- Napoleon Bonaparte

Pedrinho (Annie could be) comes to work. Open the door by removing the headphones from your iPod, greets everyone and goes to your computer. Take a look at your emails and Facebook, connect the Twitter account, visit some sites of interest, responds to a good day on MSN. Just to see if there was something new, because I was doing it all on your smartphone.

Leading this new generation, represented by Pedrinho (or nests), which is coming to market is a challenge. In fact, challenge the old, because we know that the current generation always complains that the successor. The so-called Generation Y (born after 1980) was born connected, as having increased access to a very advanced technology. They are criticized for being dispersed, lightly committed, questioning and loose. But they've correspond to 20% of leadership positions in major Brazilian companies.

They can do several things at once, receiving the nickname multitasks. Want and like to work, but work is not your life. Children of Generation X, which prioritized the work in relation to family and friends, do not want to repeat the example that they had at home.

It has been created and nurtured by many stimuli. Attend many cultural events and shows great. The game has a constant presence in their routines.

At the same time they are having a career ladder faster than the previous generation, take longer to leave the parental home. They want self-actualization, but yearn for independence.

They like to work as a team, valuing it more than generation X. Are collaborative since evolved interacting on blogs, expressing his opinion often.

In this context, need a leadership that is inspiring, legitimate and ethical. It is necessary to be stimulated in a constant and consistent. Like good conversation and the leader must stimulate the chat. They want to learn, but enjoy teaching.

What can you do? Here are some suggestions:

• Try to find out what Pedrinho like. Stay tuned to your tastes.
• I do so find out what moves you. Talk a lot, helps you to discover your life purpose and help him accomplish it, aligning it with the personal goals of the Unit.
• Exercise a leadership relationship more horizontal, being easily accessible. Listen to it a lot and give feedback constantly.
• Encourage him to do projects in the network. Marketing activities or loyalty in conjunction with other units, for example, are a good choice.
• Let things very clear. Generation Y has the same initiative of Generation X.
• Set well what the role of Pedrinho, establishing a practical way what are its limits, it was born with an inability to perceive them. In this environment, he will feel safer and supported to exercise their creativity.
• Anxiety is a constant in the life of Pedro. Always tell him how is its performance.

Noting these points, Pedrinho (or nests) can make the most of yourself and you above 30 may exert a more effective leadership. Times change, may become turbulent and insecure, but who learns and strives to lead and always captivate. This is key to having better results. And also to have a good working relationship with Pedrinho (or the nests).

- Harry Truman , 33rd President of the United States.

In 1513, the city of Florence, Italy, was published a very influential book. This work spanned the centuries and continues today. It's called The Prince, Machiavelli. Far from the bias generated by the name of the author, can take many practical lessons for our lives.

At that time, Lorenzo asked his secretary, Machiavelli, who wrote a treatise which was described knowledge of the actions of great men. The content just influencing the new paradigms of political activity since then. Broadening the horizon, we can apply the knowledge in our day-to-day. Every leader, if you have not read, you end up reading this book.

Machiavelli cites that for a person to succeed, you need three things: virtù, fortune and occasione. Virtu is the quality of man that enables him to perform great works and deeds. We can also understand it as the human power to make changes and track events. It is the inner motivation, willpower which induces men, individually or in groups, face fortune. It is perceived as random, the course of history, blind fate, fatalism, natural necessity.

Virtù and fortune are like two poles between which unfolds our destiny to share. The man of action will be the bridge that mediate virtù and fortune. When we start a project, half of the shares of the leader is determinda fortune and half by virtù. The proposed change of Machiavelli is that balance in favor of virtù. Acts and things begin to happen.

Disrupt this balance requires to be more daring than prudent. We must rid ourselves of our fears and beliefs that prevent action. That way, you'll be more attentive and not let escape occasione, the link between wealth and virtù.

The key of fortune is the opportunity (occasione). Machiavelli cites: "Looking at his life and his deeds, we see that owed nothing (men of great deeds) to luck, unless the opportunity. Without this opportunity, their values ​​would not have been recovered, without these, the opportunity would have been in vain. "

Think about this concept. Take action. Make it happen. The opportunities are there and only when you know where you're going it will become clear.

It's really an art postpone gratification. According to Joachim de Posada , this is the main factor for success.

