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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Some children grab for the treat the minute he's out the door. Some last a few minutes before they give in. But others are determined to wait. They cover their eyes; they put their heads down; they sing to themselves; they try to play games or even fall asleep. When the researcher returns, he gives these children their hard-earned marshmallows. And then, science waits for them to grow up.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">By the time the children reach high school, something remarkable has happened. A survey of the children's parents and teachers found that those who as four-year-olds had the fortitude to hold out for the second marshmallow generally grew up to be better adjusted, more popular, adventurous, confident and dependable teenagers. The children who gave in to temptation early on were more likely to be lonely, easily frustrated and stubborn. They buckled under stress and shied away from challenges. And when some of the students in the two groups took the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the kids who had held out longer scored an average of 210 points higher.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When we think of brilliance we see Einstein, deep-eyed, woolly haired, a thinking machine with skin and mismatched socks. High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. This is where the marshmallows come in.<u> It seems that the ability to delay gratification is a master skill, a triumph of the reasoning brain over the impulsive one. It is a sign, in short, of emotional intelligence. And it doesn't show up on an IQ test.</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">EQ is not the opposite of IQ. Some people are blessed with a lot of both, some with little of either. What researchers have been trying to understand is how they complement each other; how one's ability to handle stress, for instance, affects the ability to concentrate and put intelligence to use. Among the ingredients for success, researchers now generally agree that IQ counts for about 20%; the rest depends on everything from class to luck to the neural pathways that have developed in the brain over millions of years of human evolution.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Without these emotional reflexes, rarely conscious but often terribly powerful, we would scarcely be able to function. "Most decisions we make have a vast number of possible outcomes, and any attempt to analyze all of them would never end," says University of Iowa neurologist Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain. "I'd ask you to lunch tomorrow, and when the appointed time arrived, you'd still be thinking about whether you should come." What tips the balance, Damasio contends, is our unconscious assigning of emotional values to some of those choices. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Whether we experience a somatic response--a gut feeling of dread or a giddy sense of elation--emotions are helping to limit the field in any choice we have to make. If the prospect of lunch with a neurologist is unnerving or distasteful, Damasio suggests, the invitee will conveniently remember a previous engagement.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If there is a cornerstone to emotional intelligence on which most other emotional skills depend, it is a sense of self-awareness, of being smart about what we feel. A person whose day starts badly at home may be grouchy all day at work without quite knowing why. Once an emotional response comes into awareness--or, physiologically, is processed through the neocortex--the chances of handling it appropriately improve. Scientists refer to "metamood," the ability to pull back and recognize that "what I'm feeling is anger," or sorrow, or shame.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In Goleman's analysis, self-awareness is perhaps the most crucial ability because it allows us to exercise some self-control. The idea is not to repress feeling (the reaction that has made psychoanalysts rich) but rather to do what Aristotle considered the hard work of the will. <i><u>"Anyone can become angry--that is easy," he wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics. "But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way--this is not easy."</u></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Some impulses seem to be easier to control than others. Anger, not surprisingly, is one of the hardest, perhaps because of its evolutionary value in priming people to action. Researchers believe anger usually arises out of a sense of being trespassed against--the belief that one is being robbed of what is rightfully his. The body's first response is a surge of energy, the release of a cascade of neurotransmitters called catecholamines. If a person is already aroused or under stress, the threshold for release is lower, which helps explain why people's tempers shorten during a hard day. Scientists are not only discovering where anger comes from; they are also exposing myths about how best to handle it. Popular wisdom argues for "letting it all hang out" and having a good cathartic rant. But Goleman cites studies showing that dwelling on anger actually increases its power; <u>the body needs a chance to process the adrenaline through exercise, relaxation techniques, a well-timed intervention or even the old admonition to count to 10.</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Anxiety serves a similar useful purpose, so long as it doesn't spin out of control. Worrying is a rehearsal for danger; the act of fretting focuses the mind on a problem so it can search efficiently for solutions. <u>The danger comes when worrying blocks thinking, becoming an end in itself or a path to resignation instead of perseverance</u>. Overworrying about failing increases the likelihood of failure; a salesman so concerned about his falling sales that he can't bring himself to pick up the phone guarantees that his sales will fall even further.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">But why are some people better able to "snap out of it" and get on with the task at hand? Again, given sufficient self-awareness, people develop coping mechanisms. Sadness and discouragement, for instance, are "low arousal" states, and the dispirited salesman who goes out for a run is triggering a high arousal state that is incompatible with staying blue. Relaxation works better for high-energy moods like anger or anxiety. <u>Either way, the idea is to shift to a state of arousal that breaks the destructive cycle of the dominant mood</u>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The idea of being able to predict which salesmen are most likely to prosper was not an abstraction for Metropolitan Life, which in the mid-'80s was hiring 5,000 salespeople a year and training them at a cost of more than $30,000 each. Half quit the first year, and four out of five within four years. The reason: selling life insurance involves having the door slammed in your face over and over again. Was it possible to identify which people would be better at handling frustration and take each refusal as a challenge rather than a setback?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Perhaps the most visible emotional skills, the ones we recognize most readily, are the "people skills" like empathy, graciousness, the ability to read a social situation. <b>Researchers believe that about 90% of emotional communication is nonverbal. </b>Harvard psychologist Robert Rosenthal developed the PONS test (Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity) to measure people's ability to read emotional cues. He shows subjects a film of a young woman expressing feelings--anger, love, jealousy, gratitude, seduction--edited so that one or another nonverbal cue is blanked out. In some instances the face is visible but not the body, or the woman's eyes are hidden, so that viewers have to judge the feeling by subtle cues. Once again, people with higher PONS scores tend to be more successful in their work and relationships; <u>children who score well are more popular and successful in school, even when their IQs are quite average.</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Like other emotional skills, <b>empathy </b>is an innate quality that can be shaped by experience. Infants as young as three months old exhibit empathy when they get upset at the sound of another baby crying. Even very young children learn by imitation; by watching how others act when they see someone in distress, these children acquire a repertoire of sensitive responses. If, on the other hand, the feelings they begin to express are not recognized and reinforced by the adults around them, they not only cease to express those feelings but they also become less able to recognize them in themselves or others.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is easy to draw the obvious lesson from these test results. How much happier would we be, how much more successful as individuals and civil as a society, if we were more alert to the importance of emotional intelligence and more adept at teaching it? From kindergartens to business schools to corporations across the country, people are taking seriously the idea that <b><i>a little more time spent on the "touchy-feely" skills so often derided may in fact pay rich dividends.</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the corporate world, according to personnel executives, IQ gets you hired, but EQ gets you promoted. Goleman likes to tell of a manager at AT&T's Bell Labs, a think tank for brilliant engineers in New Jersey, who was asked to rank his top performers. They weren't the ones with the highest IQs; they were the ones whose E-mail got answered. Those workers who were good collaborators and networkers and popular with colleagues were more likely to get the cooperation they needed to reach their goals than the socially awkward, lone-wolf geniuses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When David Campbell and others at the Center for Creative Leadership studied "derailed executives," the rising stars who flamed out, the researchers found that these executives failed most often because of "<i>an interpersonal flaw</i>" rather than a technical inability. Interviews with top executives in the U.S. and Europe turned up nine so-called fatal flaws, many of them classic emotional failings, such as "poor working relations," being "authoritarian" or "too ambitious" and having "conflict with upper management."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">At the center's executive-leadership seminars across the country, managers come to get emotionally retooled. "This isn't sensitivity training or Sunday-supplement stuff," says Campbell. "One thing they know when they get through is what other people think of them."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And the executives have an incentive to listen. Says Karen Boylston, director of the center's team-leadership group: "Customers are telling businesses, 'I don't care if every member of your staff graduated with honors from Harvard, Stanford and Wharton. I will take my business and go where I am understood and treated with respect.' "</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The problem may be that there is an ingredient missing. Emotional skills, like intellectual ones, are morally neutral. Just as a genius could use his intellect either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the <i>knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help him become a better citizen or--just as easily--an even more brilliant criminal.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">1. Great leaders recognize strengths in us that we don't always yet fully see in ourselves.</strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The leader should trust his judgment more than the subordinates. It's the <em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(play)" style="color: #b20022; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Pygmalion </a></em>effect: expectations become self-fulfilling. Both positive and negative emotions feed on themselves. Your subordinate would simply invested myself in getting better, day by day, step by step. Because we can achieve excellence in almost anything we practice with sufficient focus and intention, I did get better, which fed my own confidence and satisfaction, and my willingness to keep pushing myself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">2. Rather than simply trying to get more out of us, great leaders seek to understand and meet our needs, above all a compelling mission beyond our immediate self-interest, or theirs.</strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Great leaders understand that how they make people feel, day in and day out, has a profound influence on how they perform. We each have a range of core needs — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Great leaders focus on helping their employees meet each of these needs, recognizing that it helps them to perform better and more sustainably.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">So if someone has family, I should empathize with their needs and make their work life adhere to their core needs. This way the leader can meet not just my emotional need to be valued, but also my spiritual need to be engaged in a mission bigger than my own success. Far too few leaders take the time to figure out what they truly stand for, beyond the bottom line, and why we should feel excited to work for them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">3. Great leaders take the time to clearly define what success looks like, and then empower and trust us to figure out the best way to achieve it.</strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">One of our core needs is for self-expression. One of the most demoralizing and infantilizing experiences at work is to feel <a href="http://hbr.org/2004/09/the-micromanager/ar/1" style="color: #b20022; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">micromanaged</a>. The job of leaders is not to do the work of those they lead, but to serve as <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/06/the-ceo-is-the-chief-energy-of.html" style="color: #b20022; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Chief Energy Officer </a>— to free and fuel us to bring the best of ourselves to work every day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Part of that responsibility is defining, in the clearest possible way, what's expected of us — our concrete deliverables. This is a time-consuming and challenging process, and most leaders I've met do very little of it. When they do it effectively, the next step for leaders is to get out of the way.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">That requires trusting that employees will figure out for themselves the best way to get their work done, and that even though they'll take wrong turns and make mistakes, they learn and grow stronger along the way.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">4. The best of all leaders — a tiny fraction — have the capacity to embrace their own opposites, most notably vulnerability alongside strength, and confidence balanced by humility.</strong></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">This capacity is uniquely powerful because all of us struggle, whether we're aware of it or not, with our self worth. We're each vulnerable to believing, at any given moment, that we're not good enough.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Great leaders don't feel the need to be right, or to be perfect, because they've learned to value themselves in spite of shortcomings they freely acknowledge. In turn, they bring this generous spirit to those they lead.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The more leaders make us feel valued, in spite of our imperfections, the less energy we will spend asserting, defending and restoring our value, and the more energy we have available to create value.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">All four capacities are grounded in one overarching insight. Great leaders recognize that the best way to get the highest value is to give the highest value. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Let the subordinates get involved and get excited. No Involvement means No Commitment</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Ask pointed questions which will elicit response from them. Make them answer their own questions.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Prepare in advance what I am going to discuss in meeting. This will avoid dilly dallying between topics.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Try not to speak more than 3 sentences at a time with out a response or without asking a question</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">None of us have a real understanding of where we are heading. I don't. I have senses about it. But decisions don't wait, investment decisions or personal decisions and prioritization don't wait, for that picture to be clarified. You have to make them when you have to make them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> So you take your shots and clean up the bad ones later. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">I think it is very important for you to d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">o two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">This balancing act between confidence and doubt is a hallmark of great bosses. The confidence inspires people to follow them and believe in them, but the doubt helps ensure they get things right. They are always listening and watching for evidence that they might be wrong, and inviting others to challenge their conclusions (albeit usually in private and in "backstage" conversations).</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Many of the bosses that are admired around the world<b> seem to have the ability to act confidently on what they know, while doubting their knowledge.</b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> best leaders and the best organizations have <a href="http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinions.html" style="color: #b20022; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">strong opinions that are weakly held</a>. Strong opinions reflect and instill confidence, and also provide clear guidance about the direction that people should try to go right now. But, since those opinions are weakly held, they don't stand as barriers to change when better information comes along. This ability to feel, express, and act on strong beliefs without clinging to them irrationally — the state of mind that Tom Petty captured in a well-sung line — is the common refrain in Bonny Simi's problem-solving, Andy Grove's decision-making, and Frank Hauser's sound advice to every kind of director: "Don't dither; you can always change your mind later."<br />CEO try to focus on the things </span><span class="Apple-style-span">that I and only I can do. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Those may include meeting with high-level regulators, or visiting with key clients. This may mean giving speeches to certain audiences or recruiting senior executives. But you really have to hold yourself back from taking on other functions or tasks even if you might excel at performing them. So even if it means there is a SQL problem and I feel i can solve, I might be better of have the team resolve it.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The key is to become messianic about the principle that everybody owns their own space.<b><u> This is the human resources analogy to bottom-up investing. </u></b>Under this approach, every employee is viewed as the owner of a small business — his or her division, or subdivision or working group; the performance of this unit is his or her responsibility. As the boss, my role is to provide my reports with resources, give them guidance and help them do battle with other people in the broader organization. But they own their own unit. </span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I can't emphasize this principle enough because at every level, employees need to feel they're in charge. An effective leader not only has to set priorities but also has to mobilize the organization to implement them. But this will happen only if the employees have a true sense of owning these functions in the broadest sense. I've seen quite a few organizations where employees say, "I didn't do X because it wasn't within my job description, or no one told me to do it." These are flagrant violations of the ownership principle.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">How do you decide what to spend your time on when you're the boss?</strong><br /><br />Top executives usually say they set their priorities and then figure out how to implement them. But in this process many executives make a critical mistake. I've noticed this when I've mentored new CEOs. They say, "Here are the top five priorities for the company. Who would be the best at carrying out each priority?" Then they come up with themselves as the answer in all five areas. It might be the correct answer, but it's the wrong question.<br /><br />The question is not who's best at performing high-priority functions, but which things can you and only you as the CEO get done? If you don't ask yourself that question, your time allocations are bound to be wrong. Lots of CEOs who have been great number twos flounder as number one because they are implicitly asking the wrong question. That happens because they usually rose to CEO by being very good at getting things done themselves. </span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I try to focus on the things that I and only I can do. Those may include meeting with high-level regulators, or visiting with key clients. This may mean giving speeches to certain audiences or recruiting senior executives. But you really have to hold yourself back from taking on other functions or tasks even if you might excel at performing them.<br /><br />For example, when MFS CEO Rob Manning recruited me to join the firm as Chairman in 2004, we explicitly divided the high-priority functions. Although I had run the investment management group at Fidelity, Rob is a talented investment guy and natural leader and wanted to take charge of the investment group. He and I agreed that I wouldn't run the group, and that I wouldn't even show up on the investment floors. This agreement was necessary to avoid confusion about who was heading investments. Similarly, when there were very important meetings with regulators, Rob didn't attend.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">What about those of us who aren't CEOs?</strong><br /><br />The key, I've found, is to become messianic about the principle that everybody owns their own space. This is the human resources analogy to bottom-up investing.<br /><br />Under this approach, every employee is viewed as the owner of a small business — his or her division, or subdivision or working group; the performance of this unit is his or her responsibility. As the boss, my role is to provide my reports with resources, give them guidance and help them do battle with other people in the broader organization. But they own their own unit.<br /><br />I can't emphasize this principle enough because at every level, employees need to feel they're in charge. An effective leader not only has to set priorities but also has to mobilize the organization to implement them. But this will happen only if the employees have a true sense of owning these functions in the broadest sense. I've seen quite a few organizations where employees say, "I didn't do X because it wasn't within my job description, or no one told me to do it." These are flagrant violations of the ownership principle. </span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">So how do you instill this ownership principle?</strong><br /><br />You don't describe in detail the tasks that employees should be doing. Instead, you present a general set of priorities for the upcoming year, and let your employees formulate the specific ways to implement them. You also ask: "What are the metrics by which I should judge your success?" </span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Below are a few suggestions about how you can build your self-confidence as a leader.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">1. Don't worry about being perfect. </strong>There are never right or wrong answers to complex business decisions. The best that you can do as a leader is to gather all of the information that you can (in a timely manner), do a cost-benefit analysis of potential options, use your best judgment — and then go for it.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">2. Learn to live with failure.