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Compilation of articles and courses on leadership: how leaders arise, natural leaders, how to learn to lead, educating leaders, etc.

Clichés: Enemies Of Thought - Using common phrases and words to describe or pretend to understand facts may derive into a loss of touch with reality.

Cliché: Who Said That Life Is Fair? - Asking oneself argumentatively whether anyone said that life should be just or fair is a way to admit defeat without consideration to the proven fact that any situation, no matter how dire it might seem, can be turned around.

Cliché: Don't Tell Me How To Live My Life - We have to teach if we are asked to, but we are always more fortunate whenever we can learn from others; so, to think that one cannot learn from others is to condemn oneself to disgrace.

Different Cultures - Travellers should always take extra care in respecting the culture and habits of places they visit, even if they consider that their way of life is better or in the worst case, superior.

The Importance of Gratitude in Cultural Exchange Programs - In life we all become either good examples or good warnings for others to see; thus, if we make mistakes we must amend them, always.

An Objection To Those Who Object - Whenever something like our Motoco stone maze is revealed, the world is never short of those that begin criticising and to whom only one thing should be objected for the sake of brevity: Their uselessness.

The Story Of Captain Tarapow And His Icebreaker - April 2007: A fire develops on board the A.R.A. Almirante Irizar, a massive ship and the only icebreaker in the southern hemisphere; everyone abandons the vessel, except the captain; the ships seems to hang on, as well as the captain.

The Pilot (I) - The pilot is the most important component of an aircraft, so to speak; thus, in any description about the flight of an airplane what is a pilot is a question that must be answered before anything else.

Aristocrats Or Commoners - In life we have a very simple choice to make.

Cliché: We Are Too Different - This argument is used to justify all sorts of misunderstandings and irreducible differences; it is very important to refute it because in any sort of leadership process, the true reasons for the decisions take should always be left completely clear.

Cliché: Nothing Will Happen To Me - This cliché is particularly common among lovers of extreme sports and other risky activities; these individuals generally fall prey of their reckless self-confidence and, of course, end up badly bruised.

Great Idea!... But I am Afraid of It?! - Whenever we think about something great to do then we also feel overwhelmed by the sheer size of our ideas and we ask ourselves how did we get into this? What are going to do? How do we start?

Situations in Which Laws Become Worthless - Law and order should be maintained even during emergencies of any kind, but those in charge of doing so should also understand reasonably that human nature has indeed some limits, especially when and where there is an exacerbated survival instinct.

The Entrepreneur Leader (I) - description of the characteristics required to lead an organisation during its formation phase.

Leaders of Expansion (I) - An overview of the characteristics that a leader needs in order to be successful during the expansion phase of the group under his or her command.

Leaders of Contraction (I) - An overview of the characterisitcs required to lead reenginering and downsizing processes.

The Right Team, The Right Stuff - Choosing the right team to perform any task is a long, often tedious and hard thing to do but the difference between preparation and lack of it is perhaps more evident than anywhere else within a company, army or group of any kind.

How to educate natural leaders (I) - A method to identify and educate natural leaders within an organisational framework.

A hidden way to online profits (I) - If you are an online entrepreneur you are likely waiting for profits and know how hard it can be sometimes to achieve just one sale. However, you may not be acquainted with the fact that your website might already represent a nice value despite everything else.

10 Rules to respect while working independently (I) - If you are an independent worker, you should better learn how to deal with yourself.

An explanation of the failure of many internet ventures (I) - After a spectacular beginning, many Internet companies finally faltered. Many independent web marketers lost many, and suddenly everyone found that the brave new world of the information superhighway seemed no to be anymore. Why?

The Lies That Saved A Judge (I) - Fear or rejection can be very painful.

People and leaders (I) - How the development of leadership skills can help you advance in your career or your business.

The man who became a King (I) - Many people ignore the fact that during the second part of the nineteenth century, a kingdom was born in the Araucania region of Chile, and later expanded to the Argentinean Patagonia.

Authority and Power (I) - Ethics is a complex phenomenon that includes rules, procedures, and experiences. Ethics emerge from our values that indicate to us if something is right or wrong about human behavior.

Ethics: Doing Correct Things or Doing Things Correctly - Ethics is a complex phenomenon that includes rules, procedures, and experiences. Ethics emerge from our values that indicate to us if something is right or wrong about human behavior.

