Achievement Management:

Success Secrets

Be a Winner!

Winner Defined

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

A Win is a Win-Win

"The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm." - Tim Peters

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

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

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 Foundation of Leadership

By: Brian Tracy

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

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

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

The Low of Forced Efficiency

This law says that, "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing."

The key question you should ask is "What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" This is the question that dominates time management. This is the key to overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive person... More

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.

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."

 Case in Point  eBay

eBay's now one of the most successful companies in the world. "The key decisions can all be characterized by focus, focus, focus," said Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, an amazing growth machine, when asked what were the key decisions he had made that set up the company for this kind of hyperthyroidism.

Bibliography:

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