I get get surprised in workshops because by now I thought I knew it all when it came about out guessing people who come in to learn from me. As a professional trainer, this skill and attitude gets you success. But this workshop was different. I was told the participants were big shots. But inside [...]
Saturday, April 28, 2012
It’s difficult to treat people differently. For example being nice to one person then immediately being nasty to someone else. As leaders this is necessary you would say. You have to be nice to the customer otherwise they’ll shop somewhere else but you have to be nasty to your staffs otherwise they’ll not obey you. [...]
Saturday, April 28, 2012
The position of leader is tricky. You must scold, challenge, make unpopular decisions, deny others, stop people, push them. There is no choice. If you don’t do all these as a leader you’ll have nothing to lead. But the point is not to do these negative actions to such extent that your most talented followers [...]
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Visualize this: a man is wounded by splinters of glass that have gone through his skin causing pain and bleeding. It happened in an incident and truly no one was responsible. It was unintentional on the part of all. This man goes in a quiet place after the incident was got all these splinters out [...]
Friday, April 20, 2012
Using technology we can make life so easier. You need two things to make systems that make life easier: 1. The system thinker and his tools (excel, policies, software) 2. The expert Then the system analyst models the work of the expert into procedures of which some will be done by machines, electrical circuits, electronic [...]
Thursday, April 19, 2012
It’s the limitation of the untrained mind to think that a strategy to make success at work will work at home too or vice versa. As a strategic level consultant, I realize such a proposition is very naive because even strategies differ in one work place to another and in one home to another. Many [...]
Friday, April 13, 2012
I’ve trained more than ten thousand people in life, success, management, attitude. But all the while I was asking myself, how did it impact their lives? I had a working philosophy that since the same clients kept inviting me and paying me more every year for the same amount of time, then I must be [...]
Friday, April 6, 2012
What’s it with men that they don’t value either their own birthdays or that of others? But women love birthdays : theirs own or that of others. I can’t understand their behaviors and I’m sure they must think men are life less. It’s a duality that won’t go away any time soon. But if you [...]
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Is conflict : good or bad desirable or undesirable unavoidable or avoidable Should the objective of conflict be: to end or to start for a purposeful end or just to dominate to vent off anger or to dissolve anger Conflict is a such a thing many of us are in dilemma about. Thumb rules are: [...]
Thursday, March 31, 2011
It has been a stressful day. Working with this client has been the greatest challenge ever for me. I always wanted to be an engineer when i was kid. As i grew i drew design of flying cars. Then I realized that machines were not for me. But i was not disullioned by machines totally [...]
Saturday, May 5, 2012
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