How Do You Get Employees to Walk Through Fire for You?
Every manager’s dream is to lead people who will walk through fire for him or her. However, for many managers, this is not the case. Paradoxically, it is the manager who creates the dynamics of the relationship. Your people will follow your lead if you fight for them first. As a manager gets to know […]
Mario Andretti’s Quote on High Performance
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti According to Andretti, the thing many people crave impedes progress. In a world where we are obsessed with making everything predictable and controllable, we miss the possibility of extraordinary performance. In business, we have personality analyses, 360 assessments, market research and […]
Do You Believe Being Smart Is Enough?
We have all seen very successful people who didn’t appear to be very bright. Yet, when the window of opportunity opened up, they knew what to do. What do these people have that extremely intelligent people lack? I know a number of people who have very high IQs. In fact, I know a gentleman who […]
The New Economic Reality: Do We Have the Courage to Create It?
In the US, organizations have 2 gears for running a business. During good times, hire people. When the economy slows, fire people. In almost every case, this strategy results in a downward spiral for the economy. While there are infinite alternatives to this tactic, no one has taken sufficient time to explore and develop it. […]
John Buchan’s Quote On the Task of Leadership
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” — John Buchan One of the biggest problems leaders or managers have is their impression of what kind of person you have to be as a leader. Too often, people have the false impression […]
Peter Drucker Quotes on True Leadership
“Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people,’ that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” — Peter […]
Who Owns Your Brain?
The title may seem like a silly question. Most people will say they own their brain. However, before you respond, I ask you to consider something. This question is analogous to food companies. Coca Cola, for example, says they want to own 20% of your stomach. To do that, they produce soft drinks, snacks and […]
Jim Rohn Quotes On How to Make a Fortune
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn While school is important, it is finite. Education, on the other hand, is infinite. Hence, that is the difference between making a living and making a fortune. At some point, formal school comes to an end. It is true […]
Why Change Initiatives Need Changed Approaches
http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2013/04/change-management-needs-to-cha.html The Harvard Business Review published an article by Ron Ashkenas called Change Management Needs Change. See link above. He said while change management has been around for over half a century, 60%-70% of change initiatives fail. In the article, he sites one of the key obstacles to successful change initiatives is that management out […]
Nikola Tesla’s Quote On Great Achievement
“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” ― Nikola Tesla This is a philosophy of the game changer. And Nikola Tesla was a game changer. In the late 1800s, he advocated and experimented with wireless […]