Taliban Hardliners Spread Out to Undermine Afghanistan Election

The Taliban leadership has redeployed some of its most hardline foot soldiers into areas of Afghanistan where local insurgents are reluctant to disrupt the country’s elections on Thursday. Details of the move emerged as a statement, said to carry the authority of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, reiterated that the

Are Leaders Born or Made?

For centuries people have debated whether leaders are born or made. Several decades ago researchers started trying to answer the question. The debate goes on, even though we know the answer. It turns out to be a little of both. Leaders are sort of born and they’re always made. Knowing

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Emotional Intelligence: Positively Invest Your Emotional Energy

The 2009 “Stress in America Survey” by the American Psychological Association (APA) highlighted the rising levels of stress Americans continue to experience. Concerned with the “prevalence with which Americans continue to report increasing and extreme stress levels,” Dr. Katherine Nordal Phd., APA’s executive director, expressed the need for tools to

You Choose: Laugh or Cry

You Choose: Laugh or Cry Self Help Articles | December 3, 2009 We choose how we react, in every situation.  We choose to be upset or to be positive. Next time you are in a laugh or cry situation, choose wisely. Some days are filled with one challenge after another. 

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Types of Leadership

If you look at modern organizations today, you will find managers adopting different kinds of leadership styles, in order to achieve their targets. These days, organizations are not like what they used to be. Today we have people from different countries, cultures, educational backgrounds, skills, working in the same team,

Postcard Marketing Model #22: Spark Repeat Business

Did you know that it costs five times as much to sell to a new customer as to sell something else to the same customer? Although this fact is far from a marketing secret, it’s a rare company that takes full advantage of this important dynamic. Online, you can follow

The Listening Leadership Talk

<img src="http://www.buzzle.com/img/articleImages/91710-4med.jpg" width="325" height="488" alt="The Listening Leadership Talk" class="ImgBorder"Enlarge Image For more than 20 years, I have taught the Leadership Talk to thousands of people worldwide. And maybe the most important thing I’ve taught isn’t about talking — at least the leader’s talking. I’ve taught there is a hierarchy of

How To Identify The Signs That Your Business Is Heading For Trouble

Has your business started to take a turn for the worse recently? Are your cash flow worries keeping you awake at night? The following ten questions will help you to determine if your business is the lean mean fighting machine you believed, or a bed-ridden sick note, coughing and spluttering

The Value of Values

<img src="http://www.buzzle.com/img/articleImages/49179-1med.jpg" width="310" height="256" alt="The Value of Values" class="ImgBorder"Enlarge Image One of the toughest jobs a leader has to perform is to act as guardian of an organization’s values. An organization’s values are the things that are really important to it. In the early days of an enterprise, the values

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Merkel Becomes Germany’s First Woman Chancellor

Germany was on the brink of a new and volatile political era last night, after a deal was agreed that will see the conservative leader Angela Merkel become the country’s first ever woman chancellor. Three weeks of wrangling over last month’s indecisive election ended yesterday when the chancellor, Gerhard Schröder,