An important aspect of successfully leading people is showing gratitude for who they are and what they do. Gratitude connotes a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit you have received or will receive. It is recognizing the good things in your life and acknowledging those who helped you achieve them. Gratitude also [...]
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What does it take to make the right decision? According to a recent post by Seth Godin, the key to making decisions is not time:
First rule of decision making: More time does not create better decisions. In fact, it usually decreases the quality of the decision.
So if taking more time decreases the quality of your [...]
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Can you remember a time in your life where you when you faced adversity? Perhaps you lost a loved one, you didn’t get accepted to your preferred university, or maybe you lost your job. How did you handle it? What did you do to pick yourself up and move forward? Looking back you probably see [...]
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“Fear of failure keeps more people stuck in the safety of the status quo than anything else.” Who are the people in your network that can help you break out of the status quo, land your dream job and live the life you love? In his new book THE POWER OF WHO!: You Already Know [...]
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The best thing you can do to elevate yourself is to lift others: lift their spirit with a kind word, lift their hope with a positive reaction, lift their burden by helping them in times of need. The act of lifting others causes you to feel better and to improve.
Yesterday my friend Todd sent out [...]
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There are great quotes, many of which have been featured at Lead on Purpose. Then there is what I call timeless wisdom…great thoughts from great leaders who have inspired, encouraged and lead others to do great things. Their thoughts guide in times of decision and motivate in the hour of need.
If you appreciate leadership quotes [...]
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Today’s post comes from Dave Gunby. Dave has coached and trained thousands to be more powerful and persuasive presenters. He has worked with a wide range of business people and presenters from executives to individual technical performers. He has also taught presentation skills to MBA students for more than 17 years. He is the founder [...]
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It’s no secret that difficult situations happen to everyone. Nothing you do will remove every obstacle on your path to success.
At time, the difficulties — such as emergencies — happen quickly. In those cases most people act quickly and do everything they can to mitigate their problems. However, difficulties often creep up slowly and cause [...]
Filed under: Knowledge, Leadership, Learning, Product Management / Marketing, Purpose | Tagged: success, decisions, Jason Jennings, Think Big Act Small, paralysis of inaction, faith, product quality | 3 Comments »
A common practice in marketing and product management (and other disciplines) is to create personas to capture behaviors, patterns, goals, skills, attitudes and environment of people. The personas — though fictitious in nature — represent potential buyers and users of their products; they guide professionals to design the right products for the right people at [...]
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The Lead on Purpose blog is featured in the April Leadership Development Carnival Spring Addition of Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog.
April’s Leadership Carnivals brings together links to more than 30 fresh posts on topics such as employee engagement, personal leadership and Jack Welch’s take on shareholder value (seems to have changed). You’ll find posts from [...]
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