The Allure and Reality of Influencer Fame: Understanding the Production Teams, Funding, Media Influence, and Potential Drawbacks of Pursuing Social Media Stardom

The rise of social media has created a new form of celebrity: the influencer. Influencers are individuals who have amassed a large following on social media platforms and can use their influence to promote products, services, and ideas. In recent years, there has been a surge of people wanting to become influencers themselves, with many seeing it as a lucrative and glamorous career. This…

The Allure and Reality of Influencer Fame: Understanding the Production Teams, Funding, Media Influence, and Potential Drawbacks of Pursuing Social Media Stardom

The Leaders Who Shape Culture Without Trying

The Leaders Who Shape Culture Without Trying rarely announce cultural change. Instead, their everyday behavior becomes the signal employees observe and imitate. Organizational culture does not emerge from mission statements or internal presentations. It forms through patterns of action repeated by influential figures. How leaders respond to pressure, reward success, tolerate mistakes, or treat…

The Leaders Who Shape Culture Without Trying

The Power of Narrative in Leadership

Narrative in Leadership shapes how people interpret events, purpose, and possibility. Leaders rarely mobilize institutions through data alone. They mobilize belief through stories that explain struggle, identity, and direction. A well-formed narrative transforms uncertainty into meaning and aligns thousands of individuals around a shared interpretation of reality. Throughout history, influential…

The Power of Narrative in Leadership

#Presenze armoniose, belle e pure/Harmonious, beautiful, and pure presences

Provate a guardare una rosa: sentirete immediatamente qualcosa di così poetico, tale da trasformare il vostro stato interiore. Anche la sensazione più leggera, anche il sentimento più tenue, già modificano qualcosa nel più profondo del vostro essere.Il fiore che guardate vi parla tramite i suoi colori, la sua forma e il suo profumo, e si apre un varco per penetrare in voi attraverso i vostri…

#Presenze armoniose, belle e pure/Harmonious, beautiful, and pure presences

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International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8, commemorating women’s fight for equality and liberation along with the women’s rights movement.

International Women’s Day gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women.

Spurred by the universal female suffrage movement, International Women’s Day originated from labor movements in Europe and North America during the early 20th century.

Mastering the Art of Commanding Attention: How to Stand Out and Influence | Digitally Radiant

Learn how to capture attention and increase your influence through storytelling, energy, and first impressions. Highly recommended for anyone looking to stand out and make a lasting impact.

Inside the New Aristocacy of Power

Inside the New Aristocracy of Power lies a structural shift few openly name. Wealth has always existed. Influence has always clustered. What is new is the convergence of capital, code, networks, and narrative control within a relatively small global class. This group does not rule through inherited titles. It governs through ownership, platform dominance, private markets, and infrastructure…

Inside the New Aristocacy of Power

The Don’ts And Dos Of Leadership

Listen to the podcast of this post by clicking on the player below, and you can also subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Audible. 
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In 2 Timothy 2:22, the apostle Paul puts together two unlikely words: flee and pursue. 
You may think those words are opposites, but actually they are partners in a leader’s…

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“We’re here to put a dent in the universe.”

Steve Jobs, entrepreneur and inventor

(24th February 1955-2011)

Leadership is not performance. Stewardship is clarity, discipline, and successor development that protects participation in a fragile world.

Stewardship After the Noise

Leadership is not performance. Stewardship is clarity, discipline, and successor development that protects participation in a fragile world.

Stewardship After the Noise

bro those influencers ANNOY ME like there is a war happening and you’re worried about missing a meeting??? Are you actually kidding me?

It takes 4️⃣ words to raise morale.

Barry Moline, author of the book CONNECT! HOW TO QUICKLY COLLABORATE FOR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS, and a licensed trainer in Influence and Persuasion with the Cialdini Institute, joins me for a conversation about leadership.

Stop Blaming Your Team. This Is On You (ft. Barry Moline)

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Learn by doing! Our classmates activity on social thinking showed how perception, judgemental, and bias influence everyday interactions.

I reject the “influencer” label because influence is an action, not a title. When society confuses attention with authority, leadership becomes performance and systems grow fragile.

Restoring Leadership: Influence vs. Attention in Society

I reject the “influencer” label because influence is an action, not a title. When society confuses attention with authority, leadership becomes performance and systems grow fragile.

Restoring Leadership: Influence vs. Attention in Society

I have strong powers of influence over my immediate associates of friends and family

Sometimes I use it for good

And sometimes I use it to get my manager to download and start playing among us in the year of our lord 2026.

The Chess Game of Effective Email Communication: Why Ashkan Rajaee Says Most Professionals Are Doing It Wrong

The connection between simplicity and credibility is powerful. When you write clearly, you project confidence. Ashkan Rajaee shows how communication style can shape perception in subtle but important ways.

The Chess Game of Effective Email Communication: Why Ashkan Rajaee Says Most Professionals Are Doing It Wrong

This changed how I think about follow ups. If you burn all your value in one message, there is nowhere to go next. Ashkan Rajaee shows how cadence matters in building influence.

The Hidden Psychology of Winning Negotiations

The Psychology of Winning Negotiations rarely depends on charisma or aggression. It depends on perception control. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman demonstrated that decisions are shaped by cognitive bias more than rational calculation. In boardrooms from New York to Dubai, outcomes hinge on framing, timing, and emotional calibration. The Psychology of Winning Negotiations operates beneath…

The Hidden Psychology of Winning Negotiations