said that, although he sees a threat to our Constitutional safeguards, he also sees "a growing awareness among people of the danger.... The general public is not extremist, and the public is beginning to take exception." Soros said that he was quite confident that we're going to see a reversal, we're not going to lose our democracy. The Latest News from Bookselling This Week ; Frankfurt Book Fair Going Global in Frankfurt: Organizing Your Rights and Export Business for Result
• · · Sydney Sports and Performance Clinic... Australian Swimming Championships ; Bill Paxman CEO of Random House said that the mariage will be a match made in heaven Random House To Sponsor Australian Cricket Team ; Shane Warne and Powell Sponsors of Books: Powell: Cold River
• · · · 13 Signs of Burnout and How To Help You Avoid It ; Luke Escombe is tired of big companies making life 'easier' Confusing corporate marketing is simplicity itself
• · · · · Being nasty, brutish and short with subordinates has long been a basic staple of corporate behavior, made famous by executives from Leona Helmsley to Michael Eisner. The Bully Backlash - Anger Management: Hurtsville ;-) ; On Saturday night on 28 May 2005 I went to the rural dairy town of Malanda to hear Noel Pearson deliver a speech on reconciliation to 120 mostly white middle-aged patrons of the Rainforest Writers’ Festival. Noel Pearson on ending victimhood and denial
• · · · · · Batman is descended from the Homeric hero, but offers a rose-tinted view of the world in which truth and justice are easily achievable goals. The names and faces may change, but Hollywood has a lasting love affair with warriors who embody wisdom, strength and courage in the face of evil Hero worship ; Dangly bits on Big Brother may have become a yawn, but there was a time when any flash of skin would cause much breast beating - Happier with the skin we're in Obscene and not heard ; The big book festival elsewhere in the world has been in Hay-on-Wye. This year, the Guardian has had a blog posted covering the event The Hay Festival