Matching Results
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Moreover, there is something unnatural in the high corporate mortality rate; no living species, for instance, endures such a large gap between its maximum life expectancy and its average realization...Why, then, do so many companies die prematurely?...Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, [...]
Arie de Geus
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Building on multiple intelligence theory, social intelligence is shown to be the key to success at work and life.
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Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, [...]
Howard Schultz
In this second part of the series, Dan Wooldridge tells the story of the second billionaire who, too, lost his legacy. Out of this story he pulls out a lesson on leaving a legacy in the business you have created.
Dan Wooldridge points us to a remarkable video by Honda on the role of failure in creating success. In a time when we are terrified to fail, we must embrace the path of failure to success.
Bradley J. Moore on money, ambition, hard work, prosperity, responsibility and honoring God no matter what.
Dr. Stephen G. Payne — a leadership strategist and executive coach — drills down to the real meaning of success at work, which turns out to have less to do with shallow satisfaction than deep and enduring contribution.
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Success is not so much a matter of talent or intelligence, but of character. Dr. Cloud describes the six qualities of character that form integrity. More than just honesty, these qualities are the key to success.
Be careful to not take undue credit for work that was accomplished by others. Understand that you may have less to do with the success of an organization than you think.
What if you could "go back 30 years in the business world, knowing what you know now?" Rich Karlgaard asked in Forbes. At InsideWork we're convinced that what we don't know may be as telling as what we know.
Is success always earned? Is failure? Bernard Moon reflects on a talk at TEDGlobal by Alain de Botton examining our ideas of success and failure—and questioning the assumptions underlying our judgments about both.
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"When organizations are successful, they have a tendency to stop doing the hard things, and dealing with poor performance is a really hard thing... Unfortunately, this also leads to strong players not being constantly challenged."
Robert J. Herbold
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Success, and the resulting tendency to become complacent, often leads organizations and individuals to believe that they are very talented, have figured things out, have the answers to all the questions, and no longer need to get their hands dirty in the trenches. They lose their sense of urgency - the feeling that trouble might be just around the corner [...]
Robert J. Herbold
Evidence of the Spirit’s leading may in some—or possibly many—cases have us participating in things that do not come naturally, i.e., doing something that involves personal sacrifice or going somewhere/doing something that has no apparent personal upside or creates great uncertainty.
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"UNUM, the insurance company, ran an ad some years ago showing a powerful grizzly bear in the middle of a roaring stream, with his neck extended to the limit, jaws wide open, teeth flaring. The bear was about to clamp on to an unsuspecting airborne salmon jumping upstream. The headline read: YOU PROBABLY FEEL LIKE THE BEAR. WE'D LIKE TO SUGGEST YOU'RE THE SALMON.
Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter
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Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter
What Got You Here Won't Get You There - How Successful People Become Even More Successful!, (p. 102), Hyperion, 2007
One of the most ironic examples of goal obses [...]
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"...our delusions become a serious liability when we need to change. We sit there with the same godlike feelings, and when someone tries to change our ways we regard them with unadulterated bafflement.
Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter
All too often, long periods of continued success are undermined not by the competition but by self-inflicted wounds...
Winners become sinners when confidence turns into complacency and arrogance. They over-estimate their own invincibility and under-value mundane disciplines. Whenever someone feels on top over a long period of time, they are tempted to neglect the very fundamentals that helped them succeed in the first place. They might even start to feel that the rules don't apply to them.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Why Winning Streaks End, HarvardBusiness.org, 2/8/2010
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The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place n history presents us with. For a young would-be lawyer, being born in the early 1930s was a magic time, just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer, or being born in 1835 was for an enterpreneur.
Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers - The Story of Success , (p. 137), Little, Brown and Company, 2008
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