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I am currently reading Daniel Kanheman’s, Thinking, fast and Slow. According to Wikipedia, “Kanheman is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, He is notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology.” His latest book is very good; I’m just about half way through. However, it doesn’t fill [...]

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IT IS almost the end of January, by now you should be back from any vacation returned to work and hopefully have your head above water. Now is the perfect time to revisit the goals, and perhaps wild ideas you had while on holidays. If you’re anything like me, taking time out from routine, for [...]

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An article on Fortune, interviews Malcolm Gladwell about his much talked about book, Outliers on the theory of how success happens. Gladwell comments, “We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves. And we have a series of other beliefs that say that our personality, our intelligence, all of [...]

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In a blog post at HBR.org, Robert Pozen offers a few tips to a new manager on how he keeps organised and productive. Every night before he leaves the office he prepares for the next day, “I might have a call at 8:30 a.m., a meeting at 9 a.m., and so on. For each event [...]

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In the 1990’s it became fashionable to talk about the ‘triple bottom line’ or corporate social responsibility (CSR). I’ve written about this before, and now Schumpeter’s printed blog post in The Economist (October 23-29th), has also written about it. To quote from Schumpeter’s printed blog post in The Economist (October 23-29th, 2010): “triple bottom line”: [...]

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I just had a 10 minute chat with the CEO of  a major bank here in Australia – top 20 in market capitilization in the world – I asked him a few questions and I thought I would share his answers. On reading: He doesn’t read business books, as he finds them boring and repetitive. What does [...]

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Recently I wrote about attention and focus. It sparked some further thoughts. So much of consulting is about bringing to my clients attention what is not being focused on that should be. Then helping to designed systems and processes to help tem focus on the right things at the right time. For example the measurements [...]

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Attention is the currency of relationships. Who should you be giving attention to? Your boss? Clients? Significant other? Attention is diminished by multi-tasking. You can’t give attention and Facebook at the same time. So either Facebook, or be with whoever or whatever your with. Therefore, attention could be defined as focus. And what you focus [...]

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Reading Tom Peters blog here today, he posted an interview with Edgar Schein who has written a new book about helping. I decided to post on it, as this is was the second reference to Edgar I’d seen in successive days as I had received an email yesterday from Amazon about this same book. Edgar [...]

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Can Bill Gates be a billion times smarter than you? No, it is impossible. So if he isn’t smarter than you then what is it that accounts for his success and that of other successful people. It is how we think. And what we choose to focus our attention on. How we think has enormous [...]

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