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Adding Fuel to Your Inner Fire!

October 31st, 2007

About Book Blurbs

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“The book you don’t read won’t help.”
Jim Rohn
Reading good books is a sure way to add fuel to your inner fire.  I especially enjoy books with uplifting messages, motivational material, or insightful and/or original lessons that can be applied to my life.  The Book Blurbs section of my site is designed to assist […]

October 29th, 2007

Inner Fire

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I believe each person has a special and unique fire within him or her.  This fire pushes us to be different, to reach our potential, and to achieve great things if we allow it to.  However, on a daily basis we are also surrounded by negativity, sorrow, regret, indulgence, crime, and filth as […]

October 26th, 2007

Create a Vision, Achieve Your Goals (part 6)

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“Only extraordinary goals provoke extraordinary efforts.” 
Hamel and Prahalad Competing for the Future

Maximizing a Vision
Once your vision is in place, don’t let it fall to the wayside.  Keep it visible and reference it often.  Also, you need to begin to live it, believe it and strive for it.  Setting the example will greatly impact […]

October 24th, 2007

Create a Vision, Achieve Your Goals (part 5)

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“Not all dreams need to be reachable; they just have to fuel your fire, and provide direction and drive.”
Unknown
Case in Point
A few years back, and only a couple of years out of college I became the director of a large and highly dysfunctional department within a healthcare organization.  Most employees were more than […]

October 22nd, 2007

Create a Vision, Achieve Your Goals (part 4)

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“Anyone can be great for a day, a week, a month.  But the people who ultimately will be successful are the ones who understand that success is a long-term commitment, a marathon instead of a sprint.”
Rick Pitino
Lacking a Vision!?
Lacking a vision will get you know where in life, in business, or in anything.  […]

October 19th, 2007

Create A Vision, Achieve Your Goals (part 3)

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“Anyone running a small company should be enormously encouraged by the fact that there are so many examples of companies that overcame seemingly insuperable resource handicaps and built positions of global leadership.
Starting resource positions are a very poor predictor of future industry leadership.”
Hamel & Prahalad  Competing for the Future

What is a Vision
A vision […]

October 17th, 2007

Create a Vision, Acheive Your Goals (part 2)

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“Every employee has the right to feel that he or she is contributing to the building of a legacy–something to value that is bigger and more lasting than anything that one could accomplish on one’s own.  Many companies are beginning to realize that all their employees have brains.  How many companies, understand that […]

October 15th, 2007

Create a Vision, Achieve Your Goals (part 1)

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“Lacking a compelling sense of direction, few employees feel a compelling sense of responsibility for competitiveness. Most people won’t go that extra mile unless they know where they are heading.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future
I recently was having a conversation about business with one of my colleagues, and we were talking about […]