It would be hard to find a better way to strengthen a relationship than to administer a good dose of sincere admiration. People rarely receive the positive reinforcement or recognition they deserve. Skimping applies not only to material possessions, but to feelings too. It seems to me...
To properly establish a network of contacts is a powerful marketing tactic (if not the most powerful!). When developed and nourished, your contacts can accelerate and/or sustain your success. Without contacts, you will not go far. On your own, it is unlikely that you will have...
To have doubts or even difficulties is perfectly natural. The difference is in how one deals with that reality. Some repress the existence of doubts and try to make others not notice them. The most honest and courageous confront them outright. The answers to your deepest questions...
Many managers encourage their employees to adopt an entrepreneurial attitude rather than a more passive stance. However, when such employees take initiative, they find themselves entangled in dense organizational bureaucracy. Therefore, one can easily conclude that instead of the insurgents the market calls for, these...
To only have one project to manage is, increasingly, a utopia. Hence, to be someone, who multitasks becomes a matter of survival and not merely an asset. The ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously without losing efficiency requires two main skills: 1. To know how to distinguish...
To have original ideas is not to learn or modify the ideas of others. It is not a matter of digesting the information that one considers important until one adopts it as one’s own. It is also not a matter of being aware of what...
Being a leader and being on one’s own appears, at first glance, to be a contradiction because leadership involves a group of followers. However, being a true leader is being able to think for oneself and act according to one’s own beliefs about what is...
A study by Bernard J. Carducci, Professor of Psychology at Indiana University, USA, says that 75% of people show shyness behaviours in front of strangers. In other words, 3 out of 4 people! Therefore, if you consider yourself to be shy, know that you are...
Delegate or die small, the choice is yours. What is certain is that the secret to success and to continue a wholesome development without getting hit or overwhelmed by workload, is to delegate. The reluctance to delegate is often justified through false premises, such as "I...
In most cases, friends are a natural extension of our family. Some are even more than family...