</strong> Great salespeople are the ones who get rejected the most often. They just ask for the order more than the other salespeople. You are going to make mistakes. You are human. Learn from these mistakes and move on.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">3. After you make the final decision</strong> — commit! Don't continually second-guess yourself. Great leaders communicate with a sense of belief in what they are doing and with positive expectations toward the achievement of their vision.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">4. Show courage on the outside</strong> — even if you don't always feel it on the inside. Everyone is afraid sometimes. If you are a leader, your direct reports will read your every expression. If you show a lack of courage, you will begin to damage your direct reports' self-confidence.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">5. Find happiness and contentment in your work.</strong> Life is short. My extensive research indicates that we are all going to die anyway. Do your best. Follow your heart. When you win, celebrate. When you lose, just start over the next day.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">High achievers don't turn into leaders, even if they seem to have the right skills, without the power that comes from going beyond the letter of the job and doing what I've come to call the Extras. Here are my top six.</span></b></span></span></b></span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">1. Colleagueship</strong>. Being a good colleague means helping the entire group achieve results even when you're not in charge — for example, by filling in for an absent co-worker, showing up at a special event that's not required, or pitching in with ideas and information for someone else's project. This factor, intangible as it seems, is written into the formal standards for promotion at my own institution, Harvard Business School. Colleagueship is considered a sign of whether someone can take on bigger leadership responsibilities in a flat, decentralized organization.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">2. Opening doors</strong>. <a href="http://rosabethkanter.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/its-power-to-the-connectors/" style="color: #b20022; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Power to the connectors!</a> Those who rise to leadership keep their virtual Rolodex rolling. They know enough about others to spot something of interest to them and pass it on, opening doors or making key introductions. In the new networked companies, connectors are the go-to people, the must-haves at meetings. The effects are viral. The more they connect, the more connections come to them.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">3. Extra resources</strong>. Being a giver is powerful, especially when the gift is unexpected. Sprinkling small amounts of money or opportunities around the organization can build enormous goodwill. Please note that I certainly don't mean bribery or crossing any ethical lines — never! But anyone who has control over some resources can find legitimate, task-oriented ways to share them — for example, funding dinners for a hard-working project team or providing seed money for expenses for promising innovations. Using personal resources can matter even more, such as donations to co-workers' favorite charities.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">4. Framing issues. </strong>Being the first to name an issue shows leadership. One big Extra in any endeavor is to identify new opportunities or unsolved problems, and then convene conversations around them. With self-organizing now a major operating mode, the people who set the agenda also set themselves up as potential leaders. It's not necessary to ask anyone's permission to lead; the self-organizers just do it.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">5. Strong commitment.</strong> Some people falsely equate commitment with hours worked. But commitment is about quality, not quantity. This Extra involves the verve or passion which potential leaders convey about the mission and the singular focus they exhibit when doing each piece of work. Other people want to be led by committed leaders, not those whose eyes are always on another project or who make it clear that other parts of their lives matter more to them.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important;">6. External diplomacy.</strong> Civic boards or non-profit causes can groom leaders, and even more so if one's own organization has an interest in the cause. Joining professional associations or industry networks and carrying information back and forth to and from the home team can also build internal power. Being a good ambassador externally reverberates internally.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Extras serve as signs of whether a person can be entrusted with major decisions or control over assets that requires doing what needs to be done regardless of formal requirements. They show that the leader will take care of others and the organization.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">At the same time, Extras carry a tinge of unfairness. Extras can be tapped more readily from jobs with discretionary budgets, or that face outward, toward clients and customers. In contrast, people holding more routinized, internally-facing jobs have fewer automatic chances to show leadership. That group often includes women, who are disproportionately concentrated in staff jobs such as the Ps of personnel, public relations, and purchasing. Moreover, women who might be time-constrained by family obligations don't always have the time for Extras.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">But not every Extra is out of the reach of determined potential leaders. Commitment and colleagueship are largely under individuals' control, and they build a better work community for everyone.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">If the why and how of Extras can be discussed more openly, perhaps they can become more universally attainable. So consider this list both a How-To guide and a manifesto for change.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What still seems to be missing from leaders is the ability to reflect: t</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><u>o stand back and consider issues deeply - and to look honestly at themselves as leaders.</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> It isn't surprising that leaders find this difficult, given the unparalleled changes businesses have faced in recent years. And as the pressures mount for the year, it is likely that time spent on such reflection will be regarded as a luxury that no-one can afford. This is a big mistake.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The leaders are failing themselves, their teams and their organizations if they do not discipline themselves to spend at least one hour (preferably two) each week in a meeting with themselves. They should use the time to reflect on what they have spent the week (month or year) doing, what they have learned from their actions and interactions, what they have not been doing and what more they could do in their role.</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Of course, many leaders employ executive coaches like myself for this reflective time. Coaches are valuable, but meeting a professional is not the same as taking a regular honest looks at oneself. Most people only do this once a year - around now in fact! I suggest that leaders should make a meeting with themselves a regular practice - as important as regular meetings with the boss, managing work/life balance and time at the gym or exercising.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">So, to start you off on the right foot, here are some guidelines:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Invest in a good quality notebook or open a file on your computer. During the week, make brief notes of 'critical incidents' (such as discussions, opportunities you had to contribute, clashes or conflict, feedback from others, observations of others' behavior) and then go back and reflect on them: what happened, how did you act/react, what did you do well/not so well, what might you have done differently? Learn from these incidents and think of new ways to act in future. Jot these points down and refer to them regularly.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Consider longer-term issues: your career, developing your skills or those of your team, the direction of your business, your challenges ahead and how you might tackle them. These are critical aspects of your role.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Reflect on your own successes and achievements. Savour them. This will build your confidence and give you the strength and resilience to carry on and perhaps even inspire others during tough times.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Never, never shift or cancel your meeting with yourself. It is one of the most important hours in your working week. Consider how many pointless meetings you have to attend and cancel one of those before you cancel your own. </span><u>Put yourself first.</u></span></b></span></span></b></span></li>
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These are critical questions all bosses must ask if they want to be fully effective. Why? The two of us have spent nearly 60 years in total studying and practicing management, and again and again we've made a troubling observation: Most managers grow and develop to a certain point, and then they stop. They reach the "Plateau of Good Enough." Perhaps they struggled at first as new managers, but they quickly learned how it's done in their organizations, how to cope with the challenges they typically face every day, and they've come to feel comfortable.<br /><br />Unfortunately, they mistake comfort for real competence. They only ask, "Am I good enough?" when they should be asking, "Am I as good as I should be and want to be?"<br />If your answer to the second question is less than an unqualified "Yes!" we hope you'll follow us as we explore here what it means to be a great boss — the boss you want and need to be.</div>
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<b>What's required to become a great boss.</b> It's a difficult journey that requires years, not weeks or months, of learning and steady personal growth. It's difficult because most of your learning will come from your own experience, and so it will at times be painful.<br /><br /><b>What effective bosses actually do.</b> You cannot learn if you don't know where you need to go. You need benchmarks to measure yourself against. Here we will focus on what we call the "3 Imperatives": <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">Manage yourself, Manage Your Network, and Manage Your Team</span></i></b>. Those are not only the three areas in which we've seen managers again and again fall short, they are also the basic ways bosses do their most fundamental task of influencing others. <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://web.hbr.org/authors/hill/being-the-boss.php">The 3 Imperatives </a>are the heart of management and leadership, an action-oriented framework that encompass everything essential to being a great boss.</span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">How you can assess where you currently are.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Understanding the journey and knowing what great bosses do aren't enough. The real question is this: how do you make progress on your own journey? The answer is simple in concept but difficult to do. All progress begins with a good understanding of where you currently stand. To assess yourself not once but continually, you must hone such personal skills and practices as regular reflection, honest self-assessment, the ability to admit and learn from mistakes, and the willingness to seek and absorb candid feedback.<br /><br />All these areas present daunting challenges for managers at all levels who are determined to make progress on their journey to mastery. </span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">For middle managers, forward-thinking companies are finding ways to better measure and therefore further incentivize these key players. According to Stacey Petrey, Global Director of Compensation, HRIS, and Payroll at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrigo" style="color: #b20022; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Perrigo</a>, "there are additional categories/metrics by which to measure performance. Here are just three:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">3) Value Integrator (a manager who analyzes and synthesizes information and turns it into a competitive asset) — count, for example, how many cash management strategies came from their division? The number of M&A points of integration? Or, how many Lean or Six Sigma initiatives were successfully implemented?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Because headline metrics rarely tell the whole story, you need to find the metrics that do, whether running a business or managing your career. That's what conflict negotiation and mediation teaches — whenever you walk into any negotiation you need to know how to value what you are bringing to the table, to put a price tag on it. Getting paid what you are worth is ultimately a negotiation. When you can identify your disruptive or best skills, and then present metrics that establish your value (creating them if need be), you can communicate your value. Are you ready to play some moneyball?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> They don't focus merely on managing their time better. They don't think about their work as comprising two different parts — handling unexpected, daily problems versus doing what they should do as bosses. They don't try to do their daily work <em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important;">and also </em>the work of management. Instead, they use the chaos — unplanned events, crises, obligations — to do managerial work. To do this, they use an approach we call "Prep-Do-Review" in every activity they undertake.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The wisdom of Prep-Do-Review may be simple and obvious, but how often do you just react to what's in front of you? In the name of time management, how often do you deal with something that's come up in the quickest way possible, just to resolve it and get it out of the way so you can go on to what you're supposed to do as a boss?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Great managers use Prep-Do-Review (whether they call it that or not) to convert every activity into a means of pursuing some management purpose — to make progress toward a goal, to develop someone, to reaffirm work standards, to strengthen bonds among members of their team, to model the behavior they want, and on and on. In their minds, every activity contains some seed of progress, and Prep-Do-Review is how they find that seed and nurture it .They use a crisis to reconnect with an important colleague in their network. They use a customer service problem to begin working through a broader issue with their boss. They use a "pointless" meeting as an opportunity to brief a colleague during the break about a change in plans. They use a production problem to develop the skills of a key employee.<br /><br />If you don't Prep — spend a a minute or two, or even just a few seconds — before dealing with a problem, you won't see the possibilities in what you thought was some mundane activity. If you then don't carry out the action as planned, and if you don't step back afterwards to crystallize what you and others learned, you'll spend your days struggling to get to your work as a manager.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Make Prep-Do-Review a practice that you consistently, systematically, and routinely pursue. By using this simple but powerful approach, you can convert many of the activities that crowd your days into management tools for moving your people forward individually and as a group.</span></div>
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I was reminded of this by Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer in his HBR.org blog post, Shape Perceptions of Your Work, Early and Often. His general message is that other people can spread your praises better than you can, so be active in making that happen.</div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Pan for the
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Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell, did this. Sitting down with a business unit
leader presenting him with information about a $300 million dollar technical
investment opportunity, Bossidy divided a sheet of paper about three-quarters
across. On the larger left side of the paper, he scribbled detailed notes; on
the smaller right side, he occasionally jotted down two or three words,
capturing what he perceived to be the key insights and issues being brought to
his attention. It was a simple technique that disciplined him to listen
intently for the important content and focus follow-up questions on points that
really mattered. Whether or not this is your method, you should train yourself
to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">sift for the nuggets</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">in a conversation. Then let the other person know
that they were understood by probing, clarifying, or further shaping those
thoughts. The benefits of this go beyond ensuring that you heard it right:
first, the person on the other end of the conversation will be gratified that
you are truly grasping the essence of their thoughts and ideas; second, this
gratification will motivate and energize them to create more thoughts and
solutions. Listening opens the door to truly connecting and is the gateway to
building relationships and capability.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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working with peers, in and across teams, work to understand each person's frame
of reference—where they are coming from. This is extremely important when
disagreements arise. When you truly understand the perspective of others, you
are most likely to reach productive solutions; further, all the participants
will feel heard, whether their solution is adopted or not. Even better, it's
likely that the solution will not turn out to be one that was brought to the
table by any one party; it will be a new approach crafted in the conversational
environment you created. Active listening and probing (with humility, not
aggression) energizes groups, encourages them to reach consensus, and helps
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Ivan Seidenberg, who rose to become Chairman and CEO of Verizon. Earlier in his
career, as a business unit manager, he recognized that he must cut costs. But
his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the
tremendous complexity of its processes. Seidenberg understood their frame of
reference, which was that they were in favor of simplification, but couldn't
achieve it without the collaboration of the product departments. Seidenberg got
the two sides to collaborate and much better solutions were found. Not only
were costs cut, but operations became more focused and simplified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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several of its businesses with exceptional margins, then-CEO Jack Welch faced
the challenge of how to spur continued growth. He actively listened to a
Business Management Course team at GE's Crotonville learning center. They
suggested that, if a GE business had become the biggest fish in its pond, it
was thinking about the pond too narrowly. The definition of the market needed
to be changed based on an expanded understanding of its customers' needs. As business
unit managers prepared their next round of strategy presentations for the
Chairman, Welch told them all to redefine their market in such a way that their
share was less than 10 percent. This released GE managers' energy to grow their
businesses with new ideas. One of those ideas was to grow the services
businesses across GE. Today, GE has a $200 billion backlog in its services
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is a reason that, over the years, you have lost your ability to listen. It
feels too passive, like the opposite of action. It's much faster to move to a
decision based on the information you already have. But in doing so, you miss
important considerations and sacrifice the opportunity to connect. Understand
that as you begin to change your listening style to a more empathetic one, you
may often feel inefficient. It takes time to truly hear someone and to replay
the essence of their thoughts back them so that both parties are clear on what
was said. The payback is dramatic, but it comes over the long run.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<strong>Keep
Yourself Honest.</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>No habit is broken without discipline,
feedback, and practice. As well as installing a personal mirror to reflect on
your own behavior, find a colleague to give you honest feedback on how well you
are tuning into the thoughts and ideas of your colleagues, managers, board of
directors, and others. Explicitly lay out an exercise regime by which you will
practice empathetic listening every day and strengthen your skills. Make a
habit of asking yourself after interactions whether you understood the essence
of what was said to you, the person's point of view, their context, and their
emotion. Also ask yourself whether that person<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>knows</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>that
they were heard and understood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">For
leaders, listening is a central competence for success. At its core, listening
is connecting. Your ability to understand the true spirit of a message as it is
intended to be communicated, and demonstrate your understanding, is paramount
in forming connections and leading effectively. This is why, in 2010, General Electric—long
considered the preeminent company for producing leaders—redefined what it seeks
in its leaders. Now it places "listening" among the most desirable
traits in potential leaders. Indeed, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt has said
that "humble listening" is among the top four characteristics in
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Truly
empathetic listening requires courage—the willingness to let go of the old
habits and embrace new ones that may, at first, feel time-consuming and
inefficient. But once acquired, these listening habits are the very skills that
turn would-be leaders into true ones.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Time
doesn't fill me. I fill time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Deadlines and time frames
establish parameters, but typically not in a good way. The average person who
is given two weeks to complete a task will instinctively adjust his effort so
it actually takes two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Forget deadlines, at least
as a way to manage your activity. Tasks should only take as long as they need
to take. Do everything as quickly and effectively as you can. Then use your
"free" time to get other things done just as quickly and effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Average people allow time to
impose its will on them; remarkable people impose their will on their time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>The people around me are the people I chose.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Some of your employees drive
you nuts. Some of your customers are obnoxious. Some of your friends are
selfish, all-about-me jerks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">You chose them. If the people
around you make you unhappy it's not their fault. It's your fault. They're in
your professional or personal life because you drew them to you--and you let
them remain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Think about the type of
people you want to work with. Think about the types of customers you would
enjoy serving. Think about the friends you want to have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Then change what you do so
you can start attracting those people. Hardworking people want to work with
hardworking people. Kind people like to associate with kind people. <a href="http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/9-qualities-of-remarkable-entrepreneurs.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">Remarkable employees</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>want
