The Tocqueville effect (also known as the Tocqueville paradox) is the phenomenon in which, as social conditions and […]
Category: Strategy
[pullquote]WHEN MARISSA MAYER WAS NAMED CEO OF YAHOO, IN JULY 2012, THE MEDIA COULDN’T GET ENOUGH OF HER […]
The definition of business strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal or set of goals or objectives.
Such is the case with Thomas Edison, whose most memorable invention was the light bulb, which purportedly took him 1,000 tries before he developed a successful prototype. “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” a reporter asked. “I didn’t fail 1,000 times,” Edison responded. “The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”
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.
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.