The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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The right people in the right seats on the bus: this is the metaphor from the first Jim Collins best-seller ‘Good to Great’. In that book – published in 2001 – the author identifies what leaders need to do, in order to see their teams and organizations excel. And he uses the power of an image to communicate the following concept.
According to Collins, leaders who are able to transform their organizations begin not by setting a direction, but by getting the right people on the bus – and the wrong people off the bus.
Actually great leaders understand the following three simple truths:
1. If you begin with “who,” rather than “what”, you can more easily adapt to a changing world.
2. If you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away, because they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great.
3. If you have the wrong people, it doesn’t matter whether you discover the right direction; you still won’t have a great company.
Assembling the team is the first crucial point. Then a leader has to develop a vision (the direction of the bus), to remove obstacles to high performance (that is, maybe people are not exactly in the right seats and need to be assigned to the right role) and to help people with diverse talents and interests building trust in each other.
It is an hard work, but leaders need it to accomplish objectives with the right people.
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There is no end. There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life
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What is the value of time? Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $ 86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every night, it deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use. What would you do? Draw out every cent every day, of course.
However, each of us has such a bank, not in dollars but in TIME. So this is the value of time. Every morning, it credits you 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost whatever you have failed to invest to good purpose. There is no balance, no overdraft. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss if yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against “tomorrow”. You must live in the present on today’s deposit.
The clock is running. Make the most of today.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present !
(Thanks to Ed Gelbstein for this contribution)
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Wondering why you just can’t seem to find your one, true passion? Feeling frustrated and disappointed in yourself because you can’t foresee yourself doing just ONE thing?
In this TEDx talk, Emma Rosen makes a good point: maybe we are not all meant to be high achievers. Maybe some of us are meant to be wide achievers.
She shares three questions to understand what is the best kind of career for you:
What skills do you want to use and enjoy using?
What do you want to get out of your work?
What kind of working environment would you like?
View the full talk to get a lot more interesting tips to get to know yourself better and understand what your passion (or passions) is (are) and how to build your career around that!
Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress;
working hard for something we love is called passion.
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The Diplo calendar 2020 realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.
The selected quotes are by well-known as well as lesser known Italian men and women that can inspire us in our daily life.
Here is the selected quotation for the month of January
You cannot teach a man anything
you can only help him find it within himself
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
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Merry Christmas to all our followers. May it be jolly, bright and full of light!
“Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it.”
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