Should A Leader Swear?

August 1, 2010 by Gil Pizano · 2 Comments
Filed under: Leadership, Personal Development 

Profanity 300x300 Should A Leader Swear?A pro­lific leader by the name of Spencer W. Kim­ball once noted: “Pro­fan­ity is the attempt of a fee­ble mind to express itself force­fully.” How many peo­ple would agree with that state­ment? It’s also been men­tioned that a per­son who uses pro­fan­ity to con­tin­u­ously express them­selves is only show­ing their lim­ited com­mand of basic lan­guage skills. Most, if not all lan­guages, have mul­ti­ple ways of express­ing them­selves strongly for just about any type of sit­u­a­tion with­out the use of swear­ing or the use of pro­fane lan­guage. Some­times though peo­ple find the need to cuss in order to get the point across to others.

When given the choice of using pro­fane lan­guage, some freely choose to ver­bally let loose like the most tal­ented sailor as the say­ing goes. But what good is it to cuss? Read more

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Give a Gift without Expecting Something in Return

June 19, 2010 by Gil Pizano · 3 Comments
Filed under: Leadership, Mentoring, Networking 

In the work of French soci­ol­o­gist, Mar­cel Mauss, it’s stated that “Gifts are never free!”. That when some­one gives another per­son a gift, they are always expect­ing some­thing rec­i­pri­col in return from that per­son. Now how much truth is in that really? Many of my friends and asso­ciates have argued with me when it comes to the notion of there being no such thing as a free gift. Some even have gone so far as to say that one should be wary of an unex­pected gift giver appear­ing before you and giv­ing you a gift. Espe­cially one you didn’t ask for. Is there really such a thing as a free gift? I say there is. Read more

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Leading and the Multigenerational Factor

June 13, 2010 by Gil Pizano · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Leadership 

generational1 300x300 Leading and the Multigenerational FactorIf you’re in the work­force today you’ve prob­a­bly expe­ri­enced mis­un­der­stand­ings that occur due to peo­ple being of dif­fer­ing gen­er­a­tions. You may not know or believe that mis­un­der­stand­ings can occur due to peo­ple being of dif­fer­ent gen­er­a­tions, but they do and it’s sim­ply a fact of life. This sim­ple fact is prob­a­bly more impor­tant today than ever before and here’s why. For the first time in human his­tory, we have four sep­a­rate gen­er­a­tions work­ing together in soci­ety. Each gen­er­a­tion has its own char­ac­ter­is­tics, strengths, likes and dis­likes, and work­ing style. Read more

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Hey! Are You Actually Talking to Yourself?

June 5, 2010 by Gil Pizano · 1 Comment
Filed under: Helpful Insights 

TalkToYourself Hey! Are You Actually Talking to Yourself?Do you ever find your­self talk­ing to your­self? Either out loud or qui­etly in your mind? A lot of peo­ple asso­ciate talk­ing to your­self as more than a lit­tle strange. Some even say that if you talk to your­self, you’re just a lonely per­son with no real friends and that you may need to seek psy­chi­atric coun­sel­ing. But I don’t agree with that. I don’t even agree with any­one who has really any­thing neg­a­tive to say about talk­ing to your­self. The rea­son being that any­one who has a healthy mind will find them­selves talk­ing to them­selves more often than not. But what does that really say about a per­son? Read more

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Renew Your Energy

May 30, 2010 by Gil Pizano · 1 Comment
Filed under: Helpful Insights, Positive Attitude 

PersonalEnergyBattery2 Renew Your Energy We all have a bat­tery pack within us that helps to sus­tain our per­sonal energy through­out each day. Nope, I’m not talk­ing about the meal we have in the morn­ing with that fresh cup of cof­fee or tea, although that is a part of the over­all energy equa­tion. I’m talk­ing about the per­sonal energy each one of us has when it comes to just going about the day. Either at work or at a base­ball game or the sort, when our per­sonal energy is charged, you feel good. You feel that you can do good work, enjoy game you’re watch­ing, or keep up with a group con­ver­sa­tion.  But when your per­sonal energy is down, you find your­self get­ting eas­ily irri­tated, your con­cen­tra­tion becomes more dif­fi­cult to main­tain, your inter­est in doing some­thing begins to be lack­ing. Read more

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Managing vs. Leading vs. Directing vs. Guiding vs. Coaching vs. Supervising vs. Perceptions

May 23, 2010 by Gil Pizano · 3 Comments
Filed under: Leadership 

Man­ag­ing vs. Lead­ing. I’ve heard many things and read many arti­cles about being a man­ager ver­sus being a leader. At the same time there have been many arti­cles and sem­i­nars on what I’ll call the com­po­nents of a man­ager and the com­po­nents of a leader.

