Practice This

Are you consultant? Entrepreneur? Freelancer? What’s your learning strategy? Beyond trying stuff yourself, what’s your source of consulting insights? I have read Gerald M. Weinberg’s Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully. It seriously moved me so I decided to compile the consulting books list to read more about consulting insights.
by Lin Pernille ?

I used Google Book Search to compile it. Here it is:

Top performers are the best kept secret of a winning team. Losing team is not an option today. How do you make your team all stars team? How do you win, let alone survive in today’s reality?
 by roy²

In her Four Ways to Improve Your Team’s Performance Daisy Wademan Dowling digests New York Times article about Tom Donnelly’s strategy of building a winning team:
Spend as much time with the slowest runner as with the fastest.
Take away performance pressure by adding perspective — and fun.
Accept inevitable setbacks — and move …

When I feel drained, when I feel my emotional reservoir need a refill I scan Mark Twain’s quotes. I LOL (Laugh Out Loud) and I feel the positive energy overwhelming me all over.What A Power Of Word!These are my favorite Mark Twain’s quotes:
 by sfjalar

“What is it that inspires you to do your best work?” – this is the first line of the newsletter email I have just received from Dale Carnegie. Doing my best I can is one of my quests. I kept reading the newsletter. I found simple but powerful recipe to inspire others.
by Steven Fernandez

Managers, Consultants, Parents! Consider adopting it. I tried it and it perfectly works. Here is the recipe:

Don’t dictate — inspire
Don’t direct — win people to your way of thinking
Begin with praise …

Finding the weakest link is unarguably the best technique of winning. In sports, politics, negotiations, wars. You name it. If the idea is so universal then how can I apply it in consulting? How can I win more new customers?
 by JoopDorresteijn

How can I expand my services with the existing customers?
I adopted another winning stratagem – Besiege Wèi to rescue Zhào:
The idea here is to avoid a head on battle with a strong enemy, and instead strike at his weakness elsewhere. – Wikipedia

Here is how I successfully applied it for …