Insanely Interesting People who Influenced Me: #11 Zig Ziglar

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

Goals setting – 2011

It is the time of the year when we sit back, relax, take stock of the year gone-by and plan for the year ahead. I read a blog by Kelley Robertson on goal setting and really loved it. You can read the blog @ http://www.fearless-selling.ca/blog/stretch-yourself/. Kelly talks about setting 2 goals: One that you think you have about 85% chance to achieve One that is way beyond the above goal and what you really want – Your stretch goal This is what my first boss also taught me. The only difference was that he also asked me to also decide […]