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How Fear Tricks You into Seeing the Tree Branch as a Python
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| We all experience fear, and right now fear is escalating around financial security. When anxiety heats up, so do we. Where does this fear come from? A little journey down memory lane will help you get perspective on the source of your fears around money. It’s time to be vigilant, and not let the old stories drive your fear; write some new, creative stories. Follow the OUT technique to look fear in the eye and move forward with courage and dignity. |
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Lesson #1: Make Your Company a Great Place to Work
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| “One of the proudest claims is the fact that people say IBM is a good place to work,” said Watson Jr. “I like to think that as we continue to grow we are not only going to live up to that claim, but make IBM an even better place to work.” |
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Lesson #3: Learn To Put People First
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| “First and foremost is our corporate philosophy, which we call PSP: People, Service, Profit,” says Smith. “If you're going to run a high service organization, you have to get the commitment of the people working for that organization right at the start. If you don't, you'll never be able to deliver at the levels of expectations of the customer.” |
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Lesson #1: Live by the Golden Rule
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| “I can say unequivocally that every decision we make at Mary Kay Cosmetics is based on the Golden Rule,” said Ash. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” |
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Leaders Are Communicators
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| There is an old saying, “That which can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.” This resolution, passed by the Board of Councilmen in Canton, Mississippi, in the mid-1800s brings that into focus. “Number one: Resolved by this Council that we build a new jail. Number two: Resolved that the new jail be built out of the materials of the old jail. Resolved that the old jail be used until the new jail is finished.” |
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Giving Constructive Criticism
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| It’s a fact of life we can’t avoid. Whether it’s working in a professional environment, learning in the educational realm, or interacting with friends or family, at some point in time we all have to face criticism. How we may perceive that criticism depends on whether we are on the giving or receiving end. When done right, constructive criticism is not meant to hurt or humiliate a person. Rather, constructive criticism is meant to build a person and push them to reach the next level of success. Learning how to give constructive criticism makes a difference in regards to how others view an individual and also how he or she demonstrates leadership. This issue of Astronology takes a deeper look into how to give constructive criticism in the workplace. |
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Bad Habits
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| There are ecologies that you and I connect with that enforce dignity and power, and those that enforce bad habits. |
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How to effectively use the “F” word and double your business!
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| No matter what you sell, YOU are the product, so give them the experience of their lives by making the “F” words top priority on your list. It will make it easier on yourself to identify their needs, create products and services to fulfill those needs to solve their problems, and you will “feel” on top of the world. Watch your Bank accounts grow when you effectively use those two little “F” words” “Feel” and “Feeling” –
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We Can be Civilized
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| Just when I'm getting depressed - a Bright Light shines. A little boy named Noah engendered a showcase of civilized behavior this week. |
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Michael Vick Makes 1.6 Mil With Eagles, Can You Make Money Starting an Internet Business From Home?
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| All of the talk recently is about whether Michael Vick should be able to play professional football because he committed a terrible crime, made a huge mistake in his life. I want to start this article by saying that I love dogs and was horrified by the pictures from the crime committed at Michael Vick's residence. |
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A Better Way to Live
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| Random Thoughts on Life and Entrepreneurism |
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How to Create the Best Life for You
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| It’s likely your current work pressures are forcing you to work longer hours and pushing personal interests aside. But passionate non-work interests are as important to your life as work. You have an array of talents, triggered by passionate interests to develop natural potential. If you strive for personal growth only through your work, you are living a narrow life. But it’s never too late to change. |
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Downsizing with dignity
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| "You're fired!", Donald Trump's once popular catch phrase has become a living reality as our country enters the most difficult time we have experienced in decades. Company financials are hemorrhaging, prompting decisions by managers to slash expenses and reduce headcount by downsizing, right-sizing or in simple terms just cutting staff. |
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Keys To Success: Four Step Plan To Move From Employee To Business Owner
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| A lot of people start out as employees and hope that one day they would be able
to gain financial success and control of their lives by owning there own business.
But unfortunately, they never do. I'm sharing with you in this article success keys
that will enable you to transcend from an employee to a successful business owner.
