Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category

Feb 19 2010

Are you celebrating your success?

Published by Robert Story under Inspiration

Celebrate Success | Jon Gordon’s Blog | Developing Positive Leaders, Organizations and Teams
Teams and organizations that focus on and celebrate success create more success. Success becomes ingrained in the culture and people naturally look for it, focus on it and expect it. That’s why certain football coaches and business leaders are always successful. They implement [...]

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May 11 2009

Sanders Says: Take a break

Published by Robert Story under Inspiration

Tim Sanders offers the following “refreshment plan” for your summer:
1. Take at least one week off before Labor Day (if you have it available). Don’t sit around the house, go somewhere where nature will convince you forget about the world.
2. Don’t take your laptop with you on the trip. [...]

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Jan 22 2009

Download The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Audiobook for Free

Published by Robert Story under Inspiration

Audiobooks: Download The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Audiobook for Free
   Lifehacker is reporting that the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is avaible   for free download at Audible.com. This is worth checking out.

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Nov 13 2008

What You Permit, You Promote

Published by Robert Story under Inspiration

In his blog, Dennis Snow points to an article that is worth more than a couple of read-throughs, because if you are honest with yourself, you’ll probably come away convicted. As a leader at work, in the community or as a parent (now there I go, getting personal), what are you permitting and therefore promoting? [...]

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Nov 10 2008

Leadership is a choice | The Practice of Leadership

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Leadership is a choice | The Practice of Leadership
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
As people we are designed to choose. Like many other things in life, leadership too is a choice we make. . We do not become [...]

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Oct 27 2008

Goal Setting For Skeptics: Why You Should Risk Dweebhood with Written Goals

Published by Robert Story under Inspiration

It’s hard to force yourself to sit down and write down your goals. Doing this means you actually have to THINK about them and face the hard facts about your current efforts (or lack thereof) to reach them. It also means that you have to carve-out the time to do this in a schedule that [...]

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Aug 28 2008

How to Find Time for New Habits

Published by Robert Story under Inspiration

The real limiting factor for productivity is your energy levels and ability to pay attention.
Energy levels limit your productivity because when you’re tired, you can have ample time and still not get everything done. Your attention span is even more limited, because even if there are a million things that need to be done, [...]

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Jul 27 2008

The World Is Flat… Now It’s Free

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ChangeThis Newsletter: The World Is Flat… Now It’s Free
Beginning tomorrow, and running through August 4th, Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Macmillan Audio will be offering the audio edition of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat for free. Listeners will receive the audiobook in three easy-to-download sections, and soon after that, as an added bonus, will [...]

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Jul 27 2008

Developing a Talent Culture

Published by Robert Story under Inspiration

The is the end of an article that is worth a full read. Click on the link at the bottom to check out the whole thing.
Talent issues are not small issues. They are big ones because they cut across all aspects of an organization’s life. If you want to attract talent, it isn’t simply the [...]

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Jul 17 2008

Truly Engaged

Published by Robert Story under Inspiration

Oscar Peterson: A model of Engaged Performance.

Have you ever engaged this fully in your work – so much so that the work is transformed by you and you are transformed by the work?

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