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Success

Experts often claim that intelligence is not a good measure of success but resilience is.

Success

Experts often claim that intelligence is not a good measure of success but resilience is.

WMD's

Control your environment or be controlled by it. What are the WMD's: weapons of mass distraction in your office that are impacting your productivity? Email, mobile phone, certain people, cluttered desk, background noise, poor lighting, social media, all break your focus and your ability to concentrate on your most important projects.

2021 #1 Accomplishment

Fast forward to 12.31.21. Looking back on 2021, what do you want your #1 accomplishment to be?  You have 8 months remaining to make it happen. 

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System vs Goals

Goals are about the results you want to achieve.  Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.   #personaldevelopment

Success

One of the biggest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, "I am a success because I behave this way."  The challenge is to make them see that sometimes they are successful in spite of this behavior.    #personsaldevelopment

Productivity

How much time are employees in your organization spending moving around information via email, text, and voicemail, instead of focusing on the specialized tasks they were hired to perform?  What's the impact of your current email habits on your bottom-line?    #productivity 

Success

Successful people have very few reasons to change their behavior, and lots of reasons to stick with the status quo, to dance with what brung 'em.  This is a trap for future success.  #personaldevelopment 

Change

We can't mandate others.  People will do something, including changing their behaviors, only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.   #change

Leadership

The reality for leaders of the past and leaders in the future is that in the past very bright people would put up with disrespectful behavior, but in the future they will leave.   #leadership. #leaders