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Performance – 3 Laws

Based on the brilliant book “The Three Laws of Performance” by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

PerformanceFirst of all, this short article is just an introduction to the basic ideas described in great detail in the “Three Laws of Performance” This is one of those must-read books for all executives and managers. Nonetheless, it is hoped this article can create interest for you to go read the book and discover how this set of ideas is changing world-class organizations and top managers in many countries…

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Creativity On Demand – 3 Key Strategies

CreativityWhether you are about to write a new article, thinking about how to re-organize an existing process in the workplace or marketing a new service, what is often needed is a new lens, a new way of doing things. But how does one go about looking at things differently? How does one  “acquire” creativity on demand, when needed? Here are 3 key strategies…

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Innovation and the Five Discovery Skills

An extract from a web article that explains the ideas presented in the book “In The Innovator’s DNA” by authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen, and Clayton M. Christensen

InnovationThis article builds on the idea of innovation to outline the five discovery skills that distinguish people such as Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and other innovators from the run-of-the-mill corporate managers. Academic and medical research shows that innovative tendencies are not genetic. Rather, they can be developed.The authors identify five discovery skills that distinguish successful innovators: associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting…

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Business Plan – The One Hour Plan

business planShould you spend precious management time on a business plan or not? This has been the subject of big debates. Good planning can strengthen an organization’s productivity, efficiency and profitability and yet few organizations make the time or effort to do this. Why? Well, there are some fundamental problems organizations face when they start out to make a serious business plan… .

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Inbound Marketing 101

Inbound MarketingFor all organizations that have a web presence and rely on their websites and social media assets to help with the growth of their business, it is common knowledge that the web is very crowded and there is a huge amount of competition out there.  It is becoming extremely important to find new ways to increase the number of online visitors and enquiries. One new way of thinking that is rapidly becoming the new standard for marketing on the web is called Inbound Marketing.

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Personal Change and the Marathon Runner

personal changeChanging oneself – personal transformation – is akin to the challenge of running a marathon, considered by many to be the ultimate test of human endurance and commitment. What marathon runners commit to before they succeed and get past the 26 miles barrier is not very dissimilar to what ordinary people must do in order to change dramatically…

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Change Yourself with Small Wins

Based on an extract from the book “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg that is about learning to change yourself  by changing your habits

When Michael Phelps’s alarm clock went off at 6:30 A.M. on the morning of August 13, 2008, he crawled out of bed in the Olympic Village in Beijing and fell right into his routine.

He pulled on a pair of sweatpants and walked to breakfast. He had already won three gold medals earlier that week-giving him nine in his career-and had two races that day. Phelps’s first race-the 200-meter butterfly, his strongest event-was scheduled for ten o’clock….

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