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Author: Asad Zaidi (Page 22 of 34)

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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Leadership Lessons from Steve Jobs

From a ClickZ.com web article published in September 2011

Just like there will never be another Socrates, Wayne Gretzky, Winston Churchill, or Gandhi, there will never be another Steve Jobs. While we can never become Steve Jobs, nor should we strive to be (follow your heart), what we can do is understand what is the greatness of Steve Jobs and, where applicable, apply these principles to help us develop as leaders…

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On Being Yourself

On Being YourselfThe environment we create for ourselves is a reflection of the way we act – like a mirror. When we become open and transparent, others around us start to do the same. If we keep our feelings and thoughts and emotions to ourselves, this is a signal to others to also withdraw into their own shells…

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Interviewing Skills – Some Questions to Assess Maturity

MaturityOne of the key challenges in any interview process is to assess if the candidate in front of you has the degree of maturity necessary for the position. We usually find it not too difficult to assess technical competence, communication skills and things like confidence and flair. Most interviewing skills do include assessment of personal attributes but maturity does not figurecourses talk about assessing technical, functional and personal  and But innate maturity is what sets one candidate apart from another when all other things are equal

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Motivate People – But How?

How do you Motivate People? This is an extract from an article in Harvard Business Review (HBR) by Frederick Herzberg – one of the most popular HBR articles of all time. It provides a really insightful look at all the things organizations do to motivate people without much success…

The surest way of getting someone to do something – is to deliver a kick in the pants-put bluntly, the KITA. But there is a danger that a manager might get kicked back in return, so companies usually resort to positive KITAs, ranging from fringe benefits to employee counseling. But while a KITA might produce some change in behavior, it doesn’t motivate people…

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