Who’s a leader and who’s not? August 8, 2008
Posted by armina in thoughts.Tags: Africa, bono, hitler, leaders, leadership, leadership training, TED
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I am preparing a 5 days training on leadership and of course i want to make it dynamic and challenge people’s opinions, have a discussion on what means leadership and who can be considered a leader and who can not…and how can you make the difference.
There are many types of leadership but one of the common characteristics that all have is “The ability to affect human behavior so as to accomplish a mission” (wikipedia). Hitler did this. Was he a leader? Take a look at some of his speeches on YouTube – and put some thought in it. Even an article in TIME magazine debates this.
On the other hand, is Bono a leader? Well…he is admired but i didn’t manage to find any article to “declare” him so.
I love his speech from TED when he calls for action to help Africa. He moves people and is genuine.
His organization changes lives and fights for Africa.
After listening to his speech and browsing through the ONE website, what do you think? Is he a leader?
He was “the man of the year” in 2005, but is he more?
This is not a classic dareberry…is just a thought of mine regarding the training i am preparing…
Revamping my life August 5, 2008
Posted by armina in Uncategorized.Tags: holiday, life, revamp, work
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And on my way to there, i started with revamping my blog 
Me on the beach in Santa Margherita Ligure. On a public beach…which was actually only rocks but it was fun since we were together with some very good friends of mine.
My blog is now located at Dareberries.com – this is an old concept of mine that died in the…5th month before getting born. A sad story but now is going to be revamped.
In 2 days from now i will go in a holiday – i am so looking forward to it since is part of the revamping process:)) I plan to spend as much as needed to feel free and worry-less (of course, within a budget). I somehow already feel that since i am not with the Snails anymore, but during this holiday i will feel it 100%. We will travel “student style” with “employee budget”. Did you ever try it? I know you don’t want to spend too much cause you want to buy a new fridge, or an air-conditioning, but just don’t think about it. When we were students we were happy with much less and damn it, it felt so much better!
So i will reduce my work week from 4 hours per day to 4 hours per week…By the way, did you read “The 4-hour work week”? This guy is good…you might get inspired by him…
That’s my dareberry for today
