I recently started Grant Cardone’s great book “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure“. The book is very testosterone filled motivational self-empowerment sales book that is not meant for those who do not aim to dominate the market they operate at. After listening 80% of it I have encountered several empowering quotes like: “Massive …
“If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.” Zig Ziglar The first rule of success is to loose the victim mentality. Learn from the history, but don’t let it define you. Times change, so can you – if you just decide and want to do so. The future …
The day you realize that almost all interaction is sales you are at the brink of something great. To open this insight slightly up: we sell our ideas, ideologies, views, and even feelings hundreds of times per day – even to ourselves. In business sales skills are the ones which often raise a mediocre expert …
Roadmaps are great. They can help us to implement long and difficult strategies to the ground level operations, make our team’s goals more achievable, and also are a fun way to get to know yourself. I personally recommend doing a roadmap for any goal that feels even a bit challenging to reach. It can be …
The secret of success is to create a tribe that unifies people against a shared enemy. This is how marketing, propaganda, religion and populism work. Given this power, use it wisely! #marketing #everbetterleadership #leadership #enemy #propaganda #religion #politics
On average it takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to refocus after an interruption. Most often we are interrupted by ourselves (40% of times) and by an email or other external message (23%). * “we have become social media junkies.” My interpretation is that the interruption we do by ourselves, is mostly because we have …
12.2.2017 I just read the great article from Harvard Business Review about “The Neuroscience of Trust.” The article thoroughly dives into creating trust in a workplace from neuroscience’s point of view. Why this is a particularly interesting topic and also very relevant for every leader is in short: Compared with people at low-trust companies, people …
Every successful business is based on a winning strategy. But quite often the strategy is mystified to be something next to magic or rocket science. That is not the case, as everyone of us is capable of strategic thinking and planning. (But it is worth mentioning that not everyone is a good strategist or a planner…) We actually come …
FOREWORD This is the 1st posting from a series of 8 short articles “How to generate trust in an organization”. The topics spring to life from my own experiences as well as from various books and articles I’ve read in the past. The most influential writers have no doubt been John C. Maxwell and Simon …
Any organization can and will thrive if the people are happy, motivated, capable of independent work, and have a strong passion and belief of importance. But even a formerly great organization can kick the bucket if the motivation dies or is destroyed by bad leadership. The most important tool to build a high performing organization …