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Role Models that Work For You
The Quantum Leap Myth is important to understand when you are choosing your role models. Not every dream should be based upon the greatest superstar that you can think. It is far better to choose someone that you can truly relate to and whose level you can work slowly towards, learn from and really grow with.
HAVE WE LOST OUR MORAL COMPASS?
Would I be overstating it if I went out on a limb and made the bold assertion that we have lost our moral compass? And as a part of that observation say that we have been holding up the wrong people as our heroes and role models for far too long! And it only seems to be getting worse. As a population in North America we are losing our ability to discern the difference between right and wrong, fair or unfair, just or unjust and be willing to take a stand and declare ourselves.

Ten Steps To Getting A Cool Career
If you are looking for an unconventional career, you need some unconventional strategies to help you find it. Here’s 10:

Inspirational Email
I'd like to share an inspiring email I received from Zameer, whom I recently met....
Simplicity and Start-up Alchemy: An Interview with WordPress Creator, Matt Mullenweg
Shame on me. I don’t know how to code. I should, but I need to get my Indonesian and Arabic fix before I can tackle Python and Ruby on Rails and Sugar-Coated Sugar Bombs. That is part of the reason that I love WordPress, the blogging platform this blog runs on. The simple-to-use and open-source WordPress, or WP, is a favorite of diehard bloggers, and its 22-year old lead developer, Matt Mullenweg, is #16 on The 50 Most Important People on the Web list by PC World. Damn. That’s bad-ass.
Barbara Walters' comments regarding Tiger Woods situation worth noting
Yesterday evening I had the opportunity for the first time in quite awhile to watch David Letterman - the benefit of being a streak writer in that I was up at 3:00 AM and therefore caught the west coast telecast.
A Role Model - I Think Not!
Representative Joe Wilson, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, Kayna West, what do all of these individuals have in common? If you thought - they are famous, you would be right, but not for how they have excelled in their daily life and occupation. They all have shown their true character from the rude and boorish behavior they exhibited in the past week. All these individuals have shown a lack of respect for others and for themselves.

Leadership is about the Leader's Character
Regardless of your industry, here are some leadership virtues that you want your employees to be able to imitate in you
Disengaging From Your Family of Origin
Do feelings of fear and obligation stop you from disengaging from your abusive family of origin? You might want to reconsider this decision.
What Creates Confidence?
Do you lack personal or professional confidence? Do you often wonder at how others can appear to feel so confident? Discover the path to both personal and professional confidence.
Three Marketing Lessons from Realtors
Any real estate professional can tell you the three most important factors in determining the value of real estate are location, location, and location.

Online Business Success: Advisory Board Primer (Part I)
Would you like to have industry leaders give you FREE business advice on a regular basis? Read this article and learn all about the power of advisory boards.
Growing Too Fast: A Cautionary Tale
It is not your overhead but what's in your head that counts, especially when you run into a downturn in your business. Your ability and willingness to cut costs can help you stay in business longer to wait out the storm.
Personal Mastery And Leadership
It is a responsibility of a leader to be a role model. How can leaders be great role models? Personal mastery can help individuals be a better person and also help leaders become role models. According to Peter Senge, “The core to leadership strategy is simple: to be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery.”
Start them Young to Help them Succeed in the Workplace
Work ethic and leadership skills are best cultivated in early childhood, reinforced through life's experiences and detectable through carefully crafted assessment center exercises. Those too coddled and those without proper role models are likely to suffer adverse impact to workplace success. This article provides analysis and blueprint to both grooming and recognizing future career achievers.
Uncovering Opportunity
In a tough economy, it is more vital than ever that a professional firm gets a good return on its investment in growth. Like the people, the pipeline represents the future.

Finding Your Own Selling Style: A Key to Sales Success
Many salespeople struggle because they try too hard to copy or "model" successful role-models - without realising that a lot of what their role-models do is intimately tied-in to their personality and their experience. To truly succeed in sales you need to achieve the same outcomes - but develp your own style of doing so.
Today's woman entrepreneur - do you recognise her?
How would you describe today's successful woman entrepreneur? Is she a focused individual driven to work all hours in the pursuit of profit? Or is she someone who balances work and time for family and social commitments? Sue Stockdale, author of Secrets of Successful Women Entrepreneurs outlines what she has learned about today's successful woman in business.
Top Seven Obstacles to Happiness
Give yourself permission to be happy and to feel good, to be successful or wealthy. That is the first step to change.

