Understanding that arousing situations can drive people to pass things on helps shed light on so-called oversharing.

If you want to accomplish amazing things you have to empower your team members to make their own choices.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Every behavior or characteristic carried out by a leader can be taken too far. Leaders can become too extreme and upset the balance required to effectively lead a team. When balance is lost, leadership suffers and the team’s performance rapidly declines.

Take your inspiration and passion for leadership from your life story.

Open-minded people can take in the thoughts of others without losing their ability to think well—they can hold two or more conflicting concepts in their mind and go back and forth between them to assess their relative merits.

Trend #3. Core vs. CrowdCompanies which have built up a core of valuable know-how are now being regularly outperformed by the crowd. There is a staggering amount of human knowledge,expertise and raw enthusiasm which can now be focused online to solve complex problems. You have to start finding ways to tap into the many minds whichare available online to help you develop better offerings, market more efficiently and add more value.

This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.

Thus, Moriori and Maori societies developed from the same ancestral society, but along very different lines.

What you believe about your life is what you will make true about your life.