How many mistakes have you made today? How many mistakes have you made this week? How many mistakes have you made this month or this year? There are at least two correct and very powerful answers to these important questions: 1. The first correct and powerful answer is “more than I realize!” Everyone reading this
If you were given the opportunity to “sit at the feet” and learn (or be reminded and reinforce) proven ‘tips, behaviors and attitudes for greater success’ from a highly successful, world-class achiever, would you take the time to do so? An achiever whose company received 90,043 resumes and hired 831 new employees in 2009! Calculate that application-to-hire
This is the last in a series of articles examining a recent IBM study titled “Capitalizing on Complexity.” The study, conclusions and recommendation are based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide. In the concluding section of the study the authors state the following: “For CEOs and their organizations, avoiding complexity is not an
Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, recently wrote a publisher’s letter entitled: “What Makes You Happy?” Darren correctly states that this question is one of the most important questions of our entire lives. Most people do not take the time nor invest the effort to seriously address this question. When asked this question, most people
For the past two weeks, this column has examined a recent IBM study titled “Capitalizing on Complexity.” The study, conclusions and recommendation are based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide. Another of the major findings is that CEOs of ‘standout organizations’ are capitalizing on complexity by “Building Operating Dexterity.” “To create a profile
Abigail Adams was the wife of the second President of the United States of America, John Adams. To this day, she remains one of the most influential women in American history. Like other women of her time, Abigail Adams lacked formal education. However, she possessed great intelligence and wisdom. She had a serious interest
Florence Nightingale, the English pioneer of modern nursing is quoted as saying, “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” Particularly in this day and time, we hear and see excuses by the thousands… all day long, each and every day. Emails, voice mails, texts, twitter, videos, phone calls, face-to-face conversations,
Continuing our discussion from last week, IBM recently released an extensive study titled “Capitalizing on Complexity.” The study, conclusions and recommendation are based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide. One of the major findings is that CEOs of ‘standout organizations’ are capitalizing on complexity by “Rethinking Customer Relationships.” “Customers keep getting connected —
