Citat frän ett mycket klock och fundigt bok av Ernst Billgren, ” Vad är konst? II”

”Hur får man en lyckad, bekväm och mysig karriär?”

Kort svar:

Som man bäddar får man ligga.

Långt svar:

Det korta svaret är en mening som alla känner till och som man kan ha åsikter om. Vad folk som brukar använda den devisen glömmer är att alla ofrivilligt bäddar säck åt sig själva och kan inte göra någonting åt det. När man sen ska lägga sig på kvällen har man till råga på allt helt glömt bort vad man gjort. tricket är inte att ligga bekvämt utan att lyckas somna trots att någon jäkl (ofta man själv) bäddat säck.

Hur får man en lyckad, bekväm och mysig karriär?

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100 idéer för de bästa cheferna, del 8

En av min favorit podcaster är What great bosses know av Jill Geisler,författare till boken Work Happy, What great bosses know.

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Podcasten innehåller ledarskaps tips för managers som vill vara ”great bosses”. Bland annat innehåller den 100 idéer för de som vill bli great bosses.

Här kommer del 8 (71-80) av dessa:

71. Email is a constant source of misunderstandings, in part because it lacks tone and can be misread. Remember that the first line in a message sets the tone for what follows.

72. One of the most frequent compliments given to respected bosses is: “They demonstrate calm in the storm.”

73. Not every worthy employee pitches for a promotion. Some are humble; some just assume their work should speak for itself and you’ll notice. Make certain you notice.

74. Diversity builds creativity and quality – and reduces groupthink.

75. The most important thing bosses do is help others succeed.

76. People are required to follow managers. They choose to follow leaders.

77. Employees never forget how you responded when they faced the best and worst times of their lives.

78. Leaders manage meaning. People look to you to help make sense of challenges, joys and concerns. Be ready, honest and hopeful.

79. Bosses disappoint someone every day; it comes with the territory and your many daily decisions. The response from your employees is a measure of your leadership on all the other days.

80. Build critical thinking skills among your staff by deconstructing good and bad decisions. Be a good critical thinker yourself, open to other ways of doing things and new ideas from staff.

Du kan ladda ner hela podcasten av Jill Geisler från The pointer university på Itunes

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100 citat för att inspirera dig, del 2

  1. The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will. –Vince Lombardi
  2. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
  3. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. –Arthur C. Clarke
  4. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
  5. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
  6. You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
  7. Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. –Vincent Van Gogh
  8. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
  9. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
  10. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. –Walt Disney
  11. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
  12. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
  13. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.  You are free. –Jim Morrison
  14. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
  15. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
  16. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby
  17. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
  18. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
  19. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
  20. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
  21. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey
  22. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
  23. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
  24. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  –Ann Landers
  25. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
  26. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
  27. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. –Frank Zappa
  28. Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
  29. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  30. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
  31. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  32. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama
  33. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
  34. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
  35. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.
  36. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
  37. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
  38. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
  39. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
  40. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills
  41. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
  42. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
  43. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
  44. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
  45. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
  46. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
  47. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
  48. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
  49. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
  50. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar
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100 citat för att inspirera dig, del 1

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  1. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
  2. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
  3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
  4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
  5. The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’ -Jeffrey Bezos
  6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
  7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
  8. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
  9. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
  10. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
  11. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
  12. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
  13. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –John Maxwell
  14. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
  15. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha
  16. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
  17. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
  18. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
  19. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. –Napoleon Hill
  20. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
  21. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
  22. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
  23. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
  24. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
  25. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
  26. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
  27. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
  28. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  29. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
  30. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
  31. Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. –Pablo Picasso
  32. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
  33. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
  34. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. –Henry Ford
  35. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
  36. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
  37. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
  38. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy
  39. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
  40. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
  41. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
  42. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
  43. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. –Christopher Reeve
  44. Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
  45. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
  46. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
  47. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
  48. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucious
  49. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
  50. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
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Citat frän ett mycket klock och fundigt bok av Ernst Billgren, ” Vad är konst? II”

”Hur löser jag mina problem bäst?”

