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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Don’t say you don’t have enough time: a PicQuote
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Lessons on greed from a real-life Slumdog* Millionaire
If Occupy Wall Street, Occupy London and all the other recent protest actions have achieved anything at all, it is to highlight the general distaste in these times for pure greed. Whether that message has been heard or will lead to any sort of change appears to be doubtful, which is a pity. But it’s [...]
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How one plus one plus one equals one hell of a lot more than three
It’s a simple truth that nobody ever does anything alone. I’ve been fortunate in a business career over many years to have had excellent partners, and with them, I have been able to achieve some really wonderful things. Among them, most recently, the building of a business named SALESGURU (www.salesguru.co.za) in South Africa which made [...]
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Reasons why it sucks to be the king
It must be awful to be the King. Or the Queen. Or anything that means you’re born into entitlement. It must suck to be the child of super-rich parents. Seriously. It would be cool to have access to all the things that they have: The helpers and the minders and the sort of instant name-recognition [...]
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You’ve just got to be YOU
If you’re serious about life, you’re never off stage. No matter where you are, or what you’re up to, you’re always under the spotlight. A random encounter at the supermarket or on the train. An informal meeting that suddenly turns very formal when you’re taken upstairs to meet the big kahunas. Drinks with your employees [...]
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Make sure you hire skills from the crazy pool
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” So ran an ad in one of the London newspapers in 1912 as Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton began to recruit for his next attempt to plant the Union Jack firmly in [...]
Why I believe in honesty
Honesty is the only approach. The older and more experienced I get, not only am I more certain of this, I am generally more fearless in practicing it. We’d all be a lot better off if we put greater emphasis on making more extraordinary true stories and less emphasis on trying to embellish the ones [...]
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Time: nature’s helpful monster
One thing about time: it isn’t going to move any slower, no matter how much we may want it to on occasion. No matter how fast it seems to fly sometimes or how it seems to drag at others, one constant remains: when it’s gone, it’s gone. And what you didn’t do with it, cannot [...]
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