Traits of the conscious effective leader: Decisiveness

Have you ever had problems making a decision? I certainly have, from the smallest silliest (do you want coffee or tea) to the larger more existential ones (should we marry, move to another country), when not considering daily decisions in the office or whatever work site.

So we both know the pains involved: the immobilisation, the insecurity, the awkwardness, swirling around with no results to show. Waiting for others to set directions. Playing out roles rather than being the lead actors of our lives. Making excuses for not meeting goals or commitments.   

What about now, are you able to take decisions on time? How about the extent to which you are comfortable moving forward in uncertainty?   

Years ago, as I was offered a practice job in Turkey, my father adviced me to simply make a decision there and then. The owner would get annoyed at me if I wasn’t able to take that decision. Dad told me I could...

Behind the mask of leadership - who am I - why should You stay ?

Before digging into all kinds of subjects, let me start with moving aside the mask of a leadership consultant for a moment. Hopefully some of you will want to stay afterwards.   

Why these news posts ?

The main motivation for this is to give you something you may find useful, to reach more people, to build new relations,  and to expand my social network with people having some kind of affinity. Some of you may become collaboration partners, suppliers, potential customers, or again connect with each other through me. Business wouldn’t survive without people reaching out, mine neither.

This concerns us all:

The world is undergoing substantial changes:  climate changes, a flood of refugees and migrants, painfully brutal work markets, markets and organisations of all kinds coping to restructure and to survive.  This again causes increasing health issues for many.  Some causes may be...

Do You care about good leadership and are You searching for more wisdom, energy replenishment, experiential learning or knowledge? Would You also also appreciate an easily accessible meeting place for exchanging thoughts and experiences on the topic ?

Imagine a Leadership Academy built around the members' own online library, filled with good, relevant content. You may be thinking:  whatever is that good for and who would need it ?

'Every library, public or private, incarnates this intellectual greed: to hold materially what can be apprehended mentally. To possess, if not the wisdom, then the Possibility of wisdom contained in books'.   - Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel with some others have more to say on this topic, You can read it here: 'Why books are the best furniture'

 The library of Alexandria stood during the Antiquity and for centuries after as the materialisation of human knowledge itself. The city's new library, designed by renowned...