Communication - the Key to Effective Leadership

Leadership is an all-encompassing word that means different things to different people. Nonetheless, it is generally perceived to be a process of social influence in which a person, or a group of people, enlists the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task or goal. The mention of the word “leadership” easily paints a myriad of pictures in our minds - pictures of confidence, courage, integrity, honesty, vision, focus, humility and indeed so much more. However, if there ever was a quality, a factor that set apart a great leader from a mediocre one, that factor would be effective communication.

Dealing With Failure

It's funny how I've been meaning to post updates here since my exams ended in February, marking the end of one academic session that never seemed like it'd end, and haven't really been able to. Now that I have a little chance, and have been reminded over and over again by a couple of people that they've been expecting something new, I just thought I'd quickly 'pen down' a little something.

So I decided I'd write about dealing with failure today. It's something virtually all of us have dealt with at one point in our lives or the other, but it's also something the vast majority of us suck at dealing with. Failure can come in as many ways as you can imagine, though it usually seems to revolve around not meeting up with certain moral, academic, spiritual or financial (you name it) standards we might have set for ourselves or believe we are expected to attain. You know what's more? Failure's even more painful when we consider ourselves too big, too smart, too wise or experienced to have made certain errors. Truth be told, as I'm sure we've all heard a million times already, no one is above mistakes. No one!