A professor of Stanford made ​​the following experiment: a 4 year old child was left alone in a room with a marshmallow. The challenge of the Prince was going without food delicacy for 15 min. Upon returning to the room, the teacher would give sweet one second if the goal was reached.

What was noted that two out of three children ate the marshmallow before the return of the teacher. The other third would take the desired object and smelled, walked around, showed anxiety, played with other things, but not eating.

As part of this experiment, the professor noted, 15 years after that 100% of children who could not wait to eat the marshmallow were more successful in their attempts than those who ate it. They had good performance in school and in sports-related well with parents, friends and teachers.

Since most children who could not wait had problems at school or even abandoned. They had bad grades and not so healthy relationships.

In the video below, you may see a repetition of the experiment done with children in Colombia conducted by Joachim de Posada. It's hilarious to see children's behavior upon challenge. You will laugh!

To learn more, read the book Do not Eat the Marshmallow ... Yet , where Joachim explains the importance of self-discipline and persistence to achieve success.

This is the Passion, who is in Itaim in Sao Paulo, because Aunt Zilda is fictitious.

Many times we are in doubt as to draw the attention of some subordinate. It is a very common question, which only invalidates the experience.

To help tell the story below, based on a story repeated by DeRose whenever you want to train professionals that teach his method, which I am a proud representative.

Aunt Zilda was the owner of a home cooking restaurant in the center of a great city. It was a simple place, with tables and iron chairs, towels with rubber stamps, fruit, snack fans and tiles to half wall. At lunchtime, workers and ordinary people were lining up to eat the dish made ​​the day. In addition, she sent to deliver some pans in the region, so it was the food delicious. Even some big employer sent her food to come.

With many extra pounds, a few more wrinkles and gray hair, skin pale and brown eyes strong, Tia Zilda treated everyone with kindness. As even an aunt. Many said that, rather than for food, went there for her. Firm, strong, caring. He gave up scolding the clients who demanded credit, because with it did not have this kind of talk. But I loved telling stories, very funny about his past on the farm. She was captivating.

It was she who hired all the helpers. Kitchen and buffet, as she called it. For them, she was a mother. Pretended that he saw the small errors, after many were very young and were learning to work. But if they commit a more serious error or chateasse customers, then yes she was a beast. And woe to those who arrived late. England did not know, but his punctuality was British.

One day, Nelson made ​​one of those. He was serving a dish for a customer, when let out a sneeze over the food. Tia Zilda saw it and was possessed. Looking fimemente for Nelson, while with a smile that only aunts have approached him and said: "Nelson, my son! (All were for her children), Auntie Zilda saw what you did. I do not want that to happen again so as you food contaminated with microbes of the customer. I knew he could get sick from that! In a next time, Aunt Zilda will be harder with you. If this continues, you're on the street. Got it, my son? Oh, and try to throw this food away and washing dishes. "

The Nelson did not know I could not sneeze over the food, after all he did was so at home and nobody said anything. But Aunt Zilda explained so brotherly that he understood at the time. Embarrassed, he looked at Aunt Zilda eyebrows low and this: "Sorry, Aunt. That will not happen anymore. "

And so it went. Nelson continued Fancy, despite some quarrel here and there. But he was treated with respect, as he had never been treated. Tia Zilda for him was not an aunt, was a mother.

Until asked to call it that. Aunt Zilda said I'd think.

Expansion of consciousness? Simple stop the instability of consciousness? Hyperfunctioning of the right side of the brain?

Whatever the answer, the example is inspiring.

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of intelligence, Elbert Hubbard

This is a prime example of attitude to a challenge that I know. History or story widely reported since the nineteenth century, inspires us to take action, from truth to the action. I hope you enjoy!

Time reading this post: 10 min.

Below, the text of Elbert Hubbard, 1899:

In all this Cuban, a man stands on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain and the United States, what mattered to them was to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents, Garcia, known to be in a fortress within the interior of Cuba, but no one could specify exactly where. It was impossible to communicate with him by mail or telegraph. However, the President had to try to ensure its cooperation, and that as soon as possible. What to do?

Someone reminded the President: "There is a man named Rowan, and if someone is able to find Garcia, Rowan has to be."

