Leadership | Life, Money & Development

12 Steps for Entrepreneurship Development

Are you facing excessive hurdles for developing your entrepreneurial project? Do you feel you could attain improved results but you are lacking a development plan and organizational guidelines? Well, don’t worry. In this post I’ll teach you how to fulfill the development of your entrepreneurship plan by means of 12 steps, carefully envisioned for leading entrepreneurs towards success. Let’s begin by reviewing the notion of entrepreneurship. First, an entrepreneur is a person who creates and introduces new things, in order to achieve some well-defined economical and social goals. Thereby, entrepreneurship simply amounts to being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship might … (Continue Reading)

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Herrera · Leave a comment

15 Qualities of Successful Leaders

In this post we will highlight the traits of successful leaders. As I’ve commented previously in The 7 Attributes of Leadership, when I have to evaluate someone for hiring, I always try to identify leadership qualities, because people with such traits perform and coordinate a lot better than simple people. In short, what I look for is people with potential, people who is hungry for more, people able to grow and evolve. And these people can be identified because they have the traits or characteristics of leaders. Besides, as time goes by, these traits will also strengthen the … (Continue Reading)

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Herrera · 7 Comments

Energy and Leadership

Energy and leadership must go hand in hand, which means that leaders must know the elements for their work, must have high aspirations and ideas and should perfectly understand the dynamics of organizational flow and they create energy that way. Therefore, we can define energy as the ability of an organization to act and achieve, which drives the organization forward, holding its balance and keeping it focused during downturns, transitions and crisis.

Then, the task of a leader is to use her own energy to motivate others and achieve an important organizational state: every organization’s member should be able to … (Continue Reading)

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Herrera · Leave a comment

The 7 Key Points of a Successful Training for Leadership

Leadership of an organization that pursues great achievements must sustain and defend guidelines leading to constant training for its leaders, comprising several areas of leadership. Training the leaders of an organization is a process that should be implemented not only as a set of theoretical activities, but also by means of practical tasks. In the following, we will expand on 7 keypoints or principles that should be taken into account for the training of business leaders.

1. Knowing rights and duties

When you train a staff, the first thing you should teach is that leaders start by knowing their rights … (Continue Reading)

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Herrera · 1 Comment

Learning to believe

If we believe that we are able to do something, we’ll do it. If we believe we cannot do something, we won’t do it. The fact of believing or not influences our results, regardless of the area: sportive, economic, professional, personal, etc. If we repeat an assert a lot of times, we will ultimately believe it, and by carrying it out, we are able to modify our behavior. In other words, we reprogram ourselves. Words believe and belief take a central role and a special interest in regards to our capacity for success. In every case, we must research, … (Continue Reading)

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Herrera · 1 Comment

At the core of Leadership

Being a leader and enacting the virtues of leadership implies, mandatorily, that we have achieved success. The converse, however, is not necessarily true: reaching success does not mean we are leaders. Success is tantamount to conquering our goals. In other words, success means we have crossed the goal line.

Leadership can be defined as the will to control processes and events, to understand what is required to focus all of the involved activities in a specific direction, and to yield the power to complete tasks and distribute resources, properly harnessing and directing the abilities of each person involved in the … (Continue Reading)

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Herrera · 4 Comments

Individualism, Attempts At Philosophying

When a man is born, his habitat is already defined. Eventually, he will adapt to it, i.e., he acquires the required consistency that will help him to overcome the obstacles that life has. This way, mankind achieves such intrinsic nature that defines a concrete existence in time and space, further arriving to a propensity to act according to its own discretion, and not in concert with the community, becoming isolated and selfish in affections, interests, studies, and other dimensions. Finally, the man becomes full of himself, forfeiting any other purposes.

Thus, since the VIII century, individualism constituted a topic of … (Continue Reading)

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Herrera · 1 Comment

Visualizing your Goals

A goal is a very specific result that we want to achieve in a precise, future time. It’s an experience not yet lived, although firmly wished. Let’s recall from our first post about goals, that an objective or goal is a personal or perhaps organizational desired end point in development. It is usually endeavored to be reached in finite time by setting deadlines. Albeit goals, dreams and expectations are related concepts, there are important differences that will be discussed further on. As it often occurs with dreams, there are virtually no limits on the number of goals we … (Continue Reading)

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Herrera · 10 Comments

The 7 Attributes of Leadership

When I have to hire someone for any position in my company, I always pay close attention to the below discussed 7 attributes, because I always strive to hire people with leadership traits (even when the job is not a key managerial position.) I always want the best people, no matter the size, complexity or responsibility of the job. I know that, as time goes by, groups of workers with leadership traits perform and coordinate a lot better than simple people. And the today new assistant may hopefully become a very important director in a few years.

Furthermore, I prefer … (Continue Reading)

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Herrera · 56 Comments

Money

What is your relation with your money? This is something I insist a lot in my business seminars: look for money, but never lend your heart to money. In other words, win money, but don't let money to win you. Are you a winner? Read this post and discover if you are one!

Business

In the 7 Attributes of Leadership I discuss about the traits I pay close attention to when hiring someone, as I always strive to work with leaders.

Technology

Nowadays, the net is inhabited by myriad blogs. Therefore, to stand out has become more and more challenging. Thus, the question arises: how to highlight our blog in order to distinguish it from others? It's simple. Follow a "samurai" approach.

Health

Memory is the mental ability which allows us to store, retain, and information. A clear memory amounts to a "bigger" vision of our world. In this post, we review the nature and physiology of memory, and derive some helpful tips for keeping it active, and young.