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... thing you need to know about sustained individual success”: Discover what you don’t like doing, and stop doing it Well, in order to stop doing what you don’t like to do, you have to be able to delegate, ... whats, and wheres: when to look, what to look for, and where you re likely to find what you re looking for Throughout these chapters (and elsewhere in the book), I’ll tell you how and when to engage ... enough simply to figure out and check those indicators Once you know what to focus on, you need to assign appropriate weight to those different dimensions And after that, you still have to have the...
... into the ranks, and all managers were expected to be “strategic managers.” The HRM function is gradually going the same route If you want to perform and succeed in your professional life, you ... visitors, most of whom probably would not have returned The first priority, it seemed clear, was to fix layout, product-mix, and service-level problems And in order to that, top management needed to ... accounting and finance we take? (Answer: probably too many.) How much we practice with exercises, cases, and simulations, in order to be able to master those decisions? (Answer: probably too much. )...
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... essential steps toward change.14 The first step is to want to change, and therefore define your ideal self—who you want to be The second is to discover your real self.” Given the limits of our selfawareness, ... motivated are you? Are you willing tomake major sacrifices to satisfy one or more of those needs? Second, you need the ability to learn from experience Morgan McCall and others make this case ... course, you need ambition Are you hungry? What are you aspiring to, over the long term? David McClelland pointed to three great motivators: the need for achievement, the need for affiliation, and...
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