“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” – John Foster Dulles Today’s post examines your options if you find yourself managing…
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How do you solve a weakest link?
Tagged with: Chris Anderson, coaching, David Sally, indispensability, John Foster Dulles, Kohler effect, motivation, O-Ring Theory, social comparison, team dynamics, teams, teamwork, termination, The Numbers Game, weakest-link, weaknesses
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Posted in Books, Leadership, Management, Soccer, Sports
Lessons from three stonemasons
In Obliquity, John Kay says: “An old story tells of a visitor who encounters three stonemasons working on a medieval cathedral, and asks each what he is doing. ‘I am cutting this stone to shape,’ says the first, describing his basic…
Tagged with: Alastair Campbell, autonomy, Daniel H Pink, Drive, Gavin Esler, Jack Welch, John Kay, Lessons from the Top, mastery, motivation, Obliquity, purpose, stonecutters
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
Getting out of your own way
“We all have self-defeating thoughts and behaviors that undermine performance. I call them gremlins, the little invisible creatures that prevent athletes from performing at their best.” – Sports psychologist Gary Mack (Mind Gym – p42) Shortly after the chapter Know…
Tagged with: 30 for 30, anger, anxiety, Arthur Ashe, distractions, fear, fear of failure, Gary Mack, gremlins, Mind Gym, motivation, perfectionism, performance, persistence, self-consciousness, self-sabotage, stubbornness
Posted in Books, Careers, Everything, Leadership, Sports
Posted in Books, Careers, Everything, Leadership, Sports
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