Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Revenge is a very dangerous thing, and nothing good really comes from it. The most dangerous part is it takes the focus off yourself and puts it on others (and in not a good way). The best revenge is success…it’s about keeping the focus on yourself and creating a success for YOU (and you happen to get another benefit in that it makes the other person appear weaker in comparison).

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Jim Harris

There’s the published agenda for the World Economic Forum (WEF) this week in Davos — and then there are the elephants in the room.
“Severe income disparity” is the most likely risk facing business and political leaders according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk 2012 Report. This finding really caught me by surprise. So while [...]

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Leaders want to see the numbers and bring them into the decision making progress. It’s about bringing in more facts, but we also have to interpret the numbers with care. Numbers can be massaged to say many different things, and the best leaders will always ask the right questions to understand the right interpretation of the numbers being presented.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

When recruiting people, so much emphasis is initially on do they have the experience. However, what makes a valuable employee is not what they did, but what will they do. Experience is never as important as the talent and character of the person. Focus your recruitment on talent and character.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

You have heard many times about the power of visualisation. It’s about seeing it achieved (in place), and giving your subconscious mind a target to help you make it happen. What’s interesting is people are visualising all the time, only in a negative way…that’s worrying. When you focus on eliminating worrying, you have space to seeing yourself achieving it.

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Jim Harris

TV as we know it is dying, but most people don’t perceive yet the dramatic change that is bubbling below the surface. In a stunning report released at CES, Accenture points to a wholesale collapse of traditional TV viewing. The study found that “the percentage of consumer watching broadcast or cable TV shows, movies, or [...]

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The Obvious?

Looks like Amazon now have my book Organizations Don’t Tweet, People Do on their “shelves”!

Something I hadn’t realised previously was that my publisher John Wiley & Sons is able to do special runs of the book with individualised company inserts such as a frontispiece or introduction. They are also able to publish individual chapters, or selections of chapters bound in special editions. A number of clients are also buying in bulk which is great as the book was primarily written as an influencing tool for those trying to get traction with the social web in big organisations. Do get in touch if you would like to find out more about this by emailing me at euan [at] euansemple [dot] com

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Keeping a strong focus is more about what you say no to, than what you say yes to. Unfocused people have a tendency to say yes to all what they see as good to do. However, there is an abundance of good things to do, and never enough time to do them all. Focused people say no to the good, in order to say yes to the great. You can too.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Action is what makes things happen, and taking action right away is always keeping the sense of urgency in everyone’s minds. Successful leaders are constantly communicating “why the time is now”…the time to take action. The key is explaining why now is the time whenever explaining what needs to be achieved.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

You have heard the expression “it’s not personal, it’s business”. However, successful leaders make it personal in the right way. They create a compelling company WHY and then link it to the personal WHY of their key people. When the company WHY becomes personal…the magic happens.

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