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Motivation vs Discipline in Management: The 80/20 Rule for Consistency (2026)

17/06/2026 / / 0 Comments

Most managers treat motivation like a strategy. They build culture decks, host off-sites, and try to “hype” their teams to reach quarterly goals. But for the high-performing manager, motivation is a finite, volatile resource. If your leadership effectiveness relies on how you feel at 9:00 AM on a Monday, you’ve already lost. To build a high-performance engine, you must replace the fleeting spark of motivation with the architectural rigidity of discipline. In the context of motivation vs discipline in management, the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) is your greatest ally.

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Psychology of Flow – Zone of High Performance

11/08/2021 / / 0 Comments

You are out running in the park. Instead of your mind thinking about the office tasks on Monday, your attention is focused on the act of running and nothing else. You can feel the ground beneath your feet, the tension in your legs and how you are feeling as you breathe in and out. You are somehow completely focused on this and nothing else seems to matter. Suddenly you notice you have been running for twice as long as usual and you are not even tired.

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The Third Door

28/05/2021 / / 5 Comments

This is one of those articles you simply have to read. Arthur Rosenfeld,  a Tai Chi Master, provides an amazing insight on how sometime it might be better not to rely on our instinctive and primitive emotions. Based on his article in the Huffington Post Blog

Just before Christmas of 2007, almost exactly a year ago, I steered into a Starbucks drive-thru line for a cup of tea on my way to teach a morning tai chi lesson. There were a few cars in line, and I got in behind them. When my turn came I gave my order at the billboard menu and moved up as far as I could while waiting patiently for the cars in front of me to get through the cashier line. While the South Florida weather would probably would have felt tropical to much of the rest of the country, I was a bit chilled and was looking forward to my hot drink.

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Mind Facts – What Every Manager Needs to Know

07/03/2021 / / 0 Comments

There are a number of facts about the human brain – our mind – that are not well-known. There are also a number of myths that have been around for a long time and need to be dispelled. Here are some mind facts based on research from neuroscience that can help managers to appreciate how the brain actually works and to use this knowledge to advantage for personal and organizational development.

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Taking Action – The Key to Change Things

26/02/2021 / / 0 Comments

Based on a web article by Scott Young

For most of us – other than the 2% of people who are really successful at what they do – there is a big challenge we face every day. We like to dream about what we want to become or what we want to have in the future but we can’t seem to take action. We have ideas but we can’t execute. As a human species, we are essentially lazy – we seek reward without working for it. So what is the solution? How does one get better at following up by taking action?

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Search for Meaning

12/08/2020 / / 0 Comments

Lessons from the book Man‘s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Man’s Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Victor Frankl that describes his experience as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz during World War II. When Victor Frankl died in 1997, the book had sold over 10 million copies in 24 language. The main theme of the book is finding meaning and purpose in life even at times of extreme suffering and setbacks and it contains important lessons for individuals in all walks of life. Here are the most striking ones:

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Less is More – The 80:20 Rule

19/03/2020 / / 0 Comments

One of the most important ideas that you should be aware of that has the potential to change your life is the concept of Less is More and the 80:20 rule. The 80:20 rule is also referred to as the Pareto Principle after the name of the famous 19th century Italian economist and philosopher called Vilfredo Pareto. There are two wonderful books I highly recommend that are devoted to this subject called the 80:20 Principle by Richard Koch (see https://richardkoch.net/books/320-the-80-20-principle-the-secret-to-achieving-more-with-less) ) and The One Thing by Gary Keller and co-author Jay Papasan ( https://www.the1thing.com/ ) that go into detail about the power of this principle. This article provides an overview of the key elements of the principle.

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