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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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