At Work: gorge yourself on strengths!!
Actually, this title should read, “ANYWHERE, and at ANYTIME, Gorge Yourself on...
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Actually, this title should read, “ANYWHERE, and at ANYTIME, Gorge Yourself on...
Read MoreIf you want to climb to the top of ANY endeavour, you need only remember THREE strategies: copy success, adapt what works, and apply the best to the best. By copying success, I don’t actually mean to suggest ...
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If you experienced EMOTIONAL conflict at work, it is likely because you “rubbed”...
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Why is it that so many people like to accuse others of having the easy path to success, of being...
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Let me be cute for a moment. [Yeah. Yeah. I deserve that: “With face as ugly as...
Read MorePeople tend to make things terribly complicated. This is especially true for those who fail to...
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Want to get ahead in your career? Here’s 8 strategies that can help to make it happen. Drop...
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Are electric vehicles REALLY environmentally friendly? Some scientists argue,...
Read MoreAbout six months ago I bumped into a gentleman who was excelling at his workouts at our gym. At...
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I want to introduce you to the success story of MamaSezz.com. But first I have to get something...
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I just listened to a brilliant man on a brilliant streaming show: Gerald Celente, on CARAVAN TO...
Read MoreWhen we think of what RESOURCE is in short supply, is scarce, precious, and extremely valuable, we...
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Years ago I chaired a special committee to investigate various measures to help improve...
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Whenever someone wishes to rise through the ranks of employees faster than their colleagues, or,...
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One thing that impresses me about someone who is excellent at their job, sport, vocation, they are...
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Throughout my extensive career I have heard many complain about this or that ceiling. At one time...
Read More[PHOTO CREDIT: GENIUS NETWORK. ] The other day I happened to mention how much I admire one of...
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Successful managers understand the paradox of budgets. Budgets exist to ensure results are...
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Employees not only enjoy, but NEED to be recognized. Managers who do so on a regular basis enjoy...
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Nothing makes an employee more suspicious of a manager than a manager who is all things to all...
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To discover invisible managers, simply follow the mess they leave in their wake. One of the...
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Helicopter parents have gone too far. But most bosses have not gone far enough. While raising...
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So, the TRUMP effect is succeeding and encouraging major corporations to come streaming back into...
Read MoreThis is going to be a short, easy-to-read Nugget. Our nation is far too negative. It is filled...
Read MoreAge-old widsom echoed through the works of motivational experts such as Norman Vincent Peal, James...
Read MoreWhat separates winners from losers? Emotional Attention. They empower their objectives with a...
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During my lifetime, I heard many people, parents, employees, complain that, for them,...
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I’m a hardcore student of innovation. I love what the human mind is capable of doing. I get...
Read MoreWouldn’t it be wonderful to succeed at almost ANYTHING, and do that 200% quicker/sooner?!...
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It has happened to you. You set a goal, start working towards it and then you give up. You...
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In this world of coddling the squeaky wheel to avoid offending anyone, walking on eggs trying to...
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How is it that some people just shoot upwards through a hierarchy almost at the speed of light...
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Formally hand out assignments to members of your eco-system.See End Note #1 Your eco-system need...
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You don’t get paid for your effort. You get paid to produce results, outcomes, outputs. It is tiring to hear people say, “I tried.” When a company hires you to do work, it expects you to discover, solve,...
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Among my favourite principles of leveraging insider secrets to protect your job or, better, to...
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Written goals, objectives, presentations, statements in shareholder reports, and anything else you...
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People of great power get there by dealing with other successful people of power. Successful...
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Most knowledge workers think that working is mostly about doing a great job for the company....
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Limited progress in your career? Or maybe no progress? Wondering if it is your fault or if it is...
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As a leader, you must keep a team, division, or corporation inspired and motivated. But how? As a...
Read MoreSUICIDE: protect yourself and especially your children from the desire to commit suicide. The...
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These days, people are so afraid of making a decision which might offend some person or group that...
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Whichever way the economy goes, you can be better prepared by making yourself BOTH...
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Likely you know who ELON MUSK is, but if not, read my end notes for a brief bio. In short, I...
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Want to enjoy the “good life” of being a leader? People imagine all sorts of wonderful...
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The self-help industry is worth billions, possibly trillions of dollars. Every few years, there is...
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What were they thinking?! Over the past few weeks I have spoken to many people about their...
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Employees are often so fed up with changes within a corporation that they seldom react to new directives, strategies and innovations until forced to do so. This 11-part series is intended for leaders who want to make major...
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Changing of the guards. If your change is a major one for your corporation there is much to be said for the New-Year’s adage of “out with the old and in with the new”. No. I certainly do not mean to fire...
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When making changes a powerful reinforcer comes in the form of stories. I’ve written Nuggets about the importance of story telling during your job interviews, but this same sense of importance and symbolism applies when...
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Small steps can create big changes. Similarly, small actions create big impressions. When making change, check your alignment, and, of course, the alignment of others. Are you sending an email to someone internally? If so, do...
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Your employees are watching you. Are you behaving in ways that are consistent with the changes you are pushing throughout the corporation? Do your memos reinforce those changes? Do you host meetings to reinforce those changes?...
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Accountability accounts for success. Though checklists can be overdone, there are times when checklists are warranted and ought to be enforced until such times as actions become habitual, or processes fully automated. But the...
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In any sport, it is the TEAM that wins. If every member of the team learns to work with each other, adapts to each other’s personalities to feed strengths and mitigate weaknesses, and if they rally around workable...