to work for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/the-5-qualities-of-remarkable-bosses.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">remarkable bosses</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Experience is irrelevant. Accomplishments are everything.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">You have "10 years in
the Web design business." Whoopee. I don't care how long you've been doing
what you do. Years of service indicate nothing; you could be the worst 10-year
programmer in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I care about what you've<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>done</em>: how many
sites you've created, how many back-end systems you've installed, how many
customer-specific applications you've developed (and what kind)... all that
matters is what you've done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Successful people <a href="http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/10-ways-you-should-never-describe-yourself.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">don't need to describe themselves
using hyperbolic adjectives</span></a> like passionate, innovative,
driven, etc. They can just describe, hopefully in a humble way, what they've<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>done</em>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Volunteers always win.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Whenever you raise your hand
you wind up being asked to do more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">That's great. Doing more is
an opportunity: to learn, to impress, to gain skills, to build new
relationships--to do something more than you would otherwise been able to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Success is based on action.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/benefits-doing-po-bono-work-for-entrepreneurs.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">The more you volunteer</span></a>,
the more you get to act. Successful people step forward to create
opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Remarkably successful people
sprint forward.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The extra mile is a vast, unpopulated wasteland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone says they go the
extra mile. Almost no one actually does. Most people who go there think,
"Wait... no one else is here... why am I doing this?" and leave,
never to return.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">That's why the extra mile is
such a lonely place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">That's also why the extra
mile is a place filled with opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Be early. Stay late. Make
the extra phone call. Send the extra email. Do the extra research. Help a
customer unload or unpack a shipment. Don't wait to be asked; offer. Don't just
tell employees what to do--show them what to do and work beside them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Every time you do something, think of one extra thing you can
do--especially if other people aren't doing that one thing. <a href="http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/the-hard-truth-about-how-success-really-works.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">Sure, it's hard.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">But that's what will make you different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">And over time, that's what will make you incredibly successful.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2e2b1e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><strong>The only true measure of wealth or success is relationships</strong>, and polls show that more than 90 percent of Americans agree.<br /><br />This doesn’t mean achievements in other areas are not important, but it does suggest they are the means to the end—the end being happiness and fulfillment in our families. We work hard, we build companies, we make money…. but we do it for our families so we can enjoy our relationships more.<br /><br />But let’s be honest. Our lifestyles and our expenditure of time and energy don’t always reflect the priorities we claim. Why do we pay more lip service than real effort to putting family first? Why do we give so much more time and mental energy to our achievements than to our relationships?<br /><br />Could it be that we have become more skilled at achieving than at relating? Are we better at setting goals for our work than for our home? And does the fact that we get more kudos and recognition for career accomplishment than for family commitment compel us to focus more on the one and less on the other?<br /><br />Consider the following exercises, which have helped high-achieving, Type-A candle-burners bring their actions into sync with their beliefs. For ease of memory, each of them has an 11-letter codeword that starts with an S.<br />
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The Stewardship Exercise</span></h3>
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Many of the world’s most successful people follow a pattern of delegating everything they can to save energy and time for the things that can’t be delegated. At the top of the “can’t-delegate” list are our families. While we can welcome help from others, the responsibility, the stewardship, stays with us.<br /><br />To make sure you’re practicing stewardship over your relationships, try this:<br /><br />When you’re planning for the day ahead, before you finalize your schedule or make your list of achievement-oriented have-to-dos, spend five minutes coming up with three relationship-oriented choose-to-dos that you will not delegate—one for each of your top three stewardships.<br /><br />1. Ask yourself, “What is one thing I choose to do for my spouse or for someone in my family today?” This is not a have-to-do like “get them picked up after soccer practice.” It is something someone needs but doesn’t expect, something that will bring joy. It could be a note to your wife, a call to your aging grandmother. Whatever it is, write it down before you start planning your day.<br /><br />2. What is one unexpected thing you could do for someone at work this day? A show of appreciation, an apology, an acknowledgement, perhaps?<br /><br />3. What is one thing you could do for yourself this day? Something you need but would not normally get? Exercise? A nap? To read the first chapter of the book you bought a month ago?<br /><br />The cumulative effect of the three daily choose-to-dos makes them powerful. And as you perform them, you will find yourself becoming more relationship-oriented, more balanced and more pleased with your life.<br />
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The Serendipity Exercise</h3>
So many things that nourish our relationships cannot be planned or scheduled: An old friend calls, a child needs you, an occurrence triggers a conversation with your spouse.<br /><br />When these things happen, do you feel interrupted and irritated? Or do you welcome the surprise, find it interesting and take it as an opportunity?<br /><br />The difference between the first option and the second may be the difference between staleness and creative flexibility, between high blood pressure and low, between enjoying and resenting the moment.<br /><br />Such occurrences often are serendipitous; although unexpected, they may bring about unforeseen benefits, particularly if we’re flexible and open-minded to the possibilities.<br /><br />To be more open to serendipity, try this:<br /><br />Draw a vertical line down the center of your planning page. Jot your plans, schedule and to-dos on the left side of the page. As you go through the day, take notice of “serendipities,” unexpected occurrences that may prove favorable, and jot them on the right side of the page. (Note that the right and left sides of the page in this exercise coincide with the right and left hemispheres of the brain.) Challenge yourself to find (and love) at least three serendipities each day.<br /><br />Keep your written record of serendipities for 21 days, and then look back and compare the value of the accomplished, structured, proactive things that happened on the left with the value of the spontaneous, reactive things you recorded on the right.<br /><br />You will find that both sides have comparable value, and you will feel a greater inner balance between structure and flexibility. <b>You will also find that better relationships often result from welcoming, appreciating and reacting well to things you could not have planned.</b><br />
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<br />The Synergicity Exercise</h3>
Synergicity is a combination of synergy (working together to produce a result not obtainable by one person independently) and synchronicity (seemingly unrelated occurrences combining in a meaningful way). In this case, synergicity is created by setting clear relationship goals within your family.<br /><br />We all know that effective goals involve a clear vision of what we want. The goal must be specific and measurable and divisible into progressing pieces. That may explain why achievement goals are, for most people, easier to set and to monitor than relationship goals; it is relatively easy to visualize an amount of money or an achieved position or a triathlon record, and then to chart and measure your progress in reaching the goal.<br /><br />But how do you quantify a relationship goal? You don’t! Instead, you think in qualities rather than quantities, and you make it clear and specific with words rather than numbers. You write a vivid description of the relationship you want five years from now with your spouse or with a child.<br /><br />Start with a sentence like, “It is November of 2015, and we have been married for 17 years.” Then describe the relationship, the communication, the trust level, the feelings. Use your imagination and your idealism.<br /><br />Once the relationship goal is clear and real in your mind, the law of attraction begins to take over. You find yourself subconsciously acting and responding in ways that bring reality closer and closer to what you described. The two of you find it progressively easier to be in sync, and the synergy and mutually complementing qualities you created in your mind begin to seep into the real relationship.<br /><br />You will find that none of the three exercises is easy, but as you persist, the balancing and relationship-enhancing qualities of stewardship, serendipity and synergicity will become increasingly a part of who you are and a benefit and a blessing to those you love.</span></div>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-37121352570247627242011-06-14T22:05:00.001-05:002011-06-14T22:06:27.511-05:00The Comparing Trap<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">When I joined the <a href="http://www.hbs.edu/" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Harvard Business School</a> faculty, I received cards and letters from friends and family congratulating me on achieving one of the ultimate brass rings of academics. I felt pretty good about myself until I visited my assigned office in Morgan Hall. In an adjacent office was a colleague who had written something like 12 books and was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of organizational innovation. He had a beautiful summer house near Cape Cod. In addition, he was gracious and supportive. There wasn't much to dislike.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">So every day I came to work and walked past his office door, I felt like I was behind in the race. Compared with my colleague, I had accomplished so little over such a long career; my two measly books were more like an embarrassment, given his output. When I passed his office and he wasn't there, I was sure that he was meeting with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Jack Welch</a> or someone famous. And as much as I wanted to dislike him, I found myself disliking me because of what he had done and what I had not accomplished. Mind you, this happened almost every day. And it didn't happen at the end of the day but at the beginning. I'm sure you are asking why I didn't just walk to my office the other direction so I didn't have to begin the process of comparing? Because the situation on the other side was worse.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Two years earlier, in the mid-nineties, an <a href="http://mit.edu/" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">MIT</a> professor had joined the Harvard Business School faculty and one year later won the Nobel Prize in economics. <a href="http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=rmerton&loc=extn" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Robert Merton</a> was 46 when he won the award. He and two other economists created the trading process called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Black-Scholes</a> that impacted the ways financial markets were informed and influenced.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">You see the problem. Merton had the office on the other side of my office. Bob Merton was as gracious and supportive as the colleague I mentioned earlier. When I saw him driving to work, I would bristle. He would often wave; I couldn't figure out how someone that smart could be so gracious. So there you have it. There was no way for me to get to my office without a feeling of comparative inadequacy.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Comparing is a trap that permeates our lives, especially if we're high-need-for-achievement professionals. No matter how successful we are and how many goals we achieve, this trap causes us to recalibrate our accomplishments and reset the bar for how we define success. What we've done in the past doesn't matter; real success or achievement requires something more — a title we've never held, a task we've never done, a company we've never worked for. The process of comparing requires us to keep making our target more difficult to hit. And if we manage to hit this difficult target, we simply create an even more difficult one at which we can aim. No matter how much we achieve, we are never satisfied with our achievements when we're caught in the comparing trap. I would urge you to find your own measure for providing a constant reminder that you're on track (or not) and help you avoid falling into the comparing behavior trap. Consider the following measures:</p><ol style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: decimal; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Capstone progress:</strong> Chart your progress toward your ideal position, determining if you're acquiring the experiences and expertise that make you a viable candidate for that position.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Satisfaction index:</strong> Keep track of how meaningful and fulfilling your work is; create a numerical satisfaction scale that depends on how much you're enjoying what you do and how purposeful it seems; take a reading regularly.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Learning level: </strong>Assess the knowledge and skills you're acquiring and whether you're becoming an "expert" in any one area (this is a more subtle measure, but it still can serve as a viable alternative to comparing behaviors).</li></ol><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">It's not that high-need-for-achievement individuals can eliminate their comparing reflex completely, nor should they. Throughout history, our greatest generals, CEOs, lawyers, and other professionals have driven themselves to achieve significant objectives by trying to outdo others. Comparing becomes a trap, however, when people become so consumed by measuring themselves against others that they fail to step back and see how it's impacting their actions, and fail to acknowledge and celebrate their own unique successes. When only external factors become our metrics for success, we are setting ourselves up for misery.</p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-4281778486823006082011-06-09T17:18:00.006-05:002011-06-09T17:22:28.899-05:00Dealing with your boss.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Would you like a better boss? A boss who helps you obtain valuable information, win needed resources, and secure important support for your group and for you personally — in short, a boss who's a real ally and partner?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">If your boss provides these benefits, you're lucky. We hear far more complaints than praise from people about their bosses. If you're unlucky, this blog is for you, and its message is simple — your relationship with your boss is less a matter of luck than you think.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">When we talk to managers with complaints, we find they usually assume the relationship rests entirely in the hands of the boss. It is what the boss makes it, and there's little they can do to change it.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Do you assume that it's your boss who sets the tone in your relationship? If so, test that assumption.</strong> Almost certainly, you have more ability than you think to shape how you work together. After all, it's a relationship of mutual dependence. You each need the other to succeed. Unless your boss is a <a href="http://articles.boston.com/2010-06-20/bostonglobe/29296010_1_female-candidate-midas-touch-parliamentary-elections" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">psychopath </a>or truly irrational, this interdependence is a foundation on which you can take steps to build something mutually beneficial.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Start by taking some responsibility for the relationship and asking yourself some basic questions:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><b><em style="font-style: oblique !important; ">Are you meeting expectations?</em> </b><br />If your group isn't performing, you obviously cannot expect a great relationship. <u>By underperforming, you're making your boss look bad. Hit your targets, work out a plan for hitting them, or re-negotiate the targets. If you don't, nothing else is likely to go right between you. Remember, too, that her expectations extend beyond simple numbers and include things like sharing key information, inclusion in certain key decisions, and even personal support and loyalty.</u></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><b><em style="font-style: oblique !important; ">Do you see your boss as your <a href="http://hbr.org/product/coaching-people-pocket-mentor-series/an/13273-PDF-ENG?Ntt=coaching" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">coach </a>or your judge?</em> </b><br />In fact, every boss is both and you need to figure out when and where he tends to be one or the other. Don't fall into the trap of thinking he's only a judge. That hyper-critical assumption will prepare you for the worst because it puts you always on your guard. But it rarely reflects reality — <b>most bosses can and will play both roles</b> — and it will keep you from reaching out to him and obtaining the benefits of a good relationship. Better to see his dual roles as extremes between which he moves back and forth, depending on the situation. <b>At first, in small, low-risk ways, test when and how he's willing to provide support, and move forward based on what you learn.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><b><em style="font-style: oblique !important; ">Does your boss trust you?</em> </b><br />Have you demonstrated to her satisfaction your competence and character, the two pillars of <a href="http://hbr.org/product/can-people-trust-you-influence-begins-with-trust-w/an/7315BC-PDF-ENG?Ntt=hill%2520lineback%2520trust" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">trust</a>? Does she believe you know what to do and how to do it? Does she believe in your values, standards, and intentions? Have you communicated them in your behavior and words? Any influence you have on her will begin with her trust in you.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><b><em style="font-style: oblique !important; ">Do the two of you see the current situation in the same way?</em><br /></b>Do you see the problems you both face in the same way and do you agree about where you're going and how you're going to get there? <u>Do you even understand the problems your boss faces? If you don't, he will inevitably wonder if you're helping him deal with them.</u></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><b><em style="font-style: oblique !important; ">Are you able to see your boss as a person, not just an authority figure?</em> </b><br />Behind your boss's title, there's an imperfect person just like you. She has hopes, aspirations, frustrations, strengths, weaknesses, and fears, and she's the product of her unique background, training, and experience. <u>Do you know enough about her that you can begin to <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2009/05/empathy_not_such_a_soft_skill.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">see the world through her eyes</a>? If you do, can you use that knowledge to adapt how you deal with her, just as you use such insights to shape how you deal with anyone else?</u></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><b><em style="font-style: oblique !important; ">Can you identify your boss's strengths and weaknesses?</em> </b><br />Perhaps you can only see the weaknesses, but identify his strengths too — again, just as you would with anyone else. <b>Have you thought about how to build on his strengths and work around or compensate for his weaknesses?</b> You'll never have a boss without weakness of some kind. Be generous in your judgment of him, just as you hope your people will judge you generously.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><b><em style="font-style: oblique !important; ">Are you unknowingly bringing your own emotional baggage into this relationship?</em> </b><br />Through years of growing up and dealing with authority figures, starting with our parents, many of us learn to dislike and distrust anyone who claims authority over us. Are your attitudes about your boss shaped by your own feelings and attitudes that are based not on experience with her personally but with others from your past?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><b>Take responsibility for this crucial relationship. Test and probe to find what's possible. There are bad bosses with whom you will have little ability to shape the way you work together, but most bosses are just people like you, with likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses.</b> It will never be a relationship of equals — that's not how the world works — but it can be mutually supportive, and even mutually rewarding.</p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-49985939708191673882011-06-09T17:09:00.002-05:002011-06-09T17:14:38.093-05:00How to create collaboration among team members<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">The first thing to recognize about collaboration is that it is something that best happens over a period of time, with a "warm-up" period before critical work happens. Just like a runner, you don't want to do a 10K cold. You need to get things loosened up first. Recent study among college students indicate that, student moving into the workforce are even less well prepared for good collaborative experiences since collaboration requires empathy, being able to look at a problem from other peoples' perspectives.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Unless you are going for a <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Team_of_Rivals.html?id=ONhhui9SRsMC" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">"Team of Rivals"</a> approach, sustainable collaboration is best when the people know and trust each other. Ideally they have met in person, know a bit about each other personally as well as professionally, have a sense of communication and work styles, and what the individual strengths, weaknesses and points of view are.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Companies need to consciously and actively help people get to know each other in these ways as much as possible <strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">before</strong> they are put together on projects. Many projects start quite abruptly and happen intensively and quickly, so if there is some level of familiarity and trust beforehand, it will make the work much more efficient when the team does come together.