http://www.richardrramos.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:08:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How to Overcome Voices from Our Past Leadership is influence. It is the ability to move people in a desired direction or influence them to join your cause or follow your example regardless of your position in a company or the community. And one of the places potential leaders need ... http://www.richardrramos.com/how-to-overcome-the-fear-of-failure/ Single parents can provide the needed leadership in their homes. The single parent home seems to come up a lot as an overwhelming problem that we can’t expect single parents to overcome in terms of raising productive children. I disagree, and suggest this is not a correct assumption nor is ... http://www.richardrramos.com/single-parent-leadership/ “What makes me unique? That was the question I felt compelled to address…What alone do I have to offer? – It came to me in a flash: Whatever my accomplishments, all the things I loved were rooted in the dreams and goals I had as a child…My uniqueness, I ... http://www.richardrramos.com/dare-to-dream/ The Role of Leadership As we consider our role as leaders, I like what John Gardner says, “The first step is not action; the first step is understanding. The first question is how to think about leadership.” As Gardner says, the first step is understanding, which is different from knowledge. This ... http://www.richardrramos.com/the-role-of-leadership/ My purpose in writing this article is to inspire and instruct more young Latinos into leadership. Even though we have grown to be the second largest minority group in the country, we still have a ways to go in attaining the level of civic and political representation that will champion ... http://www.richardrramos.com/a-call-for-latino-leadership/ Community leadership is: 1. Investigation – Knowing what the burning issues are, or the “community cry”, as I like to call it. This can be determined by surveys, focus groups and town hall meetings where the public is engaged to address local concerns that are directly affecting their quality of life. 2. ... http://www.richardrramos.com/community-leadership-and-gangs/ “We argue that we may be heading for an ‘institutional Katrina’ – the final failure and collapse of key economic and political bureaucracies left behind from the industrial age.” “The third wave wealth system is increasingly based on serving, thinking, knowing and experiencing.” “The countries with the key ... http://www.richardrramos.com/qualified-to-lead-tomorrow-%e2%80%93-part-2/ Leadership is crucial.  Make no mistake about it - when we lead, where we lead, who we lead and how we lead has ramifications far beyond what we may think.  Therefore we must remain sharp, on point, and competent. Leaders must always be alert and self-aware.  We must know when it’s ... http://www.richardrramos.com/leadership-personal-accountability/ "In the tenuous years that lie ahead, the familiar benchmarks, guideposts, and milestones will change as rapidly and explosively as the times, but the one constant at the center of the vortex will be the leader. The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned ... http://www.richardrramos.com/qualified-to-lead-tomorrow/ “Where there is no vision, the people perish…” – Prov. 29.18 Drawing from this ancient wisdom, leaders of communities are reminded of the power, importance and influence that “vision” has on people. Every significant social cause or movement that has had a transitional impact on the status-quo of society can ... http://www.richardrramos.com/thought-leadership-and-vision/