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» Mondays with Mac: Embrace Change in Your Life- Simple Truths: The Blog of Inspiration
Comfort zones put padlocks on the doors to growth, discovery, and adventure in your life, but three keys that will unlock those doors are discipline, hard work, and faith. When it comes to progress, when it comes to change…Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. Unlock one door at a time, enjoy small successes, and soon you will have achieved your goals.
» Mondays with Mac: Reward the Gift of Imagination- Simple Truths: The Blog of Inspiration
One of the most amazing things about business (and life) is the power of one idea. And one of your greatest challenges as a leader is to understand how to find and nurture them.
There is nothing more rewarding than seeing your ideas come to life. And nothing more frustrating than seeing them die. How are you helping those around you nurture their ideas? What about your own imagination?…are you exercising it, or allowing circumstances to keep it unused?
If you haven’t got time to do it right,
When will you find time to do it over?
» Mondays with Mac: Learn From Southwest Airlines- Simple Truths: The Blog of Inspiration
Success doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with unwavering commitment from the leaders to build a dedicated team of passionate people who serve their boss: the customer.
This is the ending statement of an post that is worth taking a minute to read, and several more to think about.
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL – News) today announced that both Oracle® E-Business Suite and Oracle’s Siebel Field Service have been included in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management, 2008 and Siebel Field Service has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant(1).
Anne Benedict: Defining Quality Leadership from Behance Magazine
“No team, creative or otherwise, can exist without focus or direction. However, success rarely occurs in dictator-esque environments. “Good leadership and management practices apply across all types of work, both creative and traditional, because the common denominator is people. People in every oeuvre have skills, motivations, aspirations, personalities; each person brings their own mix to the table. Work, by nature, is accomplished through groups of people working towards a common goal and leading and managing are fundamental to the effectiveness of reaching that goal.”
How often do you walk into Starbucks, go to the coffee pot at home or work, grab some chocolate or a bag of chips, or buy your favorite caffeinated beverage looking for just a little more juice, something to energize you, or to amp up your day just a little bit (there’s even an energy drink named Amp!)?
Sure you may like the taste of those treats, and even gain some temporary energy, but they aren’t a complete answer to your energy and attitude challenges.
Here are seven specific things you can do at any time (including right now) to amp up your energy and attitude – with no caffeine crash or calories!
Read Kevin’s Blog to hear about these seven ways.
AT&T WiFi access now listed as “included” with iPhone – Engadget
“On the slightly tweaked iPhone “Plans” page, the carrier now lists “Access to AT&T WiFi hotspots” as an included feature along with call forwarding, 3-way calling and Caller ID.”
Leading Questions: Tiger Woods – Better today than yesterday
“You don’t have to be a champion golfer or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company to have the kind of drive to be better every day like Tiger does. That has nothing to do with what your talent, and everything to do with your character. What Tiger has is a paradoxical belief in both the nobility and importance of being the best, and a humility to recognize that his greatest opponent is his own character.”
Take time to watch this (almost 28 minute long) video and to read the article on the Leading Questions blog. Both are well worth the time you’ll spend.
“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller
As leaders we spend a lot of time focusing on action, on getting results. To do this, most of us track our actions with a “to do” list of some sort. However, great leadership is more than just getting results, it requires us to act from a deep sense of who we are. To have a foundation integrity and character that inspires and motivates others to trust us and in turn take action. As leaders it’s important that we manage our action, with a “to do” list, as well as our being, with a “to be” list.
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