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Are you a pioneer?

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Think "pioneer" and you think of people like Steve Jobs, Richard Branson and James Dyson

So if you want to be a pioneer, how do you go about it?

The pioneer is willing to challenge the traditional way of doing things. The pioneer has got to get unreasonable with the world and his business.

The pioneer operates outside the mainstream at times, in order to be successful.

George Bernard Shaw had a great perspective on success. He said that there are only two kinds of people in the world. There are reasonable ones and unreasonable ones.

The reasonable person doesn't rock the boat, doesn't want to cause any trouble and wants no controversy.

But there is the unreasonable one who won't take it, who refuses to quit.

Shaw believed that all human progress depends on the unreasonable people.

Are you reasonable? Or are you an unreasonable leader?

If you want to become a pioneer, become unreasonable with all that you do. Follow the road that is least travelled!

That is the mark of a TOP Leader!

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Editor's Welcome

 

Hello! I'm a great believer in the power of stories, whether they be folk tales, novels, films or TV dramas.
 
They have a wonderful ability to get complex moral or social issues over to us in a palatable, easy-to-understand way and can provide many lessons if only we care to look just a little bit below the surface.
 
But they can also act as a fun starting point for discussion and debate on rather more serious topics that are all too often brushed under the carpet and ignored.
 

Hence our decision to start up a Review slot on the site to look at those everyday stories that are all around us from an HR perspective.

Although we've been publishing book reviews (take a look at our Book Club list of suggested possible non-fiction works for evaluation here) for some time, you may also have noticed that we've been running a weekly home page blog on The Apprentice courtesy of The Chemistry Group for a while now.

And Pauline Wood, managing director at specialist retail headhunter, court & spark consulting, was likewise kind enough to write our first film review on the Headhunters movie.

But the big question is, why don't you give it a go yourself? There's a world of choice out there and I, like the rest of the community, would love to hear your thoughts and insights.

So next time you watch a movie, see a TV drama or read a novel that you think has an HR message worth sharing, send your review to me at cath.everett@siftmedia.co.uk or post it directly to our blogs section at www.hrzone.co.uk/blogs.

So get critiquing and look forward to hearing from you very soon.....

Cath Everett
HRZone Editor 
 
 
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