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There has been a lot written about virtual team leadership in the weeks since the nature of work has fundamentally changed. Strong leadership is more important than ever. I’ve seen firsthand what constitutes a great leader — in the best of times and in the ones that try us the most. The five following qualities make for great leadership, and the more we cultivate each, the better leaders we will become, during the current crisis and beyond.
Every leader needs to learn the difference between listening and hearing. Hearing is passive; listening is active — and it’s the greatest way to understand what is happening in our organizations.
We often find ourselves thinking about our last conversation or preparing for our next meeting, and we’re not fully engaged with the situation at hand. But real listening requires full engagement. You listen not just with your ears, but with all your senses. Great listeners take cues from body language, facial expressions and gestures. What’s not said is just as important as what is said.
We must create avenues and mechanisms for voices to be heard, especially those who might otherwise not have the courage to speak up. We must keep our minds open. We don’t know all the answers, which means we need to show up uniquely to each conversation, to be intentional in every interaction. This means eliminating distractions and focusing only on the people in front of us. More than ever, we need leaders who listen and are intentional about their i […]
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The Caucasian country of Georgia could be served by a new charter airline as soon as this September following successful talks with two eastern European investors.
Aero Georgia is aiming to launch flights with a single narrow-body aircraft capable of carrying up to 150 passengers, Igor Aptsiauri, the company’s chief executive, told me in a telephone interview.
”This will be the first time that Georgia will have a purely charter airline,” he said.
”What we have noticed here in Georgia is that there’s a very big demand for charters. And not only in Georgia … If we look at the big airlines in eastern Europe and the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] region, the ones that are doing more or less OK financially are all charter airlines.”
Aptsiauri is a former deputy director of the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency and until recently held the title of commercial director at MyWay Airlines, a Chinese-backed scheduled carrier based in Tbilisi.
The business plan for the charter airline was developed by Aero Georgia Group, a new company launched by several former e […]
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Geeks and fashion don’t usually mix. Software engineers and other technology professionals are known for their reliance on t-shirts, sandals (often worn with socks) or sneakers and a predilection for wearing shorts in the freezing rain and snow. A bold fashion statement for most software engineers is making the decision to dye their hair green or blue.
But putting techie stereotypes aside for a moment, a new intersection point between the tech community and the fashion industry cognoscenti could be surfacing. The fashion industry is notoriously bad at product waste… and technology wants to come to […]
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