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Helping People Warm Up for Collaboration</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Some ways to purposefully help people prepare for successful collaborations:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* <b>Give people public forums to introduce themselve</b>s, and talk about their professional and personal backgrounds (prior companies and hobbies are both fruitful ways of understanding someone). <b>True trust and empathy starts to happen when there is the even a slight emotional bond, not just a professional one</b>. I'm not saying you have to turn your workplace into one giant therapy session. But militaries around the world understand this deeply — the bond between soldiers is consciously built up to be very strong, because they have to collaborate and trust each other under the most difficult circumstances. <b>How can you create camaraderie?</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* In-person familiarity should be the default, but in large organizations this is hard to scale. Make use of social networking tools to faciliate the process.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* Find the people who are networking hubs in the organization, and introduce newcomers to them. Think of your organization as a party. Who can you introduce a new person to who will help them get to know the rest of the group the quickest?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* For more prolonged relationship building, have a mentoring program where a newcomer is paired up with someone who's been around a while. You may even have a "networking" mentor who is different from the usual expertise mentor.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* Mix up disciplines. Don't segregate engineering from marketing, HR from finance, and so on. Make it easy for people to absorb others' perspectives just by walking around. Mix levels of seniority together for the same reason. (At frog we have completely open workspaces with no cubicles, and all the disciplines are mingled together, as we want teams, who might only work together in that specific combination of people for a few weeks, to be able to hit the ground running. The warm-up should have already happened.)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* <b>Provide project spaces where teams can work continuously, all sitting together.</b> If you just have individual workspaces (e.g. cubicles) and group meeting rooms (e.g. conference rooms that must be booked far in advance and vacated after an hour), then you are missing a key tool for facilitating collaboration, team-, and trust-building.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* <u><b>Celebrate wins publicly by crediting the whole team, not just individuals.</b> Get teams to talk about what worked and didn't work with their collaboration, so that others may learn. Get people into a mindset of thinking consciously about how and why a collaboration is working (or not).</u> Don't let it seem like a magic black box process that gets chalked up to luck. Take a step back and analyze it just as you would any other process.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">What's Good for Collaboration is Also Good for Innovation</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">The great thing is that all these methods to aid collaboration also build a company's effectiveness at innovation. Why? Because:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* Innovation comes from putting ideas and perspectives that have never been combined before. Good collaboration makes this happen more efficiently.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* Innovation involves risk-taking, and that doesn't happen if there's no trust that others will cover you when there is the inevitable stumble. The methods for building trust for collaboration help people more readily take risks as a result.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">* Most innovations can't be accomplished by individuals toiling away, or even by single organizations working in isolation. We need people around us to fill in the skills and knowledge gaps, and to tell us when we're full of crap. Collaboration is a critical skill for any organization wanting to do actually bring innovations to market.</p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-68312932160669217322011-05-24T11:25:00.001-05:002011-05-24T11:26:25.370-05:00Challenges to Pursue by Jim Rohn<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(127, 0, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><h1>Challenges to Pursue by Jim Rohn</h1><p>Here’s a list of 15 challenges to pursue, excerpted from the <a href="http://www.jimrohn.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=923" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Leadership Event</a>—his last recorded weekend event.</p><p><strong><em>Review Your Performance.</em></strong> Whether it’s communication, whether it’s activity, whether it’s a CEO, whether it’s on the job. Here’s what my father said: “Always do more than you are paid for to make an investment in your future.” Now some unions would argue with that. My father was so unique. Review your performance—your language with your children. Say, “Have I been too harsh, too strong, too stubborn? Should I have learned to be easier and mixed more compassion with the tough stuff I have to deal with?” And yes, prayer will help. Ask for help to say the right thing, not to ruin it all by poor communication.</p><p><strong><em>Face Your Fears.</em></strong> That’s how you conquer them. Don’t dismiss them; face them. Say, “Here’s what I’m afraid of. I wonder what I could do to change that.”</p><p><strong><em>Exercise Your Willpower to Change Direction. </em></strong>You don’t have to keep doing what you’ve been doing the last six years if it’s not yielding the benefits you want. My mentor helped me review the last six years so I wouldn’t repeat those errors the next six. Pick a new destination and go that way. Use your willpower to start the process. You don’t have to repeat last year. Clean up the errors. Invest it now in the next year. Watch it make the difference.</p><p><strong><em>Admit Your Mistakes. </em></strong>Sometimes you have to admit them to others. Parents have to do it. We ask our kids to do it. We have to do it. Here is one of the best phrases in the English language: “I’m sorry.” The reason those are good words is because they could start a whole new relationship. It could start two people going in a whole new direction. Simple, not easy. You get this done, the turnaround can be dramatic. The early years can be big in payoff. Here’s the big one. Admit your mistakes to yourself. You don’t have to babble about them to everyone in the neighborhood. But it doesn’t hurt to sit down and have a conversation with yourself and say, “There’s no use kidding myself. Here’s where I really am. I’ve got pennies in my pocket and I’ve got nothing in the bank.” That’s what I said after a Girl Scout left my door. I had a conversation with myself and I said, “I don’t want this to happen anymore.”</p><p><strong><em>Refine Your Goals.</em></strong> Start the process. Set some higher goals. Reach for some higher purpose. Go for something beyond what you thought you could do.</p><p><strong><em>Believe in Yourself. </em></strong>You’ve got to believe in God and you’ve got to believe in the community. You’ve got to believe in the possibilities. You’ve got to believe in the economy. You’ve got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. Here’s the big one. Believe in yourself. There isn’t a skill you can’t learn; there isn’t a discipline you can’t try; there isn’t a class you can’t take; there isn’t a book you couldn’t read.</p><p><strong><em>Ask for Wisdom. </em></strong>This is communication of the highest source. Ask for wisdom that creates answers. Ask for the wisdom that creates faith to believe things are possible. Ask for wisdom to deal with the challenges for today and tomorrow, to deal with the challenges your family brings you. Don’t wish it was easier; wish you were better.</p><p><strong><em>Conserve Your Time.</em></strong> Sometimes we get faked out. Bill Bailey says the average person says, “I’ve got twenty more years.” No, Bill says you’ve got twenty more times. If you go fishing once a year, you’ve only got twenty more times to go fishing, not twenty years. That fakes you out.</p><p><strong><em>Invest Your Profits.</em></strong> Here’s one of the philosophies that Mr. Shoaff gave me. Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living, profits make you a fortune. Could we start earning profits while we make a living? The answer is yes.</p><p><strong><em>Protect Your Family. </em></strong>These are troublesome times. At school—troublesome times. Protect your family as best you can from the hidden dangers, the lurking evil one.</p><p><strong><em>Live with Intensity.</em></strong> You might as well turn it up a notch or two. Invest more of you in whatever you do. Be a little stronger; be a little wiser. Step up your vitality contribution. Put everything you’ve got into everything you do and then ask for more vitality, more strength and more vigor, more heart and more soul.</p><p><strong><em>Find Your Place. </em></strong>If you just work on a job, find the best place you can serve well, and sure enough they’ll ask you to occupy a better place. And if you keep doing a job well, do the very best you can. That’s your best way out. Here’s a Bible phrase. If you work on your gifts, they’ll make a place for you.</p><p><strong><em>Demand Integrity from Yourself.</em></strong> Integrity is like loyalty. You can’t demand it of someone else; you can only demand it of yourself. Be the best example of loyalty, and you’ll get some loyal followers. Be the best example of integrity, and you’ll have people around you who have integrity. Lead the way.</p><p><strong><em>Welcome the Disciplines. </em></strong>Can’t give you much better advice than that because disciplines create the reality. Disciplines build cities. A well-disciplined activity creates abundance, creates uniqueness, productivity.</p><p><strong><em>Fight for What’s Right. </em></strong>It’s a fight we’re in. The storyteller says “And there was a great war in heaven.” One of the writers of later Scripture said, “I fought a good fight.” That’s extraordinary to be able to say. I fought for my kids, and I fought for what was right and I fought for good health, and I fought to protect my company and I fought for a good career that would bless my family. I fought a good fight. It’s good to fight the encroachment. Opposites are in conflict, and you’re in the middle. If you want something valuable, you’ve got to fight for it. Then this writer also said, “I fought a good fight and I kept the faith.” See, that’s the deal. Keep faith with your family. Fight the enemy and keep faith. Fight the illness and keep faith. Fight the evil and keep faith. I can’t give you much better advice.</p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-39022440699574837562011-05-19T22:36:00.003-05:002011-05-23T00:06:24.529-05:00Be an Optimist Without Being a Fool<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">There are quite a number of motivational speakers and self-improvement books out there with a surprisingly simple message: believe that success will come easily to you, and <em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important; ">it will</em>. There is one small problem in this argument, however, which unfortunately doesn't seem to stop anyone from making it: it is utterly false.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">In fact, not only is visualizing "effortless success" unhelpful, it is disastrous. This is good advice to give only if you are trying to sabotage the recipient. It is a <em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important; ">recipe</em> for failure. And no, I'm not overstating it.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">But how can this be? Isn't optimism a good thing? Yes it is. Optimism and the confidence it creates are essential for creating and sustaining the motivation you need to reach your goals. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bandura" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Albert Bandura</a>, one of the founding fathers of scientific psychology, discovered decades ago that perhaps the best predictor of an individual's success is whether or not they believe they will succeed. Thousands and thousands of experiments later, he has yet to be proven wrong.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">But there is an important caveat: <strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; "><a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/02/nine_things_successful_people.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">to be successful</a>, you need to understand the vital difference between believing you will succeed, and believing you will succeed <em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important; ">easily</em>.</strong> Put another way, it's the difference between being <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2011/04/how-i-became-an-optimist.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">a realistic optimist</a> and an unrealistic optimist.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Realistic optimists (the kind Bandura was talking about) believe they will succeed, but also believe they have to <em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important; ">make success happen</em> — through things like effort, careful planning, persistence, and choosing the right strategies. They recognize the need for giving serious thought to how they will deal with obstacles. This preparation only increases their confidence in their own ability to get things done.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Unrealistic optimists, on the other hand, believe that success will happen <em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important; ">to</em> them — that the universe will reward them for all their positive thinking, or that somehow they will be transformed overnight into the kind of person for whom obstacles cease to exist. (Forgetting that even Superman had Kryptonite. And a secret identity that took a lot of trouble to maintain. And also relationship issues.)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">One of the clearest illustrations of the dangers of unrealistic optimism comes from a study of weight loss. Psychologist <a href="http://www.psych.nyu.edu/oettingen/" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Gabriele Oettingen</a> asked a group of obese women who had enrolled in a weight-loss program how likely they felt they were to reach their goals. She found that those women who were confident that they would succeed lost 26 pounds more than self-doubters, as expected.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">But Oettingen also asked the women to tell her what they imagined their road to success would be like — if they thought they would have a hard time resisting temptation, or if they'd have no problem turning down free doughnuts in the conference room and a second trip to the all-you-can-eat buffet. The results were astounding: women who believed they would succeed easily lost 24 pounds less than those who thought their weight-loss journey would be no walk in the park.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><a href="http://www.psych.nyu.edu/oettingen/Oettingen,%20G.%20(2000).%20Expectancy%20effects%20on%20behavior%20depend%20on%20self-regulatory%20thought.pdf" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">She has found the same pattern of results</a> in studies of students looking for high-paying jobs after college, singles looking to find lasting love, and seniors recovering from hip replacement surgery. Realistic optimists send out more job applications, find the courage to approach potential romantic partners, and work harder on their rehabilitation exercises — in each case, leading to much higher success rates.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Believing that the road to success will be rocky leads to greater success because it forces you to take action.</strong> People who are confident that they will succeed, and equally confident that success won't come easily, put in more effort, plan how they'll deal with problems before they arise, and persist longer <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/02/get_your_goals_back_on_track.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">in the face of difficulty</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Unrealistic optimists are only too happy to tell you that you are "being negative" when you dare to express concerns, harbor reservations, or dwell too long on obstacles that stand in the way of your goal. In truth, this kind of thinking is a necessary step in any successful endeavor, and it is not at all antithetical to confident optimism. Focusing only on what we want, to the exclusion of everything else, is just the kind of naïve and reckless thinking that has landed industry leaders (and at times entire industries) in hot water.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Cultivate your realistic optimism by combining a positive attitude with an honest assessment of the challenges that await you. Don't visualize success — visualize <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/08/six-keys-to-being-excellent-at.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">the steps you will take</a> in order to make success happen.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">---##############################################</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">We're a month into the new year. How are those 2011 goals coming along? Probably not as well as you hoped. If so, you far from alone — in fact, studies suggest that more than half of the people who made New Year's resolutions this year will have broken them by now.<br /><br />Real change can be hard to come by, and it's tempting to want to start lowering expectations, or throw in the towel on your goal completely. But don't despair, because it's not too late to push the Reset button, and try tackling those goals again. This time around, you'll be better armed.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Most of us place blame for our failures in the wrong places. We believe that we lack the talent, or the willpower, or some other innate ability, to get the job done. But one of the first things you learn when you study achievement for a living is that innate ability (to the extent there is such a thing) tells you nothing about your chances of reaching a goal. My own research, along with decades of other <a href="http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ654871&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ654871" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">scientific</a> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kSxc2HEudrsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=psychology+of+goals&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=F35JTeHePIOBlAeSs5Q6&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">studies</a> of motivation, paint a very different picture — that in fact, like so much in life, it's really all about strategy.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Here are two scientifically-tested strategies that can spell the difference between another year of disappointment, and the significant, lasting changes you have been looking for.<br /><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; "><br />1. Get specific. No, really. <em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important; ">Very</em> specific.</strong><br />Whenever people tell me about their goals, I hear them say that they want to "get ahead at work" or "eat healthier" or "spend less and save more." To which I respond, "OK, but what will success look like? How will you know when you have reached your goal?" Usually, that's followed by a long pause, a look of confusion, and a reply something along the lines of "I hadn't really thought about that."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Taking the time to get specific and spell out exactly what you want to achieve removes the possibility of settling for less — of telling yourself that what you've done is "good enough." Thousands of studies have shown that getting more specific is one of the single most effective steps you can take to reach any goal.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Instead of "getting ahead at work," include a concrete long-term goal, like "a pay raise of at least $_____" or "a promotion to at least the ____ level." Also detail the specific medium-term steps it will take to get there. Has your manager asked you to improve in a certain technical area? Do you know that there are interpersonal issues holding you back? If you know you need to communicate better, make your specific goal something like, "listen attentively without interrupting."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">When what you are striving for is vague, it's too tempting to take the easy way out when you've gotten tired, discouraged, or bored. But there's just no fooling yourself <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/01/how_to_keep_those.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">if you've set a specific goal</a> — you know when you've reached it and when you haven't. If you haven't, you have little choice but to keep working toward it if you want to succeed.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">2. Think about what you want and what stands in the way. Mentally go back and forth.</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">This strategy is called mental contrasting, and in a nutshell, it involves thinking optimistically about all the wonderful aspects of achieving your goal, while thinking realistically about what it will take to get there.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">First, imagine how you will feel attaining your goal. Picture it as vividly as possible in your mind. Next, reflect on the obstacles that stand in your way. For instance, if you wanted to get a better, higher paying job, you would start by imagining the sense of pride and excitement you would feel accepting a lucrative offer at a top firm. Then, you would think about what stands between you and that offer — namely, all the other really outstanding candidates that will be applying for the same job. Kind of makes you want to polish up your resume a bit, doesn't it?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">That's called experiencing the necessity to act — it's a psychological state that is crucial for achieving any goal. Daydreaming about how great it will be to land that job can be a lot of fun, but it won't get you anywhere. Mental contrasting turns wishes and daydreams into reality, by bringing into focus what you will need to do to make them happen.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">In studies my colleagues and I have conducted — looking at situations ranging from 15-year olds doing summer prep for the PSAT, to HR personnel trying to manage their time better, to singles trying to find a romantic partner, to pediatric nurses trying to improve communication with parents — the results are always the same. Mental contrasting reliably leads to greater effort, energy, planning, and overall higher rates of achieving goals. Taking a few moments to mentally go back and forth between the future you want, and the hurdles you'll have to overcome to get there, will help you find both <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2011/01/six-keys-to-changing-almost-an.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">the clarity and motivation you need to succeed</a>. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">In identifying the factors that led to greater success, Wiseman uncovered some interesting gender differences and corresponding tips for success. For example, men are some 22% more likely to achieve their goals if they set specific objectives and write them down. Women are 10% more likely to achieve their goals if they go public and share them with their family and friends.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Perhaps the optimal approach though is to do both these things which is something that Wiseman recommends. Write down your goal together with a list of specific behaviours that are stepping stones towards achieving your goal and then share these with a trusted colleague — maybe one that you who you wouldn't want to lose face with.</p><p></p><p></p><div><br /></div></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-64826361234290917802011-05-08T22:37:00.001-05:002011-05-08T22:37:57.188-05:00The Most Important Question a Manager Can Ask<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">When is the last time you asked the group you manage, and the individuals in it, this simple question:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important; ">What can I do to help you be more effective?