Five Ways to Reach Your Boss

March 23rd, 2010

Now, you may be thinking as you read the title, how on Earth is our relationship with our bosses relevant to leadership lessons? After all, we are all interested in managing our team & business but not our superiors. Well, the reason is simple. The way our boss manages us would affect how they function, & how they ultimately manage our team . For instance, let’s say our boss does not have much trust in our leadership or management skills & resultantly restricts our freedom in making decisions. They would not listen to of any structural reforms or recommendations you propose but impose his will onto you & your team. Clearly, this would significantly obstruct your leadership of your team, don’t you agree?

This example highlights the importance of establishing & maintaining a harmonious & professional relationship with your boss. While leading a team ourselves, it would always pay to recall that they are also accountable to our superiors, & it would certainly not make the job less hard for ourselves or our bosses if they do not agree, regardless of whether they may appear to be ‘myopic’, ‘a control freak’, ’stubborn’, or ‘ignorant’.

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The Importance of Goals In Leadership

March 23rd, 2010

We can learn from the geese that during migration they know their intended location. Their leader needs to have a clear objective and be persistent in keeping the group moving towards that objective. In fact this is critically important. If they do not stay on work, or lack the stamina to get there, then they risk either missing or falling short of their migratory location before the winter sets in. This could seriously affect their ability to breed or even worse, their ability to survive.

So another characteristic that they learn from the geese is that a nice leader is five who knows where they are going and have the persistence to keep going. They have goals, both personal goals and for the team that they lead. Like the geese, who fly thousands of miles when migrating, nice leaders also must know where they are going and be persistent to keep moving the group towards that objective.
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Blog Comments are an Intelligent Way to Natural Link Building

March 18th, 2010

Among all the link building techniques, blog commenting is considered as possibly the weakest. In fact, it would be interesting to mention that many webmasters not even deem the strategy of ‘post commenting’ as a useful natural link building technique, as they fail to determine its actual potential and purpose.

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Bio Fuels

March 16th, 2010

As the term suggests, bio-fuels are fuels that are formed when biological matter decomposes. The bio-fuels are mostly derived from plants. Bio-fuels exist in all the three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.

Difference between bio-fuels and fossil fuels Bio-fuels are different from fossil fuels in the following ways:

• Fossil fuels take a million years to build whereas bio-fuels can be made very quick, in a matter of days.

• Fossil fuels generate large amounts of pollution. Bio-fuels are comparatively safer.

• Bio-fuels are renewable sources of energy unlike fossil fuels.

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GPS and WAAS

March 15th, 2010

The term WAAS as it applies to Gps navigation…what is this,plus what does it mean for you?

WAAS is an acronym for Wide Area Augmentation System.

One will likely have noticed it on ads and containers for Garmin hand held and other GPS units. The big question is….what is it?

WAAS is a system of satellites and ground stations that provide GPS signal corrections, giving you even greater location accuracy.

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