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We all seek happiness ... scientific research and further demonstrates that there are terrible to consider what makes us happy! How can you really find true happiness at work, relationships and life? compiled in his book, Delivering luck, Tony Hsieh CEO of Zappos.com shares the challenges and successes in dealing with happiness as busines MODEL Zappos.com make a billion dollar company with satisfied employees and customers and partners running strong. Now, Delivering HappinessHAPPINESS 'AND' A WORLD is inspiring as a framework for organizations to improve the quality of life. The objective will be jointly administered Glückstadt DELIVERY to share experiences and ideas to be: 1. As the book inspired you. 2. How to act on the provision of luck in their organizations and lives. We are happy to have you here.
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With a bright new start to 2011, let's just face a couple of facts. This is the year for making smarter moves when it comes to building an unforgettable personal brand, but there's one condition: It requires having more fun with your brand.
Why? There's a new brand landscape out there, all the rules have changed and, well, the timing just feels perfect. Longing to land a spot on the global map? Then this is your year to gulp a few big breaths, break some of the rules, and dare to bring a bigger sense of play around your brand. (Sound appealing?)
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These are my three rules (use or break, please) to help you kick-start a 'My Brand Is Having More Fun campaign in 2011′:
Brands Have More Fun in 2011
!1: Now is the time Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard Order Today!
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Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.
In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients.
● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping.
● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service
In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
Rule #1: Focus on attitude | what you know is less important than who you are
I remember reading an inspiring article many years ago in Fast Company. It certainly resonated: Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill. (In fact, I wanted to track it down for this piece. It just took me two seconds, of course, on Google. The writer: Peter Carbonara. The date: August 31, 1996.)
In the article, Carbonara explores the idea that you can't build a great company without great people, and reports on several smart hiring tips from Southwest Airlines, Nucor Steel, and Silicon Graphics. By the way, it's a terrific read.* *See link below)
Carbonara poses several questions: How can you recognize great people when you see them? How do you separate the winners from the losers, the good hires from the bad hires?
Here's the answer: "What people know is less important than who they are. Hiring is not about finding people with the right experience. It's about finding people with the right mind-set. These companies hire for attitude and then train for skill."
So think about this: In 2011, start having more fun when it comes to getting your head around your attitude and mindset. Explore what's important to you, and why it matters. Be totally clear. Understanding the importance of attitude and mindset when it comes to various kinds of brand encounters - from interviews to negotiation to landing a new client - is going to make you stand head and shoulders above the rest. The fun part is making sure your personality shines through, and your brand communicates, in all its messaging, that you are who you say you are. What could be more exhilarating that that?
Rule #2: If your ship hasn't come in, then swim out to it
The year 2011 is not the year for feeling (i) sorry for yourself or (ii) it ain't going to happen or (iii) I can't swim. This is the year for going after exactly what you've been dreaming about.
So think about this: Yes, dream. And then, dream on, some more! Go for it. Have a blast. Get your hands on books like Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos. Because if you ever thought any of this is crazy, your thinking might just turn around. His model for achieving success? "By concentrating on the happiness of those around you, you can dramatically increase your own happiness."
Rule #3: Be master of serious play
If you're feeling any brand anxiety, and have that worried look on your face, guess what? You want to lighten up a little. If you're ambitious, and you want your brand name out there in big lights, you might want to think about enjoying the journey. Certainly there's hard work involved. But clearly, it's not meant to be painful! This rule also states that when you, as Master of Serious Play, have a brand with that unmistakable special spark, you're in the money. (Without it, you're toast!)
So think about this: It's time to put a smile on your face and start to relax! If you have no idea how to enjoy the journey, look for some support where you need it. The fun starts when you get to coax out the spirit, power and sass in your brand. It's just a matter of you being able to tap into it and articulate it. (Believe me, it's there!)
Are you willing, ready and poised to have more fun with your brand this year?
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On the way to Kentucky, would the performance of a team of Taco Bell Happiness does not open after midnight and decided to call the customer service Zappos.
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Social Apps WIDFY.com WIDFY CV today is giving away private beta invites the winner of the economy Thank You Gary Vaynerchuk at SXSW. WIDFY "What I Did For You" new social app winner Kathy Sacks provides us with a vision who is grateful for the professional and who was his first WIDFY "What I Did For You" to give beta invite ... Our economy by Scavenger Hunt with copies of the books of five authors: Gary Vaynerchuk Thanks-economic Steve Garfield - Get seen ScottStratten - unmarketing Jay Baer & Amber Nasland - Revolution Now David Aaker - Mark & Jenn Lim Tony Hsieh - Delivering Happiness Every winner had a "golden ticket" to WIDFY What I Did For You "beta App social back into his book. If people want to invite you, your work and results that will offer your hand to your online social app WIDFY CV reference to prospects and customers see a place I know. "What did you do professionally for someone" WIDFY . com
With all the noise and competition in the marketplace today, it makes sense to look outside conventional areas for a competitive advantage. I've always said the biggest competitive advantage is right under your own hat: developing your mind. Here are ten proven areas of science that can give businesses and high performance individuals a huge edge for 2011.
