Doing The Work Yourself
The wise man will commit no business of importance to a proxy when he may do it himself.
— Roger L’Estrange
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Success – You must love your work?
You must love your work?
Why you should love your work
Sooner or later you will wonder why you are not passionate and energized about your work. At the same time, an inner voice will tell you to suck it up because work is only a four-letter word and you are not supposed to enjoy it.
It is a misconception because loving your work can bring manage benefits. Work should enable and empower, not entrap. Here we have some of the reasons why you should love your work.
Helps with your success
When you love your career, no one can stop you from getting successful. You will do everything that it takes to assure that your customers love what you are offering, and your boss appreciates your every move. You would prefer to collect the appreciation because your every move will be well planned, and you will not be afraid…
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Quote – There are no secrets to success
There are no secrets to success
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
— Colin Powell
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Quote – Your Habits will either make you or break you
Your Habits
Depending on what [your habits] are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.”
―Sean Covey
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Management Principles – You can’t Manage what you don’t Measure
You can’t Manage what you don’t Measure
Management and Measurement
You can’t manage what you don’t measure is an old management adage that has been used for many years and while most attribute it to Peter Drucker, some claim that the quote was first used by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, although it is a bone of contention whether or not the quote is used in the correct context.
Irrespective of who said it first, I have always agreed with the principle. Coming from a corporate background where this is one of the management principles often used, I was surprised to learn that there are those that strongly disagree with the statement. This group argues that there are many things being managed at work that aren’t measurable, from the confidence we instill in a new, young manager, to the quality of new hires.
The argument is made that quantity is easy…
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Quote – your life’s work
your life’s work
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
