Get Out Of The Stone Age: Give Leadership Talks Written by Brent Filson
PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to author, and it appears with included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 715 Summary: Many leaders have wrong idea of what is important in terms of communication. Brent Filson observes that it's just not sending information that is critical, but making all-important deep human connections with people. Get Out Of The Stone Age: Give Leadership Talks. By Brent Filson 160 years ago, newly invented electric telegraph carried first news message. The message zipped 40 miles in a flash over wires from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. The public was dazzled -- except Henry David Thoreau. He wrote: "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." Today, we live in a Golden Age of communication. We have Internet. We have faxes. We have e-mails. We have streaming video. We have on-line audio. We have RSS feeds. We have logs and blogs. Yet today Thoreau is as right as rain. When it comes to really getting our messages across, we're stuck in Stone Age. Here's why. The vast majority of business leaders I've encountered are repeatedly making a huge mistake in communication, a mistake that's screwing up their jobs and careers. They're stuck giving presentations and speeches. They're NOT giving Leadership Talks! What's a Leadership Talk? Look at it this way: There's a hierarchy of verbal persuasion when it comes to business leadership. The lowest levels are speeches and presentations. They communicate information. The highest, most effective way of communicating is Leadership Talk. The Leadership Talk does more than simply send information. It has leader establish a deep, human, emotional connection with audience. That's where leaders communicate for best results. Here are a few examples of leadership talks. When Churchill said, "We will fight on beaches ... " That was a leadership talk. When Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you ... " that was a leadership talk. When Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" That was a leadership talk. You can come up with a lot of examples too. Go back to those moments when words of a leader inspired people to take ardent action, and you've probably put your finger on an authentic leadership talk.
| | Protection of the Intellectual Property in RussiaWritten by Sergey Talpa
A Governmental commission, headed personally by Prime Minister has been created in Russia recently in order to counteract infringements in sphere of intellectual property. As he stated earlier, little is done for protection of intellectual property rights in Russia and, therefore, both rights owners and state are actually robed. Are there any changes today in this area? What contribution has customs service made in order to protect business intellectual property rights? How can consumers be sure that when buying medicines, products or clothes of known manufacturers they will get goods that they expect? It is certain that problem has not been solved instantly. Today Russia suffers severe economic damage caused by infringements of author's and adjoining rights, misuses of inventions, trade marks, from uncollected tax revenues, and from impossibility to increase national economic production of goods because of unfair competition. Counterfeit aviation and automobile spare parts, fake combustive-lubricating materials, toys, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, food are frequently dangerous to health and life of population, and pose real threat to national safety of this country. Starting Point A legal base of interaction between customs bodies with other law-enforcement and control organs has been created in Russia; Rospatent, a State body which acts as federal enforcement authority in field of intellectual property protection is now a part of team. Joint actions are carried out according to guidelines of interdepartmental recommendations and measures, aimed at ensuring intellectual property protection, that have been developed and approved by Ministry of Internal Affairs, by State Customs Committee, and by Federal Tax Police Service and coordinated with State Office of Public Prosecutor of Russia. Multiple changes and modifications to legislation, regulating intellectual property protection have been adopted. They helped define customs and state regulations of foreign trade activity, administrative infringements, and criminal legislation. Suspicion of Illegal Trafficking The legitimate rights owner who has reasonable grounds to believe that his intellectual property rights could be infringed during customs clearance through border of Russia can file a complaint with State Customs Committee (SCC) of Russia and request protection of his rights. The efficiency of this protection directly depends on completeness of information submitted by legal owner who can assist customs bodies in counterfeit products identification. Such data can include information on places of import and customs registration of legal production, information on exporters, importers of legal production, on distinctive signs of counterfeit goods, etc. After consideration of application and, if required, after additional verification of stated information, documents issued by State Customs Committee of Russia and corresponding information are filed with supervising customs bodies of Russia. As practice shows, infringements of intellectual property rights are quite often accompanied by violations of customs rules. The examples of such are: import of a cargo, for example, claimed to be used for non-commercial purposes, falsified documentation and customs declarations, undeclared or falsely declared products, as well as other infringements for which administrative responsibility is stipulated by law.
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