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Business focus & execution through skiing and mountain biking
For couple of weeks ago I participated on a mindfulness workshop. In one exercise we cleaned our state of mind from all disturbing thoughts blocking us to concentrate on the current. I was thrilled and very energized - ready to create a new winning business plan and start executing it without any doubt. How did I get there?
Mindfulness or being mindful is often described a (...)
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Greatest risk is to play always safe
Let us imagine a company that has reached a status of market
leadership through its innovative products and services. The road to the
leading position may well have been a tough fight against the
competition. Innovation work has been successful, and a great deal of
the new stuff has been radical: Many products have been something
completely new to the market. Through (...)
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Greatest risk is to play always safe
Let us imagine a company that has reached a status of market
leadership through its innovative products and services. The road to the
leading position may well have been a tough fight against the
competition. Innovation work has been successful, and a great deal of
the new stuff has been radical: Many products have been something
completely new to the market. Through (...)
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Leadership and sailing – they have actually a lot in common
Leadership and sailing - business and sport. They have actually awful lot in common. Sailing, especially racing, is 100% team sport and it goes even further. A large sailboat has that large number (around 15 of them) different controls and trims that you can tweek. Nobody can handle them alone. You have to trust your team, you have to be trustworthy yourself and each member of (...)
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Nudist Camp of Thinking
Corporate innovation is often limited by unconscious preconditions we bring to the sessions. Our thinking and creativity is limited by our own approach to what we expect we are supposed to do in the company as well as by what we suspect the company is all about. We cannot change the whole company, its vision and strategy, in the brainstorming. But if we are unable to break the (...)
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Do you want your product to be unique and cool?
There are plenty of research available which claims that about 90% of the thinking of 5-6 years old children is creative. This includes creativity itself, alternative thinking and surprising ideas. The picture changes a bit when they get older. Namely the creativity of 9 years old children has decreased to 20%. When we reach 40 years of age, only 1% of our thoughts are creative (...)
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Is voice an important part of your work?
Do you need to speak in public? Convincing voice builds your credibility. (...)
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NTA-training in France 13. - 16.8.2012
A model on how normal people are different in their preferences in understanding things and taking decisions, developed by Carl Jung. The model is about 16 different ways of being normal and good. The model may be applied to self-awareness, personal development, coaching, leading people, teamwork, working together with different types of people in different situations, understanding "difficult" people, how to deal with stress and more. (...)
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