by jgblanes | Mar 14, 2015 | Articles about Leadership, Leadership
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...
by jgblanes | Feb 22, 2015 | Articles about Leadership, Leadership
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...
by jgblanes | Nov 1, 2014 | Articles about Leadership, Leadership
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...
by jgblanes | Apr 2, 2014 | Articles about Ethic, Articles about Leadership, Ethics, Leadership
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...
by jgblanes | Nov 12, 2013 | Articles about Leadership, Leadership
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...
by jgblanes | Nov 6, 2013 | Articles about Ethic, Articles about Leadership, Ethics, Leadership
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...
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