Week 48 Challenge — Profitable Gratitude?
A great friend and colleague of mine, Bruce Van Horne (RIP) posted the following wonderful quote:
A great friend and colleague of mine, Bruce Van Horne (RIP) posted the following wonderful quote:
In Wharton Business School Professor, Adam Grant’s landmark book, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success he looked at three types of personalities…Givers, Takers, and Matchers.
In today’s Cup of Wisdom we look at why Matchers, whether in sales, entrepreneurship, or within a corporate environment, while they can certainly have success, tend not to enjoy as much success as Givers.
Everyone in this group knows how important mindset and attitude are in determining our accomplishments, our business success, and our personal happiness.
What then can we learn about on this very important topic from a children’s book?
What is possible for you or me, or any of us to accomplish in our lives — our level of personal and professional success — has significantly less to do with talent, ability, education, or practically anything else, as it has to do with our self-image.
Productive, helpful feedback can truly be the breakfast of champions. After all, we are simply too emotionally involved with ourselves to be able to judge our actions logically, especially as we’re partaking in them. So the right kind of feedback can take us to a new level both in terms of ability and knowledge.
Judge: Order! Order in the court!
Lawyer: Okay, I’ll have an egg salad on Rye!
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Grant Muller was nearly killing himself – quite literally. A desperate quest to get rich had made him a millionaire before the age of 30 but then taken him to the brink: homeless, living on drugs and hustle. If his lifestyle didn’t end him, one of the thugs he owed money to would surely do the job.
Some people absolutely love change; they look for change, they embrace change, they live for change.
Others are more like I am…they would choose none of the above.
In today’s Cup of Wisdom we revisit the book, Stairway to Success by Dr. Nido R. Qubein. Last week looked as his basic thoughts on to subject of change.