It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
-George Lorimer
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
-Grace Lichtenstein
Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-Pablo Picasso
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Real generosity is...
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True greatness consists of being great in little things.
-Samuel Johnson
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
-Frank A. Clark
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Samuel Johnson
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
-Frank A. Clark
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Desire is the key to motivation...
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
-James R. Cook
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
-Johann von Goethe
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
-Mario Andretti
-James R. Cook
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
-Johann von Goethe
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
-Mario Andretti
Monday, January 28, 2008
You can make more friends...
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
-Patrick Overton
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie
-Theodore Roosevelt
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
-Patrick Overton
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie
Friday, January 25, 2008
Always remember...
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.
-Norman Vincent Peale
You have the power to create the environment you want. What are you creating today?
-Neil Thornton, Dale Carnegie Business Coach, Ontario
-Albert Einstein
Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.
-Norman Vincent Peale
You have the power to create the environment you want. What are you creating today?
-Neil Thornton, Dale Carnegie Business Coach, Ontario
Thursday, January 24, 2008
You are the only person...
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
-Epictetus
If a man does not know what harbor he is seeking, no light will be enough to guide him.
-Unknown
You are the only person on earth who can use your abilities.
-Zig Ziglar
-Epictetus
If a man does not know what harbor he is seeking, no light will be enough to guide him.
-Unknown
You are the only person on earth who can use your abilities.
-Zig Ziglar
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Are you bored with Life?
Are you bored with Life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
- Dale Carnegie
The purpose of life...
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-Robert Byrne
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
-Gary Collins
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
-Colin Wilson
-Robert Byrne
We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
-Gary Collins
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
-Colin Wilson
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The best job goes to...
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Oprah Winfrey
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Monday, January 21, 2008
If you have enough push...
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
- Napoleon Hill
If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.
- Zig Ziglar
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
- Napoleon Hill
If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.
- Zig Ziglar
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Learning to Produce
Big-picture Goals Boost Company's Bottom Line
Derek Sankey
For the Calgary Herald
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Companies have embraced the notion of "learning organizations" in recent years by offering more learning and development opportunities in a tight labour market to boost productivity and enhance recruitment.
But if Canada's productivity gains are any indication, much of that investment in learning seems to be making little difference to the bottom line.
Canada's bleak record on labour productivity continues, despite efforts by businesses to invest in a wider range of training and development programs. Productivity growth in Canada was 2.5 per cent from 2001 to 2005, compared with 15.9 per cent in the U.S. It slowed to 0.1 per cent in 2004 and 1.1 per cent in 2006.
The "learning organization" became a buzz word when companies started to focus on complex "learning goals" to build the knowledge, skills and strategies that lead to increased performance.
Performance goals, meanwhile, focus on the end result and are most effective for simpler tasks.
Research over the past 30 years has shown learning goals are more effective at attaining objectives, but companies aren't embracing them enough because they're targeting the quarterly bottom line instead of the bigger picture, according to one researcher.
"Oftentimes in organizations, it is very tempting to be in performance mode all the time, not learning what is going on outside an organization," says Gerard Seijts, a professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at London's University of Western Ontario.
He recently completed research that backs up previous findings showing learning goals lead to better performance, even if the process takes longer and is more complex.
Working with Masters of Business Administration and graduate students, he developed a simulated telecommunications company in a laboratory setting where students were asked to perform the complex task of increasing market share.
People in the learning goal condition took more time to access information and spent longer in the simulation, but at the end they had outperformed individuals that had a performance goal.
"With a performance goal, (students) often develop some kind of tunnel vision with results at all costs," says Seijts.
Piers Steel, a professor at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business agrees the trick is finding the right balance between the two types of goals.
"If you completely focus on outcomes, what you're going to have is people covering their asses and refusing to take risks," says Steel.
Perhaps one of the reasons that U.S. industries have outperformed Canadian businesses in recent years may be related to the differing business and social cultures.
"Sometimes in the U.S., they set these outrageous goals and then they do a phenomenal job of attaining them," says Seijts.
Companies need to carefully evaluate how they are specifically building learning goals into the daily job functions of employees, as opposed to offering only professional development courses that may not be related to the corporation's objectives.
Coaching and mentoring programs are one way to enhance learning objectives because the concepts generally establish longer-term relationships and performance can be measured more accurately than via a quarterly sales chart.
