Tag: Management

Brad And Steve On How To Elevate Your Game

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Improve Academy, Innovation Management, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning

If you want to improve your life, you must first improve your performance.

The question is, according to Brad and Steve, ‘Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible? If so, how? What’s the secret? What, if any, are the principles underlying great performance? How can people like us- which is to say, just about anyone-adopt them?’

‘The brightest minds spend their time either pursuing their activity with ferocious intensity, or engaging in complete restoration and recovery.’

What are you doing to get better? If you are doing something, then ask yourself, ‘Is it the right thing for this moment?

‘It isn’t experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.’

Be intentional about your practice. If your practice is not right, do not expect to get better.

‘The way we think about the world has a profound effect on what we do in it.’

‘By pushing us toward just- manageable challenges and enhancing how we’ll respond to them, the right mindset opens up the possibility for growth to occur.’

Growth happens when you open up your mind to receive it. Because you will never receive what you are not expecting.

‘If we never take ‘easy’ periods, we are never able to go full throttle and the ‘hard’ periods end up being not that hard at all.’

‘Hard work only becomes smart and sustainable work when it’s supported by rest.’

‘It is hard to do your best thinking when your mind isn’t at peace.’

‘The things we work amidst become expansions of the self, things the mind can use to create harmony in experience.’

‘Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible?

Source:

Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness (2017). Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with The New Science of Success

Ron Roberts On How To Be A Great Leader

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Improve Academy, Innovation Management, Leadership, Management, Workplace Learning

To lead other people, you must first lead yourself. Because real leadership starts with you.

‘Great leaders humbly admit their flaws and dig them up as they would dig up weeds about to take root.’

‘Great leaders strive to become more conscious of what motivates and drives them and what determines how they relates to others.’

‘Great leaders work to remain conscious of the influence of the invisible unseen ego.’

‘To be a great leader, you must develop your ability to think in an Other-Centric manner which constantly balances your needs with those of others.’

‘Great leaders see things in an open, clear, nonjudgmental manner, looking carefully at many sides of a decision or argument- a prerequisite for making good decisions.’

‘When you judge others, you will always either lower other people’s value or elevate your own.’

‘To help defensive colleagues communicate better, get them to own projections of the way they think things should be and then to accept reality as it is.’

‘Great leaders are patient at the right time and prudently impatient in moderation when the need and timing are right.’

‘Great leaders achieve results by staying calm under pressure.’

‘Great leaders let things unfold naturally, and they leverage the power of patience to achieve sustained success.’

‘Only when leaders take steps to unlock the system that locks in much of the leaders’ behavior can the leaders themselves begin to change.’

‘Everyone wants to feel important. When you help others feel important, the unimportant stuff either dissipates or falls into perspective.’

‘Inaction by leaders leads to system breakdowns. Ongoing interaction and acceptance of reality lead to process improvement and flowing systems.’

‘How much resistance is there in your organization?’

Source:

Ron Roberts (2012). The Well-Balanced Leader: Interactive Learning Techniques to Help You Master The 9 Simple Behaviors of Outstanding Leadership