So there is clearly a need for global leadership. But when the public look at what is on offer, they are not impressed. Many of the bankers and politicians caught dozing by the financial crisis were regulars at Davos. Ordinary folk trust Davos Man no more than they would a lobbyist for the Worldwide Federation of Weasels. A survey by Edelman, a public-relations firm, finds that only 18% of people trust business leaders to tell the truth. For political leaders, the figure is 13%.
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A man in the mode of goodness is not so much affected by material calamities, and he has a sense of advancement in knowledge.
It’s a natural law that goodness brings greater knowledge and a greater sense of happiness.
The problem is that when a man is situated in the mode of goodness he starts to think that he is advanced in knowledge and is better than others.
3. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
4. The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
5. I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
This really made me think… I let my mind wander free, just waiting for something to come. Suddenly I saw myself as an explorer of ancient pyramids, and that made a lot of sense to me.
‘Why a pyramid explorer?’ they asked.
‘Because when you know where to look, you can find treasures inside places where
nobody has been before. I see people like temples, with hidden treasures just waiting to be brought out!’
Most people wait for something extremely bad to happen in order to do something to get out of a rut. Successful people are proactive and act in advance – to prevent problems and create results.
Trust is the glue in relationships. Here are some behaviors that build trust:
Seeking first to understand
Making and keeping promises
Honesty and integrity
We can enhance our feelings by feeling our spiritual nature and develop a giver heart.
“When corporate leaders make a sincere effort to give managers both challenge and choice, most managers can learn to direct their energy and improve their focus – and ultimately find their way to the sea.”
IT is well known that when like-minded people get together, they tend to end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk. The same kind of echo-chamber effect can happen as people get news from various media. Liberals viewing MSNBC or reading left-of-center blogs may well end up embracing liberal talking points even more firmly; conservative fans of Fox News may well react in similar fashion on the right.
Tatjana: A lot of people want to achieve success in life and in business and generally in the beginning they don’t know how? Somehow they start the business, they have certain success but they get stuck somewhere. On the other hand, they start having certain discipline, and become better people and start having a better communication with their business partners because they see that this is needed. And because they hear about it or they have a family custom, they practice some type of spirituality. But it seems like there is no connection between their business life and their spiritual life. So is there a connection between business and spirituality?
Many organisations are investing in training fail to get the most from their investment. Staff are sent on courses without being sufficiently clear about why they are attending the course. Staff attend courses without setting clear learning objectives for the course. They come back from a course and are not debriefed and set longer term learning goals. Here are some ideas for getting the most from your investment in training.
Clarity might help you achieve success and happiness.
Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor.
That’s why we say that “Success is goals, and all else is commentary.”
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Every moment of every day we are making a choice which dog to feed. Our spirituality begins and ends with our consciousness, so let us try to become more conscious of the very sense of self and identity we are developing in our lives together.
For this reason, and perhaps more than ever before, our ability to select our most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done quickly and well, will probably have more impact on our success than any other quality or skill we can develop.
“When two people are angry at each other, their hearts are very distant. To cover that distance they must shout to hear each other. The angrier they are, the louder they need to become to reach across that great distance.”
There are basically two kinds of questions that we can ask yourself: empowering questions and dis-empowering questions. […]
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