Select Your Company Carefully
By: Brian Tracy
Only the truly competent individual can be free of politics in an organization. When you’re really good at what you do, you can rise above politics. It’s the mediocrities at work who have to play games and every study shows that although they sometimes succeed in the short-term, they invariably [...]
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Select Your Company Carefully
Posted in Career, Management, Marketing, Success, tagged Career, Leadership, Management, Motivation, Workplace Culture on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Four P’s of Persuasion
Posted in Leadership, Management, Motivation, Success, tagged Career, Leadership, Management on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Four P’s of Persuasion
By: Brian Tracy
Perception Is Everything
There are four “Ps” that will enhance your ability to persuade others in both your work and personal life. They are power, positioning, performance, and politeness. And they are all based on perception.
Develop Personal Power
The first “P” is power. The more power and influence that a person [...]
The Law of Accumulation
Posted in Career, Leadership, Management, Motivation, tagged Career, Leadership, Management, Motivation on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Law of Accumulation
By: Brian Tracy
The Law of Accumulation: how your financial fortune accumulates slowly over time and then becomes enormous, like a snowball. The Law of Accumulation: Every great financial achievement is an accumulation of hundreds of small efforts and sacrifices that no one ever sees or appreciates.
Develop Discipline
The achievement of financial independence will [...]
How to praise an employee’s work performance
Posted in Management, Motivation, Workplace Culture, tagged congratulations, employee, good job, praise, work on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tips: Keep your letter brief! Praise is a powerful motivator. Take the time to give genuine, specific compliments in a friendly, yet professional manner. A bonus check or some other tangible expression of thanks may accompany this letter.
Sample Letters:
Sample Letter #1:
I want you to know you have an exceptional employee, Jane Doe, in your support [...]
The 5 Obsessions of a Passionate Employee
Posted in Management, Motivation, Workplace Culture, tagged Management, Motivation, Workplace Culture on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A recent report entitled “How Google Grows and Grows and Grows” stated that the 650 people that work at Google are the most passionate bunch of geeks in the high tech industry. Google was also recently called the fastest growing company in history. To mimic their growth and success, passion must be injected into every [...]
How to delegate work and responsibilities
Posted in Leadership, Management, tagged Delagation, Leadership, Managment, Office, Workplace Culture on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Derived from Latin, delegate means “to send from.” When delegating you are sending the work “from” you “to” someone else. Effective delegation will not only give you more time to work on your important opportunities, but you will also help others on your team learn new skills.
* Delegation helps people [...]
Leadership can be taught
Posted in Leadership, Management, Motivation, tagged Leadership, Management on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership can be taught. With enough training, anybody can be a leader. The theory is that leaders are made, not born. Or are they?
The other day a woman told me that she sees definite leadership traits in her son. I asked her how old he was. “Six,” she replied. Too young to have been through [...]
A bad attitude could be killing sales
Posted in Management, Marketing, Motivation, Workplace Culture, tagged Failure, Marketing, Sales on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Self-limiting beliefs could be holding your salespeople back, stopping them from making sales. New research shows how the deeply-held beliefs of sales people can affect their performance.
Your people’s attitudes towards clients, the market, competition and even themselves, can lead to unproductive sales behaviour.
For example, if a salesperson has a fear of rejection or failure, their [...]
Who You Are is Who You Attract
Posted in Leadership, Management, tagged Leadership, Management on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Effective leaders are always on the lookout for good people.
But who you get is not determined by what you want, but by who you are.
In most situations, you draw people who possess the same qualities you do.
This truth: who you are is who you attract
Every leader has a measure of magnetism.
A leader’s magnetism [...]
Organizing your Work Strategy
Posted in Management, Motivation, Workplace Culture, tagged innovate, Management, Motivation, wor on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Work where your strongest – 80% of your time
Work where youre learning – 15%
Work where you are weak – 5%
Don’t’ be afraid to INNOVATE. Be different.
