Leadership
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Circumstances
Toni NADAL, coach of the great tennis player RAFAEL Nadal 🎾, explained very well what is the value of BEING AWARE OF CIRCUMSTANCES: ❝While in Monte Carlo we had to play the final against FEDERER and RAFAEL asked me: – How do you see today’s game? 🕵🏻♂️” – 😓Well, I see it complicated. Federer has the drive better than yours, the backhand is also better than yours, the volley is also better than yours, his serve is obviously better than yours…” – 😒 Stop, stop, what morale are you giving me to go out on the court.” – 🤔If you want, I can fool you but Federer won’t fool you…
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Photographies
👨🏼🏫 On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students 📸 into TWO GROUPS. 🟢Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the “QUANTITY” group. They would be graded solely on the AMOUNT of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the NUMBER OF PHOTOS submitted by each student. One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on. 🔵Everyone on the right side of the room would be in the “QUALITY” group. They would be graded only on the EXCELLENCE…
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Habits
❝A good start is half the battle.❞ – Plato 🏛 In order to make habits ‘stick,’ we need to make them AUTOMATIC and EASY. Therefore, reducing the ⚡️ACTIVATION ENERGY⚡️ involved in a task much less energy to sustain it as a habit. Have you ever procrastinated doing something for days or weeks only to eventually get around to doing it 😢, and realizing it wasn’t so bad after all? In fact, once you got started, perhaps it was pretty straight-forward, and not nearly as taxing as you’d anticipated. 🤔 THAT’S BECAUSE THE ACT OF STARTING 🎬 REQUIRED THE MOST EFFORT. In chemistry, ⚡️ACTIVATION ENERGY⚡️ refers to the minimum effort required to…
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Social Media
🚨How many of you have unfriended someone on Social Media because they said something offensive about politics, religion, childcare…? And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just don’t want to talk to them? 🤔 Don’t you feel that we are more polarized and divided than we ever have been? 🤺 ⚠️We’re less likely to compromise, which means WE’RE NOT LISTENING TO EACH OTHER. 🙉 Now, part of that is due to technology 📱 A CONVERSATION requires a BALANCE between talking and listening, and somewhere along the way, WE LOST THAT BALANCE. 🙊 Radio journalist and broadcaster CELESTE HEADLEE gives us 10 tips…
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Africa
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle… When the sun comes up, YOU’D BETTER BE RUNNING. _ABE GUBEGNA, Ethiopian writer ✍️
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Salespeople
🤖 Technology is transforming sales and reinventing the role of salespeople. “Thanks” to technology, CUSTOMERS WILL DEAL WITH HUMAN SALES AGENTS FOR ONLY 𝟭𝟱﹪ OF THEIR OVERALL SALES EXPERIENCES. The traditional salesperson 👨🏻💼 won’t completely vanish, but those who retain their jobs will face radically redefined professional roles. Expect the future to bring a “sales-tech arms race” as companies hustle to recruit expert salespeople who have the capabilities to “match the technology.” 👩🏻💻 “Automation of back-office processes and the complete outsourcing of the sales function, enabled in part by precisely this technology shift, are REDRAWING THE LINES OF SALES MANAGEMENT. Given the scarcity of highly qualified talent TO MANAGE BIG DATA🔎…
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Deep change
🎓 DEEP PERSONAL CHANGE requires a psychologically astute, well-conceived and systematic program, as offered by change management consultant Damian Hughes 🧑🏻💻. ✍️YOUR ATTITUDE IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE. YOU (should🤔) CONTROL YOUR FEELINGS, BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOR. RELY ON EMOTIONS, not reason, to make changes in your life‼️ Using a process of “see-FEEL-change” is more effective than following a process of “analyze-THINK-change.” Change requires SELF-KNOWLEDGE 🧘🏼 and a positive attitude 😎. · 📝 “Address the 4️⃣ Big Needs” To bring about positive change, you must CONTROL YOUR FEELINGS as well as ACKNOWLEDGING THEM. So, address your four primary emotional needs: · 🧏🏻 “FEELING VALUED” – People feel good about themselves when they…
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New year ’22
🎇New year ‘𝟮𝟮 has arrived, so the time for goal setting and self improvement is upon us! 🤔 ➡️ People who set goals are X10 times more likely to change their lives for the better after six months than people who aspired to do better but didn’t make any. But sometimes new year’s resolutions can feel totally overwhelming 😫 🖐🏻 GREAT TIPS that actually work and can help you to smash your goals for the year ahead: 1️⃣ Break the year down into SMALLER SEGMENTS 🤓 You don’t need to set resolutions for the whole year ahead. For now, look ahead to the next three months. Trying to 🖊write down your goals…
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Quality Vs Quantity of time
✍️ “It is the quality of time at work that counts and the QUANTITY of time at home that matters.” – Brian Tracy ⏰ Your time is the PERFECT GIFT for your loved ones 🎁 🎄¡Feliz Navidad!🎄
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Walking
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” 🚶🏻 – Abraham Lincoln