</em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">What question could be more central to <a href="http://hbr.org/product/being-the-boss-the-3-imperatives-for-becoming-a-gr/an/12285-HBK-ENG?Ntt=being%2520the%2520boss" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">being a good boss</a>? If you want to manage and lead successfully, you've got to know what the people doing the work need. So why not ask them? But the truth is, this question is not asked by bosses nearly enough.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">You'll get a variety of answers, especially in the beginning — including non-answers ("Gee, nothing. Keep doing what you're doing.") and requests you can't do much about — personal problems, company policies you can't change, complaints about colleagues who make this person's work life miserable, as well as personal requests you can't or won't address (such as "Raise my pay" from someone whose performance is mediocre). Take everything under advisement, if you can't respond immediately. Promise to take action when you think it's warranted but resist efforts to <a href="http://www.appraisaltoday.com/delegati.htm" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">"delegate up."</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">You will also get answers that are implicit or even explicit criticisms of you. Respond to these by explaining yourself, but don't argue or react defensively. <a href="http://hbr.org/2006/04/when-should-a-leader-apologize-and-when-not/ar/1" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Admit mistakes</a>, if appropriate. At the least, respond with, "Let me think about that. Thanks for telling me."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Discuss, listen, explain, educate, and, above all, understand what the person or group is saying.</strong> Be caring but candid. If you can't change company policies or pay grades, explain that. If you disagree with what you're hearing, talk about that respectfully. These are opportunities for both or all of you to learn.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Beyond such answers, however, you will hear ways you really can make people more effective. Finding that may require discussion, careful listening, and respectful probing, and a willingness on your part to hear hard things and to change. Perhaps you really do need to step back and let people do their work; or, perhaps you should get more involved. Perhaps some group work processes need to change. Perhaps you need to talk to a colleague who heads another group about how uncooperative her people are. These things are often easy to do and can make an immediate difference.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Once you start these discussions, you'll find they don't take much time, except when they deserve more time. And they pay dividends. They <a href="http://hbr.org/product/can-people-trust-you-influence-begins-with-trust-w/an/7315BC-PDF-ENG?Ntt=trust" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">build trust</a>, they help people work together better and do better work, they identify and remove obstacles.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">They also make you more effective because they reveal what's on people's minds. Like it or not, what people think is what they think, and you need to know what that is. Above all, you need to know what people expect from you, the boss. If you don't know what they expect, and their expectations are unreasonable, you can't negotiate new ones and you'll go on disappointing them.<br /><br />In many organizations, expectations are assumed to flow in only one direction — down. In fact, they flow up as well, though few organizations pay much attention. Too bad. Being a boss is a two-way street. People are more likely to rise to your expectations if you try to understand and rise to what they expect of you.</p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-64509757907073461292011-03-29T18:43:00.001-05:002011-03-29T18:44:58.535-05:00Nine Things Successful People Do Differently<p class="MsoNormal">Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren't sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail. The intuitive answer — that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others — is really just one small piece of the puzzle. In fact, decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kSxc2HEudrsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+psychology+of+goals&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=DbtmTcj6D8L-8AaJzcjdCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">reach their goals</a> not simply because of who they are, but more often because of <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/08/six-keys-to-being-excellent-at.html">what they do</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>1. <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/02/get_your_goals_back_on_track.html">Get specific</a>. </b>When you set yourself a goal, try to be as specific as possible. "Lose 5 pounds" is a better goal than "lose some weight," because it gives you a clear idea of what success looks like. Knowing exactly what you want to achieve keeps you motivated until you get there. Also, think about the specific actions that need to be taken to reach your goal. Just promising you'll "eat less" or "sleep more" is too vague — be clear and precise. "I'll be in bed by 10pm on weeknights" leaves no room for doubt about what you need to do, and whether or not you've actually done it.<br /><b><br />2. Seize the moment to act on your goals.</b> Given how busy most of us are, and how many goals we are juggling at once, it's not surprising that we routinely miss opportunities to act on a goal because we simply fail to notice them. Did you really have no time to work out today? No chance at any point to return that phone call? Achieving your goal means grabbing hold of these opportunities before they slip through your fingers.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To seize the moment, <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2011/02/a-better-way-to-manage-your-to.html">decide when and where you will take each action you want to take</a>, in advance. Again, be as specific as possible (e.g., "If it's Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, I'll work out for 30 minutes before work.") Studies show that this kind of planning will help your brain to detect and seize the opportunity when it arises, increasing your chances of success by roughly 300%.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>3. Know exactly how far you have left to go.</b> Achieving any goal also requires honest and regular monitoring of your progress — if not by others, then by you yourself. If you don't know how well you are doing, you can't adjust your behavior or your strategies accordingly. Check your progress frequently — weekly, or even daily, depending on the goal.<br /><b><br />4. Be a realistic optimist.</b> When you are setting a goal, by all means engage in lots of positive thinking about how likely you are to achieve it. Believing in your ability to succeed is enormously helpful for creating and sustaining your motivation. But whatever you do, don't underestimate how difficult it will be to reach your goal. Most goals worth achieving require time, planning, effort, and persistence. Studies show that thinking things will come to you easily and effortlessly leaves you ill-prepared for the journey ahead, and significantly increases the odds of failure.<br /><b><br />5. Focus on getting better, rather than being good.</b> Believing you have the ability to reach your goals is important, but so is believing you can <i>get </i>the ability. Many of us believe that our intelligence, our personality, and our physical aptitudes are fixed — that no matter what we do, we won't improve. As a result, we focus on goals that are all about proving ourselves, rather than developing and acquiring new skills.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Fortunately, decades of research suggest that the belief in fixed ability is completely wrong — abilities of all kinds are profoundly malleable. Embracing the fact that you can change will allow you to make better choices, and reach your fullest potential. People whose goals are about getting better, rather than being good, take difficulty in stride, and appreciate the journey as much as the destination.<br /><b><br />6. Have grit.</b> Grit is a willingness to commit to long-term goals, and to persist in the face of difficulty. Studies show that gritty people obtain more education in their lifetime, and earn higher college GPAs. Grit predicts which cadets will stick out their first grueling year at West Point. In fact, grit even predicts which round contestants will make it to at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The good news is, if you aren't particularly gritty now, there is something you can do about it. People who lack grit more often than not believe that they just don't have the innate abilities successful people have. If that describes your own thinking .... well, there's no way to put this nicely: you are wrong. As I mentioned earlier, effort, planning, persistence, and good strategies are what it really takes to succeed. Embracing this knowledge will not only help you see yourself and your goals more accurately, but also do wonders for your grit.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>7. Build your willpower muscle.</b> Your self-control "muscle" is just like the other muscles in your body — when it doesn't get much exercise, it becomes weaker over time. But when you give it regular workouts by putting it to good use, it will grow stronger and stronger, and better able to help you successfully reach your goals.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To build willpower, take on a challenge that requires you to do something you'd honestly rather not do. Give up high-fat snacks, do 100 sit-ups a day, stand up straight when you catch yourself slouching, try to learn a new skill. When you find yourself wanting to give in, give up, or just not bother — don't. Start with just one activity, and make a plan for how you will deal with troubles when they occur ("If I have a craving for a snack, I will eat one piece of fresh or three pieces of dried fruit.") It will be hard in the beginning, but it will get easier, and that's the whole point. As your strength grows, you can take on more challenges and step-up your self-control workout.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>8. Don't tempt fate.</b> No matter how strong your willpower muscle becomes, it's important to always respect the fact that it is limited, and if you overtax it you will temporarily run out of steam. Don't try to take on two challenging tasks at once, if you can help it (like quitting smoking and dieting at the same time). And don't put yourself in harm's way — many people are overly-confident in their ability to resist temptation, and as a result they put themselves in situations where temptations abound. Successful people know not to make reaching a goal harder than it already is.<br /><br /><b>9. Focus on what you <i>will </i>do, <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2009/06/how-to-teach-yourself-restrain.html">not what you <i>won't</i> do</a>.</b> Do you want to successfully lose weight, quit smoking, or put a lid on your bad temper? Then plan how you will replace bad habits with good ones, rather than focusing only on the bad habits themselves. Research on thought suppression (e.g., "Don't think about white bears!") has shown that trying to avoid a thought makes it even more active in your mind. The same holds true when it comes to behavior — by trying not to engage in a bad habit, our habits get strengthened rather than broken.<br />If you want change your ways, ask yourself, What will I do instead? For example, if you are trying to gain control of your temper and stop flying off the handle, you might make a plan like "If I am starting to feel angry, then I will take three deep breaths to calm down." By using deep breathing as a replacement for giving in to your anger, your bad habit will get worn away over time until it disappears completely.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is my hope that, after reading about the nine things successful people do differently, you have gained some insight into all the things you have been doing right all along. Even more important, I hope are able to identify the mistakes that have derailed you, and use that knowledge to your advantage from now on. Remember, you don't need to become a different person to become a more successful one. It's never what you are, but what you do.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-53718145569301581862011-03-24T04:04:00.001-05:002011-03-24T04:06:58.263-05:00I believe Poem<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that what comes first is family</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe in making the most of a beautiful day</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> And it’s not the end until everything’s okay</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">I believe absence makes the heart grow fonder</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe you will lose if you sit and wonder</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe every experience teaches you a lesson</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> And nothing cures better then a drinking session</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that the sun shines after the rain</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe if you don’t get hurt you’ll never gain</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe in not doing things the easy way</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that being selfish doesn’t pay</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe there is nothing better then a good laugh</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe the whole world is a stage</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe we only get better with age</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that dreams do come true</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe there’s destiny for me and you</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that good things come to those who wait</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe something good comes from something bad</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that for tears of happiness there are tears of sad</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe the good you do will be rewarded well</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe sometimes there is no explanation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe money can’t buy people’s affection</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe a new day arrives with every dawn</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe a smile can be contagious</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe in living with no regrets</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that life is as good as it gets</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe the little things are worth the fuss</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe you have each friend for a reason</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe you will get punished for treason</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that to learn you have to live</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that to love someone you have to give</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe one moment can change your life</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> And there’s still help when you’re in strife</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe everyone has one true friend</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe in the power of a song</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> And things will change before too long</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe living is the best experience</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe in not laughing at other people’s expense</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe to always look on the bright side</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe that life is just one big ride</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> I believe when I die people will grieve</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"> But it’s ok because I believe"</span></p><p></p>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-22655721445627470762011-03-18T07:44:00.001-05:002011-03-18T07:45:25.297-05:00The Four Personas of the Next-Generation CIO<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. These executives played mission-critical roles in driving multi-million dollar projects that delivered massive change. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. These leaders will have to navigate myriad converging and disruptive technologies, align new initiatives to both <a href="http://blog.softwareinsider.org/2010/05/25/tuesdays-tip-how-to-evaluate-tech-projects-for-business-value/" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">business value</a> and technology feasibility, and identify strategies to leverage existing investments to fund innovation.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Consequently, the role of the CIO will evolve. Many next-generation technology leaders will still come from traditional tech backgrounds, but business leaders with a technology bent will also have a shot. As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge:<br /><br /><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">1. Chief "Infrastructure" Officers</strong> focus on cost reduction, and account for 65% to 70% of the overall IT budget. Most of this CIO persona's projects prioritize keeping the lights on and managing legacy environments. Disruptive technologies such as virtualization and cloud will play a key role in cost reduction. These infrastructure officers tend to focus on the technology side and internal-facing activities.<br /><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; "><br />2. Chief "Integration" Officers</strong> connect internal and external ecosystems. With 5% to 10% of the overall budget, this CEO persona must bring together a hodge-podge of business processes, data, systems, and connection points with legacy systems and newer cloud-based approaches. Projects touch external systems and often address post-merger integration environments. These integrators tend to focus on the technology side and both internal and external activities.<br /><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; "><br />3. Chief "Intelligence" Officers</strong> empower the business with actionable insights. Representing between 10% and 15% of the overall budget, this CIO persona must improve business-user access to information. A key theme includes placing the right data to the right person at the right time on the right interface. These intelligence officers tend to focus on the business side and internal facing activities.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">4. Chief "Innovation" Officers</strong> identify disruptive technologies for pilot projects. Investing 5% to 10% of the overall budget, this CIO persona must drive innovation on a shoestring. Typically from business backgrounds, these leaders move fast, fail fast, and move on. They tend to focus on the business side and external activities.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><img alt="newCIO.jpg" src="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/flatmm/newCIO.jpg" width="416" height="280" class="mt-image-center" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Most of today's CIOs fit squarely in the Chief Infrastructure Officer persona, dedicating their time and resources struggling to keep the lights on. Shifting into the Chief Integration Officer role will be a smooth transition for most of them, but only a few with a business bent will grow into the Chief Innovation Officer role. On the flip side, many business leaders with a technology bent will evolve into the Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Intelligence Officer roles.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Among the companies we study, we're seeing three different approaches to accommodating the different CIO personas:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">1. One CIO can deliver on all four roles this by upgrading his or her skill sets.<br />2. A shadow CIO-like organization could emerge on the business side to fill the roles of Chief Intelligence and Chief Innovation Officer.<br />3. A CIO could have lieutenants charged with one or more of these functions.<br /></p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-18272150334223166862011-03-16T20:32:00.003-05:002011-03-16T20:36:17.837-05:00Delivering the Speech of My Life<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">The transformation from a firebrand speaker to a crowd pulling speaker was in focus and intention. At first, my focus was all on me: "I'm going to screw this up so bad." "I have nothing intelligent to say, and this guy will see through me in about three seconds." "I'm Italian. I'm dumb. I can't compete with these smart people."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">But over time I decided I wanted to win. And to win I was going to have to convince the judge — to move him or her somehow. <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span">And then it became fun. Because it was no longer about me. It was about my audience:</span></i></b> getting listeners from here to there — changing their mind — actually having them leave the room thinking differently than when they entered. And that's powerful.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">It's been a blast ever since.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Here's some of what I've learned in my years of public speaking. If you have to knock it out of the park, follow these basic rules:</p><ol style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: decimal; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Know your goal. </strong>When the speech is over, what do you want the audience saying about it and you? What difference do you want to make? Most speakers never ask this of themselves.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Memorize your speech. </strong>That's right. Memorize every word of it. Deliver it in front of a mirror five times, six times, ten times. Then deliver it while your kid is screaming in the background, to develop the confidence that you can recite it no matter what distraction pops up. Why memorize it? Because nothing will put an audience to sleep faster than someone reading from a prepared text. Because when you memorize it, it stops being about getting the words right and starts being about getting the feeling right. Imagine if Andrea Bocelli didn't memorize the words to the songs in his repertoire. How much room do you think there would be for him to feel them?</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">If you don't want to knock it out of the park</strong>, don't follow rule 2.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Practice the transitions. </strong>What will get you from one point to the next? Is it "if," or "when," or "then I." Know and memorize the precise construction of each transitional sentence. It's in uncertainty about transitions from one point to the next that people lose their grace in public and start saying "aaahhhh."</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Don't fear silence. </strong>You want to silence a room? Don't talk. Be silent and look at the audience. Five seconds. Seven seconds. Just taking them in. Connecting with them. But never do it for effect. Do it to get intimate with your audience. It silences a room like you wouldn't believe. Why? Because it's not normal. Audiences are used to speakers filling every nanosecond with the sound of their own voice, leaving zero time for reflection. Audiences are used to being avoided, not appreciated. When they come upon someone who can command their own silence, they understand, "This person is serious."</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Never, ever, ever use PowerPoint as your speech notes.</strong> The slides are for your audience, not for you. The moment they see you rattling through a list of bullets that you should have had the courtesy to memorize, they put you in a category with every other boring presenter they've ever seen and you've lost them.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Give something of yourself. </strong>Don't be afraid to feel something in front of an audience. Don't be afraid to say something that will make you feel something, and that will make the audience feel something.