Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Remembering a legend - Yannis Behrakis


Remembering a legend (Yannis Behrakis)


Greek photojournalist Yannis Behrakis in 2016. Behrakis died at 58 this weekend of cancer. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Yannis Behrakis died Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. Behrakis spent most of his career with Reuters and his most powerful images came during times of conflict.

“I’m there to record the best and the worst of humankind,” Behrakis said in his Reuters biography. “This is my contribution to world peace.”

Behrakis, born in Greece in 1960, led a team of Reuters’ photojournalists who won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for covering the refugee crisis impacting Europe.

via Greek Basil

WSJ: Are You A Confident Or Overconfident Boss? Here’s How To Tell

SUperbossesWall Street Journal Report: Leadership, Are You a Confident or Overconfident Boss? Here’s How to Tell, by Sydney Finkelstein Dartmouth; author, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent(2016)):
Four questions to ask yourself to make sure cockiness isn’t interfering with your—and your team’s—performance.
Ask most people what traits make for great leaders, and self-confidence would almost certainly be near the top. The best managers not only act decisively, but draw on their confidence to support—and challenge—team members. These managers also instill confidence in their people—a near-impossible task if they don’t model confidence themselves.
But there’s a fine line between self-confidence and overconfidence.
Too much self-confidence leads to arrogance, which can alienate employees, customers and other stakeholders. It blinds us to our own failings, preventing us from growing and improving, and prompting us to rush headlong into ill-advised decisions. And it can lead us to overlook new opportunities: With our delusions of certainty and all-knowingness, we become lazy and fail to seek out novelty.