It may sound simple, but getting
any organization or group of people to see the world the way it is and not the
way they wish it were or hope it will be is not as easy as it sounds.
We have to permeate every mind in
the organization with an attitude, with an atmosphere that allows people—in
fact, encourages people—to see things as they are, to deal with the way it is
now, not the way they wish it would be.
The
art of leading comes down to one thing; facing reality, and then acting
decisively and quickly on that reality.
- Jack
Welch
It
may sound simple, but getting any organization or group of people to see the
world the way it is and not the way they wish it were or hope it will be is not
as easy as it sounds.
We
have to permeate every mind in the company with an attitude, with an atmosphere
that allows people—in fact, encourages people—to see things as they are, to
deal with the way it is now, not the way they wish it would be.
Managers and employees need to be prepared to reexamine their agenda and to make changes when necessary.
Be ready to rewrite your agenda.
- Jack Welch on Change
Let your employees know that change never ends.
Teach your
colleagues to see change as an opportunity; a challenge that can be met through
hard work and smarts.
- Jack Welch on Change
Accept change.
Business leaders who treat change
like the enemy will fail at their jobs.
Change is the one constant, and
successful business leaders must be able to read the ever-changing business
environment.
- Jack Welch on Change
“We want to be more than that. We want to change the competitive landscape by being not just better than our competitors, but by taking quality to a whole new level."
"We want to make our quality so special, so valuable to our customers, so important to their success, that our products become their only real value choice.”
- Jack Welch on Quality
Always start your work day as if it was your first day on the job.
In other words…
1- Always think fresh thoughts.
2- Make it a habit to think about your business. Don’t rest on
your laurels.
3- Make whatever changes are necessary to improve things.
4- Re- examine your agenda, and rewrite what needs to be
rewritten.
1- New products
2- A different business environment every day
3- A company within which every employee has to embrace change.
The global business environment is going to change, and change drastically, and we'd better to get a plan, a program together, to deal with the coming decade which will be totally different.
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
Mindfulness is being non-judgmentally alert and
aware of what’s going on around you as well as inside you—how you’re thinking
and feeling.
Mindfulness occurs on a moment-by-moment basis. When
you are operating mindlessly, on auto-pilot, you are unlikely to observe
opportunities or take advantage of a situation.
One important key to happiness, and a key factor
in becoming successful, is developing a mindfulness mindset.
How will you find that $100 bill stuck in a tiny place,
or know whether to make a successful deal when your counterpart has a clear
predilection for acceptance, if you don’t have a keen sense of situational
awareness?
Successful People are typically respectful of others.
Rather
than focus on your own success first, help others develop and shine by
respecting their strengths and talents.
Remember
that to give respect is to get respect.
People with high emotional intelligence are usually successful in most things they do. Because they have a deep understanding of self, they make others feel good about themselves, and they go through life with much more ease and enthusiasm.
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways You Can Unlock Your Hidden Emotional Intelligence” by Lolly Daskal
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Making others feel comfortable and secure; not having to weigh each thought or measure every word, encourages the kind of open communication that characterizes great teams.
When you have emotional mastery, you're able to choose wisely between short-term comfort and long-term goals, between what you want now and what you want most. And developing your personal motivation gives you insight into motivating others.
Empathy
is the highest order of emotional intelligence!
When
you can see with the eyes of another, listen with the ears of another, and feel
with the heart of another, a whole new level of understanding and communication
opens up to you.
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways You Can Unlock Your Hidden Emotional Intelligence” by Lolly Daskal
Being in control of your emotions and moods is a basic element of personable responsibility.
When you can regulate your responses, you avoid making bad decisions in the heat of the moment--and ultimately, you learn to regulate your state of mind.
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways You Can Unlock Your Hidden Emotional Intelligence” by Lolly Daskal
Make
a deliberate daily effort to pay attention to your emotions and behaviors, your
actions and reactions.
Consider
how they affect you and those around you.
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways
You Can Unlock Your Hidden Emotional Intelligence” by Lolly Daskal
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Napoleon Hill,
the renowned self-help author, interviewed some of the most successful
people in the United States decades ago. He found that almost without exception
the very successful people focus on helping others get what they want.
It
was that singular and fanatical focus on the customer that made these men and
women successful.
When people
only do their jobs because of the money; they usually lead poor lives.
Find
a way to make money helping other people get what they want and you’ll have
more business than you can handle.
If you are
employed by someone else. The quickest way to your promotion is to
follow the “ABH” rule — Always Be Helping!
If you are
looking for one word to summarize how the very successful think; it is humility. A truly humble person asks
questions, is of service, treats others with dignity, keeps his eye on the
ball, has patience and is willing to do the work.
Above all, a humble person values himself and all other humans equally. He respects his own gifts and those of others. As a result he is open to the utmost this life has to offer.
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than the Rest of Us” by Neal Frankle
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Small people
jump at the chance to criticize. They just love finding the flaws in other
people and can’t wait to shine the spotlight on those defects. They dig putting
others down. Of course there are successful people who are mean and nasty. But
they aren’t successful because they are usually alone and miserable.
Successful
People, the truly successful, do just the opposite. They seize every chance they
get to praise others and always work hard to soften any negative review. This
keeps alliances strong, builds teams and motivation. It excites others and
brings out the best in them. Everyone wins.
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than the Rest of Us” by Neal Frankle
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Successful
People continually ask themselves if their actions are bringing them closer to
or further away from their goals!
If they find
that they’re drifting, they correct their course and get back on track.
Less successful people rarely self-assess. As a result they tend to be unproductive!
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than the Rest of Us” by Neal Frankle
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Worthwhile goals take time to achieve.
Successful People
understand this and stay on track. Other people get frustrated when they don’t
get instant results and they move on.
Sadly, the
person who hops around like that is caught in perpetual start-up mode because
he’s always beginning something new and never gets to see the fruits of his
labour!
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than the Rest of Us” by Neal Frankle
People who stay stuck often give up before the
miracle arrives!
Successful People see the obstacles - of course
- but are willing to work hard to overcome them.
- مايك بنس نائب الرئيس الأميركي
* المصدر: شبكة الجزيرة
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You
don’t have to be a genius to ask the right questions.
You just can’t
be lazy. That’s because it takes work to get all the answers to the many
questions you have to ask in order to really understand a given situation.
It’s much
faster and easier to ask a few irrelevant questions and then steam ahead than
to sit down and really ask all the important questions.
Let’s say you
are thinking about a major decision. A quick approach might be to consider a
few superficial questions that just reinforce your preconceived notions. But a
“successful thinking” approach would include such tough questions as:
·
What do we really want?
·
Why do we want it?
·
What are all the alternatives?
·
What are the pros and cons to
each approach?
·
When do we want to have this in
place?
·
Why?
·
Is there another way to reach our
goals without doing this or at a lower cost?
·
What happens if we do this?
·
What happens if we don’t do this?
·
What other questions have we
forgotten to ask?
You can see which method is harder but leads to far better results. Successful folks aren’t afraid to ask the right questions and then do whatever it takes to get the answers.
- Derived from an article titled “7 Ways Rich People Think Differently Than the Rest of Us” by Neal Frankle
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