A review of internal processes such as HR practices that reinforce learning goals, as well as an analysis of how a company's research and development budget aligns with those goals, might be necessary for business leaders to fully capture the gains that learning goals offer.
For employees, it means using every opportunity available to build on the knowledge and skills that enhance your productivity.
"You need to invest a bit of time in your learning . . . and you will rapidly outperform other individuals," says Seijts.
Steel says that when new employees are hired, it presents a good opportunity to adopt the learning organization philosophy right from the start.
"If somebody's new to a job, for example, you would get better results in the long run if you evaluate them and help them focus on how much they're learning over time," he says.
"Performance is just focusing on the easy gains and they're not willing to take any risks," says Steel. "Focusing on learning is focusing on what you can control."
Dale Carnegie Training has been in the business of training people for over 96 years. During that period, we have trained over 8 million people. That shows our programs have stood the test of time, because they work!
People like Warren Buffet, Annette Benning, Lee Iacocca, Lanny and Ardelle McDonald have taken the program. Our programs are designed to help people tap into their potential and maximize their opportunities.
We use time-phased learning, which means our programs run over a number of weeks. It is not so much what you know, but what you do with what you know. Most psychologists suggest it takes a minimum of two months to affect behavioral changes.
In our programs we encourage the next opportunity. Our coaches build the next level of growth, by working with our clients to experience success. Mr. Lee Iacocca was a young engineer and an up-and-coming-executive with Ford, when he took a Dale Carnegie Program. When he was asked why he was taking the program, he said, “I want to become more confident.” When questioned as to what he meant, he said, “When I increase my confidence, two things accrue; number one, I increase my income and secondly, I enhance my marketability.”
For lasting results from your training call Dale Carnegie Training in Calgary at 265-5344. We have training programs offered all over the province.
Derek Sankey
For the Calgary Herald
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Companies have embraced the notion of "learning organizations" in recent years by offering more learning and development opportunities in a tight labour market to boost productivity and enhance recruitment.
But if Canada's productivity gains are any indication, much of that investment in learning seems to be making little difference to the bottom line.
Canada's bleak record on labour productivity continues, despite efforts by businesses to invest in a wider range of training and development programs. Productivity growth in Canada was 2.5 per cent from 2001 to 2005, compared with 15.9 per cent in the U.S. It slowed to 0.1 per cent in 2004 and 1.1 per cent in 2006.
The "learning organization" became a buzz word when companies started to focus on complex "learning goals" to build the knowledge, skills and strategies that lead to increased performance.
Performance goals, meanwhile, focus on the end result and are most effective for simpler tasks.
Research over the past 30 years has shown learning goals are more effective at attaining objectives, but companies aren't embracing them enough because they're targeting the quarterly bottom line instead of the bigger picture, according to one researcher.
"Oftentimes in organizations, it is very tempting to be in performance mode all the time, not learning what is going on outside an organization," says Gerard Seijts, a professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at London's University of Western Ontario.
He recently completed research that backs up previous findings showing learning goals lead to better performance, even if the process takes longer and is more complex.
Working with Masters of Business Administration and graduate students, he developed a simulated telecommunications company in a laboratory setting where students were asked to perform the complex task of increasing market share.
People in the learning goal condition took more time to access information and spent longer in the simulation, but at the end they had outperformed individuals that had a performance goal.
"With a performance goal, (students) often develop some kind of tunnel vision with results at all costs," says Seijts.
Piers Steel, a professor at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business agrees the trick is finding the right balance between the two types of goals.
"If you completely focus on outcomes, what you're going to have is people covering their asses and refusing to take risks," says Steel.
Perhaps one of the reasons that U.S. industries have outperformed Canadian businesses in recent years may be related to the differing business and social cultures.
"Sometimes in the U.S., they set these outrageous goals and then they do a phenomenal job of attaining them," says Seijts.
Companies need to carefully evaluate how they are specifically building learning goals into the daily job functions of employees, as opposed to offering only professional development courses that may not be related to the corporation's objectives.
Coaching and mentoring programs are one way to enhance learning objectives because the concepts generally establish longer-term relationships and performance can be measured more accurately than via a quarterly sales chart.
A review of internal processes such as HR practices that reinforce learning goals, as well as an analysis of how a company's research and development budget aligns with those goals, might be necessary for business leaders to fully capture the gains that learning goals offer.
