Review from the HINDU Business Line

LEADING PEOPLE THE BLACK BELT WAY: CONQUERING THE FIVE CORE PROBLEMS FACING LEADERS TODAY continue to gain stature around the world.

This book review just came in from The HINDU Business Line:

"Start Listening

Unlike the ineffective leader, when a skilled leader hears something he doesn’t like, he stops talking and starts listening, even more so than he was previously, writes Timothy H. Warneka in Leading People the Black Belt Way: Conquering the five core problems facing leaders today.

You can’t learn anything about what’s going on in your organisation if you’re always talking, and trying to argue someone out of a perspective, Warneka advises. “If you ask a person whether or not he or she feels empowered and the answer is ‘no,’ then quietly ask ‘why’ and listen to what is said. You will inevitably learn something you did not know.” If, on the other hand, you become defensive and begin arguing how empowered the person should be feeling, then you were not ready to ask the question in the first place, the author avers.

Useful guidance."

New Media Interview - The Black Belt Way

I was recently interviewed at Web Wise Business by Chris Curtis. Chris and I talked about "Martial Arts Mindpower for Business."

Here's the interview:



Enjoy!

Tim

Is Dilbert Right?

I'll confess: I love Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon. So much what Scott reflects in his cartoon are truths that I see on a daily basis in organizations. Sometimes Scott Adams's humor is so right on target that I wonder if he had a camera hidden in the organization I was at.

In his newest book, "Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubliceland," a quote that stood out for me is found on page 53:

"If you steal a little bit of money,
you are a criminal.
If you steal a lot of money,
you're a leader."

In these days after companies such as Enron, WorldCom, so many people believe this to be true about leaders.

Prove them wrong. Discover the Black Belt Way.

Science Confirms Human Relatedness

The media must have missed this one in its strident attempts to catalog the latest Paris Hilton escapades....

A very important story for all leaders appeared in the March 2006 issue of National Geographic (okay, I'm writing this in May, 2007 ... I'm a bit behind in my reading. :-).....

In an article called "The Greatest Journey," National Geographic research James Shreeve states:

"Scientists now calculate that all living humans are related to a single woman who lived roughly 150,000 years ago in Africa, a "mitochondrial Eve." She was not the only woman alive at the time, but if geneticists are right, all of humanity is linked to Eve through an unbroken chain of mothers." (p. 62).

This is ground-breaking, earth-shattering information. Each and every one of us -- every single human you pass today -- is related. The taxi cab driver who drove you to the airport is a distant cousin. The CEO's secretary is a long-lost aunt.

This information is revolutionary because science has now confirmed what most World Wisdon Traditions have been saying for years ... that we are all part of the same family, or, as Mr. Shreeve states in his article, "Increasingly refined DNA studies have confirmed this opening chapter of our story over and over: All the various shaped and shaded people of Earth trace their ancestry to African hunter-gatherers." (p. 62)

So, you might ask, what difference does this make for leaders? I'll suggest that the difference is enormous, because it brings up this very important question:

Now that you know everyone on the planet is related to you, will you treat people the same way you did before?

Think about it.