Tag: leadership
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The Most Overlooked Teacher for Professionals: Nature’s Lessons in Leadership & Growth
Nature operates on principles that boardrooms spend millions trying to decode: sustainable growth, adaptive resilience, efficient resource allocation. The difference? Nature has been stress-testing these strategies for 3.8 billion years.
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How Childhood Reading Shapes Professional Leadership
Discover how childhood reading shapes professional leadership. Learn through personal stories from a tropical island upbringing. Gain global career insights.
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Books That Shaped My Career in International Development
A UN professional from Seychelles shares three transformative books. These books range from a statistics primer to a leadership classic. They have shaped decades of international development work.
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Managing Global Health Across Cultures: The Art of Unplugging
A UN professional shares authentic strategies for unplugging from global health demands, blending Seychellois wisdom with international development experience.
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The Collections That Define Us: Books, Trust, and Skills
Discover how three essential collections—books, trusted relationships, and skills—shape professional success and personal growth in our interconnected world.
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Unbroken: The Strength We Build Without Breaking
I’ve learned that strength isn’t always forged in the visible fractures of the body. Sometimes, the most profound resilience is built in silence—in moments when we bend, adapt, and endure without snapping.
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Mastering Leadership: Knowing When to Lead and When to Follow
For over fifteen years of work across three continents, a question has plagued me. It resurfaced recently. Am I truly a leader, or am I a follower? Through spectacular failures and occasional wins, I’ve discovered the answer hides in the messy middle.
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The Power of Mentorship: Recognizing Potential in Others
Mentorship creates ongoing ripples of recognition that extend far beyond the original relationship. By helping us see ourselves more clearly, mentors change what we do and who we become.
L J Padayachy 