The One Thing You Need to Know About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
by Marcus Buckingham
1. Great Managing = Discover what is unique about each person and capitalize on it
2. Great Leading = Discover what is universal and capitalize on it
3. Sustained Individual Success = Discover what you don’t like doing and stop [...]
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The One Thing You Need to Know
Posted in leadership on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Managing Me…
Posted in Adventure, leadership, lifestyle on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wayne Dyer’s Simplify + Technology
Airplane mode – disconnect from the world
Organize your life – manage all my services from my iPhone, everything
Unclutter your life — get rid of stuff you no longer need, what you own, owns you
Clear your calendar of unwanted and unnecessary activities — learn to say no
Be sure to keep your free [...]
The New Business Schools
Posted in leadership, marketing, sales on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Business Schools, some legit, all special places it appears to me…
No, not Harvard, Wharton or Chicago. I’m talking global places with unique curriculum. Executive Education to 3-4 year programs.
Wizard Academy Austin
Kaos Pilots Netherlands
Hyper Island Sweden
Thunderbird Global
IIT Chicago
d.school Stanford
Rhode Island School of Design
Parsons NYC
Full Sail
All of these have blog sites with varying degrees of design, [...]
Leadership Framework (outcome based)
Posted in leadership on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Know Self + Know Culture + Know Business = Leader.
Leaders = create vision to execute and implement, then communicate and reflect (feedback) on it and circle back to recreate the vision and keep everyone aligned to it. Performance is aligned with vision, not task or process.
This creates the right outcomes according to the [...]
Things to get passionate about…
Posted in Research, leadership, lifestyle on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few things I am about to get passionate about…
Ski instructor for the winter: Helitrax Telluride? Hire me.
White water instructor: put your paddle in the water
Learn a second language: Spanish
Golf School: shoot par
Run a Marathon and complete a Triathlon – putting the miles in…
Travel the world this year: Geneva, Dubai and Beijing
Culinary Institute [...]
Rankings: Important to MBA’s?
Posted in investments, leadership on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thunderbird Executive MBA – I am in class XVIII.
We are:
#1 in International Business, Business Week – 7 years in a row
#2 in Leadership and Management skills, WSJ
#3 in Executive MBA, WSJ
What does this really mean? Nada. Nothing. Nil. We make our own meaning to it. Although, the only significant meaning I draw [...]
21 Random Thoughts from unknown
Posted in leadership on January 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their
conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you
want.
FOUR. When you say, “I love you,” mean it.
FIVE. When you [...]
The Stickman
Posted in leadership on January 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
See this link to learn about the stickman and the secret of success.
Stickman
Deming’s 14 Principles
Posted in book review, leadership on November 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
DEMING’S 14 PRINCIPLES
PRINCIPLE 1 : “Create a constancy of purpose” Define the problems of today and the future Allocate resources for long-term planning Allocate resources for research and education Constantly improve design of product and service
PRINCIPLE 2 : “Adopt the new philosophy” Quality costs less not more Superstitious learning The call for major change [...]
5 Sure-Fire Tips for Great Speeches
Posted in leadership on November 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
5 Sure-Fire Tips for Great Speeches
by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE 1. Come out punching!
Grab your audience’s attention. One way is to make a startling statement. For a recent speech to the National Speakers Association, I walked out and immediately started building a word picture: “Columbus, Ohio, December, zero degrees, 2,000 people trudging through the [...]
