Too often we let popular culture define what success is for us rather than think harder about we really value. I would urge you to find a window of time this summer to answer the above question. I got the idea from Robert Holden’s Success Intelligence. He suggests giving your answers as a…
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I just revisited David Lester’s highly informative How They Started: How 30 Good Ideas Became Great Businesses (UK published 2008). In his introduction, Lester notes that almost everyone on the planet has an idea or two for a business; it’s just that most people don’t pursue the idea and fewer still succeed. Here’s what…
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Last week I spoke in Tampa and was delighted to see a presentation on listening skills by Mark Walters, an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. Here are some of my takeaways on a topic that doesn’t sound like a high-need area to address but is one where most of us could…
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I got to see Stephen Covey present recently. I’ve long admired his work. Here are some of the most meaningful takeaways I got: 1. “The key to leadership is moral authority.” You don’t have to have a title to live by a high moral code: no one would question Gandhi as a revered…
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Make greatness yours! What makes the great ones great…and how you can achieve your own greatness. Using rich personal accounts from some of the great winners in sports, Don has distilled Sixteen Consistent Characteristics of Greatness in his book, “Greatness, The 16 Characteristics of True Champions.” To learn more about Don’s speaking and writing,…
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Psychologists’ research finds that most people are too conservative and too afraid of failure. What do you see about your decisions when you look in the mirror? Tim Harford, in his new book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure, argues that “the everyday rituals of life are carefully designed to ensure that…
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I was recently reading Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World (2010) by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. They define wikinomics as “the art and science of collaborative innovation” and devote over 400 pages to global examples of how people have worked together with integrity and interdependence to achieve great things such as Wikipedia,…
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Ever catch yourself thinking about someone and saying: “he’s a natural,” or “she’s a lot smarter than me,” or “that person is so much more experienced than I am”? Even worse, have you ever said: “I don’t have that in me.” Most of us have. Be assured: those others have learned their skills…
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Three Ways for You to Be More Talented Daniel Coyle’s new book, The Talent Code, is another in the recent spate of books that offers compelling and exciting evidence that genius is not born, it is grown. And that YOU can grow it! Here’s how: 1. Deep Practice: it’s not who you…
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Mental or moral strength to venture, presevere and withstand danger, fear or difficulty. Kai introduce the WINDWARD Word of the Month and reminds readers that life is good. Remember to laugh and have fun! Work hard, play hard and don’t take life too seriously! Courage is part of the passionate journey to success!…
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