Grow
your business by growing YOURSELF!
I
operate from the belief that as an executive you grow your
business by growing yourself. Your performance as an individual
and as a team can be significantly increased when you engage
work and life from a resourceful state. Life is enhanced when
we acknowledge our capacity to choose and we become fully
aware of how these choices manifest themselves as our “reality”.
Successful
executives look beyond the traditional sources of skill and
knowledge learning to accelerate their personal and professional
growth. They seek out relationships and access to processes
that ultimately: allow them to make better decisions; teaches
them better ways to hold themselves and others accountable;
makes them feel less isolated and most importantly increases
their ability to chart and lead change in themselves and in
their business.
As
an executive, your role is to lead your company or functional
area from its current state to … [
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Book
Summary
The
Third Opinion – How Successful Leaders
Use Outside Insight to Create Superior Results by Saj-nicole
A. Joni Ph.D.
For three years, the author interviewed hundreds of executives
and their advisers and thinking partners in order to understand
these issues in depth. Her research has led to two insights
that form the heart of this book: Insight 1 : Leadership
today requires three new habits – Habit of Mind, Habit of
Relationship, and Habit of Focus. Used together these habits
will enable you to build a powerful leadership circle and
take advantage of the benefits of outside insight. These Habits
are vitally important to the kind of leader you will be. They
will distinguish your leadership and your career trajectory.
Insight 2 : You can start developing the three Habits
and your advisory network at any time during your career.
It’s important to develop and use the three Habits in concert.
While everyone will use them differently, there are guidelines
to help you focus on perfecting the various parts of each
habit as your leadership progresses . [Read
on about the 3 Habits…]
Performance
Insight
Use positive
affirmations to achieve your goals
using this proven structure: “It is now January 5 th , 2006
(A
date) ,
I have exceeded my annual profit target by over 20% (quantified
goal) ,
I am buying my dream car (the
reward)
and I feel successful (an
emotion) .
Try it, focus on a future outcome, write it as if it already
happened using this format. Have it visible and read it every
day. Whatever the mind can see and believe, it can achieve.
Whether good or bad. So, be careful what you think. This is
one step in the Tiberias Success Formula developed by Boaz
Rauchwerger. [More
on affirmations]
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