The top performers in both sports and business have one trait in common…they all are able to do their best when their best is needed. Our best has roots in our preparation, and in building the confidence to perform under any circumstances. In every area of life, this is what separates the top performers from the rest.

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In organisations, there is always a time when everyone in the organisation will be called upon to step up & lead an initiative. These initiatives can be big or small, but getting our people to lead is also getting them to make decisions. When we empower decision making throughout the organisation, the organisation moves faster.

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Everyone knows that learning more in the area of our strengths helps us become an expert. However, that is not enough to make us successful. It is often the balanced life of work & play that brings us the wisdom to build the strong relationships that create a larger meaning to our life.

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Most people go through life looking for what others can do for them. However, the people who achieve success understand that the world doesn’t work that way. They know that the more value & attention they give to others, the more value & attention they will receive back. We receive only after we give.

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Take a closer look at successful people, and all of them have experienced adversity in the lives. The reason they became successful is the way they treated their adversity. The successful treated it as something that will help them grow versus an excuse for a lack of action.

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Someone I know just posted on Facebook that their son has been killed in a car crash. Their expression of grief in this context took me aback. I sat here stunned.

This is someone I haven’t had contact with for years and for me to respond with a Facebook comment in such circumstances seemed wrong.

But then I realised that here was a fellow human being in frankly unimaginable pain reaching out. Who was I not to reach back …..

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Sometimes leaders confuse having the wrong plan as having the wrong vision too, and are quick to start over and create a new vision. What fails most in companies is the execution of the vision, and not the vision itself. Leaders need to be firm on the vision and be flexible in the plan to drive a successful execution of that vision.

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

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Zero integration with iTunes – I want to share or favourite tracks as I am listening to them.

The pre-selected favourite tracks don’t represent my tastes.

Hard to see what the favourites are as they use album art rather than track titles.

When I choose to add favourites manually I can’t browse my library and have to abort the profile update to look at my lists!

The recommended artists bear even less relationship to my tastes.

No way to import contacts.

Talk about connecting to Facebook but no way to do it.

No way to create or share lists

No integration with Twitter

Photo upload still not working!

[I originally called this post Ten things I don't like about iTunes 10 but realised it was Ping I was ranting about. That then made me question the version number change for iTunes as bugger all else has changed except Ping!]

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Zero integration with iTunes – I want to share or favourite tracks as I am listening to them.

The pre-selected favourite tracks don’t represent my tastes.

Hard to see what the favourites are as they use album art rather than track titles.

When I choose to add favourites manually I can’t browse my library and have to abort the profile update to look at my lists!

The recommended artists bear even less relationship to my tastes.

No way to import contacts.

Talk about connecting to Facebook but no way to do it.

No way to create or share lists

No integration with Twitter

Photo upload still not working!

[I originally called this post Ten things I don't like about iTunes 10 but realised it was Ping I was ranting about. That then made me question the version number change for iTunes as bugger all else has changed except Ping!]

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