Monday, August 31, 2009

Suggested qualities of leadership

Every leader should maintain some qualities. According to Thomas Carlyle, leadership emerges when an entity as "leader" contrives to receive respect from other entities who become "followers". The process of getting deference can become competitive in that the emerging "leader" draws "followers" from the factions of the prior or alternative "leaders". Some studies of leadership have suggested qualities that people often associate with leadership. They include:
  • Technical/specific skill at some task at hand
  • Charismatic inspiration: attractiveness to others and the ability to leverage this esteem to motivate others
  • Preoccupation with a role: a commitment that consumes much of leaders' life service to a cause
  • A clear sense of purpose, clear goals, focus, commitment
  • Results orientation: directing every action towards a mission prioritizing activities to spend time where results most accrue
  • Cooperation: work well with others
  • Optimism: very few pessimists become leaders
  • Rejection of determinism: belief in one's ability to "make a difference"
  • Ability to encourage and nurture those that report to them - delegate in such a way as people will grow
  • Role models: leaders may accept a persona that encapsulates their mission and lead by example
  • Self-awareness: the capability to "lead" one's own self prior to leading other selves likewise
  • With regards to people and to projects, the capability to choose winners: recognizing that, unlike with skills, one cannot (in general) teach attitude. Note that "picking winners" ("choosing winners") carries implications of gamblers' luck as well as of the capacity to take risks, but "true" leaders, like gamblers but unlike "false" leaders, base their decisions on realistic.
  • Empathy: Understanding what others say, rather than listening to how they say things.
  • Integrity: the integration of outward actions and inner values.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Continuous Sales

You might have come across the situation where you have been disappointed to find the shop you went had run out of stock what you were looking for. There are some the clearance outlets, which sell continuously or ex-display, stock all year round.

You can save up to 70 per cent on furniture and home ware items either because they are cancelled orders, mail order returns or bought direct from the factories, which supply those products.

Cancelled orders and discontinued lines from big-name stores which is able to pass on discounts of up to 50 per cent to customers, both in the store and online. This designer-labels-for-less outlet sells fabulous home ware items at up to 60 per cent off, and stock constantly changes. The factory outlet in Manchester sells discontinued wallpaper, fabric, duvets, pillows, bed linen, towels, rugs and furniture at up to 50 per cent or more off.