Useless potential

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” (Peter Drucker)

The most difficult job we have at the office and in life is figuring out what are the things that we can do that will make the biggest difference.  Once we figure out what it is that will have [...]

Your deepest fear is…

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’  Actually, who are you not to be? 

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does [...]

5 ways to lose money

Client saturation is essential. Gaps in coverage of your clients needs are sometimes on purpose.  You want to be able to concentrate. 

More often gaps occur because you haven’t thought of a simple twist.  You could use your current expertise at your current customers with a slightly different focus. Client penetration and saturation is the quickest [...]

Your goals should hear

The most magnificent boat on the water goes nowhere without the engine engaged.

The best idea in a boardroom falls flat if there is no one behind it presenting it, selling it, and growing it.

Energy should always be tied to every single one of your goals.

It’s not a slow walk; rather, your goals should hear the [...]

Bank IT spending going up in 2010

This could be the first robin of the spring as far as the economic recovery goes. 

Check it out.

Due to the mergers and bank failures there are now fewer banks and higher profits.  There is also a lot of integration to be done as the banks merge the failed ones into the succesful ones.

Introducing Candidates to your parents

You should treat a salesperson’s inteview very differently from an accountant’s interview.

In a lot of ways, a job interview is like meeting your future in-laws.

In order to “be fair” the advice from this article would be given to each candidate.

To really test a person’s ability to read a situation, you’d never give them this info.  [...]

How success looks and how it really works

An amazing pair of posts that show what success looks like from the outside, and what it takes in real life.

Take these two links in this order.  Paul Zane Pilsner describes how he got admitted into Wharton Business School before getting a degree and after a final rejection by the school.

How success looks.

How success really [...]

Change

“Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.” Alvin Toffler

George Foreman tried a body slam in his first fight

It is unbelievable. Take a look.

We just have to learn to keep on fighting until we learn how to do it right too. It took 25 fights for George Foreman to win the Olympics. His first one was pretty pitiful.

Use scissors to do networking

You can use scissors to do networking. Check it out.