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  10 Top Leaders Who Lacked Mojo Mojo and leadership overlap a lot. If you break mojo into its components, you can say that a strong leader will have many of the same components as a high mojo person. However, something will be deficient or missing entirely. These are ten people, in no particular order, who lacked some component of mojo in their leadership qualities. Benito Mussolini - Mussolini was the elected leader of Italy for over 20 years. He founded and led the National Fascist Party . “El Duce”, his nickname, means the leader in Italian. Clearly, he had leadership qualities. However, his mojo is a different matter. A restless child, Mussolini was disobedient, unruly, and aggressive. His father and mother didn’t agree on much. He is very unlikely to have had a good support system from childhood. His faith in his training and follow through are also questionable, as his marital infidelity would suggest. He should have understood that late in WWII, his troops had been...

  How To Handle Bad Luck With Mojo Luck is only one component of mojo. However, if your group is underperforming because of bad luck, you may be frustrated and wonder what to do. First, I suggest reviewing my posts about the components of mojo , whether it is better to lucky than good , and my top 10 sites defining or exploring luck. Once you have reviewed these and understand what I mean by luck, you can start to address your own bad luck. As I have said many times, luck is unpredictable. If you are satisfied that you have enough mojo to continue until you are luckier, then that is a valid approach. In other words, if you are confident that all of the other components of mojo are solid, then you can wait for luck to come to you. However, I am going to address what to do if you want to enhance your chances of being luckier. In the remainder of this post, I will assume that bad luck is not your only problem . If it were, I would be advising you to wait it out because luck te...

  Top 10 Sites About Luck Many times, I have described the role luck plays in mojo . In an earlier post , I described all of the components of mojo including luck. Luck, although it is one of the least important component of mojo, does matter. Luck is a controversial topic. There are many different ideas about what luck means and what luck is. A good place to start is a reliable definition of luck. One that I like is Wikipedia’s. Wikipedia defines luck in this link. If you don’t like Wikipedia, I recommend a good dictionary. I like dictionary.com as an online source. Next, I would look for synonyms and antonyms, such as at thesaurus.com . It is useful to know what is and what isn’t due to luck. This will allow us to be on the same page. It is also useful to have alternative words to use in your expressions. Next are some philosophical point about luck. For example, the next page indicates that attitude matter s, too. I couldn’t agree more. Sometimes, if you have a go...

  High Mojo But Will Not Act? Sometimes you have a high mojo person in your group but there is a sense that that person doesn’t have the will to act , especially in crucial situations. Maybe the group is not performing as you think it should. In sports, maybe you are losing games at the end in which you have been leading. The first thing you should do is to examine the statistics of performance and decide whether or not your group is actually underperforming in the clutch. If they aren’t, stop the suspicion about the high mojo person. There may only be statistical anomalies that may reverse themselves. The will to act may not be the issue. Try to win with the high mojo person. Be certain before you make a hasty decision. If your study shows that you are losing in the clutch, find out if the problem is caused by the high mojo person. There are two ways that the high mojo person might be failing. One is the obvious, personal failure of the individual to come through when ne...

  Top 10 Non-Sports Activities Where Mojo Matters Military - This is the most obvious area. There are many leaders who got men to perform selflessly and miraculously. Patton, MacArthur, LeMay, Rommel, Lee, Grant, Themistocles, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, and Washington are just a few. On the other hand, some generals didn’t have ”it”. In the Civil War, on the union side were McClellan, Bragg, Burnside, and Rosecrans just to name a few. Upon hearing about U.S. Grant’s drinking, Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said, “Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.” Mojo can make a big difference in the wartime success of a leader. Sales - Most good sales people are empathetic and sensitive to their customers. Unfortunately, they also don’t spend a lot of time around colleagues. It would take a very skilled individual who can lead people, even remotely, and be in charge of them. H...

  Mojo Heroes And Antiheroes There are both heroes and antiheroes among people with high mojo. There is no law that says a person with high mojo has to be a nice person. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. Let’s define anti-hero. Webster says an anti-hero is “a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities”. Examples of heroic qualities are strength, ability, achievement, courage, and nobility. The number of anti-heroes compared to heroes is greater in fiction than in real life. It is just more fun to write about or play the more complex characters typified by anti-heroes. It exploits the talents of the actors better. It also seems as if there are more anti-heroes today than in prior years. But all of the people I am about to mention had high mojo, whether hero or anti-hero. In an earlier post , I described the top 10 American people with high mojo. They were George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan, Benjam...

Top 10 Mojo Effects I am going to concentrate on the effects of a high mojo individual or set of individuals on a group of people, rather than on individuals themselves who have mojo. If you acquire more mojo for your group, you may experience one or more of these effects. There are three types of effects that you will see. There are the direct effects of increasing mojo on the group. There are the indirect effects of the example set by adding the mojo. Lastly, there are the synergistic effects each group member experiences from having a teammate with mojo. When you add mojo to your group, you also add each of the component of mojo : motivation , expertise , experience , support , faith , willingness to act , and luck . Obviously there is a net increase in each of these in the group. But with them, you get an example of proper attitude, behavior, and preparation (see below for the effects these will have). Also, each member of your group will come to know that they have a rol...