10 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Remember Your Failures and Your Learning

I was away on holiday last week and played golf a few times. At one point, after having made the same swing mistake for the third time in the last 30 minutes, I swung my club in anger at my golf cart destroying the club. It was a bit of an expensive lesson. I stopped [...]

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25 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Overcoming Resistance to Change

There’s much in the news these days about how professional service firms must evolve. The necessary change will be difficult for many. Here are some hints that may help you if you are managing change. 1. If change is in the works plan to tell people well in advance what is planned. Then when it’s [...]

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09 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Recalculating

Recalculating when change occurs is a kind of emothional intelligence.

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01 July 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Leading versus Managing

When coaching executives we often have to guide them to sort out issues relating to their leadership role. Sometimes they need to be a Queen or King kind of Leader. Other times they need to be a Prince or Princess type of Manager. In short an executive can can really stifle momentum if they are [...]

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11 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Networks Build Momentum Exponentially

Source: pasma If you are on the upswing in your life your network is one of your most valuable assets. Future success will be a function of how robust your network is and what you do to make it productive. Your network will grow exponentially as long as you keep at it. Here’s the idea. [...]

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20 April 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Evolve to Build Momentum

There are interesting differences of opinion about evolution. This from a recent Gallup Poll; No evolution; God created the human race as it is; 44%; Evolution over millions of years guided by God 36%; Evolution with no God involved 14%; Almost half seem to challenge the concept of evolution. Maybe that explains why so many [...]

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19 February 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Evolution and revolution

It is smart to recognize which bits of change are evolutionary and which are revolutionary and act accordingly. Tune your change. Evolutionary change ought to be gradual and steady. Revolutionary change ought to be absolute. Either done wrong dilutes the value of the change and may be stressful. Here are some examples: Choosing to exercise [...]

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