A Guide For Creative Thinking By: Brian Tracy Einstein once said, Every child is born a genius. But the reason why most people do not function at genius levels is because they are not aware of how creative and smart they really are. I call it the Schwarzenegger effect. No one would look at a
About 3,000 years ago, the wise King Solomon wrote: Of making many books, there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. I suspect that if most modern executives could send a message back to Solomon’s time (and don’t bet that modern technology won’t find a way), they’d say, Your Majesty,
Did you know that, in a typical American Company, almost 40% of the resources are wasted redoing something that was done wrong the first time? Did you realize that an average of only 35% of an employee’s time is invested in actually doing the work or adding value to the job? These are scary thoughts,
Most of the verbal communicating you do is from one individual to another. This is true whether you’re in a family, social, or a work setting. One-on-one verbal communication affords the greatest opportunity for precision, because immediate feedback can tell you whether you were understood accurately. But communicating effectively involves more than just accuracy. The
Many of the most brilliant and capable speakers and consultants are anything but successful — some even end up having serious financial problems. It’s not that they don’t work hard. In many cases they work too hard. The problem is they fail to manage the fruits of their labors effectively and let their profits slip
“Time is your most valuable resource!” says internationally known management expert Peter Drucker. Then he makes a very astute observation: “Unless time is managed, nothing else can be managed.” In other words, if time gets away from us, every other part of our business will get away from us, too. Your effectiveness in time utilization,
