"The single most important distinction in life, is to distinguish between an opportunity to be seized and a temptation to be resisted", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
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Wanting to learn and find out more about a particular topic or profession is the starting point for self improvement. This desire to know more invariably comes from curiosity and being drawn towards a task or activity. If cultivated and allowed to grow, this natural "pull" towards something ultimately grows into a passion. Then, if you nurture and understand your passion it will lead you to your purpose.
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DDB’s mantra is, “excellence through constant improvement” but where does all this constant improvement come from? I believe it must come from within us all. So, the only way to achieve team excellence is by every team member striving for and investing in self-improvement.
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To round out my current email series about Teamwork, I would like to explore what makes one team more successful than the next and what are the main contributors to a team's level of performance?
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Understanding your ambition and finding what matters to you is what gets you started down a particular path; which is often the easy part. But maintaining the effort day in day out for years requires real discipline and attitude. The only way to keep up the required effort long term is for your ambition and discipline to become a habit and part of your daily routine.
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This week I would like to examine Team Dynamics and what makes a team successful
"The success of a team. Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success", Henry Ford.
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To build a high performance team you must have the right team members and the right team culture. So building an effective team starts with recruiting the best people by making sure they are "the best cultural fit" for the team. But for most people company culture is a very fuzzy concept, so what does "cultural fit" actually mean and look like?
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"Trust is like lubrication. It reduces friction and creates conditions for great things to happen."
Team work is all about trust...
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To round out my email series on Financial Intelligence, I would like to briefly touch on Family Trusts, which are often misunderstood and vilified as being complicated and dodgy.
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Life insurance is something that I have personally wrestled with for most of my adult life. I know and fully understand the necessity and importance for having a well thought through life insurance policy, but I have constantly struggled with paying the significant and always increasing premiums year in and year out.
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