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My wife is currently in the process of starting a school and the other night we were sitting in our sofa at home talking about kids and leadership.
We talked about what we would like to instill in the children in the school when it comes to leading themselves and others.
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About two weeks ago I bought a new shaver. Lets take a deeper look at this seemingly somewhat trivial experience of acquiring a new machine to groom my face to see what we can learn about life and leadership from it.
First I went through several sites online reading through reviews of different shavers, both from so called experts and everyday users. I like evaluating things before I make a decision, I like the fact that today's Internet has allowed us to share reviews with each other in a much more rapid way.
Life lesson: Evaluate by getting the opinion and views of others who have done it previously before you get yourself into a new kind of endeavour.
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Change is first and foremost internal, not external.
Herein lies both the bright side of change and the dark side, or the heaven and hell if you will.
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Sometimes I come across people who think that they know everything already or they are convinced that something is a certain way, the so called "the earth is flat"-syndrome. Sometimes I become aware that I myself have these predetermined mindsets about things.
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The last few days I have been spending some time playing a new game on my smartphone. The game is called Real Racing 3 and is a lot of fun, but this is not meant to be a game review, it is meant to help you become a better leader and person, to help you on the path to mastery.
I just started playing the game and quickly got better at driving my different cars through various races on well known tracks that the game enters you into. You could say my level of skill was steadily improving. The game has several assists turned on intially to help new drivers stay on track (so to speak), like break assist that helps with breking, stearing assist that helps with the steering etc.
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I am really excited that the new book I have co-authored is now printed.
Unfortunately for all you English speakers out there, it is only available in Swedish so far, but I am hoping we will get an English version ready not too far into the future.
The book has 30 parts or chapters, all related to leadership. Our aim was to write a book that you could both read from start to finish, but that could also be used as a reference material.
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My definition of conflict is:
"When two incompatible strategies for fulfilling our needs cause emotions that make a mutually satisfying solution harder to achieve."
Conflicts arise when the our strategies for fulfilling our needs are incompatible with the strategies of others and when that gives rise to feelings that make it harder so achieve a solution or way forward that is satisfying to all parties involved.