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Be yourself. </strong>Don't feel you need to mimic the testosterone level of a motivational speaker. You will look and feel fake. Robert Kennedy never tried to copy Martin Luther King's rhetorical skills. RFK was soft-spoken. He owned that. And as a result, was every bit as affecting as King.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Don't speak in abstractions. </strong>Say what it is that you mean. Plainly. Avoid the lexicon of your own trade. People are sick of it. It doesn't mean anything to them anymore. Speak in human.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Feel what's happening in the room</strong> and use it to connect your speech to this moment. In this way, if your mike goes out, you can make a joke out of it, rather than it making a nervous wreck, and a joke, out of you.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Make eye contact until it scares you.</strong> Distribute your eye contact around the room. Not for effect, but because you genuinely want to connect with the people in front of you.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Don't miss your own talk. </strong>It is a privilege and an honor to be asked to speak. Take the opportunity to commune with other human beings. It's like getting to watch a falling star.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Come from a place of love for your audience. </strong>That's mastery. When you allow yourself to feel the humanity of your audience, you have succeeded in taking the focus off yourself. There is a universe of difference between this place and a PowerPoint presentation. This is the place from which change is made. From here you can move mountains.</li></ol></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-35791536617957788332011-03-02T02:42:00.002-06:002011-06-06T22:16:50.234-05:00My Gratitude Train Nov-2010 to Mar-2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "><div id="message553366" class="item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gratitudelog.com/images/hr-580.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><div class="wrapper" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 60px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 470px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div class="update" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.4em; word-spacing: -0.08em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span id="description553366" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">- I am grateful to have started a new project a day after I landed. Thanks AV, GL and Deloitte<br />- I am grateful for my wife and son to come and pick me up from Airport. I so missed you guys<br />- I am so grateful to hear that my son's top 3 things today were - Soccer, sleeping with Dad and picking dad from the airport. My son is a remarkable and loving kid. I am so blessed as a dad.<br />- I am so grateful for my little sis for staying back and taking care of Uppa. You are doing an enormous sacrifice. Thank You, Thank You and Thank You.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; 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We misunderstood our relationship and realize your importance in the event of a need.<br />- I am grateful to Daddy for constantly taking care of Uppa and his needs. A lot of times your value is not given enough appreciation as it should be given. You never seek glory and always did the right thing. You are a true great person and I need to learn few things from you. You are a gem in the days of people seeking glory and appreciation.<br />- I am grateful to my father for being resilient inspite of the harsh medicines that he is taking<br />- I am grateful to my mom for being strong and healthy so that she could take care of Uppa. I have not seen another woman who is so subserviant. I as a rebel need to take a leaf from her book.<br />- I am so grateful to Navin for accompanying us to Amrita. He came only a day ago, hardly had any rest, didn't see his parents for more than an hour. But he accompanied us, helped Uppa, never ever showed any indication that he is not happy. Thanks my BIL - You are awesome. I am so proud of my sister to have got a such an awesome husband.<br />- I am grateful to my wife who is battling an uphill task - Being alone in Dallas, taking care of Appoos, going to Doc appointment alone, preparing food for her and Appoos and above all taking care of her body/mind so that the new born will be well. Thanks my wife - With out your help and support I won't be able to serve my father with which I get immense satisfaction.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; 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He is awesome. Way to go my son.<br />I am grateful that Deloitte (Girish and FDIC team) is supporting me. 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border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful for good Thai food dinner with VK yesterday<br />I am grateful to have a discussion with Yemi.<br />I am grateful to have met with GL yesterday.<br />I am grateful that my son is recovering from a cough and cold<br />I am grateful to my wife who is taking care of Appoos, finding out what is going on in pkm and managing the house.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">- I am grateful to whole foods for serving healthy food so that i can go and pickup healthy food<br />- I am grateful to my wife for sending me valentine's card. Thanks my dear wife<br />- I am grateful to my son for spending time with me even though he could do interesting other things<br />- I am grateful to my dear friend and coach - Derek Newman who elevated my life to a new level.<br />- I am grateful to my mom who is taking care of my father really really well. Thanks mom.<br /></span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span id="description547490" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful for a good round of skating with my son.<br />I am grateful for some down time Friday after 4 PM with out any official work or calls so that I could rest and relax<br />I am grateful for Baylor grapevine to schedule my wife's hospital tour<br />I am grateful to my wife for stacking up all the shopping items. It is a lot of work considering that you are pregnant. Thank you my wife.<br />I am grateful to my friends Tibu, Parvese and Masood to give me a call and talk to me.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; 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"><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span id="description544714" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful for a good healthy dinner yday from Big Chow Grill.<br />I am grateful for AL for lending me the iPhone power cord so that I can hear the Darren Hardy poscast again<br />I am grateful to my wife for feeding my son good food when he come and then taking my son to swimming<br />I am grateful to my FIL for taking really good care of my father and tracking his disease<br />I am grateful to all the positive things I am hearing and reading that make me focus on the positive</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; 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Love the point about Darren Hardy podcast. Finding gratitude not only in fact that you are listening to something awesome, but that you see the goodness in others... life changing! Your mind is so in the right place. Love it.</p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; 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My billable utilization was going south<br />- I am grateful that my father had his chemo and radiation done and is keeping his spirits up even after the strong medications. I love you dad and I miss you.<br />- I am grateful for my wife for taking extremely well care of my son in his studies (English, Arabic), prayers, nurturing good habits and taking him to swimming/music<br />- I am grateful to be able to meet the good people, good food that i am able to meet in each project.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; 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An amazing combination for success in your life. 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Thanks Pamy - I enjoyed a hearty lunch<br />- I am grateful for having a good round of skating with my son. It always pumps up my adrenaline<br />- I am grateful to my company chat app with whicht I can call my sister in Doha for free<br />- I am grateful to Robin Sharma and Darren Hardy for your podcasts for you have influenced me and made me realize that world class planning and world class rituals would make you a world class person.<br /></span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); 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So much goodness in your life.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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It was relaxing and it helped me firm up some of my routines<br />- I am grateful for the 2 white papers that i produced during this period. It helped to build eminence<br />- I am grateful that my wife is focused to help Appoos learn reading and writing.<br />- I am grateful to internet with out which I wouldn't be able to email, talk to my family and friends.<br />- I am grateful to our friends Snjy and Dpa for taking care of Appoos</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; 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The daily dose of inspiration that I am getting is invaluable.<br />I am grateful to Jamal Moothappa for his constant support of Uppa<br />I am grateful to my mom for taking care of my father<br />I am grateful to my wife for venturing out in the freezing cold with us (even though she is 7 months pregnant) and whereby we all had great time outside.<br />I am grateful to my son's relentless energy. He would run in the ice outside and every time he falls, he would stand up and start running again. 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When we fall we get back up no matter what and start again. How cool is that? Being human and giving ourselves the freedom to be human and learn and grow through our journey called life. 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padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful to God for giving us power throughout the year.When the power is gone today, I realized how much we were dependent on it.<br /><br />I am grateful to my wife for coming out and assisting me to close the tap when it was freezing outside. You are always a great helper and a companion<br /><br />I am grateful to my son for playing on his own for most part so that I could complete the paper<br /><br />I am grateful to God to help me realize that cementing world class rituals is the only way to success.<br /><br />I am grateful to my coach Derek for the constant encouragement and the tools that he provide me to make me a better team. Eternity Log is one of them and I am logging my time by minute and that helps me to keep track of my time.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; 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I absolutely love it more than words can express here.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; 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If I don't measure, I am not self aware, if I am not self aware I am not making conscious choice and if I am not making conscious choices consistently, I am not succeeding.<br /><br />I am grateful to have spent a great deal of time with my son reading books and playing. It is always a cherished moment<br /><br />I am grateful to my wife for talking to my parents and consoling them. Thank You dear wife.<br /><br />I am grateful to Nandu and Sanjay for the good time that spent with us<br /><br />I am grateful to be able to go shopping today and buy the things that i want to buy</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; 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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(14, 112, 239); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Derek Newman</a> <span id="comment295322" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Yaaahhh!!!! You are amazing. So much goodness in your posts.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span id="description536871" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; 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I love the weekly review and it always inspire me to do better each week.<br />- I am grateful for a good conversation with my sister. May all her efforts borne fruit<br />- I am grateful for my friend Parvese reaching safely in Dallas. Parvese and Famy are really good friends of ours. May god bless them.<br />- I am grateful to Deloitte for having so many wonderful programs and so many things to do so that I am always constantly challenged and there is always bigger and better things to do<br />- I am grateful to Keyur and Nirmal for giving company to my son lovely son Raihan while Pamy and I was on our weekly review<br />- I am grateful to my wife for keeping her positive spirit and trying every time she falls down. Way to go !!!<br /></span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am inspired by our weekly meetings as well. Love the last gratitude entry here as well. Great work my mighty warrior!</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful for the options that I have in being with my father<br />I am grateful that I can go and pick up my son<br />I am grateful for the good fish curry my wife made for lunch.<br />I am grateful for the fact that i was selected for the PMP study group<br />I am grateful for the health that God has given me</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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You are finding gratitude in things that most people don't. Shows you are becoming a true gratitude master!!!!</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.7em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; 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background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful for a good round of swimming<br />I am grateful for a great time with my son in the swimming pool<br />I am grateful for my wife who did 2 great things today - Joined gratitude log and started reading positive inspirational books. 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That's what life is. You pick up every time you fall<br />- I am grateful for getting the new couch and dining table<br />- I am grateful to my wife for cooking fish, kadala and appam<br />- I am grateful that my father is keeping things in positive spirit. I wish him well and hopefully can spend quality time with him.<br />- I am grateful to all my good friends in Dallas who are very good and supportive.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; 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border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful to swim with my son yesterday<br />I am grateful for my wife for staying back in FedEx kinkos while I did the paperwork for FDIC<br />I am grateful for Derek Newman when he sent me a note checking about me<br />I am grateful for Tibu John to have spent time with us last weekend<br />I am grateful to Sanjay for helping us with the kids</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; 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border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span id="description526805" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; 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background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful for all the good days in 2011<br />I am grateful for my wonderful wife taking care of Appoos during pregnancy<br />I am grateful for working specifically on my goals in 2011<br />I am grateful for my father being relatively well in 2011<br />I am grateful to have the ability to spend with my son day in and day out.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I am grateful to my wife who supports me during this difficult times<br />I am grateful to my PM who don't view things negatively<br />I am grateful to Nitin for continuing to trust me<br />I am grateful to my parents who are still going positive (Sis & her hus as well)<br />I am grateful to Derek for guiding me through out the process.</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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Bane's stake house - I love it<br />I am grateful for the good frank feedback that I got from my boss<br />I am grateful for the good talk that I had with my wife and father. I miss my son so much<br />I am grateful for the good day that I had</span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; 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I so much love and miss them<br />I am grateful for the fact that MP liked my work today<br />I am grateful for the fact that my father is hale and healthy.<br />I am grateful for the fact that things are going well for me so far.<br /></span></p></div><h6 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="time" style="background-image: initial; 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font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">You've decided to start a business but believe that you'd be (much) better off with co-founders. Not a bad idea, of course. How do you pick the right person? This decision may be the most important of your company's entire history. Most early-stage startups fail due to founder disputes, not the substance of the business. And founders spend so much time together that the business relationship is the closest some of them will ever get to marriage. This is a high-octane, high-consequence, long-term date.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Here are the most important things to look for in your entrepreneurial other half.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">1. A complementary temperament. </strong>If you tend to run a little hot in a tense moment, get yourself a Cool Hand Luke. If you're the staid type, the ideal partner is likely someone more charismatic. The point is not that oil should seek water or that opposites must attract. The point is instead to find someone who will fill in the gaps around your personality strengths so that employees, partners, and investors will see and benefit from the balance. You'll discover that different people will cotton to each of you, and that pattern will have more to do with the third parties' personalities than anything else. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">2. Different operational skills. </strong>If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. A common tactical error here is for a product- or technology-focused entrepreneur to look for someone with top shelf management consulting experience: it's not a bad instinct, since management consultants are polished and smart, but they rarely have core executive chops apart from project management or some general "operations" background.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">3. Similar work habits. </strong>You should find someone who shares your expectations on work-life balance. Mismatches on hours or effort quickly and reliably lead to resentments. You don't need to be in the office at exactly the same times, unless for some reason your business actually requires it (as, for example, in a securities trading house). But you do need to share a view as to how much you will work.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">4. Self-sufficiency. </strong>Your co-founder isn't like any other colleague or employee. She must be fully reliable and self-sufficient, someone who functions on auto-pilot with virtually no input from you. Of course, this is the ideal description of any person at your company. But for a co-founder this is an absolute requirement.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">5. A history of working together. </strong>If possible, it's best to work with someone you've known for a while or with whom you've collaborated before. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation. This does not mean you need to work with your best friend of many years. Doing so presents its own risks. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. That means that selecting a business school section-mate as your partner just because you're currently in your second MBA year together is an extremely bad idea. There's an important caveat here: in a co-founding relationship, you don't really know the other person till the worm turns. That means you won't see the full color of your partner until something in the business or one of your personal lives goes (very) badly. If you haven't been through the crucible together before, be prepared for what she may be like when you do.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">6. Emotional buoyancy. </strong>Things always get tough at one stage or another in a startup or small company. There are bad days, bad moments, bad deals, bad quarters, etc. Even if you're a passionate and relentless person, now and again you'll have a tough, "down" day. It's excellent if the things that make you feel low aren't the same as those that get to your partner. As a founder, you can't always show your colleagues when you're having a tough day, but you should be able to show your co-founder, and she should be able to buoy you when needed. Ideally, you'll be there for her when she needs it, because whatever is making her down won't faze you as much.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">7. Total honesty. </strong>You and your partner must be committed to telling each other the truth all the time, even if it's tough to say or hear. This requires practice and emotional investment. You can't pick a partner who is afraid to tell you what you need to hear.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">8. Comfort in her own skin.</strong> Insecurity and ego, like fear, can kill your partnership. The best co-founders are those who know themselves well and are comfortable in their own skins. This will save you from having (too frequent) difficult arguments about roles and responsibilities.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">9. A personality you like. </strong>I'm surprised at how often this one gets missed. At the end of the day, if you don't like your partner, all the other great qualities she possesses won't be enough to sustain you through the long haul of building a business. You're going to spend a lot of time with each other, probably more than you do with your spouses.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">10. The same overall vision.</strong> Your co-founder should buy into the central vision for the business you are starting. Even after all the many other pieces of the puzzle come together, it is essential that your partner's main motivations for joining your venture include a passion for the project you are pursuing. There are so many reasons a small business or startup won't succeed. A mismatch between the founders' visions should not be one.</p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-36666601107917202482011-02-09T05:26:00.005-06:002011-02-23T21:52:14.815-06:00Stories that can be used in Toastmaster's Speech<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b>OOLONG TEA......</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span">A carrot, an egg, and a cup of Oolong tea...You will never look at a cup of Oolong the same way again.<br /><br />A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.<br /><br />Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed Oolong tea. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.<br /><br />In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl.<br /><br />Then she ladled the Oolong out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see."<br /><br />"Carrots, eggs, and Oolong tea," she replied.<br /><br />Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.<br /><br />Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the Oolong. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"<br /><br />Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the<br />boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The Oolong tea was unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water color and taste.<br /><br />"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a Oolong tea?<br /><br />Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?<br /><br />Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?<br /><br />Or am I like the Oolong tea? The tea actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the tea, when things<br />are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.