Because Ideas Change Lives
Being self-employed, there’s not a lot of opportunities for me to lead groups, so it was a nice surprise when I was chosen to lead a certain hiking organization’s training climb. I made a lot of terrible mistakes and I consider my work on that climb a near complete failure. I’m just thankful the experience taught me a lot of lessons.
Still, that’s a story for another time. For now, here are a few things leaders need to remember.
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One symbol of career or business stability is a well-placed office. But not just that. A local office or workspace for business people can cater to a local market and accommodate customers to process personal transactions between clients and service providers. In terms of securing a sealed deal, you know that nothing beats a face-to-face interaction between you and your potential clients.
Atlanta boasts a large economy. Placed 8th in the entire U.S., this is one of the primary reasons why a lot of big companies and manufacturers in the U.S. are drawn to build their headquarters in this country.
[Read more…]Life is a set of problems and challenges that we have to overcome. Sometimes, however, we’ll come across some extremely difficult or “impossible” problems. How do we discover a solution if we can’t find any? We can try what Robert H. Schuller calls “playing the possibility thinking game”.
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So I bought a new book called Negotiating 101 by Peter Sander and it contained a lots of tips about basic negotiation. When I read it, I was surprised at how much he emphasized the concept of “win-win”. We talked about this in another article about negotiation and how I first read about it in Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book.
What IS this thing called “win-win” anyway? Let’s discuss a bit more about it here.
“Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting”, said Napoleon Hill. If you do well and become an expert or a leader at something, you will most likely get “haters” and criticism.
Here’s why you have to learn to live with critics and criticism, especially if you want to someday be someone great.
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