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“Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” Author Unknown
Believe it or not, the use of motivational quotes can have a positive impact on your resolve to move forward in business. We all suffer through moment of self-doubt and find ourselves somewhat incapacitated in our entrepreneurial endeavors.
This article draws from a select group of quotes and ideas that may help you jumpstart your willingness to move forward.
“In th…
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
It is probably the number two task of leadership — asking. You ask people to do things, and when they do — well, stuff happens.
But what really extends your ability to make big things happen is asking for things that are “unreasonable.”
Wha…
Discover how a belief in your own power will you make the right decisions and achieve your goals as a woman.
It’s a cliche of executive life: you don’t have time to do everything. Whether you use little slips of paper, a planner, scheduling software or a Palm Pilot, all attempts at time management fail. Rather than throwing in the towel, I suggest that you need a new frame of reference. Change your focus from time management to priority management.
Create a list of priorities
Your strategic plan should highlight your business priorities. If you don’t have one, take a look at …
Interested in getting a coach? The time you invest in choosing your coach will be amply repaid by her or his greater ability to recognize, nurture and evoke the self you were meant to be. Find out what sample questions you can ask yourself and a potential coach before hiring her or him.
You’ve made an unusual discovery – there’s not enough time left at the end of the day. The corollary, of course, is your list of important things to do never gets smaller. In any company, the CEO’s to-do list has the potential to grow infinitely.
What’s a senior executive to do?
This is not simply a personal problem. Your company’s future depends on what you do next. As you drive your organization beyond its current plateau, you must change the way you relate to your wo…
“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” Sophia Loren
Hindsight is a great accuser. It seems that no matter what decision we make there is always a decision we could have made that was better. Sometimes it can even seem as if the secondary choice would have made the world of difference for us. Sadly we can get bogged down in personal or business failure.
Consider a choice that was made by the Portland Trailblazers back in 1984. The Trailblazers were a…
Malcolm Gladwell has a long history as a news reporter, but in his book, “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” Gladwell helps readers understand something most of us have only felt was true life has a tipping point.
In virtually every aspect of our lives there is a point when something either very good or very bad happens. The choices we make will ultimately lead us to that tipping point. A long series of bad choices will lead to a tipping poin…
How can you get more done?
Can you really do more than you already do? Is there still room left on your plate for even one more thing? The truth is I don’t know anyone (successful) who has too little to do. Not one of my many clients–nor any of my friends, acquaintances, or people I meet on planes–none of them has ever said they have too little to do.
Doing more to get more done is simply not an option.
The answer to doing more is doing less.
Less?
Do le…