Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Do you blame others for your situation?
Or do you blame yourself?
This is really the ultimate test to see if you are a leader or not.
Nothing else matters unless you answer correctly.
Am I the only one that thinks like this?
You should read a ton.
I mean you should be FANATICAL about reading.
And this should never end.
Never, ever.
You should be a student for life.
However, may I caution you, if you wish to be a responsible leader, you should at some point, start to develop your own path.
And your path should consist of your convictions.
At some point, you ought to be able to clearly articulate, in your own words, what life is all about.
Do you quote, or are you quotable?
In Search of Excellence and A Passion For Excellence were the two Leadership books that put Tom Peters on the path to legendary Management guru.
Everybody’s doing it and nobody’s doing it.
Huh?
Everybody’s talking about how tough things are.
But nobody’s upping their game and working harder than they ever have in their entire lives.
Except a few. (There’s always an exception to every rule)
You’ve read this past week about leaders and employees secretly whining and complaining.
It’s been going on for ages (almost as long as prostitution).
The reality, for me, is that I have never worked harder to do excellent work, and to do more of it.
Ever.
Why?
You can’t be serious.
This past Sunday in the comments section, we heard a few perspectives on the value of the MBA – Masters of Business Administration. Personally, MBA degrees are a dime a dozen, and mostly overrated.
Count on your hand five people who have been transformed by their MBA.
Not saying that people don’t benefit from getting their MBA. There’s no question that the enormous effort and expense changes the MBA graduate.
And perhaps there’s a place, a rite of passage so to speak, to follow an undergraduate degree with a Master’s degree when we are in our early 20’s and at the very front end of our career..
But what I’m saying right here, right now, that in later life, people have to admit a certain truth.
The truth is, you must ask some seriously honest questions:
Please don’t misunderstand, everyone knows that an MBA graduate has conquered what few others have. All I’m saying is this, does it catapult you?
And if it doesn’t, then why expend the energy, effort, time, and money?
So, back to where we started, at the end of three years, will you have a profitable business?
Now that seems like a great payoff, a huge ROI – like being shot out of a cannon. Or am I missing something?