Resilience. Do you ever wonder why some individuals can breeze through hardships and come out stronger on the other side while others languish, move into a depression, and take years to recover? Science has been studying this field of resilience, and now it can be taught just like math. If you're one of the ones who takes a while to recover from setbacks, you will greatly benefit from learning resilience. Best applications: sales people dealing with rejection, negotiators, real estate professionals, emergency scene workers.
Deliberate Practice. To get from good to great, high performers apply deliberate practice, a form of expert performance that refines and perfects their craft. Best applications: surgeons, actors, entertainers, pilots, Speakers, and trainers.
Neuroplasticity. The discovery of the decade is that our brains are constantly learning and growing new brain cells every day of our lives until the moment we die. Best applications: teachers, tax accountants, medical professionals, and IT engineers.
Mindfulness. Thanks to Ellen Langer's research, we have a partial glimpse into how incredibly powerful mindfulness is. Her research has shown the exact steps it takes to reverse the effects of aging, including reversing eyesight losses and physical strength. Hollywood is so impressed they are making a movie about her life and Jennifer Aniston will star as Dr. Langer. Best applications: health care professionals especially those in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, home health care workers, and retirement communities.
Positive Psychology. Thanks to books such as Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness, CEOs are finally getting an understanding of how happiness can significantly improve the workplace. Even my nonprofit, the American Happiness Association, has made the PBS and Fox news this year. The key is not just staying happy, but being able to manage your positive and negative emotions for high performance results. Best applications: dealing with difficult employees, bullying, large corporations where employee satisfaction and customer service are the focal points and the senior management wants to reap the benefits of a positive workplace.
Nature vs. Nurture. Science is crystal clear about how nurture can override nature much more than we previously realized. With all the talk about cracking the DNA genetic code, we are now finding out that RNA can express almost any old way it wants with a little help from the environment. Best applications: architects, landscape designers, interior decorators, furniture designers, relationship therapists, life coaches, nutritionists, and fitness coaches.
Multi-tasking. A very cool new study found that only 3 percent of the population can multi-task well. The rest of us are actually costing ourselves time and accuracy every single day when we multi-task. Interestingly, some corporations are pushing multi-tasking. One that hired me recently had me tone down my chapter showing how bad multi-tasking really is for performance because their top management promoted it. We need to get real about what multi-tasking is costing us. Best applications: Any worker who is frequently distracted can benefit from this science.
Insight. We now know how to create the ideal conditions to help employees generate more "aha moments." Best applications: R&D, marketing, artists, writers, anyone who needs to be creative and innovative.
Focused Attention. Science has made significant breakthroughs in helping us understand exactly how we can focus our minds so that our attention spans can be lengthened. A nice side effect is that when we strengthen this part of our brain, we expand our consciousness, allowing us to tap more into the wisdom of our subconscious. Best applications: surgeon, pilot, IT engineer, gamer, police.
Decision-making. There continues to be new insights into how we make decisions, not to mention Daniel Kahnemann and Amos Tversky's Nobel prize-winning research in the area of heuristics. Here we can learn where our decision-making blind spots reside and train ourselves to see them. Best applications: negotiators, deal makers, stock brokers, merger and acquisitions consultants, and senior management.
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Although the decade of the brain is long gone (1990s), breakthroughs in research discoveries continue every day. It's a very cool time to be alive, especially if you learn how to harness the power of these scientific discoveries. It's never too late to get a fresh start for the new year of 2011.
My 10 Favorite Science Trends for a High Performance 2011
!1: Now is the time Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization Order Today!
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It's a fact of life: birds flock, fish school, people "tribe."
Every company, indeed every organization, is a tribe, or if it's large enough, a network of tribes--groups of 20 to 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone else. Tribes are more powerful than teams, companies, or even CEOs, and yet their key leverage points have not been mapped--until now. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright show leaders how to assess their organization's tribal culture on a scale from one to five and then implement specific tools to elevate the stage to the next. The result is unprecedented success.
In a rigorous eight-year study of approximately 24,000 people in over two dozen corporations, Logan, King, and Fischer-Wright refine and define a common theme: the success of a company depends on its tribes, the strength of its tribes is determined by the tribal culture, and a thriving corporate culture can be established by an effective tribal leader. Tribal Leadership will show leaders how to employ their companies' tribes to maximize productivity and profit: the authors' research, backed up with interviews ranging from Brian France (CEO of NASCAR) to "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams, shows that over three quarters of the organizations they've studied have tribal cultures that are merely adequate, no better than the third of five tribal stages.
