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Inappropriate Email… Huh?
Sometimes, trying to clarify something can make it less clear. Sometimes, trying to explain the rules can make them harder to follow. You'll understand better once you read this article... enjoy.
Develop a Tolerance for Risk
When trying to manage change, leaders often make a huge mistake by not telegraphing a tolerance for risk. This article digs into the issue of risk in making changes and suggests an antidote to this common problem.

Rising Above the Tribal Nature for Success in Business!
Some people will teach you what NOT to do or how NOT to be. Some people will be your mentors. Sometimes, you will excel beyond your mentors and need to develop new ones.
NLP isn't only for creating change & modeling excellence... often its for tolerance!
This article discusses how NLP & Life Coaching can be taken too far, into the realm of the "ALWAYS HAVE TO HELP PEOPLE IMPROVE NO MATTER WHAT" mindset -- which tends to poison relationships and make people feel inadequate all the time. Since for most people, family and friends are and will remain amongst our most important treasures, this article suggests ways of balancing a desire to help others with tolerance and acceptance.
Five Positive Traits to Enhance Flexibility
Flexibility is often cited as one of the most important traits of every successful entrepreneur and leader. It is the ability to adapt your behavior to treat others the way they want to be treated. If you want to become more flexible in your way of interacting with others, cultivate the following 5 positive traits.

The Coming U.S. Crackup
Clive Crook on something that has been on many people's minds lately, the sense of a coming U.S. crackup:
The Positive Benefits of Being More Tolerant
In life we all have to share space, co-exist and live our lives as positively together as we can. Being more tolerant enables us to live in a stressfree, healthier and happier way. We learn to respect each others differences and appreciate each other more.
Bad habits in organizational culture
This article focuses on the misperceptions that occur when what masks as organizational behavior is, in actuality, bad habits. When bad habits are consistently ignored, an environment of tolerance gives way to the notion that, 'it's just the way we do things around here."
18 Business Trends for Your Sales Force
My guests were Mark Berezow, Gary Harvey and Rocky LaGrone. Before they handled one caller's sales force challenges (excellent stuff) , they commented on the state of business out there right now. They see:

The Great Secrets of a True Leader
To be most successful, leadership can not be treated simply as a role you play or as a program for middle management, but rather it must be viewed at all levels as a way of "being a leader." This "soft stuff" is hard work, but as a leader you already knew that.
Leadership lesson: Tolerance is paramount
Today, I used one of the age-old techniques to sort out differences between two of my teammates. This technique has and is being used by all the great leaders of our time. It’s nothing but the art of story telling. Let me explain. Today...
"Speaking with Good Intent"
The next time you're in a meeting or speaking one-to-one, take a moment to think about what you say before opening your mouth. So much of the misunderstandings that happen between people are because we don't think before we speak. Ask yourself, "am I speaking with good intent?", and all your communications will lead to positive outcomes.
Tolerance
Have you ever read something that failed to impact you and then - upon re-reading the same thing - you find it to be revolutionary? This happened to me recently with a book by Napoleon Hill. This particular book contains a lot of excerpts from that legendary writer and speaker. There was an essay entitled "Tolerance" that I know I have read more than once, but for whatever reason, I had not found it to be memorable. Upon my most recent reading, I discovered that it was one of the most significant things that Napoleon Hill ever wrote. The beginning of the essay is as follows:

Managers & Leaders -Why CEOs Need a Leadership Pipeline
Often, the words manager and leader are used interchangeably. When CEOs aim to transform their organizations and improve long term sustainability of their businesses, they need to be clear about what kind of key people they would like to have -managers or leaders? They need to plan for developing their leadership pipeline if the transformation has to run deep and wide. This article differentiates leadership and managership.
Betting On Yourself
You have to take a chance, in order to have a chance--a story from the life of Martha Hughes.
Empowerment, Autonomy & Discretion – Oh My!
Granting autonomy and loosening the apron strings can be scary. After all, this is your company we’re talking about. However, a company where employees have a reason to feel that what they are doing is important is a company on its way to greatness.