The History Of An Aristocrat's Game: Baccarat - Even the Church went into the gambling business for a while, as people preferred to throw dice and use cards instead of going to mass, and little by little certain games evolved and began to take shape, and one of those was an Italian game that we today know as Baccarat.

Paid Surveys - Several years ago I was injured in an on the job accident and had to collect disability, I noticed all of the hype about paid surveys while searching for a way to supplement my meager income online...

Comments On Political And Religious Fanaticism - No one can say whether one religion is better or more rightful than any other: but even considering this, which is pretty rational, there are individuals that can thing wrongly about religion and induce intolerant attitudes.

The Faces Of Religion - A few days ago I was doing some zapping with my TV set and had the opportunity to watch in two different channels at the same time two revealing interviews that portrayed very well the perceived images that Islam and Christianity enjoy or suffer at this moment.

The Successful Jungle Factory - The production of clandestine weaponry in the so-called 'jungle factories' - but indeed, it is not mandatory that such factories actually be in the jungle or any other particular environment - is a characteristic of mature guerrilla or irregular forces fighting in a long-term conflict. The appearance of such miniature industrial plants is also typical among well-organised resistance forces in invaded territories, and de facto autonomous regions.

Groups and Organisations - Assorted articles related to human groups and organizations, as much commercial (companies or corporations) like without profit aims (associations or foundations).

About Leaders, Casinos and American Football - One of the things that any leader should avoid is the belief that problems would turn to solve themselves automatically; this 'Casino Mentality' puts any organisation at the mercy of fortune and this makes impossible any sensible planning.

Comments on Antoine I, King of Patagonia. - Did you know that Patagonia actually had a King? He was no madman, no dreamer, but a true King.

Leadership and the wilderness - A brief reflection on leadership and the wilderness.

Kinds of leadership - An analysis of the various kinds of leadership required to manage organisations during their various evolutionary stages.

What it takes to become a leader - Thoughts about the characteristics of leaders under different evolutionary stages within corporations and organisations.

A brief reflection on being a manager - Something to think about what it takes to become a real leader instead of an administrator with glorified undertones.

A brief reflection on the purpose of leadership - Something to think about the real purpose and nature of leadership.

A brief reflection on getting recognition - Something to think about how to get recognition by others.

A brief reflection on leadership training - Something to think about leadership training.

Sparking Vocations - Don´t want to see people fail? Want to fight poverty? Then don´t feed it but dedicate yourself to opening minds; show children how to fly, sail in a boat or climb a mountain.

Nine Ways To Get The Most Out Of Living Your Life Purpose - You have finally clarified what your life is about. Now what?

Takers For Granted - Are you a taker? Do you take things for granted?

Leadership courses - The various leadership courses available (basic, intermediate, advanced and superior leadership courses) thorough Andinia.com and The Gea Org.

The Gea Org - Know the investigations and developments of the Grupo Explorador Argentino (GEA), whose knowledge in the topics of expeditions, mountaineering, survival, first aid, science, technology, self-defense, organisation and leadership have made the existence of Andinia.com possible.

When Everybody Is Wrong, Everybody Is Right - Too many people telling you things? Too many controls to let people enter your country? Too many complains? Too many friends leaving you? Them it might be that you are not so right after all.

A possibility that should not be overlooked in the framework of study of urban survival: Governments may turn against their own people. - It might seem inappropriate, subversive, exaggerated or apocalyptic, but even democratic governments sometimes turn against their own citizens and act in order to persecute them; thus, if you study urban survival techniques you have to at least account for this possibility.

Normally, leaders are beyond and above their people, but sometimes the opposite becomes the case. - What happens when contact with reality is lost and the public ends up thinking more reasonably than their leaders?

Strategic intuition: Leaders and strange projects - From time to time someone pops out in front of TV cameras and says that he - or she - has a magnificent plan; some of those plans, allegedly generated spontaneously, are pure chimeras, but there are also leaders that promise to reach the Moon, and they finally do that. The quality of leadership has a lot to do with that. What is needed in order to get such quality?

The colour of salmon - What colour do you see when you eat salmon? Many would say somewhat redundantly that its colour is salmon, or red, but in reality, it isn't; the odd thing is that people normally wouldn't like to buy salmon, which is not coloured salmon, which is not the truth. This kind of selective blindness can be seen also in decision-making processes, turning management and leadership into random ventures.

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