Rowan was brought before the President, who entrusted him with a letter with the task of delivering it to Garcia. Of how this man, Rowan took the letter, put it in a waterproof casing, tied it on his chest, and after four days, jumped in a boat without a deck, late at night, on the shores of Cuba; how to plunged into the wilderness, so after three weeks, emerging on the other side of the island, having traversed a hostile country on foot and delivering the letter to Garcia - are things that do not come to narrate the event in detail here. The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask: "Where is he?".

Hosannah! Here was a man whose form should be cast in imperishable bronze and the statue placed in every school in the country. It is not bookish wisdom that young people need, nor instruction about this or that. Accurate, yes, a hardening of the vertebrae in order to show themselves proud in the exercise of an office, to act with diligence, to do the trick, for, in short, carry a message to Garcia.

General Garcia is no longer of this world, but there are other Garcias. No man who has committed to carry on a business in which the help of many hands were needed, have been spared moments of real despair at the idiocy of many men, compared to the inability or unwillingness to concentrate the mind a certain thing, and do it.

Assistance irregular, foolish inattention, indifference annoying and sloppy work seem the rule. No man can be truly successful unless they resort to all means at their disposal either of force or bribery, to compel other men to help him, unless God Almighty, in His great mercy, do a miracle by sending him a helper as an angel of light.

Dear reader, you can even take the test. Are you sitting in your office, surrounded by half a dozen employees. Well, one of them calls and asks him: "Please be so kind to check out the encyclopedia and make me a brief description of the life of Correggio."

Will give the case the employee said quietly: "Yes, Lord" and perform what is asked?

Not so! You will look puzzled and sideways to make one or more of the following questions:

Who is he?

What encyclopedia?

Where is the encyclopedia? Was I hired for that chance?

Do not you mean Bismarck?

And if Carlos did?

Is he dead?

Is there any hurry?

Is it not better that I bring the book to yourself to find what you want?

What do you want to know?

And I bet ten to one that, after thou hast answered the questions, and explained how to find the requested data and why you need them, your employee will ask a mate who will help him find Garcia and then come back to tell you that this man does not exist. Of course, I may lose the bet, but according to the law of averages, right in the game. Now, if you're wise, do not you give the time to explain to your "assistant" that Correggio is written in "C" and not "K", but limit Thou shalt say softly, drawing the best smile. "It's okay, do not bother," and said that, thou shalt rise and procurarás yourself. And this incapacity for independent action, this moral ineptitude, the invalidity of the will, the disposition of this atrophy is diligently to field and act - are things going back to a future so remote the advent of pure socialism. If men do not take the initiative to act on his own behalf, they will do when the result of your efforts redound to the benefit of all? For now it seems that men still need to be feitorados. What keeps frequently used in their place and makes it work is the fear of not doing so, be dismissed at the close of the month. Announces need a stenographer, and nine out of ten candidates for the vacancy will not know spelling or no score - and, what is more, they think they do not need to know.

Can such a one write a letter to Garcia?

- You see that bookkeeper?, Told me the head of a large factory.

- Yes, do you have?

- It is an excellent bookkeeper. However, if I send them, make a note, perhaps we release him to the satisfaction of the commission, but it could well be that the path entered in two or three houses of drinks, and when arrived at its destination, no longer remembered the assignment given him.

Is it possible to trust such a man a letter to deliver it to Garcia?

Lately we have heard a lot of sentimental expressions expressing sympathy for the poor beings who toil from sun to sun, with the unfortunate unemployed in search of honest work, and all this almost always laced with a lot of hard word to men who are in Power.

Nothing is said about the employer who grows old before his time, in a vain effort to induce eternal disgust and discontent to work conscientiously, nothing is said of his long and patient demand for staff, which, however, often does nothing more than "killing time "as soon as he turns away. There is no company that is not despendindo staff proves unable to look after their interests in order to replace it with something more apt. And this process of selection by elimination is constantly operating in adverse times, the only difference being that when times are bad and work is scarce, the selection is done finer, putting off forever, the incompetent and useless. It is the law of survival of the fittest. Each employer, in their own interest, just about saving the best - those who can carry a message to Garcia.

