Get your brain in motion
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
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The difference between success and failure is a great team.
A successful leader is one who can inspire his or her team members to work better together toward a common vision and goals.
Here are 15 quotes from well-known coaches, athletes, business leaders, and authors that will inspire you and your team members to work better together:
– “Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” –Vince Lombardi
-“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” –Michael Jordan
-“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” –Andrew Carnegie
-“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” –Helen Keller
“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” –Patrick Lencioni
-“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” –Jean-Francois Cope
-“None of us is as smart as all of us.” –Ken Blanchard
-“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” –Henry Ford
-“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” –Henry Ford
-“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” –Phil Jackson
-“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.” –Mike Schmoker
-“It takes two flints to make a fire.” –Louisa May Alcott
-“Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” –Mattie Stepanek
-“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” –Mike Krzyzewski
-“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” –James Cash Penney
Read more: Dave Kerpen on Inc.
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Wonders are many on earth and none is more beautiful than man; (…) speech, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods that mould a state, hath he taught himself. Sophocles– Antigone
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80 and 20. For those who are familiar with management consulting techniques, these two figures may say a lot:
The 80/20 rule basically states that, in many circumstances, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
This rule is formally known as the Pareto principle, after the Italian economist who, in the last decade of 19th century, observed that 20% of Italian population owned 80% of the land in the country.
Many business consultants built upon this intuition solid analysis tools in order to improve companies’ results, in terms of revenues, sales, profits.
But some of them, as Richard Koch, went further, trying to convince us that the 80/20 rule, like few more simple principles similar to that, “work extremely well for making money, for your career, and for your happiness and value to others.”
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We all claim to be multi-tasking. But it is not true. Multi-tasking is actually inefficient. Multi-tasking has a cost. In fact, distractions seriously risk to impact on our jobs, our carreer and, above all, our life. We are no more able to focus on a single thing. There’s a lot at stake. Do you want to give “it” away?, asks Tracy Davidson in this TEDx.
Tracy Davidson is anchor of NBC10 News Today. She has been awarded many different prizes related to her job and her commitment in empowering women both personally and professionally.
In this interview by Meredith Bell, Denny Coats explains why it takes time to ingrain a leadership skill. Every action that we do comes from the brain. It is only by repetition that we can strenghten the neural pathways in our brain in order to make our behaviour pattern more natural.
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The future is not what it used to be – Mark Strand
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Time management is the hardest challenge of our everyday life. Because of multitasking we often struggle to focus on a single task and to well accomplish that.
Timeboxing is a special approach to time management. It consists in setting a certain ammount of your time in completing a task. Once the time is over, you must switch to another task. This approach forces you to be more efficient in order to accomplish the task before the end of the time available.
Timeboxing can be used to schedule your day but also with your team. It can b every useful in order to avoid distractions and keep the focus on waht you are doing.
This article describes this innovative approach in time management.
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better .
For the month of July the selected quotation is by Byron Dorgan (b. 1942) – Former U.S. Senator for North Dakota, author of several books about politics and money.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
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