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A Wise Message To All Leaders
What can you learn from Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s former and first Prime Minister, about leading your organization? Lee Kuan Yew is the person who inspired Deng Xiansheng to lead china to open its market and create large scale economical changes. His reflections about Singapore in his conversation with Charlie Rose carry a wise message to all leaders: Lee Kuan Yew says about Singapore: “It...
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The 2020 Questions – Twenty Two Questions For A Threshold Decade
“What will this next decade be like?” We asked at a recent future-think-tank meeting. It quickly became clear we are looking at a Threshold Decade. Why is the run up to 2020 a threshold decade? Our think-tank articulated key big questions that converge in an unprecedented way. Consider that during the coming decade, most of these will be addressed and possibly answered in one fashion...
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What Is True Success Podcast
You do not have to be Sir James Galway to play the flute and you do not have to be Sergey Brin or Larry Page to start a successful company. You do not have to be Michael Phelps to swim. You do not have to be Kristi Yamaguchi to get on the ice. You can do all of these things. Listen to an excerpt from...
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Unhappiness Epidemic At Work
The Economist writes this week in Hating What You Do about the epidemic of unhappiness at work. It claims “the most obvious reason for the rise in unhappiness is the recession, which is destroying jobs at a startling rate and spreading anxiety throughout the workforce. But the recession is also highlighting longer-term problems.” We find the analysis superficial and narrow minded. The recession is a...
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True Success
True success is not simply getting to the top. You do not need to win a gold medal. Not at all. True success is doing what you love to do and doing it fully well to create results that last beyond you. Success is to find your sweet spot and express your passion and capabilities in ways that make a difference and create significance. To...
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The Future Is Not Reasonable
The future is not reasonable. How CAN it be? Your reasons are based in what you know and what you understand. The future is not. What is emerging now is not just beyond your reason. It’s beyond reason. The age of reason is over. Sense-making can no longer be based on what you know. But what can it be based on? In 2020 at least...
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Discover Your Sweet Spot Tele-seminar – Are You Joining Us?
Discover Your Sweet Spot Tele-seminar – Are You Joining Us? We’ve added 50 lines to our Mastery Tele-Seminar this Friday, October 9th 2:00 p.m. EDT – Discover Your Sweet Spot! I will share with you original insights that helped transformational leaders create results. You will gain new insights to: • What is the sweet spot? • How do you find your sweet spot at work...
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The KEY: The Ten Faces of Leadership
Discover the Ten Faces of Leadership and reflect on your leadership strengths. Identify the most critical leadership capacities you must now focus on and exercise. Lead your teams to create the future. Leadership is situational. The requirements of each situation are unique. Needs and opportunities change and are based on circumstance. Great leaders are adaptive and versatile – they instinctively assess the requirements of the...
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Where Else?
Where else can you drive a little over an hour and have a private mountain lake? Where else is the beauty and the replenishing power of mother-nature so abundant, well looked after, guarded and ready to offer its embrace? It’s the Pacific Northwest! Here are a few shots of yours truly, keeping the annual summer pledge to dip in a mountain lake, swimming in the...
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Creating Your Own Bull Market – Your Fifth Progress Measure
The fifth measure of growth and progress in how you apply your precious assets – Time, Energy, Relationships and Focus is found in the Bull Market principle. Learn about: – What defines a ‘bull market’? – How to create your own bull market? – How do you apply this idea in your customer service? © Aviv Shahar
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