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Accept no excuses. Muscles don’t grow unless they are sufficiently challenged with heavier and heavier weights over time. Marathons are not won by giving in to aches and pains and succumbing to fatigue before the finish...
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Do you have the authority to make change? Do you have the full support of the board and all your executive stakeholders? When that day arrives when you stand before your entire employee population to announce your agenda and...
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Okay. So you are the new CEO. The chief honcho. The big cheese. The board hired you so they expect change. You have the authority to make almost any change you desire to the company. You have that magical power as if to wave a...
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As long as an ineffective, expired or even a bad process is resourced, it will continue. Yet, few executives have the courage to pull the carpet from under an undesirable process. They sometimes fear the disruption that may be...
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A new process or program can only succeed when employees clearly recognize, accept, and believe in, the need to change from an existing, adequate program or process to a new one. Often, employees do not recognize a need for...
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How much time should managers or knowledge workers spend on each item on their Pareto list to help...
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Make PARETO your best buddy… Today, because of the ongoing trend in corporate downsizings,...
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You can achieve great success in almost anything, especially your career, in one of two ways::...
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In this world of proclaiming “I’m offended by that!” and blaming everyone else...
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Almost every day, managers and their teams face critical product delivery issues and a variety of...
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Employees are filled with ideas that can help boost corporate profits and they are eager to offer...
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Paradox is as confusing as quantum physics. Unlike quantum physics, one does not need to master...
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As a leader you endeavor to catch any deteriorating systems or processes as early as possible....
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People want to make the perfect decision. But there is NO such thing as a perfect decision. There...
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You’ve been asked to make a change to one of your team’s or company’s processes....
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You’ve likely heard the expression that the first 100 days are the most important. If you...
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In this look-after-myself, climb-the-ladder, corporate world, it is commonplace for managers and...
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Knowledge workers are often frustrated at the lack of progress in their desired career path,...
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A corporation is very fortunate, more so, very blessed, when one or more of its teams is a...
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When I speak about rewards, I don’t necessarily mean money. Employees welcome both...
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Leaders are often so busy getting their job done, balancing hundreds of issues that they often let...
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In business, successful knowledge workers will take time to think before rushing into doing. The...
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If the tasks on your “To-Do” list are familiar, comfortable, and almost always play to...
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For three years I have been trying to attract butterflies to my butterfly garden. This summer will...
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Winning starts with the ability to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Do you have...
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It has to be emotionally exhausting to be a person who seeks the worst life offers. Yet, there are...
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I am motivated to write this Nugget because of a recent change made by our cable TV company. They...
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Leaders have so many responsibilities. A major responsibility is to balance forecasted and planned...
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Quite often, when new ideas or concepts for expenditures are proposed, they are presented as...
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Corporations are all about maximizing the Returns on Resources. Finance people will also recognize...
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Likely you’ve here the admonition to “work smarter, not harder”? But how do you...
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Ask someone if they understand Karma and you’ll get a response akin to the following: If you...
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Let’s say you intentionally hurt someone. You may have had a lot of reasons at the time such...
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You have a Karma bank account. Without you ever knowing, each good deed is deposited into your...
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Your good Karma muscles need to be exercised from time to time. To make your Karma muscles...
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Have you learned to face the music? Karma has no room for emotions. Karma just wants to teach you...
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Why do people say that want to earn or acquire or success at one thing but you find they act in...
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A SWOT analysis is an essential part of assessing before acting. Karma is watching to be sure you...
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No negotiation or friendship can possibly succeed in an environment of mistrust. Right thinking,...
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When you least expect it…You’ll be surprised. Learn not to be. Eastern philosophers...
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Do you have a bias or prejudice, or discriminate? If so, it is built upon misconceptions, bad...
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Forget about time management. There’s something better. Executives use a much better...
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No experience, no learning. The learning, the lesson, comes AFTER the experience. [Bhagavad...
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It is reported that over 148 inventions EACH occurred to two or more people, distant and in many...
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When I read about Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, expressing his thanks for hitting a milestone...
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Is there a formula for achieving success? Yes. Of the many books and articles I’ve read, my favourite is a tiny book, “As a Man Thinketh”, by James Allan. Here’s a summary of success-making tips you will...
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You have access to a tool from which great things can be accomplished. It’s called...
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You must create face-to-face time with people. You must respect them. You must be remembered by...
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Set the stage and define the characters: scene, location, atmosphere, challenge, people, amount of...
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This has happened to each of you. You write an innocent, innocuous memo and hit...
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The power of a magnifying glass comes from focusing the energy of rays of sunshine. The power of...
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In business or in the world at large, we can benefit from role models of clear and straight...
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The great Archemides was the first person to discover the principle of mechanical efficiency:...
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When sending an email think about the other person receiving it. Your email will be competing with possibly HUNDREDS of incoming emails. Even on a slow day, I’d still receive more than 50 emails. To make effective use of...
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When managing my divisions I used to encourage my employees to think in terms of their “Contribution” not just about their actions and activities within the department or firm. Companies do not pay for actions....
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Each DAY be sure to accomplish at least one ACTION STEP from your “ALIGNED To-Do List”. Complete at least ONE of the top priority actions from your “aligned” to-do list EACH day. Reverse engineer...
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What can small-, and medium-sized businesses learn from MY life experience in photography from the...
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Business owners often ask, “What makes for a great team and work environment?”...
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What’s IMO, (Investing in Managerial Ego)? Peter Drucker explains the concept:...
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