Category: Goal Setting
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Making Improvements: The Path to Mastery
The Path to Mastery The path to mastery is steady, small, incremental improvements repeated over and over again. There is no shortcut to mastery. There is a mode of operating that allows mastery. This mode is the 1% improvement mode. Do you focus on the 1% improvements? What small change will you make today? Please…
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Mission: It should fit on a t-shirt
An effective statement of mission should be short, sharp and direct. It should fit on a t-shirt. Not a font 8 squeeze, but a legible font. Every person who is involved should be able to articulate how their contribution adds to that mission. If not, then you don’t have a mission. You have a hopeful…
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
This is a great summary video of a book that had a great impact on me back when I was 23 years old. I was working for Accenture (in those days, Andersen Consulting) and the organisation shared this book with all employees. There’s a photo there of me there on the right with my leather…
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Engagement – Is it really the employer’s responsibility?
I have sat through many presentations over the last 3 years listening to experts telling company leaders how they can make their company an engaging workplace; how they can increase employee engagement. Is it really the employer’s responsibility? Engagement is a Choice Surely a basic requirement when you accept a job is that you engage…
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How Self-Discipline will make you a Better Leader
Self-discipline is the foundational habit that makes all other good habits possible. Self Discipline What is self discipline? It is the ability to do a chosen action even when you don’t feel like it. Anyone can do the action when they feel like it. It is the ability to do it when you don’t feel like…
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“What is the hardest thing that you ever had to work for?”
This is a request for your experience. I want your help. Yesterday, I came across an interview with Ryan Avery, 2012 World Champion of Public Speaking on the blog of Paul Sohn: How to Speak Like a World Champion of Public Speaking. The question that really struck me and has left me deep in thought…
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A Good Life: Be Real, Be Whole, Be Innovative
What kind of leadership do we need now? In his 30 years of asking this question, Dr Stew Friedman has heard one word become increasingly common: Flexible How to achieve Flexible Leadership? Have you ever wondered if “work/life balance” exists? How do some of the world’s most successful professionals find harmony in work and with…
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[Infographic] Habits that Separate Successful People from Unsuccessful People
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Show me your daily habits and I can describe your future. Discover the habits of successful people as opposed to the habits of unsuccessful people in the infographic created by SuccessStory.com. Habits of Successful People vs Unsuccessful People How’s your…
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Your Scarcest Resource
I know plenty of financial advisors who would love to spend a few hours reviewing my investments, cash position, investment goals and helping me make a realistic plan. I know how much I spent on food, travel, housing, school in the last month, year and if I did the sums I could calculate a rough…
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For Productivity: Stop Doing These 9 Things
Stop Doing Stuff that Doesn’t Serve 168 hours in a week. 24 hours in a day. I haven’t done the math to work out how many in a year or a lifetime, but however large the number, it is still finite. It is limited. We get so much, and no more. This leaves you with…