For employees, it means using every opportunity available to build on the knowledge and skills that enhance your productivity.
"You need to invest a bit of time in your learning . . . and you will rapidly outperform other individuals," says Seijts.
Steel says that when new employees are hired, it presents a good opportunity to adopt the learning organization philosophy right from the start.
"If somebody's new to a job, for example, you would get better results in the long run if you evaluate them and help them focus on how much they're learning over time," he says.
"Performance is just focusing on the easy gains and they're not willing to take any risks," says Steel. "Focusing on learning is focusing on what you can control."
Dale Carnegie Training has been in the business of training people for over 96 years. During that period, we have trained over 8 million people. That shows our programs have stood the test of time, because they work!
People like Warren Buffet, Annette Benning, Lee Iacocca, Lanny and Ardelle McDonald have taken the program. Our programs are designed to help people tap into their potential and maximize their opportunities.
We use time-phased learning, which means our programs run over a number of weeks. It is not so much what you know, but what you do with what you know. Most psychologists suggest it takes a minimum of two months to affect behavioral changes.
In our programs we encourage the next opportunity. Our coaches build the next level of growth, by working with our clients to experience success. Mr. Lee Iacocca was a young engineer and an up-and-coming-executive with Ford, when he took a Dale Carnegie Program. When he was asked why he was taking the program, he said, “I want to become more confident.” When questioned as to what he meant, he said, “When I increase my confidence, two things accrue; number one, I increase my income and secondly, I enhance my marketability.”
For lasting results from your training call Dale Carnegie Training in Calgary at 265-5344. We have training programs offered all over the province.
Friday, January 18, 2008
No one knows everything...
No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something.
- Sean Gregory Derrick
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
- Otto Rank
- Sean Gregory Derrick
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
- Otto Rank
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Laugh...
Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.
- Og Mandino
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
- Thomas J. Peters
Promise a lot and give even more.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
- Og Mandino
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
- Thomas J. Peters
Promise a lot and give even more.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The vision must be followed...
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
- Anne Sexton
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
- James Lane Allen
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
- Vance Havner
- Anne Sexton
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
- James Lane Allen
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
- Vance Havner
Monday, January 14, 2008
Miracles happen...
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
- Bernhard Berenson
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
- Lance Armstrong
- Helen Keller
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
- Bernhard Berenson
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
- Lance Armstrong
Friday, January 11, 2008
Whoever is happy...
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
- Jim Rohn
For every problem there is an opportunity.
- Anonymous
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
- Anne Frank
- Jim Rohn
For every problem there is an opportunity.
- Anonymous
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
- Anne Frank
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The guy on top...
The guy on top of the mountain didn't fall there!
- Vincent F. Orza, CEO, Eateries Inc.
Communicate simply, clearly and truthfully. Customers, employees, and investors are smart. They don't need business people who use complicated words or who are less than candid in their communication. Tell the truth and keep it simple.
- Brad Martin, CEO, Saks Inc.
The man with the plan leads the way.
- Paul R. Gudonis, CEO, Genuity Inc.
- Vincent F. Orza, CEO, Eateries Inc.
Communicate simply, clearly and truthfully. Customers, employees, and investors are smart. They don't need business people who use complicated words or who are less than candid in their communication. Tell the truth and keep it simple.
- Brad Martin, CEO, Saks Inc.
The man with the plan leads the way.
- Paul R. Gudonis, CEO, Genuity Inc.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Develop success from failures...
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
- Amanda Bradley
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Dale Carnegie
- Kahlil Gibran
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
- Amanda Bradley
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Dale Carnegie
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Vision without action is...
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel Arthur Barker
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
- Dale Carnegie
- Joel Arthur Barker
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
- Dale Carnegie
Friday, January 4, 2008
If you want to be happy...
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
- Andrew Carnegie
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
- Harvey Mackay
Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
- Andrew Carnegie
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
- Harvey Mackay
Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Everything we do seeds the future.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- John Kennedy, U.S. President
Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
- Joan Chittister
You can and should shape your own future; because if you don't someone else surely will.
- Joel Arthur Barker
- John Kennedy, U.S. President
Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
- Joan Chittister
You can and should shape your own future; because if you don't someone else surely will.
- Joel Arthur Barker
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