How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
A primary task of leadership is to direct attention.To do so, leaders must learn to focus their own attention. When we speak about being focused, we commonly mean thinking about one thing while filtering out distractions. But, as intelligent human beings, we can focus in many ways and for different purposes.
These modes of attention can be further grouped into three broad buckets—focusing on yourself, focusing on others, and focusing on the wider world—and sheds new light on the practice of many essential leadership skills! using on yourself first, you build up emotional intelligence through self awareness and self control.
Focusing on others is the foundation of empathy and the ability to build social relationships. Leaders who focus on others are easily recognisable; they are the ones who find common ground, whose opinions carry the most weight and with whom other people want to work with. Here we deal with the ability of a leader to understand another’s perspective, ability to feel what another feels and the ability to sense what the other person wants from you. Fortunately, these can be learned.
Focusing on the wider world; leaders with a strong outward focus are not only good listeners, but also good questioners. They are visionaries who can sense the consequences of decisions and imagine how the choices they make today will play out in the future. They are open to the surprising ways in which unrelated data can inform their central interests. Focusing on the wider world also means focusing on Strategy (another wide subject), Innovation and systems awareness.
So, a Focused Leader… puts it all together!
We want to work with you to help you develop your Inner Leader… and talk about one major character trait of a focused leader. This is an extremely broad subject, but we have attempted to summarise it here for you.
These modes of attention can be further grouped into three broad buckets—focusing on yourself, focusing on others, and focusing on the wider world—and sheds new light on the practice of many essential leadership skills! using on yourself first, you build up emotional intelligence through self awareness and self control.
Focusing on others is the foundation of empathy and the ability to build social relationships. Leaders who focus on others are easily recognisable; they are the ones who find common ground, whose opinions carry the most weight and with whom other people want to work with. Here we deal with the ability of a leader to understand another’s perspective, ability to feel what another feels and the ability to sense what the other person wants from you. Fortunately, these can be learned.
Focusing on the wider world; leaders with a strong outward focus are not only good listeners, but also good questioners. They are visionaries who can sense the consequences of decisions and imagine how the choices they make today will play out in the future. They are open to the surprising ways in which unrelated data can inform their central interests. Focusing on the wider world also means focusing on Strategy (another wide subject), Innovation and systems awareness.
So, a Focused Leader… puts it all together!
We want to work with you to help you develop your Inner Leader… and talk about one major character trait of a focused leader. This is an extremely broad subject, but we have attempted to summarise it here for you.
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