Leadership

Reciprocal Causality and Affiliate Program Management

Affiliate Program Management, General Discussion, Leadership / By / 2 minutes of reading

In his Organisational Behaviour and Analysis: An Integrated Approach, Derek Rollinson points to the importance of looking at the leader-follower relationship through the prism of “reciprocal causality.” This concept presupposes that in healthy leader-follower interaction the influence between leaders and followers happens simultaneously, reciprocally, and continuously. Ignoring, or neglecting, the […]

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Focus on Personal Advancement, Needs and Goals

Affiliate Program Management, General Discussion, Leadership / By / 2 minutes of reading

After my previous two posts on motivating affiliates [Introduction to affiliate motivation and Intrinsic motivation as ultimate goal] I have been reading a lot about different models and frameworks, approaches and interpretations. But today’s reading from Haslam’s Psychology in Organizations: The Social Identity Approach summarized them all too beautifully for

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Problem Created by Leader or Lesson from Russian History

Affiliate Program Management, General Discussion, Leadership / By / 2 minutes of reading

The first American to win the Nobel Prize was Theodore Roosevelt. He was awarded this prestigious prize in 1906 for his instrumental participation in the diplomatic negotiations that preceded the peace Treaty of Portsmouth after one of the most pitiful Russian wars — the one against Japan in 1904-05. The

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Inspirational Leadership and Affiliate Program Management

Affiliate Program Management, General Discussion, Leadership / By / 3 minutes of reading

Yesterday’s “A Case for Inspirational Leadership” blog post by Roshan Thomas did my heart good. Even though “inspirational leadership” normally has a slighly different undertone, posts like his motivate us all to become better leaders, thereby creating a healthier and happier working environments for those that we are called to lead.

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Twitter. Is There a Crisis Preparedness Plan?

General Discussion, Leadership / By / 2 minutes of reading

When the whole “twitterdom” is twittering about it, and hundreds of bloggers are writing about it, I simply cannot remain silent, and would like to chime in with my perspective on the situation. Between the phishing attacks over the weekend, and today’s hacking of FoxNews’ Twitter account, followed by a hack of Britney

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Super Affiliate – My Definition

Affiliate Program Management, Articles & Publications, General Discussion, Leadership, Thoughts for Affiliates / By / 1 minute of reading

Jeremy Schoemaker’s recent post which included definitions of what super affiliates are, with its link back to his September Twitter poll on the same topic, encouraged me to entertain the question of super affiliate definition in my own blog. As an affiliate program manager, I would define super affiliates in

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