Posts Tagged ‘growth’

How to Make Yourself Indispensable

Let me ask you a question: could you disappear? If you didn’t show up at work tomorrow, if you weren’t home at 6:00 for dinner, if nobody ever heard from or saw you again, would it matter?

OK, these are depressing things to think about, but that’s exactly how many people feel, day in and day out, in their jobs and even at home. They feel unappreciated, unchallenged… » Continue

June 16 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: difference, growth, indispensable, self-development, social | 22 comments»

Are You a Productive Reader?

I know you can read. You’re reading this, aren’t you? (If you’re not reading this, never mind.)

But are you productively literate? That is, when you read, do you learn anything that you can apply immediately to your life, or do the words and ideas just bounce around your brain’s pleasure areas for a while before disappearing like so many wisps of morning fog?

Not that there’s anything wrong with… » Continue

May 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, growth, learning, personal-development, reading | 6 comments»

Your Individual Development Plan

Where do you want to be in 5 years?

This question is one of the lynchpins of the personal development field. It’s usually followed by instructions to visualize yourself having achieved those goals, and maybe an admonishment to ask yourself if what you’re doing now will get you there.

None of this is hard. What is hard, though, is making a plan that will get you there… » Continue

April 16 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: education, growth, improvement, learning, personal_development | 15 comments»

10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better

Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren’t easy. One of the things I dislike most about “power of positive thinking”-style personal development philosophies (such as “The Secret”) is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time… » Continue

March 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, growth, life, personal-development | 72 comments»

Write A Personal Mission Statement In 5 Steps

Mission statements are a great way to define direction and maintain focus. Using one for yourself could make a big difference to how you reach your goals.

Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. is a fan and has a 5 step plan to writing a good, personal mission statement.

A personal mission statement, is of course personal… but if you want to truly see whether you have been honest in developing your personal… » Continue

September 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: goal, growth | 4 comments»

Business Growth: Increase The Size Of Your Bowl

Having trouble increasing the size of your business? The problem might lie in vision. Are you trying to grow out of a constrictive space, figuratively speaking? Like the goldfish that will only grow to the size of it’s bowl, maybe you should increase the size of your bowl.

If you want to grow, it’s not enough to just do more of what you are currently doing:

you must grow your definition

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June 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: business, Business-Plans, growth | 4 comments»

Fostering Responsibility: Becoming a Great Leader #4

One of the challenges faced by great leaders is coaching others into accepting responsibility for their own actions and behavior. We all make mistakes. In order to grow from those mistakes we must be able to accept ownership of the mistake.

There is a good metaphor about a storm that looks at responsibility.

A person’s behaviors and actions are a storm. At the edge of a storm you can’t really tell… » Continue

September 25 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: business, coaching, growth, leadership | 5 comments»

Winning Customers. . . and Keeping Them Too

It’s widely accepted that customer service is probably the most important way for any business to differentiate itself in what is now a global, commoditized and hyper-competitive business world. When competitors can replicate your products or services, and undercut your pricing, about the only thing they cannot do as quickly is to reproduce the image you have already established in your customers’ minds and the loyalty it wins for you.

It’s also… » Continue

July 24 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: attention, client, Communication, corporate-culture, customer, customer-service, customers, growth, Management, organization, relationship, selling, winning, work, workflow | 2 comments»

5 Steps to Pushing Boundaries and Growing

You know that I like getting my ideas from non-traditional sources. I was speaking with an incredibly talented video producer and actor yesterday about her show, Galacticast. It’s a sci-fi comedy series available as a podcast, and catching fire on the internet among folks who love catching the references. We talked about quality.

The thing about Casey and Rudy are that they are producing for a medium that currently… » Continue

July 21 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: development, galacticast, growth, Productivity, success | no comments»