These are the kinds of problems that are worth having and if you advance, as Thoreau said, in the general direction of your dreams, you may have them. If you advance in the direction of someone else’s dreams—if you want to live someone else’s life rather than yours—then get a TV for every room, buy [...]
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On doing what you love:
Posted in Avoiding Mistakes, Personal Development, Success Factors, tagged dreams, success, thoreau on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership in meetings
Posted in Leadership, Management, Success Factors on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Peters gives some great advice to Leaders: LEADING Through Meetings Find me a boss (or non-boss) who doesn’t constantly bitch about “too damn many meetings”—I’ve never found one. But here is the irreducible fact of “boss-world”: Meetings are what bosses do. There is no escape. And if that is true, then, also by definition, [...]
Malcom Gladwell’s five tips for sucess
Posted in Success Factors, tagged malcolm gladwell outliers, Management, success, Success Factors on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I read Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers. Apart from the stellar writing (everything he writes is a pleasure to read), he came up with a few key points. The first being the 10,000 hour rule. The upshot here is, that it takes a lot of concentrated practice to get good at something. We can all relate to [...]
Show them who’s boss: the secrets of power management.
Posted in Management, Success Factors, tagged entrepreneurship, Entreprenuers, follow up, Management, passion, Responsibility, Success Factors, Team Building, vision, waiting for on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a speech given by Sir Gerry Robinson, for the London Business Forum, he makes the claim that you’ll never succeed in business unless you’re capable of motivating and inspiring other people. Gerry says that, while most things in business can be learned (I’d say almost all), there are a few things, which your either have [...]
Cut the Fat Not the Meat
Posted in Marketing, Success Factors, tagged advertising, current economy, economy, Marketing, Success Factors on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It might seem natural to curt spending on advertising during a recession, but it would be madness. McGraw Hill carried out two studies: Advertising during a recession creates 132% more 5-year sales growth over those that didn’t advertise, or cut their budget. Advertising during the 1981-82 recession created a 256% increase in sales growth by [...]
Focus Vs Intelligence
Posted in Self Management, Success Factors, tagged balance, bill gates, Buddha, focus, intelligence, Self Management, success on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Business Briefing Breakfast: How To Thrive In These Economic Times
Posted in Management, Marketing, Strategy, Success Factors, tagged economy, event, Marketing, strategic planning on January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is the typed notes from my last breakfast I ran 2/12/2008. I have had numerous requests for the notes, so here they are. The next event is 20 January, 2009. Click here to book. —————————————————————————————————————————————— How To Thrive In These Economic Times Panic, Panic, Panic! 2008 will be remembered as the ‘year of the [...]
On Reading
Posted in Investing, Self Management, Success Factors, tagged books, charlie munger, reading, warren buffett on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am always talking to my coaching clients about the importance of reading, in fact I am hounding them about it. If you are reading this blog, I am probably preaching to the converted. So check out this quote from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s off-sider. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people [...]
The Five Keys to Business Success
Posted in Marketing, Strategy, Success Factors, tagged business, Entreprenuers, make money, Strategy, Success Factors, Tim Ferris on December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are probably a half dozen things in life that will ensure success. The same is true of business. Here are 5 areas of business of which to pay attention. In-fact if you can master these areas you will be a stellar success in business. They are: Self management Knowing your market Marketing & Sales [...]
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