I know a man of really brilliant skills, but without the fiber need to manage their own business and that in addition becomes completely useless to anyone else because of the insane suspicion that constantly holds that his employer is oppressing, or intending to oppress him. Unable to send, not tolerate anyone to send. If you were entrusted with a message to Garcia, his answer is likely: "Take it yourself."

Today this man roams the streets wandering in search of work in nearly petition misery. However, anyone who knows you venture to give you job because he is the personification of the spirit of discontent and reply. Refractory to any advice or admonition, the only thing capable of producing some effect on him would be given a good kick with the toe of a boot of number 42, thick soles and spout.

I know, no doubt, that an individual like this morally deformed is no less worthy of compassion than a physical cripple. However, this demonstration of compassion, vertamos also a tear of men who strive to carry out a large enterprise, whose working hours are not limited by the sound of the whistle, and whose hair prematurely whitened are in constant struggle in which they are committed against indifference contemptuous against the crass stupidity and ingratitude atrocious, just those who, without his entrepreneurial spirit, would walk hungry and homeless.

Dar will be the case that I have painted the situation in colors too loaded? Maybe yes, but when everyone is pleased to launch ramblings want a word of sympathy for the man who prints to a successful venture, the man who, despite a lot of impediments, can direct and coordinate the efforts of others and that after the triumph, maybe check that nothing gained, nothing, except their mere subsistence.

Also I carried lunch pails and worked as a journeyman, as I have also been boss. Sci so that any thing is true of both sides.

There is excellence in poverty per se; rags do not serve as recommendation. Not all bosses are greedy and tyrants, just as not all poor men are virtuous.

All my sympathies belong to the man who works conscientiously, whether the employer is or not. And the man who, to be entrusted with a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive, without asking questions stupid, and without the hidden intention of throwing it in the gutter to find the first, or take any other done other than give it the recipient, this man ever gets "laid off" nor has to declare themselves on strike to, forcing an increase in salary.

Civilization anxious search, insistently, man these conditions. All that such a man to ask, you will be granting. He is wanted in every city, every village, every hamlet, in every office, every shop, every shop, factory or sale. The cry of the world pretty much sums it up: It takes and needs with the urgency of a man who could carry a message to Garcia.

Enjoy and read the letter from the author, written in December 1, 1913, on the impact of his writing, which at the time of creation had little pretense:

This literary trifle, A MESSAGE TO GARCIA, I wrote it one night after dinner in an hour. It was February 22, 1899, Washington's birthday, and the number of our magazine's March "Philistine" was about to enter the press. I found myself in the mood to write, and the article arose spontaneously from my heart, written, as, after a day of painstaking, during which some residents had sought to convince a reluctant either place, they should leave the comatose state in which compraziam, striving to instill in them radioactivity.

The original idea, however, came to me from a little argument Bert ventilated by my son when we go for coffee, when he tried to support Rowan was the real hero of the Cuban War. Rowan began to walk alone and done the thing - carried the message to Garcia. What bright spark, the idea took possession of my mind. Yes, I said to myself, the boy is right, the hero is one who does the job that takes the message to Garcia.

I got up from the table and wrote "A Message to Garcia" in one sitting. However I called so little importance to this article, which was even published in the journal without a heading. Shortly after the issue has left the press, began to flock requests for additional copies of the March issue of the "Philistine": a dozen, fifty, one hundred, and when the American News Company ordered a thousand, I asked one of my employees which the article had raised the cosmic dust.

- This Garcia - he replied to me.

The next day a telegram came from George H. Daniels, the Central Railroad of New York, saying: "Give price for one hundred thousand copies of the article about Rowan, pamphlet form, with ads on the back of the railroad. Also tell how long can deliver. "

I replied giving price, and stated we could supply the pamphlets in two years. Our facilities were small and a hundred thousand booklets looked like us an awful undertaking.

The result was I have authorized Mr. Daniels to reproduce the article as he pleased. He did so then in the form of leaflets and distributed them in such profusion that, two or three editions of half a million sold out quickly. Furthermore, the article was reprinted in over two hundred magazines and newspapers. It has been translated, so to speak, in all languages ​​spoken.

It happened that just when Mr. Daniels was making the distribution of the Message to Garcia, Prince Hilakoff, Director of Russian Railways, was in this country. He was the guest of the Central Railroad of New York, traveling around the country, following Mr. Daniels. The prince saw the brochure, which interested him more for being himself Mr. Daniels who was handing out in such abundance, that properly for any other reason.

