stop ignoring your mistakes
you made a mistake. you dropped the ball. things did not go as planned. but do you know why you made the mistake? do you know how the ball got dropped? other people were involved. you weren’t the only one to touch it. perhaps you can blame someone else, a business partner or a subordinate, maybe. even better, when…
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- posted at 10:33 pm
- May 27, 2009
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what’s stopping you?
by now you have certain instinctual reactions to things in life based on nature and the experiences of your past. some of these reactions are based on positive emotions while others are rooted in the more negative ones. and it is usually the negative ones that prevent us from doing certain things in life. after all, many of our negative…
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- posted at 10:42 pm
- May 24, 2009
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did you move the needle?
you worked 12 hours. attended meetings all day long. replied to 100 emails. spent six hours looking for a job. reformatted your spreadsheet. you did it all but…did you do anything? did you move the needle? what did you impact? what did you accomplish? it’s so easy to get caught up in the minutia of every project you are…
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- posted at 10:13 pm
- May 21, 2009
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surround yourself with excellence
are you surrounded by excellent people? if not, something may be wrong because you need great people to succeed. and no matter how brilliant you might be, you are not immune to this truth. excellent people help propel excellent brands towards their maximum potential. here are a few quick reasons why: excellent people tend to feel uncomfortable performing sub par…
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- posted at 8:03 am
- May 18, 2009
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we made the “100 best blogs for mba students” list!
in case you missed the tweet, i thought i should at least blog about it. today i noticed a new “referrer” when i was checking out my blog stats. as usual, i clicked through to see how my blog was listed and, to my surprise, i discovered that it was deemed #48 on the “100 best blogs for mba students.” not bad…
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- posted at 9:03 pm
- May 4, 2009
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fail faster
everyone wants to be successful. it’s human nature. we may each define success differently, but we all want it. what we often forget, or never know, is that failure is a critical component of success. you can’t win if you don’t fail. if you haven’t failed you aren’t taking big enough risks to win. with big risks come big rewards. you can’t expect…
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- posted at 9:38 pm
- May 3, 2009
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