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Leadership Can Set You Free!

Leadership as a discipline and as a daily practice is a lot different to leadership per se (or at least what everybody means, when we talking about leadership!). The discipline of leadership is a self development practice, a one can lead you to radical different ways of doing and behaving, from those you were accustomed previous. For that fact, Leadership is a deeply transformation act, that you can, only, employ freely and deliberately!

Leadership As A Process

Leadership is a process with many...

Instructional Systems Design [Infographic]

Here is an excellent infographic, from eLearning Infographics, presenting the Instructional Design (or Instructional Systems Design) process. Check it out, if you interested at instructional design, e-Learning and effective learning procedures!

Instructional Design is a methodology, discipline, practice and an art of developing effective learning experiences for the learners. The effectiveness of a such methodology, is proved by the effectiveness of the learning process itself.

Instructional De...

The Pros And Cons Of Hiring A Student

Amy Cowen is a professional proofreader, focusing on education, helping students achieving their goals, writing and sharing ideas. You can contact her at Google+.

Hiring a student as a freelancer is not a terrible idea. It is not always fair to judge an employee by experience. There are people that work 30 years in the same job and know little more about it than they did in their fifth year. Still, there are pros and cons to taking on a student as a freelancer. Here are some of the pros and co...

Centrallo – A New Productivity Tool

Centrallo (not affiliate link) is a new list-based productivity tool, that helps the people to organize, to centralize and to prioritize their life. Centrallo is a cross platform native iPhone, iPad and Android app that can help you be more efficient in your personal and professional life.

What Centrallo Is?

Centrallo is a next generation, high functional, productivity tool, that can help you to organize your life in a more simple and productive way. You may think Centrallo as a hybrid tool amo...

Want To Earn Extra Amount Of Money? Explore This Info

This is a guest post, by Sara Jones, focusing on how a student can be better and more adequate to boost his or her career. You can reach her at Google+.

So you’re worried about your expensive college life and thinking about a way that will help you to increase your income. Don’t worry, there are hundreds of ways in which you can earn money and afford your college life expense without any trouble. Yes online system has made it possible for students to earn copious amounts of money in order to p...

Clarity Is A Must!

Clarity in our intentions and communication is one of the most important assets in your toolbox. Sometimes, you have failed to convey the right message or intention towards others! It is a lack of communication, or simple your failure to realize what you really strive after?

Clarity Is A Must!

Clarity is not only about to know what you have to say, but also to include the why (motive/inspiration) and the whom (who is the owner of the task/activity and to whom this activity is directed!) in the...

Monthly Review – August 2014

The Monthly Review for August 2014 is a collection of the most interesting posts and articles, presented in this blog and articles of interest from around the web!

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If you enjoy my monthly roundup and the content of this blog, please join me and on the other social media sites I’m active (check and the sidebar!). You would find either a Leadership Initiative dedicate page or me inGoogle+, inTwitter, inFacebookand inPinterest. In these sites I occasionally share int...

How To Decide As A Fighter Pilot – The OODA Loop!

Do you like to make better decisions? Do you like to decide as a fighter pilot? Then, perhaps you should try to put a little bit of OODA in your life! OODA is a small military acronym I picked up during my army days (in Greece, an at least 1-year military service is compulsory for the men.) I had plenty of hours to spear and a lot of American Army manuals to read! OODA is one of those things you could find extremely useful, later on, at your civilian life!

What OODA Is?

OODA or OODA loop more c...

Focus: How To Do It Better & More Effectively

Focus is an attribute, much in needed today, in a information overload environment! Focus permits you to solely concentrate on the things to be done, ignoring all the other aspects of the environment.

Focus – What A Strange Notion!

Focus (or attention, as more formally it is known) is:

the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Attention has also been referred to as the allocation of processing resources. (WIKIP...

What Is A Growth Hacker? [Infographic]

This is an infographic developed by Apostle Mengoulis. Apostle is Growth and Content Hacker at GrowthRocks. You can connect with him at Google+.

In the hindmost half of the 1990s the usage of the Internet erupted. Bits and bytes transformed into products, and since then marketing was never the same. Charles Darwin, imprinted in his infamous Law Of Evolution that: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable...