10 Lessons from the Tibetan Monks

Leaders can learn a lot from the Tibetan monks ability to control their emotions. Here are 10 lessons

1. When you lose, don't lose the lesson
2. Follow the 3 R's: Respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.
3. Spend some time alone each day.
4. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
5. Love as if you've never been hurt.
6. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
7. Once a year, go somewhere that you've never been before.
8. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
9. Don't let a little dispute ruin a great friendship.
10. Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

Wonderful lessons that we could all learn and develop from.....

Carnival of Management Tips

Welcome to the February 6, 2007 edition of carnival of management tips.

Jane May presents Career Ramblings » Blog Archive » 8 Things Employers MUST Do To Find New Talent posted at Career Ramblings.

Anna presents Work/Life Balance at The Engaging Brand

Alexandra Levit presents The Age of Under-Empowerment posted at Water Cooler Wisdom.

Murad Ali presents What Type of Training and With Whom?: Getting a Return on InvestmentThe New Business World.

Benjamin Yoskovitz presents Fire Your Crappy Customers - The Homestead HubbubInstigator Blog, saying, "Looking at what it means to fire a customer and why you might do it.

David presents Crossing the IT and Business Divide posted at Worldwide Success.

Scott Lee presents Project Management:: Part 1 - 5 Key Phases of a Project posted at Dirty Mechanism.

Scott Lee presents Project Management::Part 2 - Building and Using a Team posted at Dirty Mechanism.

Murad Ali presents Psychology and Sales: Making them purchase. posted at The New Business World.

Mike Buckley presents Improving Your Game posted at Mine Your Own Business.

David Maister presents Sad Truths for Leaders posted at Passion, People and Principles, saying, "Great managers follow these 4 rules."

Charles H. Green presents Seth Godin vs. Peter Drucker posted at Trust Matters, saying, "Who is right about management issues: Seth Godin or Peter Drucker?"

Sagar Satapathy presents 5-Minute Tips To Improve Efficiency posted at Project Management Source.

Debra Moorhead presents How to Determine Your Top 20 posted at Debra Moorhead.com

Vahid Chaychi presents Time Is Passing. Are You? posted at Internet and Search Engine Marketing,

Heather presents Overcoming the fear of podcasting at WomeninPodcasting

Brian presents Manager Toolkit: Dialog posted at Brian Nick.

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Carnival of Management Tips

Welcome to the January 26, 2007 edition of carnival of management tips.

Murad Ali presents Companies that are Diverse Earn More Profits posted at The New Business World.

Krishna De presents Google alerts - probably the best free research tool in the world posted at Krishna De, saying, "Discover 10 tips to using Google Alerts to grow your business"

David Maister presents Non-Financial Currencies posted at Passion, People and Principles, saying, "When you want to give a raise but you haven't got the budget, here's 15 other ways to reward and motivate people."

Charles H. Green presents Fear and Loathing at the Office posted at Trust Matters, saying, "Does your management style inspire fear and loathing?"

Christopher J. Brunner presents Relating to NBC’s “The Office” posted at The Small Business Buzz,

David presents The 7 Traits of Highly Effective Teams posted at Worldwide Success, saying, "As individuals, we can achieve many commendable goals. However, significant, large accomplishments that have a major impact in a company, a community, or the entire world, can only be achieved with a group of people.


Dragos Roua presents GTD for people living in transition countries posted at eDragonu - choice of a personal path.

Debra Moorhead presents 9 Business Etiquette Faux Pas and How to Avoid Them posted at Debra Moorhead.com.

Erek Ostrowski presents Personality vs. Purpose posted at Verve Coaching.

Craig Harper presents 35 tips for creating and maintaining a successful startup posted at Renovate your life with Craig, saying, "At some stage, every successful business was simply an idea floating around in someone's head.

Will Chen presents "Paying Yourself First" Explained in Plain English posted at Wisebread, saying, "A powerful money management technique that will lead you to financial freedom."

Paul Gonzalez presents How to Stop Being Mediocre | The One Year Exit Plan posted at The One Year Exit Plan, saying, "If you want to stop being mediocre, you have to continue to act on the thing you're avoiding the most."

Kevin Henney presents When Business Blogging Goes Wrong posted at Quartz Mountain Weblog, saying, "Business blogging can be a great way to improve communication, but it can have a downside when used incorrectly.

Charles H. Green presents Leading Lawyers posted at Trust Matters, saying, "How can someone who bills 3,300 hours legitimately be described as managing, much less leading, a 550-lawyer firm"

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Learning from Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods is not the best bunker player in the world and does not enjoy practising them so his answer....perfecting his swing so that he goes in less bunkers.

Now have a look at this phrase NOWHEREISHAPPINESS

What do you see? Do you see "nowhere is happiness", or "now here is happiness"?

The follow up question is "Do you concentrate on what you can't do, or what you can do? As Marcus Buckingham would say build on your strengths to succeed in business. I guess Tiger must have read the book!

Engaging People In the Company Vision

Words are powerful, incredibly emotive and can be used to really ignite the passion in people. Here are 3 great examples of ho

1. "It's the place people come for refuge - a 3rd place not home not work" Starbucks
2. "It is more than just a resort; it's a means of rediscovering oneself, of inventing an entirely new me" Club Med
3. "The experience enlivens the senses, instills well being and fulfills even the unexpressed wishes and needs of our client" Ritz Carlton

Now look at your vision...does it stoke the same level of emotion, is it too general like surpassing customer expectations, being the best etc? Does it read like words put together at a "facilitated brainstorming session" or does it paint a powerful picture that people can see and engage with?

Seek the Truth for Success

As managers we are often not rational but rationalising and we tend to spend our time proving our point, not finding the truth. The reason... truth sometimes hurts, can sometimes mean that we have to be big enough to see when something is not working, or needs changing. So to be successful,

Seek the truth, rather than prove the point.

Respect will soar for you as a manager.

Do you REALLY understand your business?

I am a believer in understanding all aspects of the business to be a better manager. Here are some ideas on how I increase both my knowledge and that of the team.

1. Invite other managers to come to team briefings and explain their goals, successes and how they work.
2. Attend other team meetings to explain our goals.
3. Visit one department per month to work through their process, to understand the full supply chain.
4. Arrange at least yearly for senior managers and Executives to walk through the full supply chain so they can see for themselves issues, progress and success.
5. Go to lunch with someone from outside your normal peer or team group.

It is important that you work across the organisation, understanding how an idea becomes purchased by a consumer. It also helps you to contribute more fully at meetings.

Is arrogance affecting you?

A lesson from Napoleon. On the morning of the Battle of Waterloo he said to his generals
"I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunchtime." Mmmm I bet he regretted that one!

With hindsight a little humility would have been great. How often does this happen to you, often without you knowing. Is there something like pride that is clouding your judgement? What are you not seeing? Who are you undervaluing and not giving sufficient attention to?

Managing People - A sentence to remember

Each person has needs and concerns, to be successful in life and at work you need to.......

• You need to answer the first - their needs
• You need to allay the latter - their concerns

Simple but effective personal development.

Focus on the Truth

Two men went to court. The plaintiff made his case and the judge said "That's right". The defendant made his case and the judge said "That's right". The clerk of the court said "They can't both be right!"
The judge replied, "That's right"

Moral:truth is all around us, what matters is where we put our focus.....

So where are your blind spots, where is your focus, what is truly important, do you know what your focus should be?