Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
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Movies can be an important source of inspiration and motivation.
In this article, John Rampton has selected 10 movies which can teach us some useful lessons for work as well as private life.
Among them:
– “The social network” which shows the importance of flexibility and resilience
– “Citizen Kane” by Orson Welles which stresses what is really important in life
– “The pursuit of happiness” which highlights that passion and sacrifice are parts of success
– “Jerry Maguire” which pushes us to believe in our dreams and follow them.
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When she was in high school, Lizzie Velazquez – a young woman affected by a syndrome which prevents her from gaining weight – was targeted by bullies for her outer appearance. They put on Youtube a video of Lizzie titled “World’s Ugliest Woman”.
Even if it was not easy, Lizzie managed to react positively and overcome this cruelty. Showing strength and determination she is progressively defining herself reaching her goals. She graduated, she is now a motivator and a writer.
In the TEDX linked below she affirms: “I am going to let my goals and my success and my accomplishments define me, not my outer appearance”.
In the video Lizzie gives us an important lesson on how positive attitude, clear vision and perseverance can help us reach success and react to obstacles in our lives.
Richard Hamming, mathematician at Bell Labs for thirty years, gave a talk before he passed away on the factors that determine why a scientist does or does not make significant contributions. Although his focus was on ideas in science, the wisdom he shared really can be applied to any area where original thought is necessary.
Here are his core insights, 8 strategies to improve creativity:
1. Don’t Think Your Success Is A Matter of Luck
1. Don’t Think Your Success Is A Matter of Luck
1. Don’t Think Your Success Is A Matter of Luck
1. Don’t Think Your Success Is A Matter of Luck
2. Plant Many Small Seeds From Which A Mighty Oak Tree Can Grow
3. Turn Your Problem Around. Change A Defect Into An Asset
4. Knowledge And Productivity Are Like Compound Interest
5. Find Important People And Problems. Focus Your Mind On Them
6. Prepare Your Mind For Opportunity
7. Work With the Door Open. You Will Sense What Is Important
8. Know When To Work With The System, And When To Go It Alone
Read here for the full article.
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The key to success is to surround myself with people smarter than I am
Peter Parker (Former Chairman of British Rail), quoted in the book Tactics, the art and science of success by E. De Bono
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Collaborative leadership is a management practice focused on delivering results across boundaries, and leaders need to be clear about where the boundary lies and how to use the different capabilities on either side of it in order to build a positive and efficient relationship.
As the poet Robert Frost once put it, “Good fences make good neighbours”.
In the book Collaborative leadership – how to succeed in an interconnected world David Archer and Alex Cameron say that “getting value from difference is at the heart of the collaborative leader’s task… they have to learn to share control, and to trust a partner to deliver, even though that partner may operate very differently from themselves”.
Hence, they list ten key lessons for a successful collaborative leader:
1 – find the personal motive for collaborating;
2 – find ways of simplifying complex situations for your people;
3 – prepare for how you are going to handle conflict well in advance;
4 – recognize that there are some people or organisations you just can’t partner with;
5 – have the courage to act for the long term;
6 – actively manage the tension between focusing on delivery and on building relationships;
7 – invest in strong personal relationships at all levels;
8 – inject energy, passion and drive into your leadership style;
9 – have the confidence to share the credit generously;
10 – continuously develop your interpersonal skills, in particular: empathy, patience, tenacity, holding difficult conversations, and coalition building.
Olof Palme in the early 1970s. Photo taken in Norra Bantorget during May Day
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Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
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To become a successful individual has never been an easy task, and has always cost many sacrifices and endeavours to those who have undertaken the effort. That’s why those few who succeed in life, and have plenty of proofs of their success, are most of the time inclined to show it off to the rest of the world.
“Once you get at the top, you’ll stay at the top” they think, which is true most of the times. But even if being airy and full of it will never undermine a CV full of shiny stuff, it can cause irreparable harm to what other people think of you. Humbleness is not required to get to success and leadership, but since a successful leader needs to be loved – not just feared – by his team, humbleness is essential to keep being successful and get always more of it.
A practical and effective way for a smart guy to show people he understands the value of staying humble is self irony and understatement: it helps minimizing the person without undermining his role, thus showing to a team that the leader himself is able to grasp the difference between the two. It is also a cunning way to keep a team respecting Leadership without fearing the Leader.
Samuele Fazzi
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Coming together is a beginning
Keeping together is progress
Working together is success”
Henry Ford
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man”.
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