Kort svar:

I storlektsordning.

Långt svar:

Det är alltid ett problem som är störst oavsett hur många man löser, hur stora de är eller hur många man har. På en konferens för världsfred kom man fram till att det enda sättet att få fred på jorden är ett anfall från en annan planet. Alla militära problem på jorden skulle genast försvinna då man skulle få ett betydligt större problem at ta hand om. Vill man lösa sina konstärliga problem är det effektivaste sättet att skaffa sig ett nytt ännu större, gärna gigantiskt, t.ex. vilka vi är, varför vi är här och vart vi är på väg? Bra att tänka på om man tycker att någon fläck borde vara större, rundare, grönare eller bättre.

Hur löser jag mina problem bäst?

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100 idéer för de bästa cheferna, del 7

En av min favorit podcaster är What great bosses know av Jill Geisler,författare till boken Work Happy, What great bosses know.

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Podcasten innehåller ledarskaps tips för managers som vill vara ”great bosses”. Bland annat innehåller den 100 idéer för de som vill bli great bosses.

Här kommer del 7 (61-70) av dessa:

61. Organizations today need to be nimble to respond to business changes or opportunities. But “being nimble” should not be confused with “having no plan.”  Have a strategy and a plan for executing it.

62. Sayings to avoid: “Do it because I’m the boss and I said so.”

63. Sayings to avoid: “If you don’t hear from me, assume you are doing a good job.”

64. Sayings to avoid: “Don’t expect thanks from me for doing your job. Your paycheck is your thanks.”

65. The most dangerous response from employees: “Just tell me what you want.” It means you’ve driven out independent thinking.

66. Organizational culture is more than slogans and traditions. It’s assumptions so deep people don’t even talk about them. To change a culture you have to identify and change old assumptions.

67. Time-challenged bosses who want to provide more feedback can’t add hours to their days, but they can consciously upgrade the quality of each connection they make with people to include specific words of feedback.

68. What you measure is what you value. The metrics you use drive performance – for better or worse. What are you measuring?

69. It’s up to you to adapt to your boss’ style. Managing your boss is key to the success of your team and your own career.

70. Work and life are never really in balance because balance means identical measures of work and home time. Strive for work-life harmony instead, where the benefits of each aspect of your life make you more happy and valuable.

Du kan ladda ner hela podcasten av Jill Geisler från The pointer university på Itunes

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10 färdigheter som hjälper Dig att hitta topprankat jobb

Forbes har gjort en rankning av 2013 års topp jobb. Alla dessa har något gemensamt, nämligen de kräver toppfärdigheter. Färdigheterna är inte alls jobbspecifika, snare generella. Sådana som de flesta arbetsgivare associerar med toppkandidater oavsett positionen som annonseras. Nedan kommer en kort sammanställning av de tio färdigheter som kan hjälpa dig att hitta toppjobb i år. OBS! att bland de 10 toppjobben var en del som avser IT, därmed en del topp kraven nedan avser just dessa jobb.

Nr 1: Kritiskt tänkande (efterfrågades i 9 av de 10 toppjobben)

Personer som kan använda sig av bl.a. logiskt tänkande för att kunna identifiera styrkor och svagheter samt komma fram till alternativa lösningar och ta itu med problemen.

Nr 2: Förmåga att lösa komplexa problem (efterfrågades i 9 av de 10 toppjobben)

Förmåga att identifiera komplexa problem och ta del av relevant information för att kunna ta fram och implementera lösningar på dessa problem.

Nr 3: Förmåga att göra en bedömning och ta beslut (efterfrågades i 9 av de 10 toppjobben)

D.v.s.. 9 av 10 toppjobb som annonserades efterfrågade efter förmåga att överväga alternativa för- och nackdelar av potentiella beslut och förmåga att ta beslut som är mest lämpligt.

