Change is easy, right? The boss
makes a decision, and employees implement it—right?
If you’re in business, you know
that change almost never works like that. In fact, it can be the most difficult
thing in the world.
- Rober Slater in his book "29 Leadership Secrets from Jack
Welch"
Unmanaged
employee conflict is perhaps the largest intangible cost in organizations today,
and probably the least recognized!
It
maybe a new way where companies can reduce cost rather than the standard
practice of downsizing their operation.
It is estimated that over 65% of performance problems result from strained relationships between employees and not due to lack of individual skill or experience!
- “A Survey of Managerial Interests with Respect to
Conflict” by Kenneth W. Thomas and W. H. Schmidt.
The mindset of yesterday’s manager—accepting
compromise, keeping things tidy—bred complacency.
Tomorrow’s leaders must raise issues, debate them, and resolve them. They must rally around a vision of what a business can become.
- A Lesson from "Jack Welch"
The
optimist believes that this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist is afraid that this might be true!
I
stop at a restaurant with my friend. He complains, “Look at this cup of coffee,
it’s half-empty!” I respond, “Oh, that’s too bad, they gave me one that is
half-full.” We both received the same amount of coffee!
But
I certainly sound like the successful one. Success isn’t limited to objective
findings; one person’s poison is another’s cure. In other words, if an optimist
and a pessimist both win the same prize in a lottery, only the optimist will
appear to be successful!
Optimism helps
you see the advantages in any given situation. Successful people with an
optimistic outlook are better able to identify the silver lining in any given
situation.
Life
is dynamic—always changing. Heraclitus said, “You can’t step in the same
river twice.” The truth is that you can’t even step in the same river once,
because even as you’re step in the river, it is changing.
Appreciating
the dynamics of life and being able to go with the flow provides enormous
advantages to finding new ways of doing things or getting places or creating
opportunities.
Successful
People are flexible and take advantage of new situations.
- Derived from an article titled “8 Habits of Highly Lucky People” by Neil Farber M.D, Ph.D
There
are two types of knowledge—explicit and implicit (or tacit).
Explicit knowledge
is the kind people gain from reading books and going to
school—factual stuff.
Implicit knowledge
is what we achieve through observing and experiencing—things that can’t
really be taught.
Both
types of knowledge are important to help guide decisions or choose particular
pathways.
A
hunch may be an uninformed guess—worth as much as flipping a coin—or it may be
based on in-depth explicit and implicit knowledge—and insight!
We
all have insight to varying degrees, yet some are better than others at being
open to hearing those inner voices. Making use of this knowledge depends on
your ability to access this information and trust in yourself.
Having
insight involves integrating explicit and implicit knowledge with
an understanding of social situations and emotions, both yours and
others'.
Insightful
people have higher emotional and social intelligence—being able to “read”
people and understand unspoken issues in a social situation.
Successful people seek knowledge and experiences and make the best use of their insight.
- Derived from an article titled “8 Habits of Highly Lucky People” by Neil Farber M.D, Ph.D
Successful people are opportunists!
They have the ability to take advantage of novel and
often concealed opportunities when they arise. Many people are blind to
opportunities because they don’t notice them or because they are inflexible and
stuck in their ways.
People
who practice opportunism see opportunities all around them and are able to use
them to their advantage.
Being
an opportunist involves being mindfully aware; being flexible enough to change
your original plans; and being open-minded enough to take advantage of these
new opportunities.
We often think of people who have traveled extensively throughout the world as being “lucky.”
The truth is that most people have had many opportunities to travel at different times in their lives, yet have not taken advantage of them.
They may have felt like they didn't have the money, needed to work, wanted to start their career, or didn’t want to leave family or friends behind.
While there were many possible reasons at the time for not going, years later these reveal themselves as mere excuses for not taking advantage of opportunities.
- Derived from an article titled “8 Habits of Highly Lucky People” by Neil Farber M.D, Ph.D
"Successful"
people make things happen. They are proactive rather than reactive. They make
their future. And when you can take responsibility for your words, actions, and
behavior, you have more control of your destiny.
There
are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen; those who watch things
happen; and those who wonder what just happened.
Yes,
you might get lucky and a $100 bill might fly in through your window while
you’re sitting on the couch, but your luck of finding some money on the street
would improve if you were outside walking in the first place.
A
colleague may appear to be lucky when he tells you that he got eight new
clients today; until you find out that he started working two hours before you
and skipped his lunch break. He also took that online course on “Completing The
Sale” that you thought wouldn’t be worth it.
-
Derived from an article titled “8 Habits of Highly Lucky People” by
Neil Farber M.D, Ph.D
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