‘Don’t push your luck’ is what you will most often get as advice the moment you decide to take action and change your future. And without doubt, pushing the odds towards a successful outcome has everything to do with exhausting all available means as you pursue that goal. If we accept as true that luck […]
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A Successful Worker vs a Visionary
What is it exactly that separates that 2% of top professionals, from their 0.01% sub-minority called ‘Visionaries’…? What kind of quality can make individuals of similar IQ, expertise, education, training, experience, and sometimes even character, to be so different in terms of results? Or perhaps you are thinking that the difference is not so great… […]
YOU DON’T NEED ALL THE INFORMATION
‘As soon as I have all the information, I will let you know’… this is both what we have all heard AND said at various stages in our careers. And it is a lie, for two reasons: First, when you really feel compelled to commit and seriously consider that commitment, you do not need much […]
THE UNADVERTISED JOB
Most people think that all job-openings are always properly announced, and available without any kind of discrimination based on race, gender or any other political incorrectness. In most parts of the world this is true, although another parallel reality in those parts of the world remains undetected, and has nothing to do with discrimination. It […]
Beyond Growth and Profit
It is beyond doubt nowadays that we are facing dire challenges as the ecological conditions on planet Earth change, irrevocably to a certain percentage. Even the most hard-core capitalist minds have begun to admit the problem behind closed doors as they notice lower temperatures in Chicago than in Alaska, typhoons in Greece, and heat-waves in […]
The 4th Quality: When Knowledge, Belief, and Truth fail.
Is there any notion more valuable or higher than Truth? And how can one discover it? Furthermore, how can we know it and possess it with absolute certainty? Philosophical theories, scientific discoveries, religious structures, have served and continue to serve humankind. Still, in an uncertain world, they can all prove inadequate in their singularity. The […]
MAKE THE DECISION
There is nothing worse than impulsive decision-making. In business as well as in personal affairs, those who react during the ‘heat’ usually regret it later on. It is a lesson we learn as children, as teenagers, and of course as young adults. But as time goes by, we learn to wait before we […]
The bad advisor called Hesitation
Hesitation is costing large parts of success to billions of people around the world every day. Many different reasons contribute to this. Sometimes people hesitate because they are in doubt. The information they got from college or university proves inaccurate or irrelevant, and what they keep hearing from friends and relatives proves old-fashioned or simply […]