People are so easily offended these days. It’s ridiculous. And deeply damaging to the progress as an individual, of organisations, and humanity. Worrying excessively about who you may offend is a wasteful drag on productivity. While appropriate to … [Continue reading]
Handling Power Carefully
Like it or not, power is at the heart of the work of an influencer. You may well dislike the notion of power. If so, you have probably seen and felt abuse of power. For sure, it can create much harm. Power is the name of the game because it … [Continue reading]
Emotional Dexterity
If you are not in control of your emotions, who is? One of the most important aspects of professional performance is managing your emotions, in a deliberate and premeditated way, for an intentional impact. When you can do this, you have achieved … [Continue reading]
The Road to Self-Reliance
According to Adlerian Psychology, the journey from childhood to adulthood is the path to self-reliance. If you do not have a high degree of self-reliance, have you honestly achieved maturity? Children are reliant on others. Very young children, … [Continue reading]
Confidence
Several things need to be borne in mind when it comes to confidence. Lack of confidence, when noticed by others, creates wariness - "Why is this person lacking confidence, do they not believe what they are saying or asking me to do?" Low … [Continue reading]
Seven Rules to Leverage Your MBA
As the proud holder of an MBA, are you happy with the return you are making on it? You probably spent a huge amount of time and energy on your studies. Not to mention, blood, sweat and tears. If, like me, you also had a full-time job, and a … [Continue reading]
Ten Years! Seven of the Best
This week marks the tenth anniversary of my blog, which I find hard to believe. Harder still is to note that in those ten years I’ve published nigh on 1,000 articles and 500 videos, all focused on helping people to succeed with greater impact and … [Continue reading]
Funambulism for Life
Setting your vision for a new life or career is mission critical and often quite hard to do. Yet, even when the vision is clear, actually making substantial progress is somewhat tricky, often because people lack the skills of mental and emotional … [Continue reading]
Oomph
Oomph is an interesting word. To me, it means people have something about them, some special quality that gets them noticed, that creates a huge impact. They have energy, dynamism, determination to get done what they need to get done. They have … [Continue reading]
Observing Influence
Difficult skills to master require a decent amount of investment - of time, energy, blood, sweat and tears. Influence is just one of those that requires a big investment on many of these fronts. While you can learn a great deal from books and … [Continue reading]
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