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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." -JOHN LOCKE"
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be sure your communication goes beyond words. How can you do that? By connecting on four levels: visually, intellectually, emotionally, and verbally.
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Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.
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Children now log about twenty-two thousand hours watching television by age nineteen, more than twice the time spent in school.3
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Lazy people don't succeed.
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The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. " -J. R. MILLER"
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UCLA psychology professor emeritus Albert Mehrabian discovered that face-to-face communication can be broken down into three components: words, tone of voice, and body language.
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Nobody wants to be sold, but everyone wants to be helped.
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Good Thinking Increases Your Potential
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Anytime you are in front of other people to communicate-- whether it's on a stage, in a boardroom, on a ball field, or across a coffee table--the visual impression you make will either help or hinder you.
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Have you ever had to communicate someone else's vision? It's very difficult to do, isn't it?
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Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others. Immature people don't see things from someone else's point of view. They rarely concern themselves with what's best for others. In many ways, they act like small children.
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KEY CONCEPT: Connecting begins when the other person feels valued.
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Thinking for a Change shares the way that I think on a daily basis. My wife, Margaret, says it has more of my DNA than any of my other books.
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For a team to succeed, responsibility must go down deep into the organization, down to the roots. Getting that to happen requires a leader who will delegate responsibility and authority to the team. Stephen Covey remarked, "People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work, because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses." Good leaders seldom restr..
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Just as personal values influence and guide an individual's behavior, organizational values influence and guide the team's behavior.
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Everyone is important, but everyone isn't equal. The person with greater experience, skill, and productivity in a given area is more important to the team in that area.
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If a team is to accomplish its goals, it has to know where it stands.
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Algunas veces, hasta el mejor administrador se asemeja al muchacho que pasea un perro grande y espera a ver donde quiere ir para llevarlo alla>>.
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Every human being has value, and every player on a team adds value to the team in some way.
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When you do well, you think it's worth it. When you sacrifice so much and you finally do well, it feels really good.
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Silent gratitude isn't much good to anyone.
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GIVE PEOPLE AN ACTION PLAN
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know how" to "do now."
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In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
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Connectors do the difficult work of keeping it simple.
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The larger the group, the simpler the communication needs to be.
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They want to know what's in it for them.
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What They Know + What They See + What They Feel = Inspiration
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life.When they find someone who can communicate something of value to them, they will usually listen.
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That's what connectors do. They tell you about yourself.
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Nothing speaks like results.
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What are they thinking?
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I want to learn about their organizational culture and values.
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Even the right thing said in the wrong situation won't connect.
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PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF THEM
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Excellence connects.
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They want our encouragement more than our expertise.
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PEOPLE NEED TO SEE YOUR CONVICTION
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poet Edwin Markham wrote, There is a destiny that makes us brothers None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment you first find yourself in." --MARK CAINE" --
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The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
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Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do."8"
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You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me--most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.
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