Nr 4: Förmåga att lyssna aktivt (efterfrågades i 9 av de 10 toppjobben)

Förmåga att lyssna aktivt, dvs. ge sitt fulla uppmärksamhet till vad andra människor säger; även vilja att förstå andras synpunkter; förmåga at ställa relevanta frågor.

Nr 5: Datakunskaper (efterfrågades i 8 av de 10 toppjobben)

Kunskap i data som bl.a. inkluderar kunskap om kretskort, processorer, hardware samt olika program.

Nr 6: Kunskap i matte (efterfrågades i 6 av de 10 toppjobben)

Räknefärdigheter, kunskap i algebra och geometri, kalkyl, statistik samt förmåga att tillämpa dessa kunskaper.

Nr 7: Verksamhet- och Systems Analys (efterfrågades i 5 av de 10 toppjobben)

D.v.s.. förmåga att bestämma hur verksamhet eller system bör fungera samt hur förändringar i t.ex. omgivningen kommer att påverka resultatet.

Nr 8: Kontroll (efterfrågades i 3 av de 10 toppjobben)

Förmåga att kontrollera och utvärdera sin egen prestation samt prestation av andra medarbetare och organisationer, samt förmåga att göra förbättringar i prestationen.

Nr 9: Programmering (efterfrågades i 3 av de 10 toppjobben)

Kunskap i programmering.

Nr 10: Försäljning samt marknadsföring (efterfrågades i 2 av de 10 toppjobben)

Kunskap inom försäljning samt marknadsföring för produkter och tjänster som inkluderar bl.a. strategisk marknadsföring, försäljningstekniker och kunskap i kontrollsystem.

Fortsätt läsa

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The Surprising Secret to Finding Mentors

Profilbild för Dan RockwellLeadership Freak

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The dark side of leadership is worse when you feel alone. Leaders face frustration, disappointment, confusion, doubt, stress, fear, and more. Hopelessness defeats leaders unless they replenish strength and find direction.

Hope is a function of relationship.

Leaders with mentors go further.

Mentors:

  1. Elevate your game.
  2. Believe in your potential and talent.
  3. Challenge limitations.
  4. Protect from danger.
  5. Build character.
  6. Enhance opportunities.
  7. Share their life with candor and transparency.
  8. Solve “with” not “for.”
  9. Exemplify qualities you want to develop.
  10. Connect you with others.

Unexpected secret:

Michael Leavitt, three time governor of Utah, dropped a mentor-nugget in my lap, when we talked about his new book, “Finding Alliances, Building Allies.”

”The way you cultivate good mentors is you figure out what’s important to them…”

Begin with giving. Cultivate mentors by pouring into them before asking them to pour into you. Figure out where they want to go and help…

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100 idéer för de bästa cheferna, del 6

En av min favorit podcaster är What great bosses know av Jill Geisler,författare till boken Work Happy, What great bosses know.

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Podcasten innehåller ledarskaps tips för managers som vill vara ”great bosses”. Bland annat innehåller den 100 idéer för de som vill bli great bosses.

Här kommer del 6 (51-60) av dessa:

51. Leaders are born AND made. You can learn to be a better leader if you work at it.

52. Succession planning matters. Can you look out your door and see your replacement?

53. Disengage from digital devices when talking with staff. They hate it when you multitask as they’re communicating with you.

54. If you have a habit of sending emails in the middle of the night, your staff may think you expect them to be working then, too.

55. The boss’s emotions are contagious.

56. Hiring is one of the most important things you do. Don’t hire in haste.

57. Don’t hire in your self-image. Hire people who share your core values but bring additional skills to the party.

58. Don’t assume that your highest performers need little feedback because they know they’re good. Even good employees want to know they’ve performed well.

59. Loyalty is a two-way street. Since companies can’t promise jobs for life, you should expect that employees have an eye on the door as well.

60. Be a good agent for your staff. Even if you can’t promise a job for life, you can promise that you’ll help them do good work that will serve them well wherever life takes them.

Du kan ladda ner hela podcasten av Jill Geisler från The pointer university på Itunes

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