Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
South Africa's most successful champion rally driver, Sarel van der Merwe once said that while he is driving he doesn’t focus on the object next to the road that he needs to avoid but he rather focuses on the road where he wants to go. "Because" he said "when ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
One way to establish uniqueness and meaning in life is through personal relationships. Within a meaningful relationship, one becomes unique to the other person, and you also become aware of and appreciate the other person’s uniqueness.
"To me you are still only a small boy, just like a hundred thousand ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Our biggest opponent is often our own negative thoughts.
What is the difference between the one person that pushes through in spite of antagonism and "closed doors" (see Sandra Africa)? And another person that gives up in the face of similar opposition and resistance?
Maybe the only difference is their thought ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
I was in a meeting today with established business people. Initially I felt uncomfortable and intimidated but decided to stay and listen. During the meeting they discussed their budget that is around a billion. A billion. That is way, way out of my current playing field.
After the meeting I felt ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
It is not an easy task to give strategies that will help you to identify opportunities. The reason is that spotting an opportunity is an ever changing and dynamic process, there is no recipe. I will try a give a few guidelines:
1. “Never say die” attitude
An attitude of ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Seeing possible opportunities that previously went unnoticed have its downside. It can leave you in a lonely and uncertain place.
A lonely place because a minority of people spot new entrepreneurial opportunities, research suggests only as little of 10 – 15% of the total population [Bolton and Thompson]. This ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Not all fights are there to be fought. Maxwell tells the story of a CEO who gave his successor 10 coins, with the message "each fight you fight will cost you a coin and when the 10 is spend your time as leader will be up".
The moral of this ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A creativity killer is to search for the right answer.
The school system rewarded us for finding the one right answer. Unfortunately this led to the belief that there is only one answer and to stop our search as soon as we have found the "answer".
Yet, the creative answer is ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
I want to be more personal in my post today, please bare with me.
My grandfather turned 92 yesterday. When I saw him this morning he was showing signs of fatigue. He had to answer more than 50 phone calls (on his mobile, his landline and the intercom of the ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Let me translate Wilna's comment on "Scrooge and humdrum"
There is a story of a man who, while walking, found a penny lying on the ground. From that day on, he walked looking down to see if he couldn’t find another penny. Eventually he got a hump on his ...
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