To become a success you have to start with baby steps to build momentum. The rock band Creed didn’t start out in 1993 and become a multi-platinum band overnight. It took them many years to sell 38 million records by the early 2000′s. To become a success you first must START (Post 11) and second you have to TAKE ACTION
Post number 10 comes from John Maxwell he picked my words for minute with maxwell. Yes I cheated…it is actually two words. Watch more Minute with Maxwell videos here
No matter what you are going through today maybe a divorce, a foreclosure or you are doing okay. You make choices today that affect tomorrow are you going to make the right choice to change your world for the good
Have you ever had a great idea for a project at work and pitched it fellow employees? And they didn’t see the value in the idea? For example, in your organization do you have a complex change management process in your accounting system? To your team and yourself you know how to navigate this complex process because you deal with
Okay on Monday will be the last day in January. How are your New Year goals going? Well, for me some are going well and some not so good. If you have been following this blog you have noticed the I stopped posting 2 weeks into the new year. My excuse — life got busy. Is that a good excuse?
A couple of days ago I introduced you to the Law of Process coined by John Maxwell in his book: 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (Amazon affiliate link). The Law of Process is about becoming effective as a leader and the 4 phases you go through in becoming an effective leader. One way I like to think about those phases
When you think of $22,000,000 what do you think of? Winning the lottery, Google stock maybe Steve Jobs? What about Anne Schieber? Who ? You say. Anne Schieber. She was a IRS auditor who retired in the mid 1940’s. And with savings of $5,000 and a meager pension of $3,150 she built a $22,000,000 nest egg. Ms. Schiber built her
It wasn’t too long ago after reading some leadership books I talked to some leaders about leading. The problem was at GM I was not a people leader yet; meaning I did not have people reporting to me. Little did I know at the time that position does not qualify you as a leader. Just like owning a tennis racket
Over the last 12 years at General Motors I have taken the time to build relationships with people. I learned this lesson from one of my managers. As a young engineer working on the Corvette program I was always working on making my designs the best they could be. I didn’t want to “waste” my time and talk to the
One of the first books I started reading about Leadership was John Maxwell’s – 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (Amazon affiliate link). In this book he presents in detail 21 Laws of Leadership he has written. I highly recommend you get a copy. You can even click the link above and put it on your Amazon Wish List for Christmas
