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- 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.
Date of Article: 03Feb2009
Category: Business - General
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- 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.
Date of Article: 25Feb2009
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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?
Date of Article: 25Feb2009
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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!
Date of Article: 25Feb2009
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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?
Date of Article: 30Jan2009
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 26Jan2009
Category: Business - General
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- 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.
Date of Article: 18Jan2009
Category: Business - General
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- 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?
Date of Article: 27Dec2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 27Dec2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 17Dec2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 17Dec2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 15Dec2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 24Oct2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 26Sep2008
Category: Business - General
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- 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?
Date of Article: 12Sep2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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?
Date of Article: 21Aug2008
Category: Business - General
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- 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.
Date of Article: 29Jul2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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
Date of Article: 28Jul2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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?
Date of Article: 26Jul2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 25Jul2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 06Jul2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 04Jul2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 03Jul2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 01Jun2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 19Apr2008
Category: Business - General
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- 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?
Date of Article: 16Mar2008
Category: Sports & Recreation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 15Mar2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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- 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.
Date of Article: 05Mar2008
Category: Self-Improvement/Motivation
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