Five Secrets of Charismatic Leadership

Even if you lack charisma, you can still mobilize your team by following a tried-and-true formula, writes Nick Tasler, who points out that introverts often outperform extroverts at the top.

Displaying charismatic leadership is one of the most effective ways to boost everything from motivation and creativity to productivity and plain old satisfaction. It's the manager's job to get those things done. But what if you fall somewhere between Ben Stein and Alan Greenspan on the charisma scale?

The good news is that you are not doomed to fail as a leader. A new study shows that the more reserved style of introverted leaders can actually inspire better performance in followers. If the employees are extroverted, the team will perform better under the leadership of an introvert. Introverted leaders are more likely to take a team approach to problem-solving and to let talented team members spread their wings. However, if you need to light a fire under a more reserved group, a little charisma in your messaging can go a long way.

The Charismatic Narrative

Anyone can use this structure to present a charismatic message. Just follow these five steps:

1. Define the main character: Your story must be about your audience or someone your audience cares about.

2. Describe the happy ending.

3. Describe the not-so-happy beginning.

4. Describe what action you want them to take.

5. Just add watery eyes: Use emotions to rouse the team

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If You Want to See Entrepreneurs, Go to China

It's not the institutional environment, taxes, or ease of hiring. To explain the country's astronomical entrepreneurship rates, Scott Shane digs into the data.

As MIT political scientist and China expert Ed Steinfeld says, "China [is] one of the most entrepreneurial places on earth." Perhaps this observation doesn't surprise you, given what's been happening to the Chinese economy in recent years. But you might not recognize how widespread entrepreneurship is in China, or why the country is so full of entrepreneurs.
What the Data Show
The latest numbers from the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) show that China's rate of self-employment far exceeds that in the U.S.—51.2% versus 7.2%—a gap that hasn't changed much since 2001.
Lest you think that self-employment represents something other than entrepreneurship, consider some other statistics. According to the 2009 GEM report, China exceeds the U.S. in its rate of nascent entrepreneurship, rate of ownership of new businesses, and rate of ownership of more established businesses.
China Has More Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurs
China doesn't just have more small business owners than the US; it also has more growth-oriented business founders. China had the highest rate of high-expectation entrepreneurship of any country covered by the study. More than 4% of the Chinese working-age population is engaging in high-growth-expectation entrepreneurship.
Furthermore, China scores higher than the U.S. (and many other nations) on realized rates of new business growth. So it's not just how much people expect to grow, but also what they accomplish in creating jobs that marks China's entrepreneurial activity. In China, the number of people plan to become entrepreneurs is 23%.
China Has Vibrant Financing Markets for Entrepreneurs
The 2009 GEM report also shows that the informal capital market is extremely vibrant in China. Approximately 6% of Chinese people between ages 18 and 64 made an informal investment in the past three years, compared with less than 4% in the U.S. One place where the U.S. remains ahead of China is in venture capital.
Why Is China So Entrepreneurial?
It isn't because of the size of the country's private sector. It also isn't the ease of business formation, favorable institutional environment, tax system or hiring employees.
Getting Rich Is Good
Keming Yang, a sociologist at Durham University, and author of the book Entrepreneurship in China, thinks the high rate of entrepreneurship in China results from a national focus on getting rich. "The Chinese people have a very strong desire, perhaps the strongest among all nations in the world, to lead an enviable material life," he explains. "It is a life-long struggle as they constantly compare their standard of material life with that of others around them."
The 2007 GEM Report supports the notion that Chinese entrepreneurs are motivated by the desire to make money. The GEM data reveal that fewer than 40% of Chinese entrepreneurs start businesses to have more independence, and more than 60% start businesses to increase their income.
Plus according to Steinfeld: "Chinese entrepreneurs, whether because of cultural or other factors, have consistently proven willing to establish businesses … in a number of high-risk, deeply unstable environments."
Maybe it shouldn't surprise anyone that China is so full of entrepreneurs. But the evidence that China is a go-to place to see entrepreneurs suggests we might learn something from studying Chinese attitudes toward starting businesses.

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NIPPON PAINT AND STO'S EXHIBITION IN CAMBODIA

Just wanna share some photos taken during my company's exhibition at Koh Pich, which is the first biggest marketing project I'm directly in charge. It was fun and promotional: attracting visitors from all walks of life without expensive media campaign, celebrities or big prizes as employed by other main exhibitors. Worried that not many people visit our booth cus of the nature of the products, but it turned out to be crowded most of the time!

Why Markets Love Dictators

By Chan Akya, Asia Times

When a political party that has been in power for a long time suffers a sudden reverse in its fortunes, inevitably the financial media look to market reaction as a gauge of whether such moves are positive or negative. This of course goes with the longstanding principle of markets being a voting machine over the short term but eventually always being a weighing machine. In other words, fundamentals always triumph over near-term popularity questions. In Asia though, the political economy is more than a passing fad - indeed, in most countries it contributes to the bulk of fortunes enjoyed by businessmen. Thus it is that starting from the region's most developed economy, Japan, to its least developed countries like Pakistan, markets pay close attention to the composition of government, frequent statements, policy actions and the like. Going back to the first paragraph above, it becomes clear that the weighing machine and the voting machine become the same thing, in practice across Asia.

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What Matters With The Word ''Youn"?

There was a hot debat on Ki-Media regarding a recent Phnom Penh Post article accusing SRS a racist by using the word ''Youn''.

Personally or subjectively, I totally disagree with anyone who politicise or mischaracterise a word which is neutrally and commonly used. Whether the word has a racist origin or carries any negative connotation does not matter, as it is commonly used by all Cambodians without any prejudice. ''Youn'' just simply means Vietnamese. In another word, I could say Youn is informal and Vietnam (Vietnamese) is formal. There maybe some people who use it to express anger because of Vietnamese mistreatment and invasion on Cambodia for centuries, but the word itself is theoritically or practically neutral.

Don't Khmer know their own language? Should we be afraid just to use our own language? Should foreigners teach Khmer how to use Khmer?

Below are some of the most logical reasoning from Ki-Media regarding the word ''Youn'':

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010020831721/National-news/yuon-whats-in-a-xenonym.html

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2010/02/protest-to-phnom-penh-post.html

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2010/02/pejorative-terms-yuon-and-mien.html