If you live your life chiefly for selfish ends, the best you can hope for is the cheap thrill of impressing others. And if impressing others is your chief aim – you live with ghosts, and box with shadows. You are a hostage of your own imaginings of other people’s imaginings of you. The only […]
We are sold the myth that consumption is fun and production is drudgery. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consumption is pleasure and production is purpose. One is momentary, the other is for all time. That’s why leaders feel twitchy when they spend a long time in idle chatter, playing video games or watching […]
We are sold the myth that consumption is fun and production is drudgery. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consumption is pleasure and production is purpose. One is momentary, the other is for all time. That’s why leaders feel twitchy when they spend a long time in idle chatter, playing video games or watching […]
As I travel the world for business and leisure, I’ve made it a point at water coolers and at dinner tables to ask this question of my colleagues: “Where will the human race be in 10,000 years from today?” I must have asked this question of at least 500 people over the past decade. A […]
Are you struggling to meet your sales targets in a tough market? In times like these, it’s better to focus less on your sales rate and focus more on your pitch rate. Do as Dr. Aziz Gazipura did to launch his life-coaching business. Confronted with the daunting task of getting people to attend his workshops […]
As a mentor, I often goad young leaders agonising about whether they should commit to a decision which entails personal sacrifice: “How bad do you want it?” After making sure you fiercely desire success, my next concern is to make sure you don’t want it too much. So how much should you desire success? As […]
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As I mentor young leaders, I’ve noticed – this year more than most – that anxious thoughts are frequently sabotaging their mindset. The optimal mindset is relaxed, supple and optimistic. Anxiety undermines all three. Your mind is continually inflating, conflating, deflating your reality – all types of ‘flating’ – but very rarely is your mind […]
We are all making mistakes, all the time. And leaders more than most – because the more decisions you make, the more mistakes you’ll make. Pause for a minute to absorb this truth. Get comfortable with it. You will make more mistakes than the vast majority of your peers. So when you stuff-up, you’ll need […]
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When profits fall, even in a recession, most team members will criticise the leader – the leader needs to do more of this and less of that. When profits rise, even in a boom, most team members will attribute the success to their own efforts and ingenuity. This is as it should be. Welcome to […]
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