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Payside activity does have potential reward, but it also holds risk, and it’s hard work. This can thwart us – but we must not let it.
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Usually it’s the events and activities you excel at that you’re most passionate about. So it makes sense to make these the focus of your efforts.
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Use your passions as a guide to which activities and events you should be seeking out. Use them to engage new and old contacts.
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All successful people are planners. They think on paper. Failing to plan, as they say, is planning to fail. And a plan is a list of activities and names.
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Organizational learning should be an ongoing activity, but best practices imply it has reached an endpoint. We might be better off looking for better practices.
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If the activities that lead to greatness were easy and fun, then everyone would do them and they would not distinguish the best from the rest.
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In all practice activities it’s highly valuable to get others’ views about what you should be working on and how you’re doing.
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…for employees trying to improve, making real decisions in real time is the central practice activity that produces growth.
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The effects of deliberate practice activities are cumulative. The more of a head start your organization gets in developing people individually and as teams, the more difficult it will be for your competitors ever to catch you.
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…however precarious your relationship may be, try to structure the negotiation as a side-by-side activity in which the two of you… jointly face a common task.
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