Personal Development
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Reading books
✍🏽”If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami 🤔BUT people with different background can read the SAME BOOK 📖 and extract DIFFERENT messages. Everyone reads into the framework of their own personality, experiencies and circunstances‼️ It is not a bad thing to read what everyone is reading… but try to think diffrent from what everyone else is thinking bringing to the table your personal approach 🤓
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Cineas
🧐 Cineas was an ancient Greek politician and a friend of 🤴🏻King Pyrrhus of Epirus, considered one of the greatest generals in antiquity. After spending decades securing his own possessions, it was inevitable that the king would turn his attention toward the new powers of Rome and Carthage, to the west of Greece. The story goes that Cineas tried to dissuade Pyrrhus from sailing to Italy and urged him to be satisfied with the possessions he already had. 🧐 “Should the gods permit us to overcome them, how will we profit from our victory?” 🤴🏻 “After we have conquered the Romans, no city in all of Italy will be able…
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Eat that Frog
“Eat that Frog” 🐸 by Brian Tracy is a classic on the shelf. It is a short 144 pages that can be read in a couple of hours giving you so many great productivity tips. Below are 5 🔝 QUOTES from this book that can easily double your productivity and a final RULE: > “If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. It is best to tackle your most important priority at work first thing in the day. Get it done…
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Kind of people
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” ― Indira Gandhi
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Collaboration
Collaboration expert Gretchen Anderson explains in practical terms how collaboration works, what it can accomplish, how to organize collaborative teams and which common collaboration pitfalls to avoid. Companies suffer when colleagues can’t get together effectively to develop smart solutions to problems. Collaboration provides an opportunity to work with groups of people with diverse backgrounds and varied points of view! *5 Take-Aways from this book*: 1. Collaborations won’t work without MUTUAL TRUST. 2. Collaborations need defined objectives. 3. When it comes to starting a collaboration, having more people involved is better. Eventually, reduce the number of participants to a core group. 4. Effective collaborations require planning and a well-defined structure. 5. In any collaboration, one person should…
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Attention
In the age of information overload, ATTENTION has become a rare and coveted commodity by big tech companies. How does this phenomenon affect our autonomy and our freedom? How can we resist the colonization of our mind? James Williams, former Google strategist and Oxford philosopher, says that the intelligent systems of persuasion that condition our thinking and behavior constitute a serious threat to freedom and democracy. “Stand out of our light” A deep reflection on the modern crisis of attention. A book that you should read with special focus 😉
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Resilient
Bob Duggan talks about “Core Practices” in his book Resilient Leadership 2.0 to stay calm and clarity in anxious times. Among others, here you are my top 5: · “Get on the balcony” Get a complete overview of what is taking place around you. · “Cultivate a curious mind-set” Curiosity and anxiety are antithetical. As you seek answers, knowledge about your co-workers and their processes your anxiety diminishes. · “Be separate yet stay connected” Never keep a cold distance from your co-workers, but don’t push for unnecessary intimacy. Seek a healthy emotional balance. · “Email mindfully” You can’t retract a sent email. Before you hit send, carefully consider its content…
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“What” is an easy question to answer
𝕎hen Risto Siilasmaa became ☎️ Nokia’s chairman, the company was a candidate for bankruptcy 📉 In four years, he reinvented it as a profitable corporation💰 Siilasmaa developed the concept of “ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP”📝 Her useful principles for all leaders: ✔︎ “Hold yourself ACCOUNTABLE”. 🎖Your position must mean more than your paycheck.✔︎ “FACE FACTS” – ❝No news is bad news. Bad news is good news. And good news is no news.❞✔︎ “Be PERSISTENT” – Regardless of the difficulties, never give up 💪🏻✔︎ “MANAGE RISKS” Deal with the risk with your eyes open wide 👀✔︎ “Be a LEARNING ADDICT” (My favorite one) You can learn from everything that happens to you 🤓✔︎ “Maintain an UNWAVERING…
