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    Glimpses of a Changing Scenery: How to Use Leadership, Science & Productivity Strategies to Win the Business Game
    Glimpses of a Changing Scenery: How to Use Leadership, Science & Productivity Strategies to Win the Business Game
    Glimpses of a Changing Scenery: How to Use Leadership, Science & Productivity Strategies to Win the Business Game
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    Glimpses of a Changing Scenery: How to Use Leadership, Science & Productivity Strategies to Win the Business Game

    By Takis Athanassiou

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    Leadership, today, can be used both as a framework of thought and as a tool for bringing desired and intended changes to a personal and professional level. 

    These changes, made intentionally on a personal and professional level, can propagate results and outputs in the areas of personal development, relationships, business, communities, policies, politics, etc. 

    Considering the present situation, with all the problems a modern person has to cope with, the changing of things that are not working anymore, as used to be, should and ought to be a task of personal responsibility. And for this reason, I believe that a broad initiative must be taken, in order to regain the insights that can lead us, to formulate a better social, political, business and personal environment. 

    I believe that Leadership, as a principle and disciple, is a vital component in this procedure and can be used by anyone in order to enhance his/her personal and professional life. 

    Furthermore, if leadership backed up and supported by science and productivity strategies, the results would be awesome.

    Today, in a competitive market environment, with more demanding tasks and requirements a person can cope with, and with a widespread information overload demanding for attention, a person should he or she have a guide to support him/her in his/hers daily, short and long term goals. 

    This little book moves to that direction. It consists of articles and posts that provide a framework for reflection and discussion on topics related to the areas of business, leadership, personal development, productivity, and of the tools can support an effective activity in these areas. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTakis Athanassiou
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9781386399094
    Glimpses of a Changing Scenery: How to Use Leadership, Science & Productivity Strategies to Win the Business Game

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      Glimpses of a Changing Scenery - Takis Athanassiou

      Introduction

      Leadership, today, can be used both as a framework of thought and as a tool for bringing desired and intended changes to a personal and professional level.

      These changes, made intentionally on a personal and professional level, can propagate results and outputs in the areas of personal development, relationships, business, communities, policies, politics, etc.

      Considering the present situation, with all the problems a modern person has to cope with, the changing of things that are not working anymore, as used to be, should and ought to be a task of personal responsibility. And for this reason, I believe that a broad initiative must be taken, in order to regain the insights that can lead us, to formulate a better social, political, business and personal environment.

      I believe that Leadership, as a principle and disciple, is a vital component in this procedure and can be used by anyone in order to enhance his/her personal and professional life.

      Furthermore, if leadership backed up and supported by science and productivity strategies, the results would be awesome.

      Today, in a competitive market environment, with more demanding tasks and requirements a person can cope with, and with a widespread information overload demanding for attention, a person should he or she have a guide to support him/her in his/hers daily, short and long term goals.

      This little book moves to that direction. It consists of articles and posts that provide a framework for reflection and discussion on topics related to the areas of business, leadership, personal development, productivity, and of the tools can support an effective activity in these areas.

      I compile this book as a way to clarify my ideas and gain a perspective on the strategies I used in my work and life.

      When I finish it off though, I thought that some ideas can benefit more people and decide to publish it as a reference material on the ideas discussed on my blog and within Leadership Initiative Community.

      I hope, that this guide can be used for the support of everyday activities of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and freelancers, empower them with a framework of thought and action that would help them achieve their goals.

      Leadership Initiative

      Leadership Initiative is a concept grown out from simple, everyday actions and the challenges these presented in their implementation.

      From a personal quest of finding ways to work smarter, to be more productive, to make a difference, or providing better results towards others (my family, my friends, my coworkers, my associates, my clients, etc.) this idea has grown faster into something that involved many interested parties.

      The advance of social media provide me a point of reference and a platform, to check the validity of the approach, against real situations.

      Its components are simple:

      ●  Leadership & business ideas, principles, tools and methodologies that support  the implementation of goals

      ●  Initiative for action, and an

      ●  Personal ownership of the actions performed and responsibility for the outcome

      The Leadership Initiative framework provides a base for the communication of a very simple message.

      That everyone can achieve his or hers goals, if he or she do it purposefully, with passion, new ideas, a proper methodology and with the right tools.

      As I have written on my blog:

      Leadership, today, can be used both as a framework of thought and as a tool for bringing desired and intended changes to a personal and professional level. These changes, made on a personal level, can propagate results and outputs in the areas of personal development, relationships, business, communities, politics, etc. And for this reason, I believe that a broad initiative must be taken, in order to regain the insights that can lead us, to formulate a better social, political, business and personal environment. I think that Leadership, as a principle and disciple, is something that can be used by anyone in order to enhance his/her personal and professional life.

      The Leadership Initiative approach, focuses in practical, ready to be used ideas and tools, deriving its origins, by more rigor and formal methodologies from the areas of leadership, of business, of management, etc. and relying heavily on concepts developed by them.

      Business As Usual

      What Exactly Strategy Is? (Αnd What It Is Not!)

      Have you ever consider, what strategy is?

      We hear all the time about strategy by many official and unofficial channels.

      The strategy is one of those basic concepts (as Leadership, Productivity, Personal Development, etc. is) people usually, use it wrong, and often for the wrong reasons.

      But why there is such confusion about what strategy is, since it is such important components in our modern way of thinking? And why it is so difficult to define what strategy is?

      The strategy is a concept that most people find it an essential component (or tool) in the arsenal of every modern person (either for business, professional or for personal use) but rarely get into the trouble of defining it or use it correctly.

      For this reason, a lot of the people discuss political, social, cultural, personal, life or business strategies for getting this or that, but the most of the times they define it in a problematic way and as a result, use it wrongly.

      Let’s clear up, a little, the fog, surround the word strategy and see where can we go from here.

      So first things first.

      Let’s see, what strategy is not.

      For the most of the people, the word strategy is an alternative to long-term planning and most of the companies or organizations use it in this context.

      But long-term planning is quite different from strategic planning (as we will see!)

      So the strategy is not equal to planning. Maybe strategy involves planning, but it does not equal to that.

      Pursue this analogy, a strategy it seems to be neither just:

      ●  tactics,

      ●  tool,

      ●  method,

      ●  design,

      ●  scheme,

      ●  approach,

      ●  framework, or

      ●  a way of thinking

      Still strategy encompass all (and much more of) the above. So what exactly strategy is. Let’s see how we can define it.

      Merriam-Webster dictionary, defines strategy as:

      a (1) : the science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war (2) : the science and art of military command exercised to meet the enemy in combat under advantageous conditions

      b : a variety of or instance of the use of strategy

      2 a : a careful plan or method : a clever stratagem

      b : the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a goal

      3: an adaptation or complex of adaptations (as of behavior, metabolism, or structure) that serves or appears to serve an important function in achieving evolutionary success

      But this is a very general definition, hardly suitable for applying strategy principles (or strategic thinking) in our daily activities (something highly favorable, since, the implementation and use of strategic concepts in our life, would produce better results, in almost every situation, either professional or personal).

      Why we need more functional definitions of strategy? Because we need a definition that would define its application and prescribe its usage in a simple, elegant and functional way, that everyone can follow and better his/her life (in all levels!). And exactly that is the goal!

      As we discussed, the strategy can be a lot of the things (and have a lot of meanings for different people). But we have to agree on what it is, in order to have a common ground for discussing about strategy and implementing it in the same way.

      International literature suggests, that there are 7 basic components that define strategy.

      Namely:

      A measurable objective or goal to be reached

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