Category: Health & Well-Being

‘Making Impossible Dreams Possible’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Ultimate fulfillment and significance come from a lasting sense of joy and satisfaction, from fully living a life purpose centered on adding value to others.’

‘When you stop wanting to control people, that’s when you begin to empower them to take responsibility for and ownership of the choices they make and the actions they take.’

‘Don’t take things personally, and don’t let problems drag you down.’

‘When we push others down, we can’t help but push ourselves down. When we bring others up, we can’t help but bring ourselves up.’

‘In the process of giving we are already receiving.’

‘People are often too engrossed in what they are doing to become aware.’

‘Don’t be attached to the need to be right. If what you perceive as the truth turns out to be not the case, you can acknowledge it, let it go, and move on.’

‘You should … be on the lookout for teachable moments to ask direct and powerful questions that energize change.’

‘Don’t be too attached to your intuition, no matter how certain you feel; always be ready to let go.’

‘People can make adjustments to stay on course when they know how they are progressing toward their goal at any given time.’

‘When you focus on open-ended questions and broader questions, you stimulate ‘out of the box’ thinking and widen people’s horizons.’

Source:

Jack Canfield and Dr. Peter Chee (2013). Coaching for Breakthrough Success: Proven Techniques for Making Impossible Dreams Possible

The Power Of Ownership

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Employee ownership changes how companies operate. It changes how people feel about their work, and it enables them to build significant wealth over time.’

‘When you look at who should own companies, measured by who takes the biggest risks and who adds the most value, the arrows all point in one direction: the employees.’

‘… it is ownership that sets the terms and incentives under which companies must operate. Unless reformers address the issue of ownership, their impact will always be limited.’

‘Companies owned by private equity too often wind up saddled with debt and forced into layoffs. Their owners typically care little about their long-term health or the communities in which they operate.’

‘Ownership is more complex, and more open to change, than it first appears. Ownership by shareholders is just a convention, not a law of nature.’

‘When a company is sold– and nearly every company that doesn’t shut shop will be sold- there’s an opportunity to transform its ownership.‘

‘How to spread employee ownership? The good news is that we don’t need major changes in tax or other laws. Relatively minor tweak to existing rules, funding state and local outreach programs, and proving financial support for transactions could all make a big difference at a small cost.’

‘By focusing on broadening ownership, would-be reformers will undoubtedly create more models that work for more situations.’

‘A company owned by a trust exists for the benefit of employees. It rewards them with both profits and job security.’

‘Selling to the employees ensures that the company will continue as an independent business– no risk that it will be be immediately swallowed up by some giant corporation, with people on the payroll given the ax.’

Source:

Corey Rosen and John Case (2022). Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, and Who Owns What