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How can you be more productive with your daily tasks? These tasks are the “what” of what you do, and I believe the “what” always trumps the “why” and the “how.”
Is what you do efficient or in-efficient? Is “what” you do “effective” or “in-effective”? Are your daily tasks sucking up your day until it gets away from you? Wouldn’t it be nice to run your [...]
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Adam Smith, in his important book The Theory of Moral Sentiments, wrote that excellent people have three primary virtues: prudence, justice, and benevolence—in that order. Each is essential to the others and for living a full life in society.
Prudence
The virtue of prudence refers to your habit of providing well for yourself, your family, your friends, your co-workers, and your company. This requires that you think [...]
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How to become a great negotiator.
You can always get a better deal if you know how. You never need to settle for less or feel dissatisfied with the result of any negotiation. There is almost always a way that you can get better terms or prices, whether you are buying or selling. Your job is to find that way.
If you want a better deal, ask for it
The word “ask” is [...]
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Are you interested in boosting your productivity with your e-mail?
Do you find that the technology (e-mail) that was invented to make us more productive is doing just the opposite? Is your e-mail overwhelming your day and causing frustration?
Watch this video to learn 3 Tips on how to boost your productivity with e-mail and then comment and share at ProductiveToday.com.
Click here to watch the video: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twp91LMUMlc
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Great business leadership is characterized by honesty with every person, under all circumstances. This law requires that you also be impeccably honest with yourself. As Emerson said, “Guard your integrity as a sacred thing. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Integrity lies at the core of leadership, at the heart of the leader. Everything you do revolves around the person [...]
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An excerpt from Brian Tracy’s How the Best Leaders Lead
There are seven basics that never change, the key responsibilities of leadership in any organization. On a scale of 1 to 10, your ability in each of these seven areas determines your value to yourself and your contribution to your organization. Here they are:
Your First Responsibility: Set and Achieve Business Goals
The number-one reason for business and executive failure is the inability to achieve the sales, [...]
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To Be a Master Is to Be a Servant
In part two of “Working Well with Others”, I covered the main reason why teams do not function well—and that is the lack of clarity. If people are unclear of what they are supposed to accomplish, they can’t fully contribute to the team.
As a team player, you need to be absolutely clear about what is expected of you. If for any reason you are not [...]
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Part 2 of 3 on team expectations.
Last month, you read about the definition of a team, and some techniques for working in a team. I concluded by saying that everyone in the company has a critical role to the success of the operation.
For example, in our office, our receptionist has been promoted to the position of front-office manager. Some years ago, when I started in business, the job of the receptionist [...]
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The primary characteristic of fastrackers--Part 1 of 3
A 20-year study at Stanford University examined the career paths of thousands of executives to determine what qualities enabled them to move ahead the most rapidly. Researchers concluded that there were two primary qualities that, more than any others, were indispensable.
The first quality was the ability to function well in a crisis. It was the ability of the executive to keep his or her cool [...]
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Practice daily—even amidst adversity.
The ultimate aim of human life and activity is development of character, according to Aristotle. The most important goal you could hope to accomplish in the course of your life is to become an excellent person, in every respect. Your purpose should be to develop the kind of personality and character that earns you the respect, esteem, and affection of the important people in your [...]
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