July 2009
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The Hot Air Balloon
Read this and remember: You may be able to become even a good manager like this, but to be a great manager you need to be HOT (Honest, Open and Trusting). And most importantly, the great manager knows that everything is his/her fault.
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realises he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:...
June 2009
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Keep Your Goals in Front of You →
This article by Steve Pavlina got me to sit down and write out some goals. The first one I already had verbalised and written down, the rest sort of just flowed out as I tried to proejct further into the future and asked myself what I wanted to do (I had also articulated #7 before, but without a date set to it). The further out the goal is the less sure I am about it. I don’t think I will...
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Juggling Success
I was taking a break from doing something more important today, so I picked up some oranges we had picked from the garden yesterday and started juggling with them. At first I was just having fun with it; it’s a great exercise of concentration, meditation and hand-eye co-ordination which I learnt while at circus school at the age of 6 (or thereabouts). I started counting how long I was juggling for...