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Planning vs. Action

Planning is really important, but it's seductive to get lost in the planning.  Getting into action generates inspiration.  Don't cop out waiting for inspiration to get you into action.  It won't!

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#PersonalDevelopment

Doubt is a signpost on the road to something new, a natural part of the journey to a breakthrough.  If no one had doubts, they'd all have done it already. 

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Job Fit

Zappos and Amazon offer to pay employees to walk away from their jobs at the end of a 90-day trial period.  They encourage them to take a onetime payout of $5,000.  Why?  Because not everyone is right for the job, and it's better to realize that sooner than later.

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Planning

Improvisation will only bring you as far as the next crisis, and is never a substitute for thinking several steps ahead and planning to the end.

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#CorporateCulture

Is your organization a performance-culture or an excuse-culture?

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The Skills Transfer Gap

Few employees seem to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to their jobs - and the further removed the locus of learning is from the locus of application, the larger this gap becomes.

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Different vs. Better

When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. 

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#Empowerment

Empowerment in its most simple form is sharing decision-making authority with others. 

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Starting Out Realities

When you're just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) You have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) Most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

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#PersonalDevelopment

It's not about beating the other guy.  It's not about having more than others.  It's about being what you are, and being as good as possible at it, without succumbing to all the things that draw you away from it.  It's about going where you set out to go.  About accomplishing the most that you're capable of in what you choose.  That's it.  No more and no less.

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