</span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><b><span style="background:yellow; mso-highlight:yellow">When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a Oolong tea?</span></b><br /><br />May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.<br /><br />The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.<br /><br />When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Deposit of $86,400.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">Imagine if you had a bank account that each day received a deposit of $86,400. How great would that be? Now, imagine if you had to spend all that money each day. Whatever money you didn’t spend would be cleared from the account at the end of the day.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">Could you spend the $86,400 each day? Would you spend the money each day? How would you spend it? Would you buy yourself a new Ferrari (maybe two), beautiful diamonds and jewels, luxury homes, mink coats, or a new nose and a face lift? Boy, wouldn’t life be great? Or maybe you would spend the money supplying food to a homeless shelter, making a large offering to a church, or creating a scholarship for underprivileged children. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">Well, such an account exists for all of us. It’s called a day and the $86,400 are the seconds that make up that day. As each new day begins, we are given a fresh 86,400 seconds. When the day ends, those 86,400 seconds are gone forever. They say “time is money.” What are you going to do with your money? Are you going to spend it wisely? Are you going to invest it? Are you going to frivolously blow it? Or, worst of all, are you going to do nothing at all and watch it disappear at the end of your day.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">3. <b style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 22px; ">Create a Supportive Life Story</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">When you remember that you are the author of your own life story, you are free to create a masterpiece.<br /><br />We all have our own life story. It is filled with relationships and events that help shape who we are and what we believe to be true about the world. Depending on our perspective and willingness to grow, our experiences can become fodder for negativity and patterns of playing the victim, or they can fuel a life of empowerment and continued self-development. It is the story we tell ourselves about what happens that makes all the difference.<br /><br />Take a moment to look at the life story you create for yourself on an ongoing basis. If you generally feel peaceful about the past and trust in your ability to handle whatever comes your way, then you are framing circumstances in a manner that serves you well. On the other hand, if you retain a lot of guilt or resentment and often feel weighed down by life, you may want to start telling yourself a new version of past and present events. No matter who the characters are in your story or what they have done, you are the only one who can give their actions the meaning they will have for you. You are the only one who can define what role you will play in your own life. By taking responsibility for your story, you are able to learn and grow, forgive and find compassion, and most importantly, move on into a brighter future.<br /><br />From now on, you can choose a life story that supports you. Let it be proof of your own resilience and creativity. Be kind with the roles you give yourself and generous with how many chances you get to learn what you need to know. When you remember that you are the author of your own story, you are free to create a masterpiece.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-28181346277012477462011-01-29T23:26:00.001-06:002011-01-29T23:27:31.848-06:00Overcoming Career Disappointment<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Events like the recent shuffle at the top of Delta Airlines -- during which <a href="http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/delta/stories/2007/08/25/delta_0826.html?cxntlid=inform" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">both of the internal front-runners were passed over</a> for promotion to CEO -- offer an opportunity for each of us to reflect on how we deal with disappointment, be it professional or personal. I have worked with many people as they face such situations and can offer a few suggestions.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">First, pay attention to the emotional impact of the disappointment. Do not try to deny, rationalize or minimize it. Let it play out without either suppressing it or acting on impulses to express your feelings in inappropriate settings. You may feel numb at first (“this isn’t happening or “it doesn’t matter”) or experience intense feelings of anger, hurt, or self-criticism. This is all to be expected.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">Career shocks are events that set a process in motion. They offer an opportunity for both personal and personal development. This is not to deny the fact that they are painful and can be, for a certain period of time, disorienting. The important point is this: you are at the beginning of a process that can be an opportunity for new perspective. We can sketch the process roughly in terms of the six stages of working on career and life impasse that I discuss in my book,<a href="http://www.careerleader.com/gettingunstuck/index.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Getting Unstuck</a> (the book has exercises for working with each of these stages):</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">1. Crisis with its concomitant feelings of anger, hurt, and an initial impulse to fight back.<br /><br />2. The crisis deepens -- our “inner critic” becomes active. Memories of past failures and disappointments return. Anticipate this; it will happen. The toughest part often comes early in the process. Do not hesitate to get coaching assistance if you feel it will help.<br /><br />3. To move forward, you must first stop; you must suspend the mental model of your career that has just been shown to be inadequate by this major setback. You had been focused on that promotion, now it is gone. Instead of immediately coming up with an action plan, allow yourself to suspend both judgment and action. Get ready to think, feel and intuit about what comes into that empty space of no plan, no action.<br /><br />4. Look for a new type of information. You are at a crossroads. You cannot muscle your way forward with brute thinking power. You need information from a broader sense of self. There are <a href="http://www.careerleader.com/gettingunstuck/gu_more.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">a variety of exercises</a> that can help.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; ">5. When it is time to act, act. Do not stay bogged down. Staying at the company or leaving is not the issue. The issue is where can you grow the most next and take care of the broader concerns of your family and full life situation.<br /><br />6. Six months and, again, one year from now, take stock of what you have learned from the experience. Crises inevitably forces a clarification of values and feelings. You should know yourself better as a consequence of this experience. What is it about yourself, your career, and life that you now know better?</p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-64117281110559448782011-01-26T10:03:00.005-06:002011-01-26T10:14:25.398-06:00How to Avoid Impossible Assignments<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">If you're burning out, undoubtedly you're aware of it. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_%28psychology%29"><span style="color:#B20022">Burnout</span></a> occurs when you <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/12/six-ways-to-refuel-your-energy.html"><span style="color:#B20022">expend more internal resources and energy</span></a> than you take in. It's not just a matter of working hard, which at the best of times can feel exciting and <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/02/a-story-about-motivation.html"><span style="color:#B20022">motivating</span></a>. Burnout is exhausting — whether you are working hard or not.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">In the office, a very common pattern of burnout is <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Performance%20Punishment"><span style="color:#B20022">performance punishment</span></a>. As a great former boss of mine, Phyllis Mayo, explained it: Performance punishment occurs when you accomplish something in an unbelievably tight time frame and— along with a bonus or a pat on the back — you are <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/hmu/2011/01/when-to-reward-employees-with.html"><span style="color:#B20022">rewarded</span></a> with an even more challenging project with an even tighter deadline. What usually follows is another even more impossible assignment and so on, until <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/01/taking-risks-in-tough-times.html"><span style="color:#B20022">sooner or later you fail</span></a>, or burn out trying not to. The worst part? <a href="http://www.apics-sjvc.org/bpm/corvu/performance-management-or-performance-punishment.htm"><span style="color:#B20022">The performance punishment trap</span></a> most easily afflicts those who are motivated by challenge and achievement, i.e., the most driven talent with the highest potential.</p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">This cycle not only causes burnout, but can also be a real career killer. I once knew a bank vice president who was often tapped to lead mega-projects with tight deadlines. After a time, he could only accomplish these tasks by exhausting himself and working his project teams overtime (who were motivated only by his constant threats of termination). Instead of receiving the promotion he expected, his reputation as a slave-driving manager forced him to find a job at a different bank. </p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">Sound familiar? Even if your story is different, every case of performance punishment almost always ends the same — in failure, burnout, or both. If you've fallen into this cycle, you will have to change your own behavior, not your manager's. Why should your boss change if you're going to continue accepting the assignments? Here's what you can to do to break the pattern: </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt; margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1 <span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Notice when you are being recruited for an impossible assignment.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"> Just being aware of the pattern can help you fix it. Listen for flattering phrases like, "Only you can rise to this challenge." When responding to the request, never use the word "no," but don't immediately agree.<i> Stay positive, and don't argue or complain. Play it safe and say, "I'd really like to take this one on. Can I come back to you in a couple of days with a plan of how best to do it?"</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt; margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Take the time to prepare a plan;</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> one that won't have you or your team working 80-hour weeks. <i>Include in the plan the resources you need to meet the deadline realistically, such as extra people, software, consultants, etc. Try to predict what the bottlenecks will be and include them — along with potential solutions — in your plan.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt; margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Go over the plan with your boss.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <u><b>With this step, be concise</b></u>. Try a four or five slide PowerPoint deck, or even a brief outline next to a timeline. <u>Be sure to include the work that you <i>won't</i> be doing</u> ("Martha's team is going to have to take over hiring the new financial analysts."). <u>Don't forget recommendations on how to get through the bottlenecks ("We will need George's help to make sure the sign-offs are completed on time.").</u><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt; margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Negotiate for the help and resources to get it done in a reasonable time frame<i>.</i></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><i> Be sure to paint a clear picture of what will happen if you don't get what you need</i> ("If George can't get the sign-offs for another week, we will miss the deadline by two weeks.").<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt; margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Establish a mutual understanding.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"> <i>Send your boss an email describing what you both have agreed to as soon as you can after the meeting. This way, you will have something to renegotiate if resources change or the deadline creeps forward.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing">Of course, the first time you do this you won't get everything you want, but as you get better at estimating time and resources you will also get better at negotiating what you need. This prevention of snowballing assignments is a key skill for surviving in a dynamic corporate environment, and essential if you want to avoid burning out.</p><p></p><p></p>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-89169694841677999002011-01-25T13:53:00.005-06:002011-01-25T14:07:25.370-06:00How to achieve anything in life and avoid stress and be more confident<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Change is hard. New Year's resolutions almost always fail. Our method is grounded in the recognition that human being are creatures of habit. Fully 95 percent of our behaviors are habitual, or occur in response to a strong external stimulus.<a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=8Biuk1o1Z2wC&oi=fnd&pg=PA228&dq=the+unbearable+automaticity+of+being&ots=9LlQqdN_ZT&sig=tqSbJ_sbd7Xhro_dRQf5WV6UUfM#v=onepage&q=the%20unbearable%20automaticity%20of%20being&f=false" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Only 5 percent of our choices are consciously self-selected</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">In 1911, the mathematician <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Mathematics-Classic-Reprint/dp/1440070490/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295273225&sr=1-1" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Alfred North Whitehead intuited</a> what researchers would confirm nearly a century later. "It is a profoundly erroneous truism," he wrote, "that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opp<strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; "></strong>osite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Most of us wildly overvalue our will and discipline. Ingenious research by Roy Baumeister and others has demonstrated that our <a href="http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:n3gbDG5yUBcJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,33" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">self-control is a severely limited resource</a> that gets progressively depleted by every act of conscious self-regulation.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">In order to make change that lasts, we must rely less on our prefrontal cortex, and more on co-opting the primitive parts of our brain in which habits are formed.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Put simply, the more behaviors are ritualized and routinized — in the form of a deliberate practice — the less energy they require to launch, and the more they recur automatically</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">What follows are our six key steps to making change that lasts:<br /><br /><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">1. Be Highly Precise and Specific</strong>. Imagine a typical New Year's resolution to "exercise regularly." It's a prescription for failure. You have a vastly higher chance for success if you decide in advance the days and times, and precisely what you're going to do on each of them.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Say instead that you commit to do a cardiovascular work out Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 a.m., for 30 minutes. If something beyond your control forces you to miss one of those days, you automatically default to doing that workout instead on Saturday at 9 a.m.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Researchers call those "<a href="http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/BRP/constructs/implementation_intentions/goal_intent_attain.pdf" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">implementation intentions</a>" and they dramatically increase your odds of success.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">2. Take on one new challenge at a time.</strong> Over the years, I've established a broad range of routines and practices, ranging from ones for weight training and running, to doing the most important thing first every morning without interruption for 90 minutes and then taking a break to spending 90 minutes talking with my wife about the previous week on Saturday mornings.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">In each case, I gave the new practice I was launching my sole focus. Even then, in some cases, it's taken several tries before I was able to stay at the behavior long enough for it to become essentially automatic.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Computers can run several programs simultaneously. <a href="http://www.umich.edu/~bcalab/multitasking.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Human beings operate best when we take on one thing at a time</a>, sequentially.<br /><br /><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">3. Not too much, not too little.</strong> The most obvious mistake we make when we try to change something in our lives is that we bite off more than it turns out we can chew. Imagine that after doing no exercise at all for the past year, for example, you get inspired and launch a regimen of jogging for 30 minutes, five days a week. Chances are high that you'll find exercising that much so painful you'll quit after a few sessions.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">It's also easy to go to the other extreme, and take on too little. So you launch a 10-minute walk at lunchtime three days a week and stay at it. The problem is that you don't feel any better for it after several weeks, and your motivation fades.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">The only way to truly grow is to challenge your current comfort zone. The trick is finding a middle ground — pushing yourself hard enough that you get some real gain, but not too much that you find yourself unwilling to stay at it.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">4. What we resist persists.</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Think about sitting in front of a plate of fragrant chocolate chip cookies over an extended period of time. Diets fail the vast majority of time because they're typically built around regularly resisting food we enjoy eating. Eventually, we run up against our limited reservoir of self control.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">The same is true of trying to ignore the Pavlovian ping of incoming emails while you're working on an important project that deserves your full attention.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">The only reasonable answer is to avoid the temptation. With email, the more effective practice is turn it off entirely at designated times, and then answer it in chunks at others. For dieters, it's to keep food you don't want to eat out of sight, and focus your diet instead on what you are going to eat, at which times, and in what portion sizes. The less you have to think about what to do, the more successful you're likely to be.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">5. Competing Commitments.</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">We all derive a sense of comfort and safety from doing what we've always done, even if it isn't ultimately serving us well. Researchers Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey call this "<a href="http://hbr.org/2001/11/the-real-reason-people-wont-change/ar/1" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">immunity to change</a>." Even the most passionate commitment to change, they've shown, is invariably counterbalanced by an equally powerful but often unseen "competing" commitment not to change.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Here's a very simple way to surface your competing commitment. Think about a change you really want to make. Now ask yourself what you're currently doing or not doing to undermine that primary commitment. If you are trying to get more focused on important priorities, for example, your competing commitment might be the desire to be highly responsive and available to those emailing you.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">For any change effort you launch, it's key to surface your competing commitment and then ask yourself "How can I design this practice so I get the desired benefits but also minimize the costs I fear it will prompt?"</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">6. Keep the faith.</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">Change is hard. It is painful. And you will experience failure at times. The average person launches a change effort six separate times before it finally takes. But follow the steps above, and I can tell you from my own experience and that of thousands of clients that you will succeed, and probably without multiple failures.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; "><b>5 Ways to Stop Stressing and Become Happier and More Confident</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "> </p><ol start="1" type="1" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><b>Learn How to Breathe</b><o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">This may sound silly, but as Dr. Martin Rossman writes in his new book The Worry Solution, "I never imagined when I went to medical school how much time I was going to spend simply teaching many of my patients how to breathe." (Dr. Rossman is a long-time mind-body specialist who teaches at the University of California; the book has garnered praise from the likes of Drs. Andrew Weil and Dean Ornish.) Breathing, of course, is automatic. But when we worry — especially in these impoverished days, when we sense a threat to our jobs the way prey animals fear being eaten — we freeze our breath, however momentarily. But humans have the ability to control breathing. Diaphragmatic breathing — sticking out your belly when you inhale — is one simple way to do this. It activates the parasympathetic sympathetic nervous system, which relaxes you.</p> <ol start="2" type="1" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><b>Exercise — Then Relax</b><o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Exercising is one of the best stress-relievers around, so this may sound counterintuitive, but Rossman points out those muscles can often feel tense a day or two after hard workouts. Tension causes lactic acid to accumulate, which contributes to stress. Ways to relieve that stress are relaxation techniques like light yoga (which is ancient) and a simpler one developed by psychiatrist Edmund Jacobson in the 1930s: when people suggest to themselves that their muscles relax, they do so reliably, compared with those who suggest to themselves that they, say, walk or chew. His "progressive muscle relaxation" technique is still widely used in complementary medicine, and it's a good idea after a day at the gym.</span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in; padding:0in"><br /><!--[endif]--></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <ol start="3" type="1" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><b>Write Down What You Are Worried About</b><o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Psychologists have shown that simply jotting down all your worries (big or small) can help you separate those that are fixable from those that aren't. Rossman recommends setting a timer for 10 min. and listing everything that worries you. Then sort the stressors into three categories: ones you can possibly change (if you are worried about that odd sound that has knocked around in your car for weeks, make an appointment today to have it looked at); ones you aren't sure about (will that company actually hire me?); and ones you can't change (terrorists could blow up the building where you work). At this point, Rossman gets a little vague for my taste — he says to find your "inner wisdom" to fix worries you can possibly change. But writing exercises alone are a proven technique in evidence-based psychotherapies.