Practice This

Why you keep returning to the same restaurant? Why you keep buying at the same supermarket? Why you marry to some brands for life? The quality and the prices are comparable any place else. Then what turns you into Raving Fan of the brand?
Experience is the answer.

by Clearly Ambiguous
I just started reading “Married to the Brand: Why Consumers Bond with Some Brands for Life” book by William J. McEwen. This is what I read on the second page “Marty isn’t just buying a coffee. He’s buying an experience.”
What if I’d …

Mastered Emotional Intelligence Core Skills? Are you able to manage your own emotional energy?
Now you can use EI to lead and empower others by utilizing EI higher order skills

by s-t-r-a-n-g-e
Daniel A. Feldman offers higher order EI skills in his book Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Inspiring Others to Achieve Results  
The Higher Order Skills

Taking responsibilities

Acting independently and with accountability
Owning a problem as well as a resolution

Generating choices

Be open to varied possibilities in anything
Discover available choices and help other recognize it

Embracing a Vision

Committing to a particular view of the future
Need to have …

The Leadership Pill book helped me answer this question. Just count to three.

One for Integrity. If your manager walks his talk. If your manager backs you up. If your managers shares his values with you and sticks to it. If your manager really mad at you when you break the rules you both agreed on. This manager is for you.
Two for partnership. If your manager pulls you up. If your manager is keen to hear bad news. If your managers mentors you. If your manager treats you not just like …

Business growth is a daily mantra in management circles. At least this is what I’ve noticed. But what growth means is different to different people. For some it is more customers base, for others more revenue.
This is what growth means to me:
Grow expertise. I strongly believe that being the best is a key to success. A colleague of mine told me today that being the only one is even better. Constant learning and research build expertise. Constant trial and error approach builds even more expertise. Then back to learning and …

How many times you participated in a meeting where everything is absolutely clear – tasks, outcomes, schedules, how-to’s – everything but clear deliverable’s owner? Like “John brings beers tomorrow” or “Mary gets tickets by Tuesday”. Instead I witness things like “It is our common responsibility”, “Beers must be bought”, “We need to invite him to give a keynote speak”. The result? Everyone agrees but the task has no owner and it dies before it is even started.
Why it happens? May be because we assume too much? May be we really …