Archive for September, 2009

• Business
• Management
• Self Development

The principles in this book can be used to enrich our individual lives or even to create a work atmosphere where the team are more engaged in the business.

Using polls from such diverse groups as school children and nuns he shows how positive feedback at the right level can help people prosper and actually live longer.

We are told that we should concentrate on what is right with people instead of what is wrong.

YES

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• Business
• Management

The assistant is initially disillusioned because the president has had a meeting where he has blown off the board and the assistant feels this has lead to a loss in their confidence.

The Crux of the story is that the assistant contacts the one minute manager (a friend of his father) and is coached over a weekend that by openness and a sincere apology the president can renew his boards’ confidence in him.

The apology must be sincere (deep) and portray to the wronged parties that you are experiencing remorse.

Our journey through the parable is designed to point out the qualities that are found in great leaders.

NO

I’d like to think that any leader worth is salt exhibits these traits (for those that don’t I feel they wouldn’t read the book anyway).

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• Personal Development
• Self Help

Previously he held attitude above other skills, here he recognises that competence is more important than confidence.

Previously he would have changed staff for attitude, now he chooses for competence and then if necessary looks to improve their attitude.

The premise of the book is that although a positive attitude isn’t everything if you had two people of equal competence, the positive attitude would make the difference to success.

You don’t have to change all of your attitudes, just the major areas that are affecting you negatively

This book talks about the five obstacles to a positive attitude in depth and how to overcome them.

The five Obstacles being Discouragement, Change, Problems, Fear and Failure.

YES

I liked the quote the problem with experience is you usually get it after you need it.

The exercises where very user friendly in the five obstacle areas to overcome.

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The first step states that “There is a major difference between the average person and high achievers”, that difference being their view on failure.

In previous books such as “The Winning Attitude”, Maxwell alluded to the idea that failure isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Here the whole book focused on the premise that Failure is your friend or your enemy and you get to decide which.

YES

I think we all need to know that it’s okay to fail sometimes, and here we have a book that actually encourages us to fail more.

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• Business
• Leadership

The benefits of our positive attitude and identifying this in others can provide us with a more successful organisation.

Combining this with your other leadership skills to foster the attitude in your workforce can make your business stand out amongst the crowd.

Developing your positive attitude can help produce great results not just in business but in all areas of your life.

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The way it identifies failures along the journey as learning’s that will guide us (instead of roadblocks) to our success

I feel a more balanced book would have made it more amenable to a larger audience

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• Inspirational
• Self Development

We are provided with examples of how others have pursued the items on their life lists as well as plans to compile our own list

YES

I felt the fact that it gave a step by step guide to setting personal life lists made it a more accessible for a wider audience. I definitely used it to create my list.

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