Leadership course in Johannesburg
Five seasons of two hours each to explain personal leadership. Becoming a leader requires personal habits of two types. The first set of habits refer to the forging of personal character, and the second have to do with professional competency. The latter might...
Listen to communicate and motivate
For Peter Drucker (The Practice of Management), it is the director who fixes the objectives that need to be reached (Covey’s 2nd and 4th habits), and organises the necessary activities (Covey’s 3rd habit). A director then motivates and communicates. He or she...
Time Management in Covey & Drucker
Time management is of great importance for the work of direction. Let us see how Stephen R. Covey and Peter Drucker deal with this issue. Covey divides tasks to be accomplished into: urgent, not urgent and important, or not important. He then analyzes all the possible...
Habit and Action
It is not just the result that counts, even though this is indeed very important. Actually, insofar as I am interested in obtaining the best result, I consider the initial upsets as simply partial, as further occasions to in a real way lead me to the finish line. In...
Consistency and Integrity
Imagine that one day on your way to work a person walks up to you. This person is smiling and asks you to answer a simple question: “What do you look for in a leader? What are the characteristics that, in your opinion, must never be missing in a person who directs an...
The Leader Servant
Many authors,[1] speak of the leader-servant who judges his or her success not only according to the achievement of the result, but also on the basis of the effects of that result in those who materially collaborated to that end. That is, action produces two types of...
Ethics helps me to be better
It is a common error to consider ethics as the whole of precepts that, for more or less noble reasons, limit one’s behavior. In the best case scenario, according to this way of thinking, I should limit my personal freedom to a more elevated social motive. That is, any...
Habit and Action
It is not just the result that counts, even though this is indeed very important. Actually, insofar as I am interested in obtaining the best result, I consider the initial upsets as simply partial, as further occasions to in a real way lead me to the finish line. In...
The Good & Happiness: Anna and Beatrice
Anna’s dream was to have children. Yet it seems that this might not be possible. This reality is difficult for her to accept and she looks for ways of even partially easing her deep sorrow. She knows that every morning the nearby park is full of mothers with their...
The Leader Servant
Many authors,[1] speak of the leader-servant who judges his or her success not only according to the achievement of the result, but also on the basis of the effects of that result in those who materially collaborated to that end. That is, action produces two types of...
Ethics and the Process of Human Acting
Ethics is knowledge concerning the moral life as lived, and reflects on the actions of the moral life. Ethics, then, in the first place has as its point of departure personal experience, and only secondarily a reflection of practical knowledge which becomes normative...