In any event, when the prince returned to his homeland had to translate the booklet into Russian and deliver a copy to each employee of the railroad in Russia. The was soon imitated by other countries, the article went from Russia to Germany, France, Turkey, Hindustan and China. During the war between Russia and Japan, was given a copy of "Message to Garcia" every Russian soldier who went to the front.

The Japanese, finding the booklets in possession of the Russian prisoners, concluded that he should be a good thing, and not slow to pour it into Japanese. By order of the Mikado a copy was given to each employee, civilian or military, the Japanese government.

For over forty million copies of "A Message to Garcia" have been printed, which is undoubtedly the largest circulation ever attained by any literary work during the life of the author, thanks to a series of lucky accidents.

Worth reading Gladwell's books.

What is the key to success? Well, of course, we need to define what is success, lately subject that has generated various interpretations. But for simplicity, we understand it as what fell in love the general public, what is popular. Thus, the symphonies of Mozart, the songs of the Beatles and Bill Gates windows serve as a good example of what pop is.

I read recently Outliers - Off Series of Malcolm Gladwell . The book discusses how some people managed to stand out, ie, what they did to succeed. And for that, the author discusses the importance of culture, family, friends, ancestors of the origin and time of birth as factors in the performance of their projects. But the major issue addressed is the rule of 10,000 hours, researched by scholars.

She says that to achieve excellence, you must have an accumulation of 10,000 hours of practice, which would amount to in 10 years or 20h/semana 40h/semana in 5 years. We tend to be simplistic in our analysis, finding that success and genius are exclusively due to lapses in creativity, but it seems that recognition has more to do with sweat than with a good idea.

Gladwell cites the example of Mozart , recognized as a great genius. He began composing at around 7 years and it is true that we know some good pieces written at the time of his adolescence. But the great symphonies were written after 21, when he has accumulated well over 10,000 hours of training, compositions and performances.

The Beatles, before they burst, bleeding fingers playing much. They had to live for more than 1,200 times at the invitation of the owner of a bar in Hamburg , Germany, between 1960 and 1964. Lennon and McCartney amounted to more than 10 years of compositions together when they returned to England and burst in the world. At the time, they played like no other.

Gates also had his moment of grating. Gladwell had the opportunity to interview him and he told a story and inspiring. At the time of his adolescence, Gates had the opportunity to have in your school, a computer available to programs. Remember that this was in the 70s, historical moment when computers were rare. Thus, spent every possible hour programming, even on your vacation. The chance of having this practice time, the inspiration generated by Steve Jobs and an entrepreneurial vision led to the Microsoft and Windows.

At this point, I'm sure you're calculating the number of hours you have devoted himself to what you like. Remember: to be recognized, have discipline, consistency and dedication. Be prepared for opportunities because this is the only success factor that you can master. The others seem to be casualties.

"Will someone answer?"

See this story, written by educator DeRose :

From a very young scientist Graham Bell began work on the project that immortalize: the telephone. And, as always, paid dearly for it.

Bell wanted to marry a young girl. One day the father of the damsel sent for the suitor to her home and humbled him in every way, accusing him of being a bum, saying it did not work, they had no future, who was a nobody and that if he persisted with the intention of marrying his daughter, should abandon those crazy ideas to invent such a phone and get a job.

Graham Bell could not waste time at work, as an ideal agasalhava much higher. He was aimless and knew what he wanted. I knew it was possible to pass the word by telephone wiring, anything taken at the time as a chimera. He suffered much need, went hungry and had no decent clothes to woo her elected. Sometimes, a good soul invited him to dinner and that was what kept him alive.

Working day and night, one day could make the phone work. That young man had to invent a communication device that a century later would be in all homes and businesses in the world! But ... the unexpected occurred. A competitor envious, wanting to himself the right of discovery, to convince public opinion that Graham Bell was a charlatan and rightful inventor of the telephone has been processed. During the trial he was insulted and outraged. The newspapers called him a crook and charlatan. He was covered with shame and reproach.

As a consolation, at the end of much suffering, Graham Bell won the litigation and had his name cleared.

So, my friend, hold on tight!