Leaders, managers, and organizations that fail to understand, motivate, and grow their tribes will find it impossible to succeed in an increasingly fragmented world of business. The often counterintuitive findings of Tribal Leadership will help leaders at today's major corporations, small businesses, and nonprofits learn how to take the people in their organization from adequate to outstanding, to discover the secrets that have led the highest-level tribes (like the team at Apple that designed the iPod) to remarkable heights, and to find new ways to succeed where others have failed.
!1: Now is the time The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance Order Today!
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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.
Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so we’re both more satisfied and more productive—on the job and off.
By integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor of the #1 bestselling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that we’re neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance (spiritual). Rather than running like computers at high speeds for long periods, we’re at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our four needs.
Organizations undermine sustainable high performance by forever seeking to get more out of their people. Instead they should seek systematically to meet their four core needs so they’re freed, fueled, and inspired to bring the best of themselves to work every day.
Drawing on extensive work with an extra-ordinary range of organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way of working. At the individual level, he explains how we can build specific rituals into our daily schedules to balance intense effort with regular renewal; offset emotionally draining experiences with practices that fuel resilience; move between a narrow focus on urgent demands and more strategic, creative thinking; and balance a short-term focus on immediate results with a values-driven commitment to serving the greater good. At the organizational level, he outlines new policies, practices, and cultural messages that Schwartz’s client companies have adopted.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working offers individuals, leaders, and organizations a highly practical, proven set of strategies to better manage the relentlessly rising demands we all face in an increasingly complex world.
!1: Best Buy This book starts by confronting us with a harsh truth we already know but often act as if we don't - namely, that the 10- and 12-hour days many of us are logging at the office, as well as the additional hours we're spending on our BlackBerries at night after we've left the office, result in less productivity, not more. And the toll is not limited to the quality of our output - it shows up more significantly as deficits in the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual areas of our lives (the "four forgotten needs" of the subtitle). But then, author Tony Schwartz - a well-known organizational trainer and executive coach - takes us through a series of briskly-written chapters showing us how to resolve this conundrum in each of these four areas. The key is to build into our daily schedule a series of regular breaks to renew the energy we've been expending as we work. He contends that 90 minutes is the ideal length for any concentrated effort - beyond that point, our attention inevitably begins to wane. Although the culture at most companies dictates that we plow ahead no matter how depleted our energy level, Schwartz argues convincingly that what we need instead is a short break - for a walk, some physical exercise, a little meditation, even a brief "power nap". Ever the realist, he understands what a stretch this kind of thinking is for many of us as individuals, not to mention how alien it is to most corporate cultures. Yet his arguments are compelling. He cites numerous neurological and behavioral studies to support his thesis that we are at our best when we continually renew our energy levels throughout the day, and at our worst when we force ourselves to continue working past our depletion point. And he points to successful companies like Google as models of workplace cultures that operate on the principles he is articulating in this book. Also very useful are the "action steps" with which he concludes each chapter, giving his readers concrete suggestions for implementing useful changes in their own daily routines - and perhaps for introducing some of these useful principles into their own workplaces. A book to be read for yourself, and shared with your colleagues, subordinates, and supervisors. on Sale!
!1: Now is the time The Playbook for Small Businesses Order Today!
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What would a playbook used to operate a small business that's grown over 1300 percent in nine years look like? That playbook is the manual Steve Henry used to run his business with the vision that every day is a championship game with victory on the line. Implement his sixteen creative, inspired lessons, and see immediate results. These 50-plus strategically engineered plays can produce a wildly successful business.
!1: Best Buy My name is Pamela Frost. I purchased this book off the Authors web site, while registering for his ,000 giveaway. (Pretty cool way of giving back). It's fast to read which for me was a blessing. I'm a Bay Area EMT by night, student by day and wannabe entrepreneur when not sleeping.
This Author is very complimentary to his staff, customers, and vendors, a strategic, inevitable recipe for sucess. His religious spin on every important technique is very different from any business book I've ever read. I would recommend to book mark these areas and would ephasize studying them carefully. There are several deep lessons throughout many parables.
If it's a business book upon which your seeking complex strategies to enhance your business, this book is NOT for you. However if your pursuing the dilema of when to quit your day job, how-to start a new business, or greatly improve a struggling one and desire to jump into the rushing waters leading to financial freedom, with immediate game-winning principles you can implement right away, this is exactly the book you need to add to your tool-kit. Great use of football metaphors. on Sale!
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