“There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”

Stephen R. Covey

Inc Magazine always does a great job in showcasing leadership. In this article, they discuss the following leadership quotes from US presidents.

1. Don’t doubt your own authority.
2. Build on what makes you unique.
3. Balance idealism with pragmatism.
4. Embrace innovation for the sake of innovation.
5. Consider the needs of others as well as your own.
6. Focus on how you communicate change.
7. View your rivals as partners.
8. Don’t lose sense of your priorities.
9. The cover-up is always worse than the crime.
10. Bring a sense of optimism to everything you do.

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WHEN Doug Carter starts talking about leadership, you can’t help but listen. With a homespun drawl and eyes that twinkle with delight, he launches into a forthright discussion about the importance of leadership – from the community to the international stage.

“Nothing is going to change a country but good leadership,” he says, pointing to the myriad woes the world over.

And, paraphrasing leadership guru and his good friend John C. Maxwell, he adds: “If we don’t get the leadership part right, all our other efforts – food and cash aid, community programmes, etc. – are wasted.”

Carter really is a bit of an expert himself at this. The 69-year-old is a former missionary and Bible College president who is now senior vice-president of EQUIP — non-profit organisation specialising in the development of effective international leaders. Every year, he travels the world, teaching all about leadership to an ever growing audience.

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Professor David V Day is one of the best known advisors to companies and organisations across the globe on leadership development and management. His latest assignment is a three-year engagement with Infosys Technologies, to help India’s second-biggest software exporter identify sustainable leadership models. Having advised organisations such as the US Army on leadership development and training, professor Day tells ET that leadership globally is undergoing a massive shift — that from individual leadership to a much more collaborative model wherein leaders work with other leaders.

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Knowledge@Wharton Interviews Former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam.

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

About Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver has been drawn to the kitchen since he was a child working in his father’s pub-restaurant. He showed not only a precocious culinary talent but also a passion for creating (and talking about) fresh, honest, delicious food. In the past decade, the shaggy-haired “Naked Chef” of late-’90s BBC2 has built a worldwide media conglomerate of TV shows, books, cookware and magazines, all based on a formula of simple, unpretentious food that invites everyone to get busy in the kitchen. And as much as his cooking is generous, so is his business model — his Fifteen Foundation, for instance, trains young chefs from challenged backgrounds to run four of his restaurants.

Now, Oliver is using his fame and charm to bring attention to the changes that Brits and Americans need to make in their lifestyles and diet. Campaigns such as Jamie’s School Dinner, Ministry of Food and Food Revolution USA combine Oliver’s culinary tools, cookbooks and television, with serious activism and community organizing — to create change on both the individual and governmental level.

Adventure Sports is a Warwickshire based activity event provider that offers a unique leadership development workshop that helps leaders learn more about team leading through an adventure exercise that has the team traveling from checkpoint to checkpoint using a map. They also offer some exciting activities including quad bikes to Landrovers, sheep dog herding to Paintball or JCB digging to archery.

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Who’s Who Series

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist and a featured writer and speaker throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

She promoted the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture. She wrote reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures and amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life.

List of books by Margaret Mead

As a sole author

Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
Growing Up in New Guinea (1930)
The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe (1932)
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)
And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (1942)
Male and Female (1949)
New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation in Manus, 1928-1953 (1956)
People and Places (1959)
Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964)
Culture and Commitment (1970)
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years (1972)

As editor or coauthor

Cultural Patterns and Technical Change, editor (1953)
Primitive Heritage: An Anthropological Anthology, edited with Nicholas Calas (1953)
An Anthropologist at Work, editor (1959)
The Study of Culture At A Distance, edited with Rhoda Metraux, 1953
Themes in French Culture, with Rhoda Metraux, 1954
The Wagon and the Star: A Study of American Community Initiative co-authored with Muriel Whitbeck Brown, 1966
A Rap on Race, with James Baldwin, 1971
A Way of Seeing, with Rhoda Metraux, 1975

By: Gregory Frost

A leader does not always have to lead. A leader can also be a follower. To be a leader, one will definitely have to have the qualities. Not every joker in the town can be leader. There are also leaders within us that have yet to be discovered. And that is the amazing thing about being a leader – while everyone can be a leader, not everyone have the skills and qualities to be a GOOD leader.

If you are asking what is a leader, then I have the true meaning of it here for your. A true leader is one that is sociable and also matured. He has to be good natured and outgoing such that it is able to connect extremely well with his fellow followers. A leader must be one who loves interacting with people. In fact, research has said that people with high scalability are generally happier and this is definitely a plus point as it is humans’ nature to follow someone who is always contented with life.

Some of us a born to be leaders while some get trained to be one. Either way, the role of the leader is one that is tough and arduous. This is the reason why majority of us would not want to take up any form of leadership role because of the fear of the inability to cope with the immense responsibility.

Leaders are people who have a lot of courage in them and are always prepared to face any problems that might arise during their leadership post. If you think that being the leader of your football team is driving you bonkers, then think about The U.S President!

To be an extremely effective leader, you will definitely need to have certain traits in you that form the main support to your leadership. To get you started, a leader must be one that has truckloads of self-confidence within him. How can you lead well when you can barely have faith in yourself as a leader? The lack of confidence in your ability as a leader will just leave you in a dangerous position of making your followers to lose trust and respect in you.

The ability to have the self-confidence will make you to be a tough and strong leader who is able to successfully deal with challenges without breaking a sweat and will not get easily dispirited.

Other then self-confidence, there are other qualities that are essential for your leadership role to head to the peak of success. These qualities would include decisiveness, attentiveness, integrity and consistency.

There are of course other qualities that leaders should posses so as to maximize their leadership role to the utmost potential. These qualities work if you are able to persistently tell your mind that you are able to do it. Learn how to listen to your mind and follow what is best and in return, give your co-workers the best service of yours.

Remember, leaders will never be leaders if they work alone. This is the mistake that most leaders make with their co-workers. Sometimes leaders can go over the board and hence upsetting the co-workers. This is why leaders should always be communicative and is consistently interacting with people so as to forge better bonds and rapport with every one working under him.

Being a leader can be an easy task, depending on which approach you take. If you are already leading a pack, then congrats! And keep up with the good job brave one!

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