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Jon Acuff On How To Reinvent Your Work

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Your career is yours. Take care of it. If you are not happy with it, you are not stuck. Because you have the power to change your path.

According to Jon Acuff, ‘Careers are built or broken on how we invest in them.’

‘Careers are only difficult because they are constantly changing and we are not.’

‘You don’t know who you know unless you spend deliberate time focusing on your relationships.’

‘Don’t look for foes who will confirm your fears that you’re not qualified for a Do Over. You are qualified.’

‘A friend is someone you share your day with. An advocate is someone you shape your career path.’

‘Apologize when you should, repair what you can and leave behind what you must.’

‘You have more skills than you think. Writing them down and looking for patterns is a great way to discover that.’

‘Great people surround themselves with greater people who challenge and stretch them.’

‘Don’t let fear hide a skill you’ve always had or wanted to pursue. Just because you’re afraid of doing something doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.’

‘Attitude is a skill too. If you want a better job, start with a better attitude.’

‘Your career will become extinct unless you learn new skills.’

‘If you want to learn a new skill, give yourself permission to be a tourist, not an instant expert.’

‘If you want to win in the future, sometimes you have to look to the past.’

‘Big dreams take other people. So does learning something new. Find someone from your relationship note cards to help you.’

‘To stay sharp, hone current skills through repetition and grow new ones through innovation.’

‘Relationships get you the first gig and skills get you the second. Character helps ensure that if you fail you’ll get another shot and if you succeed you won’t get drunk on ego.’

‘The world is not running out of opportunities; ignore fear when it tells you to be greedy.’

‘Generosity is always cheaper than greed. Count the true cost of what’s at stake when you make decisions.’

‘Care about what the people you care about care about. Figure that out faster by reading less minds and asking more questions.’

‘Grit is a choice, not a feeling. Don’t wait until you feel brave to hustle. Choose to hustle until you feel brave.’

‘Hustle is a scalpel. Use it to remove things from your life, not to add things.’

Purpose is often a by-product of hustle, not a prerequisite. Don’t wait for a perfect purpose. Use hustle as a way to find the next one.’

Source

Jon Acuff (2015). Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

William C. Taylor Quotes On How To Do Small Things In Great Ways

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Motivational Quotes, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When it comes to growth, small things matter. Don’t ignore them. Take them seriously.

That is what great organizations do. If you don’t want to be left behind, then get out there and get the little things done.

Remember, according to William C. Taylor, ‘Everything we do either helps or hurts the brand. Everything. If a sign is crooked, if one of our people doesn’t smile, if we don’t maintain a sense of energy, then we are hurting the message.’

‘The most successful organizations are no longer the ones that offer the best deals. They’re the ones that champion the most original ideas, and do things other organizations can’t or won’t do.’

‘What your competitors won’t do may surprise you. Don’t let worries about imitation limit your enthusiasm for innovation.’

‘Leaders who aspire to do great things can’t lose sight of the small things that make such a huge impression inside and outside the organization.’

‘For companies and brands that aspire to do something extraordinary, what you believe has become as important as what you sell.’

‘In most industries, it is not easy to be average. But we choose to be extraordinary. And it is a choice. The world will not demand it of you.’

‘Expertise is powerful … until it gets in the way of innovation. In a world being remade before our eyes, leaders who make a big difference are the ones who challenge the logic of their field- and of their own success.’

‘The most creative leaders are smart yet naive, playful but disciplined, humble, and proud.’

‘You’re only as young as the new things you do, the number of ‘firsts’ in your days and weeks.’

‘Organizations that perform at a high level for a long time don’t just think differently from everyone else, they care more than everyone else. In an era of big ideas and disruptive technology, simple acts of connection and compassion take on outsized importance.’

‘In a world being reshaped by technology, what so many of us crave are small gestures of kindness that remind us of what it means to be human.’

‘You can’t be exceptional in the marketplace unless you create something exceptional in the workplace.’

‘Organizations that make the most dramatic progress are the ones that invite ordinary people to make extraordinary contributions, and whose leaders are as humble as they are hungry.’

‘Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that’s when the magic happens.’

‘The organizations that inspire the deepest sense of commitment are the ones whose members receive a fair share of the value they help to create.’

‘We ask everyone to give their best every day. But that only works if there’s a mind-set that all of us are in the same game.’

Source

William C. Taylor (2016). Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary Ways!