Is It Possible To Shed Your Deepest Fears?
Look carefully into the future, and you will clearly see what’s there: Nothing! Even if you look at tomorrow, the future is empty waiting to be filled. Oftentimes though, you and I immerse the future with our past. Tomorrow therefore, appears no different than yesterday. Hence, the sayings like: same thing different day. If you […]
Should You Hire an Executive Coach?
While not everyone is interested in becoming CEO, career growth is important. In fact, many large organizations have their own training and development curriculums. These programs enable people to become better problem solvers, managers, and project managers. Oftentimes however, company training lacks crucial insight in understanding how to balance strengths with self-imposed impediments. Whether you’re […]
Quote: Rudyard Kipling Says Great Leaders Are Like Alpha Wolves
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” – Rudyard Kipling Titans throughout understand this concept. Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates. Each of them surrounded himself with effective and powerful people. Without their companions, they […]
Do You Have It All Backwards?
As people, we strive for success, whether it be through career, lifestyle, relationships, etc. We claim that once we have the right job, spouse, car, clothes, etc., we will be able to do the things we really want, and eventually become the person we’ve always wanted to be. This strategy however, is not only backwards […]
Quote: How Do You Gain Wisdom?
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. – Roy Williams What a concept. It’s great when the wise seek advice from the intelligent. Unfortunately, most of us today believe […]
Quote from Andrew Carnegie on: Devoting 100% of your capabilities
1835-1919 The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. – Andrew Carnegie To be 100% devoted requires […]
Is Microsoft a Death Waiting To Happen?
Has Microsoft Become a Dinosaur? In the August edition of a Vanity Fair article, it describes how Microsoft has implemented a poisonous management strategy. The author of the article, Kurt Eichenwald, interviewed many current and former employees of Microsoft. Everyone he interviewed commented on a management system called “stack ranking” being destructive to Microsoft’s ability […]
What Kind of Determination Do You Have?
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” Dr. Thomas Fuller (1608-1661); Clergyman, Writer Determination is the dedication to purpose, will, or intention. Thomas Edison made 10,000 attempts to make a functional light bulb. Though many considered his persistence ludicrous, if he had quit […]
Are You Really a Great Listener?
What Makes Great Listeners? In a Harvard Business Review article, Ram Charan wrote a piece called The Discipline of Listening. In the article, he provided effective techniques to ensure good listening and emphasized the cost of being unaware. What he left out though, was the source of poor listening. We are taught to make eye […]
Quote From the Budda On How We Create the World
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” – Buddha If who we are reflects what we think, what influences our thoughts? If our environment shapes what we think and what we call reality, we are a product of our thoughts that were […]