10 Keys to Stay Motivated And On Top Of Your Game
Learn practical strategies and steps you can implement immediately to stay focused, purposefll and active in reaching your goals and desires.
7 Keys to Successfully Work From Home
Increasing workloads are forcing people to spend more time in the office, even when the office is at home. This means that many parents are unable to stay involved in their children's lives as they develop, and are becoming mere spectators instead of loving role models. The result is an undermining of their relationships, higher stress levels, a lack of balance and a generally unfulfilled life.
Africa's Secret Talent Pool
The skills and capacity problems of Africa will not be resolved until women, who comprise an estimated 50% of the potential workforce, are recognized, empowered, trained and allowed to take their place in business and government. Because of the size of the problem, panellists suggested changes to benefit women in the male dominated professional environment need to be legislated to be effective.

Just Remember…“Guys” Buy Stuff Too
You may not have noticed it but the other half of the population likes guys ...they just don't "like" them. Even the best of us are OK to have around sometime but women are always trying to remodel us. Big difference is women have better role models and even when their role models are bad they're good! Just remember guys make decisions too - when the woman says he can, And hey we buy stuff...lots of stuff!

Afrokicks Tells Benin Mwangi How to Rep Africa
Recently I had a chance to chat with Mr. Tunde Noibi, co-founder of a very innovative sneaker company called Afrokicks. What I like about the company is thow they’ve carried out their idea to showcase African countries through sneakers. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that they are so fashionable and appealing to different crowds-these kicks are hot! Let’s hear what Mr. Noibi has to say about Afrokicks…

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How Can You Succeed If You Don’t Make Mistakes?
If you’re like I used to be, you look at people and organizations you consider role models and see (mostly) their successes. Then you look at your own career or business and wonder what you’re doing wrong. Read how taking risks and learning wisely from inevitable mistakes can make a difference in your career or organization.
Finding Your Own Selling Style: A Key to Sales Success
Many salespeople struggle because they try too hard to copy or "model" successful role-models - without realising that a lot of what their role-models do is intimately tied-in to their personality and their experience. To truly succeed in sales you need to achieve the same outcomes - but develp your own style of doing so.
Choose Your Reality and Create Your Future
Each and every one of us forms mental models as to what we believe is real and what is not. These models establish how things should or shouldn’t be done and what is possible or not possible for us.

The curse of the BDM
The traditional Business Development Manager (BDM) role inherent in many sales models often turns out as a 'Bad Decision by Management'.

"Any Dream Will Do"
Who'd have thought that one of the most inspiring role models to get us through this credit crunch year of 2009 would be a figure who lived 4000 years ago? Find out who and why here.
Role Models that Work For You
The Quantum Leap Myth is important to understand when you are choosing your role models. Not every dream should be based upon the greatest superstar that you can think. It is far better to choose someone that you can truly relate to and whose level you can work slowly towards, learn from and really grow with.
LEADERSHIP: FROM ROLE PERFORMANCE TO ROLE MODEL
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.Real leader plays multi role. Whatever role requires played by him is an essence of leadership. People in to the world have to learn that they are role models. They have that quality that which admired the people, society or organization that made them want to be like them. Leader behaves as role model in all the situations. Tough, but leaders are born to meet challenges.
Personal Mastery And Leadership
It is a responsibility of a leader to be a role model. How can leaders be great role models? Personal mastery can help individuals be a better person and also help leaders become role models. According to Peter Senge, “The core to leadership strategy is simple: to be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery.”
Just Remember…“Guys” Buy Stuff Too
You may not have noticed it but the other half of the population likes guys ...they just don't "like" them. Even the best of us are OK to have around sometime but women are always trying to remodel us. Big difference is women have better role models and even when their role models are bad they're good! Just remember guys make decisions too - when the woman says he can, And hey we buy stuff...lots of stuff!

Inspirational Leadership: Do It Your Way
If you want to be a more inspirational leader, as do most of my clients, you first have to be inspired. It's natural to think of inspirational role models who've helped ignite your passion for what you do (whether you own your own business or toil in the service of an organization) and think, "I want to do what he does," or "I want to be more like her." That might work... but a lot of the time, it doesn't....
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