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Articles by John Kenworthy

• Profiting from tough times
  The 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.
  Published 03Feb2009, viewed 201 times

• 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.
  Published 25Feb2009, viewed 217 times

• The long and difficult road to success
  There are a whole lot of myths and legends about achieving success, but as Seth Golden points out in Permission Marketing, "There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great firm's don't spring up overnight. They've been built the same way - bit by bit, step by step, little by little. Is there a road to success?
  Published 25Feb2009, viewed 193 times

• Keep on keeping on
  You 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!
  Published 25Feb2009, viewed 211 times

• 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?
  Published 30Jan2009, viewed 208 times

• Competency and Competency - Part 2, Linking to performance
  The 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.
  Published 26Jan2009, viewed 157 times

• Competence and competency - Part 1, Distinction
  The 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.
  Published 18Jan2009, viewed 305 times

• 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?
  Published 27Dec2008, viewed 335 times

• Breaking the habit
  Habits are difficult things. Most often the term is associated in a derogatory sense. i.e. these are bad habits. Any smoker will tell you! There are good habits of course, but for the moment, let's work on the basis that the habitual way you are playing includes some bad habits that you'd like to be rid of.
  Published 27Dec2008, viewed 209 times

• Attitidue 4 and 5, Respect and Communication
  In this third article in this series, we consider the 4th and 5th attitudes that can change your life. Attitude 4 - Respect the other person's map of the world. Attitude 5 - The meaning of communication is the response you get.
  Published 17Dec2008, viewed 155 times

• Attitude 2 and 3 - There is no failure only feedback, People are not their behaviours
  We have already considered how attitude 1. People can change anything. Now, we shall consider Attitude 2, There is no failure only feedback.
  Published 17Dec2008, viewed 101 times

• Five Attitudes for leaders - 1. People can change anything
  Your attitude determines how well you influence yourself and others. Here are five attitudes that will change your life.
  Published 15Dec2008, viewed 220 times

• Levels of Influence
  Influence 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.
  Published 24Oct2008, viewed 986 times

• Why use golf to develop leadership?
  The game of golf attracts business leaders more than other groups - & this article suggests why this is so, and why it is such a powerful platform to develop leadership.
  Published 26Sep2008, viewed 214 times

• 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?
  Published 12Sep2008, viewed 291 times

• 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?
  Published 21Aug2008, viewed 205 times

• Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 4 of 4
  In 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.
  Published 29Jul2008, viewed 332 times

• Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 3 of 4
  In 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
  Published 28Jul2008, viewed 334 times

• Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 2 of 4
  Is the goal-setting process the difference between those who achieve success and those who don't? Do my goals have to be SMART?
  Published 26Jul2008, viewed 799 times

• Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 1 of 4
  For 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.
  Published 25Jul2008, viewed 348 times

• Aptitude + Attitude = Altitude. Part 1 of 3
  You 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.
  Published 06Jul2008, viewed 757 times

• Aptitude + Attitude = Altitude. Part 2 of 3
  You 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.
  Published 04Jul2008, viewed 311 times

• Aptitude + Attitude = Altitude. Part 3 of 3
  You 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.
  Published 03Jul2008, viewed 343 times

• Understanding and diligence - the means of success
  A 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.
  Published 01Jun2008, viewed 384 times

• Trust - a leader's and networker's currency
  A 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.
  Published 19Apr2008, viewed 336 times

• How to influence yourself to be at cause
  How 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?
  Published 16Mar2008, viewed 277 times

• Cause or Effect
  How 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.
  Published 15Mar2008, viewed 460 times

• Playing Styles and Leadership Styles
  the 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.
  Published 05Mar2008, viewed 695 times

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