Whether you are an executive, a first line manager, a senior manager in a leadership position or an entrepreneur trying to grow your business, the one thing that will determine your success will be that you get things done. Taking action is imperative – it is more important than your creativity, your IQ, your interpersonal skills and your technical knowledge combined…
Category: Personal Effectiveness (Page 7 of 12)
Over the last 10 years, in the quest to build a sustainable business, I have discovered through personal experience what I did not know when I set out. This is that self motivation is the main reason that anyone succeeds at anything. I also learnt that there are some truths that anyone setting out on a challenging journey will encounter sooner or later…
It is a natural urge to want to impress others. After all, isn’t this what we learnt from parents, teachers, mentors etc that we should not be hesitant in trumpeting our achievements. Logic suggests that by impressing others, we will gain some influence with them. But there is a problem with this approach…
An extract from one of Harvard Business Review’s all-time popular articles written by Peter Drucker in 1999. The ideas in this are still extremely relevant today
In terms of personal development and managing oneself towards excellence, Peter F. Drucker suggests you ask yourself the following five questions:
1. What are my strengths?
2. How do I work?
3. What are my values?
4. Where do I belong?
5. What can I contribute?
These are not simple questions and require an honest self-analysis…
Changing 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…
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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