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“Let no one speak ill of the absent”
Hopi Proverb
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Gossip. It’s the number one cause of lack of trust in the
workplace, according to research conducted by The Reina Trust
Building Institute.

At work, and in our professional associations, it seems easier for
most people to criticize or judge someone who is not present
instead of dealing directly with whatever problem exists.

Great leaders know two things about gossip. First, whatever you say
almost always gets back to the person you speak about. And second,
it’s a waste of productive time.

Think . . . and act . . . like a leader!

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Let us be examples of leaders who are trustworthy, caring, courageous and fair.

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 -Viraj Kansara

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My leadership development colleague Sangeeth Varghese said this about storytelling in his article, Getting Your Story Straight:
Stories are essential to our nature as human beings, and that is why they constitute the single most powerful weapon not only for corporate leaders–as the Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has said–but for everyone at every level in […]

Leadership Village
Kaniyambatta GVHSS
Hi friends,

• I want to become a doctor because I love the doctor`s job.I want to save the deseases people.I want to help the poor people.I dont get the money from them.I want to save themThose who want medicines I want to give them.I will try my best.I will find out the cancer patients and I save them.I will make a charitable trust for the cancer patients.This is my wish,this is my vision.

Kevin Eikenberry’s 3rd annual Best of Leadership Blogs competition is underway. We are honored that this blog has again been nominated as one of the 10 best leadership blogs on the web. Here is a list of the ten finalists:

Leading Blog by Michael McKinney

Great Leadership by Dan McCarthy

Seth Godin’s Blog by Seth Godin

Jon Gordon’s Blog by Jon Gordon

Leadership is a Verb by John Bishop

All Things Workplace by Steve Roesler

Work Matters by Bob Sutton

Leader Talk by Mountain State University

Next Level Blog by Scott Eblin

Leadership At Work by John Baldoni

We appreciated all the support we got last year, so again, if you like what you’ve been reading here, then cast your vote for the Leading Blog by July 31. The 2009 winner will be announced Monday, August 3rd on Kevin’s Blog. Casting your vote does more than voice your opinion, it also gives you a chance to win a product worth $199 or more during each of Kevin Eikenberry’s weekly drawings. Good luck!

Thanks for the vote!

Leadership Village

Kaniyampatta

This is a short poem by me…

Music of rain

I love rain

I love the music of rain

And I love the

Deep murmuring of

Leaves in the wind.

• I am Ramsheena. I have a big dream.I would like writing poems.I love poems very much.My favourite poet is Sugathakumamari.I like her all poems.I would like to writing poems as like as Sugatha kumari , Kamala Surayya etc.Now I am writing poems always in Malayalam and English.Therefor I will work hard for my dreams,and I will hold fast my dream.It will not waste.

Leadership Village Notes

As you are aware of Leadership village is getting alive.Children have strted to give wake up calls to sleepy adults,and yes they are shouting WE HAVE A DREAM!! Ramsheena is a sweet little girl of 13 , soft spoken and a face as lovely as a garden fresh flower .Today she came with a strange request.

“Could you please give 10 minutes break,please..”

“Why child?’

“I need to participate in a poetry competition..Shall be back in a jiffy”So she came back soon,and learned the valuable lessons of Living Library with her friends.The calss room for me is a page straight out of a fantasy story,almost unbelievable.How is it possible that a in a remote village nowhere from every thing children learn with a never heard of methodology of education called Living Library and started operating a library by themselves and these 50 plus children are creating every minute history as they build with such gritty determination the world`s first leadership village.