If spirit and work can be summed up in one word, that word would be integrity, says Pat McHenry Sullivan in Work with Meaning, Work with Joy (Sheed & Ward). “When we live and work with integrity, we are authentic and whole,” Sullivan writes. “We can express our unique viewpoint and gifts while surrendering to the call of spirit to go beyond all sense of self.”
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January 27, 2012
January 16, 2012
Encourage performance, learning & enjoyment to reach potential
In most companies, performance, learning and enjoyment are “three sides of the work triangle,” suggests W. Timothy Gallwey in The Inner Game of Work (Random House): "When any are ignored, performance will suffer. When it does, management feels threatened and pushes harder for performance. Learning and enjoyment diminish further. A cycle ensues that prevents performance from reaching its potential."
January 15, 2012
Lots of people live this credo from Homer
If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
Homer Simpson
Homer Simpson
January 14, 2012
Honest options always involve clarity
Tempted to obfuscate or answer obscurely? Better think again, Ray Capp says in When You Mean Business About Yourself: Achieving Personal Success through Lessons from the World's Best Corporations (Conduit). "Honesty is the smartest option," he suggests. "Being honest is the most efficient way to operate. The truth requires the least energy to explain and maintain. It allows people to choose to interact with you time and time again."
January 12, 2012
Surprise audiences with brief presentation
When delivering a speech, surprise your audience by making it brief, says James C. Humes, author of Speak Like Churchill — Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers (Prima Publishing). “If your audience is anticipating a 20-minute or 30-minute speech, astonish them by speaking for five minutes,” says Humes. “Terse is far better than long-winded. How long was the Gettysburg Address? Two minutes.”
January 08, 2012
Tap into tuition for guidance on problems, staff and decisions
Intuition can be developed, according to The Innovative Woman (Career Press) by Norma Carr-Ruffino, a professor of management at San Francisco State University: “Meditate every day to tap into subconscious and super conscious levels. Practice using your intuition every day, beginning with small predictions and messages and graduating to more important visioning, problem-solving and decision-making.”
January 02, 2012
Great networkers have seven traits, Nierenberg says
Andrea R. Nierenberg, author of Nonstop Networking: How to Improve Your Life, Luck and Career (Capital Books), sees seven traits of great networkers: they are confident - unafraid to ask for what they need, they appreciate helpers, nurture relationships, tenaciously go around obstacles, are excellent listeners, rebound from rejection and are friendly: “Enthusiasm is a quiet passion that shines and makes people want to be part of it.”
January 01, 2012
Eleven albums later...
In England I worked as a postal worker at night in between college. One night, I was singing "Don't Be Cruel' or a Lou Reed song, and a bloke said, "Don't ever try singing for a living.' Eleven albums and a career spanning the world, and I can still hear him saying it to me. - Rocker Billy Idol
December 26, 2011
Reveal opponents' hypocrisies
Before the American Revolution, the great propagandist Samuel Adams took aim at England's reputation for being fair-minded and civilized, says Robert Greene in The 33 Strategies of War (Viking): “Adams had to resort to exaggeration, emphasizing cases in which the English were heavy-handed. Revealing your opponent's hypocrisies is perhaps the most lethal offensive weapon in the moral arsenal. People hate hypocrites."
December 25, 2011
Currency manipulations bring job losses
In The Success Effect (S&R) by John Eckberg, Nucor Steel CEO Daniel R. DiMicco talks about job loss: "We’ve seen what happens when thousands of manufacturing jobs are lost: the increase in crime, the empty homes, the pain. What we really need is to hold onto jobs that are disappearing because of unfair and illegal trading practices. To say re-training is the solution? It makes me sick to my stomach.”
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John Eckberg
Author of The Success Effect: Uncommon Conversations with America's Business Trailblazers
