I was reminded of one of the key abilities of a successful leader recently as I was walking to my favorite ice cream store in Namesti Miru. It was a beautiful sunny spring day—perfect weather for enjoying an ice cream cone. After getting my ice cream, I sat down on a bench in the square.
Are the challenges different for women than men who aspire to leadership roles? Which sex makes the best leaders?
Part 4 of a 5 part series
Part 3 of a 5 part series
The topic of leadership—what leaders think, what they feel emotionally, how they view themselves, how they withstand setbacks and failures in their careers—has fascinated me since childhood.
“Creating” perfection in another person has been a recurring theme in literature. In Ovid’s classic, The Metamorphoses, written in Rome in the 1st century, a lonely sculptor by the name of Pygmalion sculpts a marble statue of a woman so beautiful that he falls in love with it.
For many years I have been interested in, and fascinated by, the subtle, almost unconscious, effect a leader can have on an entire organization.
The term alpha, as used in describing personality traits, came from animal behaviorists who, when studying the activities of animals interacting with each other, discovered that groups of animals being showed deference to one specific member of the community by ritualized gestures such as bowing,
I want to begin this final piece in our series on leadership by quoting a well-known and respected leader right here in the Czech Republic. “Leadership is a very serious responsibility. You are affecting people’s lives,” Tomas Sabatka.
