Posts Tagged ‘Leading’

Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading

Climbing Mount Everest: dangerous. Hitchhiking in Colombia: very dangerous. Leading through change: perilous. Perilous but possible, say Heifetz and Linsky in their encouragingly practical guide to putting yourself on the line and negotiating the hazards of leadership. As the authors acknowledge, many leadership books are "all about inspiration, bu[Read More]

Management: Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive World


Bateman and Snell’s Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World is a text with a fully modernized functional approach. This text is maintaining the four traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, while modernizing and re-visioning the concepts as delivering strategic value, building a dynamic organization, mobilizing people, and learning and changing.

Bateman/Snell’ results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this textbook. In this ever more competitive environment there are five essential types of performance, on which the organization beats, equals, or loses to the competition which are cost, quality, speed, innovation and new to … More >>
Management: Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive World

Motivation and Opportunity: An Immigrant’s Quest for Knowledge from Mindanao to the Leading Edge of Science and Technology



Life is indeed uncertain; it’s an odyssey subject to natural, social, and economic pressures, which influence its course. However, it’s the inner fire and drive in each individual that ultimately govern and determine the whole course of each human life. If an individual’s motivation is sufficiently strong, it will weather through the ever-changing environment until an opportunity opens, which can allow one’s desires to be fulfilled. This is the story of a… More >>
Motivation and Opportunity: An Immigrant’s Quest for Knowledge from Mindanao to the Leading Edge of Science and Technology