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Great message by Rupert! Short and sweet, and a quick reality check for success. Have a great Saturday…
Oh Come on people! I said this blog was about cutting through the crap in what people write about business not adding to it. There aren’t just six or ten Top Tips to anything. We’re all just lazy and wish that there were just a few simple things that we could do to ensure success.
Well, please don’t shoot the messenger but the people who you see as successful have become that way through an infinite number of routes, through innumerable failures, through indecipherable nuances of established principles and there is no way for you to replicate it. You can get to where they are at (or at least where you perceive them to be at) but you can’t get there in the same way that they got there. The world has moved on and doors they were open to them are shut to you. Look for your own…
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I have been following Dan Rockwell’s content on Twitter for quite some time, and enjoyed a post over the weekend on WordPress. I love the fact that his posts are 300 words are less, and are very insightful. Check out these 10 powerful strategies to build your confidence!
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Repeating the past in a changing world makes you irrelevant and insignificant. Employing old strategies in new situations tends toward failure.
Transition, turbulence, and change test leadership-confidence.
Danger and beauty:
The danger of confidence is quantity – too little paralyzes; too much and you’re an arrogant fool with a closed mind.
The beauty of confidence is lower stress and quiet boldness both in you and those around you.
True competence:
Confidence connects to competence through past performance. Competency during turbulence, however, is the ability to adapt – not repeat – in order to create the future.
Confident leaders:
- Prepare for uncertainty, challenge, and opportunity. They don’t have all the answers – they establish predeterminedprocesses and procedures for finding answers.Know your response to tough situations before they occur. What is your response to challenging questions, for example. Hint: Don’t give solutions immediately.
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Sell, Lead, Succeed! 