Inspiring iThoughts - September & October, 2006 |
Taking Risk: Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disapponted by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did....
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Sited in Harvard Business Review, June 2006
The phrase deliberate mistake contains an element of paradox:..>> read more |
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Dan Sullivan: Laws of Lifetime Growth
Always Make Your Questions Bigger Than Your Answers...>> read more |
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Inspired from The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Why is it that some ideas or behaviors start epidemics and others don't?...>> read more |
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THE ONE BEST WAY!
In the controversial and provocative book, 'The Future and Its Enemies', Virginia Postrel explodes conventional myths, embarking on a bold exploration of how progress really occurs....>> read more |
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On Leadership:
Steve Jobs is famous for unreasonable confidence, but his so-called reality distortion field makes him a superb leader...>> read more |
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Dan Sullivan on Always make your future bigger than your past:
Your future is your property. Because by definition, it hasn't happened yet, it exists only in your mind... >> read more |
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Warren Buffet Wealth and Wisdom:
Three words summarize the investment philosophy developed by Ben Graham and applied brilliantly by his star pupil, Warren Buffet, "MARGIN OF SAFETY". Graham used this example:...>> read more |
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Today's consumer craves human contact.
Today's consumer craves human contact.We're sick to death of voicemail....>> read more |
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In the fall of 1727, twenty one year old Benjamin Franklin convened the first meeting of a dozen friends and associates who would meet every week for the next thirty years...>> read more |
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| Back in the early 1990's, Ritz-Carlton Hotels made a very subtle adjustment in the way it wanted its people to connect with customers....>> read more |
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Chasing the expert is a mistake:
The Federal Reserve's Decisions, after all, aren't made by Alan Greenspan....>> read more |
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Chris Anderson, Author of The Long Tail
This is what Nassim Taleb calls the "Black Swan Problem."....>> read more |
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FITTING FACTS FROM DON MOYER
"Zombie businesses" systematically exclude any information that might contradict their picture of reality,says
Sydney Finkelstein in 'Why Smart Executives Fail'.....>> read more
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In John Gardner's book, 'The Art of Living', a character says, "The thing a person's gotta have-a human
being-is some.....>> read more |
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Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the judgment we pass on ourselves.....
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The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. Pillar Two-THE PRACTICE OF SELF-ACCEPTANCE. Without self-acceptance, self-esteem is impossible. Whereas self-esteem is something we EXPERIENCE,self-acceptance is something we DO. This concept has three levels of meaning:.....>> read more |
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THE SIX PILLARS OF SELF-ESTEEM CONTINUED-PILLAR FOUR:
The practice of Self-Assertiveness.....>> read more |
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Pillar # 5
The Practice of Living Purposely:
To live without purpose is to live at the mercy of chance- the chance event, the chance phone call, the chance encounter- because we have no standard by which to judge what is or is not worth doing......
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