</span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><br /><!--[endif]--></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <ol start="4" type="1" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><b>Track Outcomes of Worries You Can't Do Anything About</b><o:p></o:p></span></li> </ol> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">See how many of your fears actually come true. You can do this for two weeks or two years. Rossman notes that Robert Leahy, who directs the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, has found that 85% of worries don't have the bad outcome that the worrier had feared. Even when that bad outcome arrived, 79% said they handled it better than they thought they would. (Leahy also recommends writing down your worries.) Prayer can also help believers realize that many worries don't have bad outcomes.</span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><br /><!--[endif]--></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <ol start="5" type="1" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><b>Clarify Your Goals, or Set New Ones<o:p></o:p></b></span></li> </ol> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Don't just go along with the same routine every day, because the same routine will produce the same worries. Changing things up will help you generate new ideas. Rossman advises against jumping into those new ideas right away, and suggests striving for a great quantity of new ideas rather than trying to come up with the perfect one (which would just generate worry). After some time, which will be different for everyone, pick the best option and affirm it. Make a plan. And don't worry about it.</span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><br /><!--[endif]--></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p></p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-54403045477293048962011-01-25T13:47:00.001-06:002011-01-25T13:49:36.121-06:00How to Develop Your Leadership Pitch<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:16.3pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">How to Develop Your Leadership Pitch</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Ever see an executive fumble an answer to a question from a reporter, or maybe even an employee? Of course, it happens all the time. There are times when we simply may not want to answer a question, but the key reason for flubs is that we are unprepared to speak. One way to become more articulate is to prepare you in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.2pt; line-height:14.95pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">A good lesson for every executive is — be prepared before you speak. Such preparation is <u>not reserved solely for major presentations</u>; <u>it also applies to impromptu messages that executives need to deliver constantly. I liken these leadership messages to elevator pitches in reference to their brevity (a short ride) but also their importance (selling a big idea).</u><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.2pt; line-height:14.95pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Leadership is about <b>persuasion</b> — <u>convincing others of the soundness of your point of view</u>. Writing out your thoughts is good practice and I believe that doing so is not onerous because managers regularly script their thoughts in email. Here are three tips for preparing your leadership pitches to be more persuasive.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.2pt; line-height:14.95pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">1. Think it through.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black"> Consider the key issues facing your team; it is a good idea to have a short leadership pitch for each one. What the issues are is up to you, but they should reflect the big things that are happening — initiatives, issues, and challenges. Your pitch needs to reflect your reasoning and your point of view as well as why people should support you and your idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.2pt; line-height:14.95pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">2. Script it out.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black"> Write out your thoughts. This gives you the opportunity to focus on the issue and think about what you want to say. It's always good to provide a short explanation and then segue into your argument. Leverage the business case for your idea and talk about the impact your idea will have on others and the on the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.2pt; line-height:14.95pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">3. Rehearse it</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black">. Yes, it is important to practice your messages out loud. Many executives I have coached practice on their drives to and from work. You might also use a voice recorder (often integrated into your mobile phone) to get used to delivering the message out loud. The recording is for you; no one else need listen. What's more, as my colleague and consultant <span style="color:#B20022"><a href="http://www.macdgroup.com/" target="_blank">Kathy Macdonald</a> </span>advises, you can time yourself. That's good practice for keeping messages short and tight. (Note: do not try to drive and record at the same time.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.2pt; line-height:14.95pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Many of you reading this may be saying, "Great idea, but who's got time for this?" My response is<i>make time</i>. One executive who helped me learn the importance of leadership messaging is Paul Saginaw, co-founder of<a href="http://www.zingermans.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#B20022; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"> </span><span style="color:#B20022">Zingerman's</span></a> — once judged by <i>Inc</i>. magazine as "one of America's coolest companies." As Ann Arbor-based Zingerman's grew from a deli to a collection of food-related businesses, the number of employees grew exponentially. Paul found himself stretched thin as all entrepreneurs do, but he disciplined himself to think ahead to how he could continue providing insight and direction to key employees. He prepared messages in advance so that if he encountered a person he needed to speak to he would have something cogent and coherent to say, not in greeting but in the form of tangible advice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.2pt; line-height:14.95pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Preparing your key messages in advance has another advantage. It will help scripting more formal presentations easier because you will have a collection of key thoughts prepared. This will help you become a more fluent and polished presenter. And when you are asked questions, you will have the verbal dexterity to deliver a reply that shows command of the issues as well as an ease that radiates confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-90442753172808108412011-01-20T14:47:00.001-06:002011-01-20T14:48:44.580-06:004 Steps to Handling Criticism<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(46, 43, 30); line-height: 19px; "><p>The price of leadership is criticism. No one pays much attention to the last-place finishers. But when you’re in front, everything gets noticed. So it is important to learn to handle criticism constructively. The following four-step process, which I included in my book Leadership Gold, has helped when people criticize me as a leader. I would like to pass it on to you.</p><ol><li><i>Know yourself</i>—This is a reality issue.</li><li><i>Change yourself</i>—This is a responsibility issue.</li><li><i>Accept yourself</i>—This is a maturity issue.</li><li><i>Forget yourself</i>—This is a security issue.</li></ol><p><b>1: Know Yourself</b><br />Aristotle said, “Criticism is something you can avoid easily—by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing.” Early in my career, I wanted to make everybody happy. It took me a couple of years to realize that if I was going to lead, there would be tough decisions that were going to make some people upset. I asked myself: Do I want to make people happy or do I really want to lead? I understood clearly that I had to begin to know who I was.</p><p>Over the years, people have tried to help me know myself. They often begin with the phrase, “I’m going to tell you something for your own good.” I’ve discovered that when they tell me something for my own good they never seem to have anything good to tell me! Yet, it’s these conversations that have helped me learn much about myself, including many weaknesses. I have realized that what I need to hear most is what I want to hear the least. And some of the best people who ever entered my life to teach me something were my critics, not my friends.</p><p><b>2: Change Yourself</b><br />In the process of handling criticism effectively, you not only need to know yourself but you have to change yourself. Aldous Huxley said, “The truth that makes you free is, for the most part, the truth we would prefer not to hear.” The John Maxwell translation of this is simple: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.</p><p>Here are the questions I ask myself to determine whether criticism is constructive or destructive.</p><p><b>Who criticized me?</b> Adverse criticism from a wise person is more desirable than the enthusiastic approval of a fool.</p><p><b>How was it given?</b> Were the words judgmental or did they give me the benefit of the doubt? In other words, what was the spirit in which the criticism was given?</p><p><b>Why was it given?</b> Was it given to inflict a personal hurt or for my benefit?</p><p>Jonas Salk, who discovered the polio vaccine, had many critics in spite of his grand accomplishments. He once made this interesting observation: “People will tell you that you are wrong. Then they will tell you that you are right, but what you’re doing is really not important. Finally, they will admit that you are right and what you are doing is very important. But after all, they knew it all the time.”</p><p>Regardless whether the criticism was legitimate or not, I have discovered that my attitude toward words I do not want to hear determines whether I grow from them or groan beneath them. Therefore, I have determined to not be defensive when criticized, to look for the grain of truth, make the necessary changes and take the high road.</p><p><b>3: Accept Yourself</b><br />I saved the following quote from “Dear Abby” a few years ago because I love her definition of maturity. She says, “Maturity is the ability to stick with the job until it’s finished, the ability to do the job without being supervised, the ability to carry money without spending it, and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.”</p><p>Maturity also enables you to accept yourself, which is the fi rst step in becoming a better person. Carl Rogers said, “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”</p><p>Leo Buscaglia counseled, “The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be.” If you worry about what people think of you, it’s because you have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own. Judith Bardwick said, “Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself—your strengths and limitations— in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.”</p><p><b>4: Forget Yourself</b><br />While we are growing up, a lot of us spend a good deal of time worrying about what the world thinks of us. By the time we reach 60, we realize the world wasn’t paying much attention. Secure people forget themselves so they can focus on others. This allows us to be secure enough to take criticism and even serve the critic.</p><p>Secure people know who they are. They know they make mistakes and have weaknesses, but they don’t have to lower themselves to the level of what is being said about them. Secure people don’t have to defend themselves. And those who have reached this fourth stage also find it easy to laugh at themselves.</p><p>One of my favorite Chinese proverbs says, “Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves. They shall never cease to be entertained.” For years, I have laughed at myself because I’ve done some very foolish things. I even learned to laugh about a heart attack I had 10 years ago.</p><p>During my recovery time, I decided I would spend a day reflecting on what would’ve happened if I had died. What would my funeral service be like? How many people would show up? As everyone knows, the size of the crowd the day they bury you will be dependent on the weather. Next, what do they do after they put you in the ground? Yes, 30 minutes after you are buried, the biggest question on the minds of your family and friends is how to get to the community center the fastest to make sure they get some potato salad.</p><p>When it comes to criticism, it’s important to first understand that half of the stuff people say about you is true. So just take inventory, suck it up and change. And the other half they say about you is not—they are just revealing issues in their own lives. If you know yourself, you will know what you are good at and what you are not. Start changing the things that are real and forget yourself so that you can focus on others. Because the criticism will never stop. If you are able to get to this fourth stage, criticism won’t have a negative effect in your life. And that’s a big lesson I had to learn that has helped me as a leader, and I hope it helps you, too. “If you’re getting kicked in the rear, it means you’re out front.”</p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-62417588916427982532011-01-20T11:20:00.009-06:002011-01-20T11:23:46.373-06:00How to step up your career this year<span class="Apple-style-span"><h1 style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Lean times be damned! Use this plan to position yourself for a promotion in 2011.</span></h1><h1 style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">Tired of waiting for better days to arrive so that you can ask for a bump up? Maybe it's time to quit being so patient.</span></h1><h1 style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: small; ">In this economy, employers won't be handing out new titles left and right, "but the great news is you can still earn a promotion by demonstrably moving your company toward strategic and financial wins," says Stefanie Smith, principal of New York executive coaching firm Stratex Consulting.</span></h1><div><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The higher you are on the ladder, the more responsibility you have to take for your progression. This plan can help you prove yourself promotion-worthy within the next six months.</p><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Step 1: Secure your supervisor's support</div><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Arrange a meeting with your boss to make sure he or she is aware of your ambition. "If you don't tell people you want to take on more responsibility, how are they going to know?" notes New York City career coach Roy Cohen, author of "The Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide."<i></i></p><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">But "rather than focus on your aspirations, frame everything in terms of what your boss wants to accomplish," advises Smith.</p><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Ask what his or her key goals for the year are, and make it clear you want to help achieve them. And, of course, find out if there are any gaps in your résumé. End the meeting by requesting performance feedback every month or two.</p><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Step 2: Execute one of your boss's goals</div><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Over the next few months, step up to lead existing projects --or present new ideas -- relating to the objectives your supervisor laid out. Initiatives that lead to revenue generation or cost savings present the best promise for promotion in any economy, advises Cohen.</p><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">But also capitalize on your unique knowledge: If your industry faces potential regulatory challenges, for example, and you know that area inside out, be the first to devise a plan to help the company succeed in a changed environment.</p><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Meanwhile, cultivate relationships in other departments -- and collaborate with your new contacts -- as it will expand your sphere of influence, advises Caroline Ceniza-Levine, a partner in N.Y.C. career coaching firm SixFigureStart.</p><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Step 3: Promote your promotable efforts</div><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Send periodic reports to your manager highlighting how you're moving the needle. "When it's time for your review," says Smith, "your boss will look through those updates."</p><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Also, publicize the victories of your direct reports, as this publicizes your own victories, adds Paul Copcutt of Square Peg Solution, an Ontario personal-branding firm. One of his clients created a local-server blog so that her group could report progress to higher-ups, for example.</p><p style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Finally, ask colleagues who are happy with your work to e-mail your manager, says Ceniza-Levine. That way your boss will feel even better about giving you a boost.</p></div></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965037563501425551.post-88569272864490938892011-01-12T15:37:00.008-06:002011-01-26T10:03:22.978-06:00How a Good Leader Reacts to a Crisis<span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Here are some tips for the next big storm that hits your office:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Take a moment to figure out what's going on. </strong>An executive I know experienced a major disruption in service to his company. He was the person in charge and he told me that at the first response meeting everyone started talking at once. The chatter was nervous response — not constructive — so he delegated responsibilities and then called for a subsequent meeting in an hour's time. This also helped to impose order on a chaotic situation.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Act promptly, not hurriedly.</strong> A leader must provide direction and respond to the situation in a timely fashion. But acting hurriedly only makes people nervous. You can act with deliberateness as well as speed. Or as legendary coach<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wooden" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; "> John Wooden</a> advised, "Be quick but don't hurry."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Manage expectations. </strong>When trouble strikes, people want it to be over right now — but seldom is this kind of quick resolution possible. It falls to the leader in charge to address the size and scope of the crisis. You don't want to alarm people, yet do not be afraid to speak to the magnitude of the situation. Winston Churchill was a master at summing up challenges but offering a response at the same time. As he <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/churchill.htm" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">famously said when taking office in 1940</a>, "You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory; victory at all costs; victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Demonstrate control.</strong> When things are happening quickly, no one may have control, but a leader can assume control. That is, you do not control the disaster — be it man-made or natural — but <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2010/10/leading-through-a-major-crisis.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">you can control the response</a>. A leader puts himself into the action and brings the people and resources to bear. Think of <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hellfighter-red-adair-hero-of-the-oil-fires-dies-at-89-555883.html" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Red Adair</a>, who made a name for himself putting out oil fires that no one else could. A raging blaze may seem uncontrollable but Adair knew could control the way it was extinguished.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">Keep loose.</strong> Not only does this apply to personal demeanor — a leader can never afford to lose composure — it applies to <a href="http://hbr.org/2010/11/four-lessons-in-adaptive-leadership/ar/1" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">the leader's ability to adapt rapidly</a>. A hallmark of a crisis is its ability to change quickly; your first response may not be your final response. In these situations, a leader cannot be wedded to a single strategy. She must continue to take in new information, listen carefully and consult with the frontline experts who know what's happening.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">As much as we like to see senior executives pitch in and help with the heavy lifting, there is a limit. A senior executive's prime role is setting direction. If he or she is engaged too much in front line responsibility, then who is doing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_thing" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">the vision thing</a>? Some executives still enjoy doing that hands-on work; they like the rush of adrenaline that comes from direct action. Too bad. That is not their job any more.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Leaders have another important role during a crisis and that is to <strong style="font-style: inherit !important; font-weight: bold !important; ">provide perspective</strong>. As Mike Useem has written in <a href="http://www.thegopoint.com/" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; "><em style="font-style: oblique !important; font-weight: inherit !important; ">The Go Point</em></a>, an insightful study of decision-making, effective leaders can often do more by standing back from the action.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">It is why, as Useem notes, that the team leader in mountaineering expeditions often remains at base camp rather than hiking to the summit. That way, if trouble strikes, he can direct the response with the perspective that comes from seeing the mountain as a whole and the conditions that affect the summit team.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The measure of a leader is often tested <a href="http://hbr.org/2009/07/leadership-in-a-permanent-crisis/ar/1" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 34); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; ">during a crisis</a>. And those leaders who can engage directly, but still maintain their sense of perspective, are the ones that will help the organization survive.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><b>What happens when I run full house</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></p><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Wake up early enough to get my book ends</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Do the app and listen to the podcast</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Plan for exercise in the morning or in the afternoon</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Review the day, Reconfirm my goals for the day and Visualize. I should have a clear action plan (Should give clear instructions to the brain)</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Take intermediate breaks and take deep breaths</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Don't get too overwhelmed - Take renewal breaks, get some fresh air and ensure sufficient nutrition</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Plan for a quick nap (This will renew my energy for the later part of the day)</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Document the learnings, successes and failures for the day</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Go and take a dive to the swimming pool - This really helps.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Do Silva meditation - Take time to reflect in the evening - What worked and what did not</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Plan for the next day - I should have 3 MIT clearly defined.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Practice communication in the evening.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Do the gratitude log.</span></span></li></ol><p></p></span>Yasimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520217884758040751noreply@blogger.com0