Sunday, November 14, 2010

Get Anything You Want

You can get anything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
This often referenced quote by motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar states a fact that has been clearly proven by many in their pursuit of a successful life. When you give, you get. It is a human nature

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Friday, November 12, 2010

A Good Leader Knows The Team

As leaders, we do not always get to choose the players on our team.
In fact, very often a leader inherits a team, of which most of the members have been there far longer than the leader, and may even know more about the work than the leader. Whatever the situation, one of the responsibilities of a

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Story from Ancient China on Personal Leadership

Once there was an emperor who was growing old and knew that it was time to choose his successor. Instead of choosing a high assistant or one of his children, he decided to select an individual with personal leadership character to lead the kingdom.
He called all the young people of the kingdom

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A Leader Should Take Responsibility

Who would forget the ever-famous line of Peter Parker's grandfather:With great power comes great responsibility. The society expects Spider-man, a comic book, TV, and movie superhero, to be responsible for saving his town, or even the world, in some instances, from evil because he has super

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

You must be Self Motivated

Paul J Meyer, author of self-improvement programs, once said, before you can understand, motivate, and lead others, you must be able to understand, motivate and lead yourself.

There are really only three ways to get motivated, and only one that always works. You can be motivated by gain, rewards, incentives, recognition, and promotion - all the good stuff. Or, you could be motivated by loss, fear, danger, risk, worry, and failure - the bad stuff.

But, only by using an internal switch

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