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Franchise lead handling
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| Franchise sales managers need to help e right people find the right franchise opportunity for mutual benefits to be reolised. |
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Qualities of Excellent Leaders: Leading an Organization to Triple Digit Growth
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| The ability of any organization to experience explosive growth hinges on the quality of leadership in the executive office. Whether you are a budding entrepreneur or established CEO hungry for results, the changes you want to implement will only go so far as your leadership ability allows. Imagine for a second that you want to experience triple digit growth this year, in this horrid economy. Some companies will certainly do it. The question is: will yours be one of them? These are the leadership traits you will need to get it done. |
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WHY AND HOW TO MAKE MAKING CHOICES THAT ARE IN YOUR BEST INTEREST A DAILY OCCURRENCE
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| The dictionary defines choice as “the act of choosing; selection; the power, right, or liberty to choose; option; an alternative”. We sometimes hear ourselves or others say, “I have no choice,” when really what we mean is “I feel obligated.” There is always a choice. Sometimes one must choose between two unattractive alternatives and often times making the choice that is best for you carries with it repercussions from friends or coworkers, but that isn’t the same as actually having no choice at all. I encourage and challenge you not to confuse hard choices with no choices. |
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Funke Adenodi Akinbuli Helps Disabled in Africa Live With Dignity & Respect
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| If you didn't already know, most of Africa’s disabled [including the blind, paraplegic etc.] citizens live in deplorable conditions. Most are unemployed and can be found on Africa’s major streets and highways placing themselves in harm’s way as they beg for money to meet their basic needs. Rarely will you find a paraplegic in Africa, for example, with necessary medical equipment i.e. wheelchair. Most navigate the streets and freeways on their hands. Sadly, a lot of Africa’s citizens have become desensitized to the deplorable conditions of the disabled partly because most are frustrated with economic and political conditions in the continent and are barely trying to keep heads above water. Others just have no idea where to begin helping and still most lack awareness of the plight of the disabled.
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Obsessive Management Disorder
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| The difference between leaders and followers in retail and what is needed to become an effective manager of people. |
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How To Fire An Employee: The Do's and Don'ts of Terminating Employees to Keep You Out of Hot Water
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| One very common question we get asked is: How do I fire an employee? As a business owner, if you've selected and trained well, set clear expectations, and provided regular ongoing performance coaching and feedback, your need to let go of an employee should be minimal.
However, it can and does happen that people just don't fit in with your organization. So what do you do?
In this article, we'll discuss the do's and don'ts of firing an employee. |
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Success from The Inside Out
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| Everyone wants to be successful but few people take the time and effort to define success on their own terms. We are bombarded by messages about what success looks like: owning the right car, living in a certain neighborhood with a certain size house, closing the big deal, becoming well-known, or growing your company to a certain size. While these are certainly fine goals, they offer only a restrictive view of success. To complicate the issue, many of us also get the message that our level of success means something fundamental about who we are – about our worth and value as human beings. Rationally we know that this is ridiculous; however, so many of us operate as if it’s true and as a result, we try harder and harder to prove we are successful according to these superficial standards. There is a better way. |
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From Transactional To Transformational Leadership
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| A CLEAR PATH FOR LEADERS
What do high performing leaders actually do on a day to day, week by week basis?
What happens to the team when you are a skilled leader/developer and how do you get these skills?
How, as a leader, can you lead with strength and dignity, passion and compassion?
What you do is simple and entertaining... you watch the 'Karate Kid'!
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The Avoidable Bane of Incompetency
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| "A surprisingly large number of people claim to have worked for a manager who was clearly incompetent. Some people even believe, that in certain sectors, the incompetent outnumber the competent. This book looks at when, why and how managers become incompetent and what to do about it. It does so with both science and humour by reviewing what we know about competences, about personality theory and about various salient psychiatric disorders." |
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Is Your Creativity Supported or Stifled at Work?
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| Creative expression should be honored and valued in the workplace. |
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Eight Essential Qualities of Passionate, Powerful and Proven Leaders, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| The term leader is used and dare I say misused quite often in our society today. Leaders are mentioned in the context of community; family; business; church, local, state and federal government; an organization; or some other institution or group. But how many of those mentioned as leaders really possess the essential qualities of a passionate, powerful and proven leader?
In order to determine the answer to that question, Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach believes one needs to define the term leader by listing the attributes or qualities necessary to earn the title of leader. Here is a list of eight essential qualities that I believe define a passionate, powerful and proven leader. |
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The dollar is the draw
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| We often use money as a draw for employees. The question that really needs to be asked is: Is that really what will draw the right employee to your door? |
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What’s Wrong with Sore Losers?
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| What’s Wrong with Sore Losers?
If you’re asking me, I’d say nothing! |
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Do You Pass The Leadership Test?
