Practice This

Are you satisfied with you outcomes? If you are not you better grab Jack Canfield’s book The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Canfield shares many simple yet practical methods for improving your personal performance.

by apesara 

For example::
If you do not like your outcomes, change your responses.

This advice can sound too obvious, but how many times you witnessed people change their approaches? How many times you changed yours?…

Just finished reading Jay Heinrichs’ book  Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion (thank you, J.D.). What I love about this book is it offers down to earth practical content and the writing style is humorous and enjoyable. Heinrichs provides practical advice on how to effectively persuade in
by tacit requiem

seemingly every life situation. One of my favorite takeaways from the book is about handling kids temper tantrum.

The School is over for Consultant. Time for Education. Any Consultant can walk but good Consultant hits the ground running. He runs and get educated on the run. How does the consultant know he runs on the right track?
by Giango Lunghibarbe

To clearly answer this question he needs to answer another simple question – “What do I give?”
In their book First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman suggest asking this question to make sure you made progress advancing from …

This post is inspired by J.D. Meier’s Win the Heart the Mind Follows. J.D. advocates using images in blog posts. I am 100% with J.D.
by topgold

I am using flickr’s images with Creative Commons license when composing my blog posts. I started using flickr images after reading  A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images. In this post I am sharing my favorite images that might work for you too. Each image is placed next to the corresponding post – do you feel the emotional connection between the topic …

“Taxonomy of re-baselining and mainstreaming of holistic governance  for contestability by predictors is direct result of beaconicity synergies”
WTF?!

by jelleprins 

Fortunately LGA urges the public sector to ditch jargon to help people during the recession. Public sector should subscribe to the tip of the week at www.dalecarnegie.com. Latest one offers LIONS formula to help getting the message across:

Language easily understood
Illustrations
Organize thoughts
Narrow subject to key points
Summarize

It is very practical for me. As a consultant I am required to communicate my messages to different audiences. …