Are your staff working as a Team or Individuals? Are your internal meetings productive or sleepy ones? Study Figures A and B, carefully: Which one best describes your team focus?“It does not matter how much resources you may have if your people don’t know how to use the resources. They still will NOT be enough”, Anonymous. Not money, Not machinery, Not buildings. The single most critical resource that separates great companies from average ones, is staff working as a team focused on a common agenda. Are your staff focusing all efforts towards the same targets (B) or they are pulling…
You see those two blocks, they are my buildings
After visiting a client yesterday, I bumped into a long-time friend. During our MBA studies, a guest lecturer came to speak about leadership. After the well-articulated lecture, I was nominated by my class to give the vote of thanks. Which I duly made to the beyond belief of our guest. He was surprised that I knew so much about his career and achievements that he asked me out for a date. I mean a business meeting. It is from that experience I made a resolution to never leave a public gathering I attend like a meeting, conference or forum without…
#WinningMindspark Never show weakness
If someone does something to annoy you, and you get annoyed by it, you have actually shown weakness. That is why forgiveness is a powerful tool. They annoy you, and you just continue on your ambition, as if you noticed nothing. That is a strength. While in primary, teachers at that level behaved like the children they used to teach. At the slightest mistake- writing a wrong date for the day—one was visited with verbal artillery and canes. Over time we noticed the teachers grinning and showing satisfaction at pupils who cried at the top of their voices and threw…
