Monthly Archives: March 2017
Do the Work You Love to Do
Comments Off on Do the Work You Love to DoAfter almost 20 years of slugging away in my career I finally decided to stop just taking jobs for the sake of taking jobs and, instead, find something that I could honestly say I was passionate about. As I tell my friends today, I now get to do what I love which is to help people fulfill their goals and aspirations. If I told you that, according to a Deloitte study, 80% of people don’t ...
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Eight Skills Every Entrepreneur Should Master
Comments Off on Eight Skills Every Entrepreneur Should MasterWhether you’re a business owner, a future one, or work for one, what are the skills you need to constantly develop to succeed? I mean constantly succeed, because for some reason, we tend to stop growing at the things that got us there. Our motives change (usually money or ego), we get satisfied, or just get lazy. These skills apply to any group, in large or small companies but it just seems ...
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Five Stimulating Agreements We Need to Have With Ourselves
Comments Off on Five Stimulating Agreements We Need to Have With OurselvesRecently I asked a fellow going by my house to check my car brake lights. Vernon and I began to talk about things and discovered we learned similar lessons over the years. It was stimulating and the next thing you know we were really getting into these lessons learned. For example, as a young engineer, he went to East Asia to seek adventure and while on the job he studied Buddha and Zen related ...
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8 Steps to Becoming More Likeable
Comments Off on 8 Steps to Becoming More LikeableI’ve recently been introduced to the book Give and Take by Adam Grant – www.adamgrant.net. In it he talks about the three types of people that exist in our organizations: Givers, Takers and Matchers. I’m going to take a moment to define the three people and then I’ll get to the point. Givers – the people in your organization who enter every interaction trying to ...
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Do we Really know what Learning is?
Comments Off on Do we Really know what Learning is?What is the relationship of learning to success? Yesterday, someone asked me to distinguish why some people seem to advance and get ahead and others seem to never get better. Well, what is “getting better”? Is it attaining more information? Is it studying book knowledge? Is it understanding concepts? Is it using critical thinking skills? I’m sure all of those elements help in ...
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