Persistence and tenacity are the keys to your own successYou are committed to achieving your success and if you've been on the journey for any length of time, you already know that there are no short-cuts. We have to commit ourselves to completing the journey and every time you make a commitment to anything, it will be tested!
Profiting from tough timesThe majority of start up businesses fail within the first year! Many of these should have succeeded. They had a good product or service, an decent marketing plan and committed people. Yet they failed because the business was either unprofitable or, more frequently, ran out of cash. Most of all, they neglected to stick to their values.
The Great Delusions of success'Life is difficult'. What is most surprising, is that, for many people, this is a revelation! Go to any business networking event, or meet a potential client - especially during the current economic situation and they will be moaning incessantly about the enormity of their problems, burdens or difficulties as if life should be easy.
Competency and Competency - Part 2, Linking to performanceThe terms competence and competency are diffuse terms used liberally in organizations and in academic literature. Although the concept is well-developed, it seems that there is little agreement on what is meant by the terms and even less agreement on how they affect performance.
Your learning agility impacts your potential!Your learning agility impacts your potential and performance. But what is it, how do you identify people who have learning agility?
Competence and competency - Part 1, DistinctionThe terms competence and competency are diffuse terms used liberally in organizations and in academic literature. Although the concept is well-developed, it seems that there is little agreement on what is meant by the terms and even less agreement on how they affect performance.
What is a goal?Everyone at some point in their life has heard that it is important for us to have goals. Goals provide you a map to your future, whether in business, life, career or indeed sport. But, just what is a goal?
Five Attitudes for leaders - 1. People can change anythingYour attitude determines how well you influence yourself and others. Here are five attitudes that will change your life.
On being influentialInfluence is a two-way street. Everything you do and say has some influence on others. What you rely on to influence others depends on your level of influence with them.
Why use golf to develop leadership?The game of golf attracts business leaders more than other groups - and this article suggests why this is so, and why it is such a powerful platform to develop leadership.
How do you influence yourself?How you influence yourself determines how much you enjoy your journey to your success. Each of us has at least two voices, the good and the bad, the positive and the negative. You may have more. Which one do you listen to?
The war is not to find talent; it's to use the talent you have already!The search for talent is ongoing. Individuals seek to develop their talents, companies seek to identify talent and retain it, succession planning requires it, politicians plan for it, and the world wants to find it. But how do we find it? And how do we develop it?
Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 4 of 4In this final part of the series we look at some issues about the type of goal chosen and suggest a process for setting goals that will enable everyone to realise their dreams.
Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 3 of 4In this continuing series of articles on goal-setting, we look at the results of some real research into goal-setting to find out if the results match up to the mythical Yale Study of 1953
Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 2 of 4Is the goal-setting process the difference between those who achieve success and those who don't? Do my goals have to be SMART?
Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 1 of 4For far too long, consultants, trainers, guru's and leaders have been misleading us about goal setting. We keep hearing the same myth that people with written goals achieve greater success in life. I fell foul of this story myself - after all, it cam from the pages of a famous author and I've seen it repeated again and again. Time to separate myth from reality.
Aptitude + Attitude = Altitude. Part 1 of 3You were created to soar at altitude like an eagle not peck the dirt like a chicken. Your attitude is more important than your aptitude to achieve your success. Here we consider three key steps to set you on your way.
Aptitude + Attitude = Altitude Part 2 of 3You were created to soar at altitude like an eagle not peck the dirt like a chicken. Your attitude is more important than your aptitude to achieve your success. Here we consider three key steps to set you on your way.
Aptitude + Attitude = Altitude Part 3 of 3You were created to soar at altitude like an eagle not peck the dirt like a chicken. Your attitude is more important than your aptitude to achieve your success. Here we consider three key steps to set you on your way.
Diligence and wisdom - key lessons from the world's richest manA wise leader develops a team of talented people around them and a network of friends and partners who support so that they become rich in social capital. What we can learn from the world's richest man ever.
Trust - a leader's and networker's currencyA trusted networker, like a trusted leader, has a thick bankroll of crisp bills. Every time you act inconsistently with your professed values, or break a promise, you must spend some of those crisp bills - when the bankroll is gone, so is the trust.
Stop condemning yourself and start to gain your mind advantageHow we choose to influence ourselves is often the result of the internal voice we listen to most. What can you do to choose to be at cause for the way you think and act?
Influence yourself to be at causeHow you influence yourself in golf and in leadership depends on you being at cause for your actions rather than at the effect of the external environment.
Learning your leadership style from golfthe way people play the game of golf and the way they lead share some interesting characteristics - after all Golf doesn't build character - it reveals it! This short article discusses the 6 C's of playing and leadership style, the characteristics shown by each and examples of some well-known people who appear to show each style.