How to Dispose of Negative People in 7 simple steps
Compelling reasons and actions steps to erradicate distractions, interruptions and frictions that negatively impact the course of our business as well as our lives.
Midlife Is the Antidote
A lot of what we do as adults can be classified as 'medication' because it numbs our feelings. It's often only the dreaded pain of midlife that allows us to break through.
Manage for Improvement - Part Three 'Involvement'
"Manage for Improvement" is Part Three 'Involvement' in an integrated approach to human resources management. Knowing where to manage and how to influence and measure your success are strategies to improve efficiency. Part Four 'Development'. Part Five 'Compensation'.
"Drive ONE"
You need a team of "A" players and a new way of thinking to break out of a rut or to move forward if your market conditions change.
It’s a Jungle Out There
Some days you’ll encounter more difficult customers than there are animals in the jungle. See if you recognize some of these creatures.
Leadership by Example
How can you encourage people in leadership roles throughout your organization to be more fully engaged in the leadership process? As a CEO, Vice President, Director or any other “KEY” leader, you play a very important role in developing a corporate or organizational mind-set...a mind-set that embraces the kind of leadership at all levels that will take your organization from good to great...
Would you Do It for FREE?
There’s a lot of talk about passion in business these days. The experts say that you dramatically increase your chances of success when your work is your passion. Of course, we also talk about balancing work with personal life. What’s the deal?
Being Your Best
Learn 5 tips that will help you be your best in your business and in your life!

Other tolerance Related Articles

Lesson #1: Think Like An Athlete
“You have to have a great tolerance for pain!” exclaims Schultz in reference to the qualities that make a successful entrepreneur. “You have to work so hard and have so much enthusiasm for one thing that most other things in your life have to be sacrificed.”
“Building An Environment of Ethical Behavior. Ten Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach ”
Business ethics has become and has remained a popular news topic in today’s world thanks to Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Adelphia, et al. We have read and heard about the “waiving of the ethics code or standard” and where compromises were made to ethical standards for business advantages. And now we hear about zero tolerance for unethical behavior. It now seems as though the pendulum is swinging strongly in the direction of zero tolerance for unethical behavior based upon the reactions to ethics misconduct cases across the corporate landscape. Good business leaders have ethics, character and integrity. You have to create an environment in your business that allows everyone to operate in an ethical manner. Here are ten (10) tips from your strategic thinking business coach on how to build an environment of ethical behavior.

Achievements Outweigh Education and Experience
Even on the best of days running a business can be incredibly stressful, not to mention overwhelming and exhausting. It's only natural that there will be times when you wonder if it's really worth it. Asking yourself the "should I just get a real job" question simply means that your human side is showing. And as a human you have a limited tolerance for things you can not control. And that's really where the stress of being an entrepreneur comes from
Bad habits in organizational culture
This article focuses on the misperceptions that occur when what masks as organizational behavior is, in actuality, bad habits. When bad habits are consistently ignored, an environment of tolerance gives way to the notion that, 'it's just the way we do things around here."
Getting my beauty sleep between emails
The ubiquity of email and our reliance on the web as an information source is well ingrained in our lives. We have little tolerance for slow servers and are easily frustrated when we can’t just hit ‘send’ with instant results. I recently had ample opportunity to sit and reflect on the speed of communication and how it’s changed so much in our lives. It was the change in rooms, however, that helped me change my point of view.

Develop a Tolerance for Risk
When trying to manage change, leaders often make a huge mistake by not telegraphing a tolerance for risk. This article digs into the issue of risk in making changes and suggests an antidote to this common problem.

What's in a Name?
The "name game" caught up with a colleague recently and she has been venting to all of us ever since. She has been doing business as a sole proprietor for almost 10 years [knowing that makes me shudder; I have operated as a professional corporation since inception] and, given the nature of her consulting practice, has never been overly concerned about liability. We all have varying levels of risk tolerance and hers is quite high.

Lesson #3: “To be successful, you need to fail”
Ilhan was one of those entrepreneurs who believed that the more mistakes he made, the better he became, and the better his business performed. Maybe it was his close call with bankruptcy in the early years of his business, but Ilhan had almost reached the brink, and managed to make it back. He had developed a risk tolerance beyond most of his competitors, and the confidence that he could always find a solution to any problem.

Are You Being Mean?
When you are mean to yourself, you disconnect from your power. Being kind to yourself is not just about pumping up your self confidence. It’s about having a no tolerance rule regarding harsh judgments, setting boundaries around your time and making decisions based on what will give you joy.

What is Your Customer's Price Tolerance Ratio?
You must begin determining the customer’s Price Tolerance Ratio, early in the prospecting and sales process or you will waste time chasing customers you ultimately do not want...

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