Achievement Management:

Success Secrets

Be a Winner!

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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Winner: One Way Many Paths

 

10 Lessons from Konosuke Matsushita

for Corporate Leaders

  • Don't assume that something is “impossible"... More

Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success

  1. Do what you love to do. Find your true passion. Do what you love to do a make a difference! The only way to do great work is to love what you do... More

The Power of Passion

 

Achiever: 8 Winning Habits

  1. Never give up... More

 

Pearls of Wisdom  >>>

East

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

~ Buddha

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

~ Confucius

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

- Lao Tzu

He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.

~ Jesus Christ

The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.

~ Mohammad

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

~ Shri Aurobindo 

West

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

~ Vince Lombardi

Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.

~ Thomas Davis III

Our only limitations are those which we set up in our minds or permit others to establish for us.

~ Elizabeth Arden

Surround yourself with people with winning attitudes and your chance of success will be high.

~ Richard F. Stiegele

10 Differences between a Winner and a Loser1

Winner

Loser

Makes mistakes and says: 'I was wrong'

Says: 'It wasn't my fault'

Credits his good luck for winning even though it wasn't luck

Credits his bad luck for losing, though it wasn't luck

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The Tao of Achievement

  • Reflection (Yin): Quiet your mind; take a "helicopter view" of the situation...

  • Action (Yang): Create positive energy; take initiative; turn failures in opportunities... More

 

Winner Defined

You are a winner if you keep achieving your stretch goals and are happy in your own skin. 

Seeing Life Differently

The secret of winning in life lies in seeing life differently - in its different shades and outcomes. "Life becomes a path that leads to achievements. Winners do not value life as much as what they can do with it. For them life is not a tedious journey from the womb to the tomb. It is a journey about crossing milestones and looking forward to new ones."4

The Magic of Your Attitude

Changing Yourself

The best place to start is to change yourself. If whatever you do doesn't work, you must be flexible - you must change your action plan if the current one does not produce the required results. If you want other people to change, you must be prepared to make the first step yourself. If you cannot change your environment, you should change your attitude.

Focus is Everything

To win, you must have a strong focus. You have limited resources and must use them in the most effective way. What is the best focus you can have?... More

A Win is a Win-Win

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way the things work out... More

Buddha about Conquering

Conquer the angry man by love... More

5 Things You Should Know To Win

Source: The Art of War by Sun Tzu

You must know five things to win:

  1. Victory comes from knowing when to attack and when to avoid battle... More

The Foundation of Leadership: Achieving Extraordinary Results

By: Brian Tracy

12 Major Causes of Failure in Leadership

When you take complete responsibility and accept ownership, without making excuses or blaming others, you experience a sense of control that leads to the personal power that is the foundation of charisma. When you look like a winner in every respect, when you have the kind of external image that others admire, you build your charisma. When you develop your character by setting high standards and then disciplining yourself to live consistent with the highest principles you know, you become the kind of person who is admired and respected everywhere. You become the kind of person who radiates charisma to others... More

Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Specific Attributes

Success Stories Best Business Practices Jack Welch

Jack Welch has been with the General Electric Company (GE) since 1960. Having taken GE with a market capitalization of about $12 billion, Jack Welch turned it into one of the largest and most admired companies in the world, with a market value of about $500 billion, when he stepped down as its CEO 20 years later, in 2000.

25 Lessons from Jack Welch

Although Jack Welch is "the celebrated leader of a global manufacturer often noted for its technological prowess, he has utilized a very human process to drive change through GE's vast organization. Having respect for the individual as a pivotal force in organizational change,

Why Organizational Change Fails: 8 Errors Leaders Makes

Welch created a model of exceptional performance every corporate leader can learn from.

Jack Welch summed up his prescription for winning in three words:

3Ss of Winning in Business

Develop a Clear Vision

The one quality that all leaders have in common is that they have a clear and exciting vision for the future. This is something that only the leader can do. Only the leader can think about the future and plan for the future each day... More

Success is 99% Failure

To err is human. If there is no mistake, there is no initiative. Not to admit a mistake or a failure is a sign of weakness.

Remember always the NLP presupposition: "There is no failure, only feedback." Through mistakes to success – that's really what experience means. Mistakes can be your most effective teacher.

"Just like a great building stands on a strong foundation, so does success. And the foundation of success is attitude."... More

The Magic of Your Attitude

Inspirational Business Plan: Successful Innovation

Competition: "The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results." – Edward de Bono.

Take Risks

The biggest risk is not taking risks. If you venture nothing, you win nothing.

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing," says Helen Keller... More Risk Taking Quotes

 

  
Edward de Bono creativity advices quotes

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Edward de Bono

 

References:

  1. Motivate to Win, Richard Denny

  2. Entrepreneurs, Bill Bolton and John Thompson

  3. Winner Win and Losers Lose, Nick Thornely and Dan Lees

  4. Suhel Seth, the Foreword for Winner Win and Losers Lose, N. Thornely and Dan Lees

  5. Persistence Quotes

  6. Courage Quotes

  7. Don't Quit