Have you ever set a goal for yourself, only to give up on it because it seemed too daunting? If so, you’re not alone. Many people find it difficult to stick to their goals, especially when they’re big and ambitious. But what if there was a way to make it easier to achieve your goals? What if you could break them down into smaller, more manageable steps?
Tag Archives: motivation
Most Bosses Don’t Know What Purpose Is
in Leadership
What are the most important leadership skills? According to a study, the ability to inspire and motivate others is most important at all levels.
Enthusiasm is a powerful trigger to create forward progress, but a recent study points out that most bosses kill meaning; which means they don’t inspire. There’s a good reason why:…
Use Or Lose: Nurture Your Talent
Call it brilliance, talent or anything you want, it exists and shouldn’t be taker for granted. If you don’t value brilliance, you don’t value innovation. I wrote that post a few weeks ago and it hit a nerve. It sounds harsh, but it’s true. How true?
Here’s an example……
8 Universal Skills The Most Productive People and Teams Put To Use
Are digital tools really making us more productive? It’s a constant inquiry and an ongoing debate whether the digital revolution is making us more productive. I’ve written before that the digital revolution is transitioning us to the Age of Efficiency, one where technology does most of the decision making for us. It’s great, but it also has it’s cons and more importantly the expectation that it will make us smarter just by it being there.
The promise of the digital revolution is better innovation, higher productivity, lower costs and faster growth. The jury is still out on whether or not digital tools make us more productive, and the implications for society. …
We should do our best at whatever job we take on
No matter what you do for a living, should you do the best work possible? An interesting article by Nick Bilton on taking pride of ones work caught my attention:…
Want people to believe innovation applies to their role? Give them a reason to care
in Innovation, Leadership
Among the many innovation myths businesses take as givens, I believe the most common and disruptive one is “innovation doesn’t apply to my role”. When this is the case in most organizations, and when just one-fifth of employees report believing that their workplaces strongly value them; it’s worth asking, “Is innovation everyone’s job?” And what would make employees feel they are innovators?
In a traditional organization, innovation isn’t everyone’s job. But in a maverick organization, it’s a given that everyone sees his/herself as an innovator. …
The benefits of thinking and doing BIG
BIG ideas get all the attention by the media, bloggers, journalists and the like because Big ideas, like anything that is coming out of Google X, have the possibility to create waves of change for society.
Businesses that want to call their latest and greatest invention the next best thing should be thoughtful about what it is they are promoting. Though we can all tell BIG from SAME, there is no shortage of entrepreneurs calling their latest venture The New Thing; frankly most of the time it isn’t.
So, to determine whether or not something is really The New Thing we can use the following criteria: it’s new, surprising and radically useful.
The more precise one is about what “innovation means and looks to us”, the more focused the efforts will be and thus the more interesting one becomes. From a business relevance standpoint, beyond the media coverage one gets, thinking and doing big has other benefits as well:…