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| The quality of performance in any organization is a direct reflection of the quality of leadership. The quality of morale, loyalty, retention, relationships, and business performance is directly related to how individual team members respond to the following questions: |
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Inclusiveness Expands Our Knowledge
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| Diversity can easily be treated as a buzzword, numbers game or as a program. When this happens, the full power and impact of its meaning is lost. Diversity is much more than a program, hiring a few people of different gender or ethnic backgrounds or allowing a few diverse opinions to surface from time to time. It is actively searching out and embracing the uniqueness, strengths and talents of all people |
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EMBODYING THE VALUES
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| CARRY OUT A PERSONAL AUDIT:To identify your most important values , you need to carry out a personal audit.It means that you have to take stock of what type of world you want to live in, what will induce meaning and purpose in life. Once you have found your most important values, you need to pursue and embody them in your life.The exercise which follows will help in practising your values. |
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Delivering Difficult Messages at Work
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| Whether the information needs to be shared with an individual, a group or an entire organization, these instances can truly become an opportunity for all parties involved. Opportunity arises when the outcome of the interaction leads to greater awareness, learning, motivation, support and creativity as well as a call to action. In this article you will learn how to deliver difficult messages while at work. |
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Sam Walton: A Charismatic Leader
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| Sam Walton of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been quoted as having said it takes just seven days for new employees to start treating customers the way they are treated at work. All the customer service skills and training in the world can be undone in only one week if an employee is treated poorly by his or her co-workers or boss. |
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1.20 Building together: Working Out of Poverty
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| Attacking poverty and promoting social integration are not the job of
any one country or organization acting alone. They form the inescapable
common agenda for today’s world. |
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1.9 Building local development through cooperatives: Working Out of Poverty
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| Participation and inclusion are central to a new approach to poverty reduction. |
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Other dignity Related Articles
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Hot Buttons Drive Joint Ventures
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| Let me ask you this: What do you really, really, really want? If you say, “Money”, what does that translate into for you? Control? Power? Security? Dignity? Freedom? How much money? |
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Simplicity & Dignity
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| A parent or teacher who treats a child with dignity builds the self-esteem of the child and automatically increases the child's performance, which generally improves the child's conduct. |
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3.6 Securing incomes: Working Out of Poverty
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| Societies at all levels of development face the challenge of organizing
systems to provide security against contingencies such as sickness, accident,
death of the main breadwinner, disability, old age, maternity and unemployment
that make individuals, families and communities vulnerable to poverty.
Through solidarity and fair burden sharing, social security systems contribute
to human security, dignity, equity and social justice. They are also a foundation
for political inclusion, empowerment and the development of
democracy. Half of the world’s population is excluded from any type of
social security protection, with the rate of coverage varying from almost
100 per cent in some industrialized countries to less than 10 per cent in the
poorest developing countries. |
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From Transactional To Transformational Leadership
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| A CLEAR PATH FOR LEADERS
What do high performing leaders actually do on a day to day, week by week basis?
What happens to the team when you are a skilled leader/developer and how do you get these skills?
How, as a leader, can you lead with strength and dignity, passion and compassion?
What you do is simple and entertaining... you watch the 'Karate Kid'!
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Creating an Extraordinary Organization
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| If everyone would like to work in a thriving, enlivening and nurturing environment, why is it that almost no one loves being at work? Why is it that most of us simply acquiesce when confronted by the drudgery and suffering that, according to seemingly every statistical measure, characterizes life within many companies? Is this condition inevitable? Are we destined to an environment where the most we have to look forward to is Friday afternoon? Not at all. There are specific steps that can be taken to begin to reclaim some of the enthusiasm, some of the air of celebration and some of the fundamental respect for individual human dignity that is apparent within flourishing business organizations or on championship teams. |
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Person First Language
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| Frank Barron said, "Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you." (thinkexist.com) This can begin as early as how an individual is addressed. This article provides a reminder on adressing other individuals as people rather than labels. The article is designed for a facilitator to include in a staff meeting. |
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How Fear Tricks You into Seeing the Tree Branch as a Python
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| We all experience fear, and right now fear is escalating around financial security. When anxiety heats up, so do we. Where does this fear come from? A little journey down memory lane will help you get perspective on the source of your fears around money. It’s time to be vigilant, and not let the old stories drive your fear; write some new, creative stories. Follow the OUT technique to look fear in the eye and move forward with courage and dignity. |
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Bad Habits
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| There are ecologies that you and I connect with that enforce dignity and power, and those that enforce bad habits. |
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All Metrics Will Be Gamed
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| The dynamics that are in play within the business and team must be understood. Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living (1998) very succinctly puts it "In short, my faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth." It is only natural that people will try to take advantage of a measure in a business to 'game' the system - to interpret it in a way that makes it easier to achieve the number, or easier to obtain reward and recognition. As humans, we will try to take advantage of any interpretation that we can to help ourselves.
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Why Professional Experience Hinges on Personal Value
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| The personal value attached to the people you do business with directly affects your professional experience. Treating others with the same respect and dignity you’d expect isn’t the bench mark in business. Try treating complete strangers as though they were your closest friends and you’ll immediately become valuable to them.
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