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STRENGTHS: People-Focused for Success
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Leaders: Make sure your confidence does not threaten your followers.
Some followers are intimidated by Leader's self-confidence. Here are some Spirited suggestions, to make sure you do not come across that way: Be authentic…it…
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Don't be fooled - only deliberate practice allows talents to master tasks.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Take Talent To Task: Take Task To Talent. That's a lot better than taking weakness to tasks and taking tasks to people who are…
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Organized people get work done; disorganized people get work repeated.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Disorganization = more errors = more fixing of errors = repeated work. And, of course, disorganization consumes time and…
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When you see your boss's weaknesses do you see your opportunities?
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Many people complain about the boss. That's the norm. Few people realize the boss' weaknesses are prime routes to…
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The more you use your talents the harder it is to wear them out.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet We struggle when we don't use our Talents ...many of us accept that struggling lot in life...and some of us embrace struggling…
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Intrinsic Goals feel right...they align with our talents & strengths...they inspire & energize us.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Intrinsic Goals mesh with life purpose, mastery of task, and self-actualization. Naturally, intrinsic goals align with talents…
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Other people prefer it when you are present-minded rather than absent-minded.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet 'Getting present' is a Focus exercise...a mind-process of narrowing and fixing attention. 'Staying present' is a Concentration…
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Self-knowledge is the often-overlooked success ingredient.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet People who have a thorough understanding of themselves do better as business leaders. They understand their strengths and…
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What we do not know has never increased so quickly....choose focusing over fretting...choose to use Talents.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Alvin Toffler predicted it . Now, we're up to our ears in it. People are strong when they have talent, opportunity, knowledge…
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Good followers want to vent their strengths. And you want to see strength in action...am I right!
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Good followers want their talents, knowledge, and skills to be linked to opportunities . Good followers expect their leaders to…
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Sales mastery involves a clear & narrow focusing of Personal-Strength Energy.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet About Focusing on Personal Strengths About Personal Energy About Keeping Your Personal Energy Dry
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Talent can get lost...even young Mozart was too busy playing notes to focus his mind on quality music.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Apparently, even the greatest, including the child-prodigy composers, could get all wrapped up in their instruments and their…
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Willpower is about converting self-drive into purposeful action.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet If you have no definite purpose, no chief aim, no goals - then you have no need of willpower. Of course, your accomplishments…
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Discipline is the only remedy for wasted Talent.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When discipline is absent Talent is dormant, submerged, and wasted. That's why discipline is a good thing. Discipline serves a…
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An interview or performance review question: How do you use your Talents to expand your ability to influence people?
The Thinking Behind The Tweet The Gallup folks have defined 4 Talent Domains for leadership: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, & Strategic…
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Talent without discipline - good for hobbies, not so good for businesses.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Malcolm Gladwell [in his book, ' Outliers '] taught us, regardless of Talent, people need to spend at least 10,000 hours to…
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Battles require people; people require battles.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet We all have heard it takes two to tango . Tango requires people...two. Battles require people... at least one . Battles are a…
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Choose your battles well; choose the battles that align with your Talents & Strengths.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Battles require people; people require battles. We all have heard it takes two to tango . Tango requires people...two. Battles…
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I didn't see the financial meltdown coming. I didn't see the economic recession coming. I do see some things now...
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Having been through those challenges , and rethinking business, I have a better picture of what we need to do to protect our…
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Ease - success appears easy; Dis-Ease - failure happens without ease or appearance of easy.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet When you fully engage your Talents & Strengths things happen with relative ease...and success follows.
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Intolerant people see weaknesses where others see strengths.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet The strongest of leaders seek out differences . They know differences capture all the talents & strengths . Work to your…
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When Leaders tell followers what to do they need to limit that telling to BIG PICTURE things.
The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet Some think Leaders should provide followers latitude to do their work as they choose. Some think that’s the way to breed…
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Personal strengths, desire to achieve, & attitude: 3 key things you can develop.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Lou Holtz, the famed Notre Dame football coach, said something like: "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation…
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Errors only become limitations when we choose to give them that power.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet We cannot practice when we don't know the what and how of task-details: we cannot teach when we don't know the what and how of…
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Leaders do best when it is clear they have sacred rules, which we call “The Master Rules”.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Master Rules : these are rules set by the Leader and well-communicated by the Leader to all followers. The Master Rules must…
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3 abilities rise above all others: intelligence, willpower, & drive
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Every human being possesses the seeds of intelligence , willpower , and drive at birth. To a certain degree, and the degree…
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An ideal way to help people: show them how to 'disentangle' the energy and power they, naturally, possess.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Energy & Natural Talent: 2 things we all possess. But, we rarely experience people helping us put those 2 things to best use…
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About Influencing Powerful People - #3
Talking About Influencing Powerful People - here's another Dirk Schlimm quote: “What makes these geniuses so powerful is not ground-level expertise or…
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Sales people should select heroes, learn from them, and emulate their talents & strengths.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet I see better ways of approaching Sales. For example... Sales people can and should learn from ‘heroes’...as many as possible…
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Talents tend to bounce off Tasks they do not like.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet Consider Talents . Consider Tasks . Don't fight the fit.