Being a leader. Is it the same as being a man­ager? Is being a good man­ager the same as being a good leader?  What does coach­ing and the abil­ity to coach mean when it comes to being a good man­ager? When it comes to being a good leader? What does guid­ing have to do with lead­er­ship? With man­ag­ing With direct­ing? A man­ager has to know how to plan, orga­nize, direct and con­trol but a leader may not know how to plan, orga­nize,  direct and con­trol. Yet they are still a leader! Read more

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It Seems like Everyone has a Blog These Days

May 16, 2010 by Gil Pizano · 3 Comments
Filed under: Social Media 

Blogs2 It Seems like Everyone has a Blog These DaysIt seems like there are many peo­ple who have some sort of blog these days doesn’t it. Every time you go online either to check your email or to look up some­thing, we get bom­barded with infor­ma­tion about the “How to Make a Six Fig­ure Income from Home” or “Ger­bils and their Own­ers Forum”.

For those of you who are skep­ti­cal or dare I say cyn­i­cal about peo­ple who have a blog and their intents, I say don’t be. Yes, there are plenty of get rich quick schemes and shys­ters out there online unfor­tu­nately, but there is also plenty of great infor­ma­tion out there on just about every sub­ject a per­son is inter­ested in. Much of this infor­ma­tion is con­tained within blogs. Read more

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When There is Simply Not Enough Time

May 8, 2010 by Gil Pizano · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Helpful Insights 

HeadinHands 300x262 When There is Simply Not Enough Time Keep­ing busy can def­i­nitely lead to a sharper and quicker mind. But what if being con­sis­tently busy is not get­ting you the results you want? What if you find that you can’t get every­thing you set out to do accom­plished? Even if you do accom­plish it, is it up the cal­iber you wish it to be? It’s really great to be involved in many great activ­i­ties and orga­ni­za­tions. But if you aren’t sat­is­fied with the qual­ity of the things you are deliv­er­ing, it may be time to re-evaluate. Read more

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Let’s Have Some Character; Keeping One’s Word

April 25, 2010 by Gil Pizano · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Leadership 

Coffee1 300x299 Lets Have Some Character; Keeping One’s WordKeep­ing one’s word. It’s prob­a­bly one of the eas­i­est ways to build cred­i­bil­ity and also one of the eas­i­est ways to loose it. Keep­ing your word is also one of the sim­plest ways to show char­ac­ter and integrity. Why do I say that? Let me tell you what recently hap­pened to me and how some­one, unfor­tu­nately, tainted their char­ac­ter by doing some­thing as sim­ple as not keep­ing their word on more than one occasion.

The other day I was with some­one who had intro­duced them­selves to a col­league of mine and I at a func­tion ear­lier in the year. His name was Robert and the func­tion we met at was being hosted by an orga­ni­za­tion that I am a mem­ber of. I also help to run many of the organization’s func­tions and this par­tic­u­lar func­tion was no excep­tion. Read more

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Why Would Someone Want to be a Leader?

April 2, 2010 by Gil Pizano · 2 Comments
Filed under: Leadership 

It’s a ques­tion I find myself ask­ing every now and then. Being a leader always comes with it added respon­si­bil­ity in some form or another. Added respon­si­bil­ity because every­one has things they are respon­si­ble for in their life. Whether it is their rent or mort­gage, gro­cery bills, school home­work, par­ent­hood respon­si­bil­i­ties, job respon­si­bil­i­ties, you name it. We all have them in some mix. When a per­son is a leader, added respon­si­bil­i­ties come about. With that added pres­sures, added stress, more hours most likely needed in order to get things done. So why would some­one want to be a leader? Read more

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