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Wow! Isn’t this the truth? Consider posting this where you can see it on a regular basis. Happy Friday, everyone!
Archive for Positive Organizational Scholarship – Page 7
Not a usual topic of this blog, but so fascinating I couldn’t resist.
Read Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson’s short list of new knowledge founded in scientific research about love — it will surprize you and change the way you think about this important subject. Even Dr.Fredrickson says she and learned some lessons in the process!
Ah…. negative thinking. The true “bane of our existance.”
If I had a dollar for every time I worked with a client on their negative thinking, (or their “inner critic” as we call it in the coaching world), I’d be a very rich woman!
Daniel Amen, M.D. calls them ANTs (automatic negative thoughts.) Whatever you call them, here is some solid information about what you can do about them.
I hope you enjoy this article from FAST COMPANY. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
The 20-Minute Exercise To Eradicate Negative Thinking | Fast Company.
But what about your New Year’s business resolutions?
This time of year is a great time to start making—and keeping—business resolutions, too. But sadly, like our personal goals, we often make them (year after year) with sincere intent only to see them quickly fall by the wayside, as we revert to (bad) habits that we have vowed to break.
But what about the most successful people and their resolutions? Have you noticed how the most accomplished people just seem to identify important things and consistently get them done?
Study successful people long enough and you start to pick up on the resolutions they seem to consistently make.
Here are ten of my favorites:
Ten Resolutions The Most Successful People Make And Then Keep – Forbes.
9 Habits of Super Positive People.
Here’s to a more positive 2013! Let’s make it out best year ever?
What are your stay-positive tips? (Please share your comments.)
Success Will Come and Go, But Integrity is Forever – Forbes.
As a coach I am sometimes asked to coach people for reasons that I believe to be inappropriate, and one of them is a lack of integrity. I believe nothing is more important in a leader than integrity….and, that by the time one is an adult their sense of integrity, (or not), is a pretty well-formed part of their personality.
Thnink about the great leaders you have known, Was integrity not a key part of who they were?
I love the way this guy thinks!
Wh at do you think of this?
World’s Simplest Management Secret | Inc.com.
Coaching Tip:
Think about a boss you had who did this well.
How can you implement this with your direct reports?
(Share your ideas below)
What Do YOU Think of this “Big Idea”?
It’s been my experience that Generation X and Y individuals, both men and women, are just not interested in working for companies that are not working on this.
How Transparent it Your Leadership?
5 Powerful Things Happen When A Leader Is Transparent – Forbes.
What do you think of this perspective? Do you agree? There were many comments on this article in Forbes. Let us hear YOUR voice.
“Here’s an unavoidable truth: You are going to screw up. Everyone — including very successful people — makes boatloads of mistakes. The key to success is, as everyone knows, to learn from those mistakes and keep moving forward. But not everyone knows how……” Heidi Grant Halvorson
To Succeed, Forget Self-Esteem – Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review.
Coach’s Tip:
Is this the missing key to your success?
How can you apply this new knowledge?