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Thought Tweet #862.5

by Rick Baker
On Nov 5, 2013

Thought Tweet #862.5 A coach transports people to where they want to go. 

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

That applies to sports stars. It also applies to people on a nice vacation.

Sometimes it applies in business!

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Humour | Influencing | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #862

by Rick Baker
On Nov 5, 2013

Thought Tweet #862 Business Valuation...difficult to have it survive the test of time...near impossible to do under dispute.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

I favour Puts & Calls. Even wide-spread Puts & Calls have merit...at the least, they narrow disputes in terms of dollars...and they neuter frivolous claims.

 

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Entrepreneur Thinking | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #861.5

by Rick Baker
On Nov 4, 2013

Thought Tweet #861.5 Don't put off to tomorrow what you can do some day. 

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

That's procrastinationisticism at its best.

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Beyond Business | Humour | I'm too busy! - I don't have time! | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #861

by Rick Baker
On Nov 4, 2013

Thought Tweet #861 Balancing the strange comfort in ‘standing by’ against the positive change that follows ‘stepping up’.


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

When you must place a bet favouring either People or Situations, place your bet on Situations. That's what some social psychologists are teaching.

Why?

Why would social psychologists recommend we bet on the situation influencing the person rather than bet on the person influencing the situation?

Because there is much evidence illustrating how people are prepared to 'stand by' and do nothing in situations involving bad things ranging from workplace incivility and poor work ethics to pollution and its impact on Mother Nature to school bullying and public muggings to fundamentalism, bigotry, and genocidal atrocities.

All that said, in every such 'bad' situation each of us has a choice: we can 'stand by' or we can 'step up'.

The ancient wisdom…

If not me who?

If not now when?

Thought Tweet #860.5

by Rick Baker
On Nov 1, 2013

Thought Tweet #860.5 You wanna lead, you gotta read.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

The Pharaohs and high priests of ancient Egypt knew that.

Abe Lincoln knew it...

"A capacity, a taste for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, a facility, for successfully pursuing the (yet) unsolved ones."

"All I have learned, I learned from books.

You should know it too.

 

Thought Tweet #860

by Rick Baker
On Nov 1, 2013

Thought Tweet #860 Business leaders are lighters of little fires...igniting baby steps of action, inspiring baby steps of value. 


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Inspire People. Influence Action. Grow Value!

...which naturally leads to Wealth.

[That’s the path of Business Leadership]

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Influencing | Thought Tweets

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