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THE FOUR STAGES OF LEARNING Have you ever thought of how we learn a skill, how we move from incompetent to competent? To illustrate the concept I will use the manner in which we learn to drive as an example. Stage 1 is when you are unconsciously incompetent In other words, you don’t know that you can’t drive. When […]
» Read moreWHEN YOUR DREAMS DIE Would you like a recipe for staying young? From earliest times men have believed that their search for the fountain of youth would be rewarded. They have sought it much as a man goes in search of happiness, only to find that the secret of both youth and happiness lie in the same place, within themselves. […]
» Read moreWORDS ARE ALL I HAVE We live in a world of words. We have a word for everything, some of these words and labels mean a great deal to us. Words such as “Love” “Happiness” “Success” ”Prosperity” “Joy” describe conditions most of us want. But there is one word which controls them all. Meaning, there is one word which describes […]
» Read moreGOAL ACHIEVING OR TENSION RELIEVING? Someone said “Everything we do is either goal achieving or tension relieving.” That’s something to think about. If a man is not too happy with his progress in the world, he should take a good, long look at everything he does during the day and, as he approaches each act, he should ask himself, “Is […]
» Read moreA HABIT GOOD LEADERS HAVE After his election as Mayor of New York City. Fiorello La Guardia was faced with the problem of job seekers. Many of those who had worked so hard for him to be elected expected to be appointed to municipal posts. La Guardia called them all together and explained that he owed them nothing. A cause, […]
» Read moreTHE PHANTOM WALL Have you ever stopped to think about how much more people could have, know and do if they would only try? When timidity, self-consciousness and memories of past failures all contrive to erect a phantom wall between us and the things we would like to have or do, we need courage to leap over it and achieve […]
» Read morePOINTS OF THE COMPASS Many years ago, in a rural part of England, a printer decided to publish a paper in which he would write about events and items of interest concerning the people living there. He employed a young journalist to visit the local inhabitants and to get as much interesting copy as possible in order to sell his […]
» Read moreTEN TIPS FOR SPEAKERS 1 Know your audience. Consider the demographics regarding age, culture, education and gender. 2 Decide what they need or want to know. Appeal to their interests, what will motivate, inspire or persuade them 3 State your main objective in today’s time stressed world people want to know what your core message is. Be brief and to […]
» Read moreFOLLOWING THE FOLLOWERS Years ago in Cape Town, every morning a car from City Council would stop outside a jeweller shop in Greenmarket square, the driver would get out, look at something in the window, get back into the car and drive away. Eventually the owner of the shop stopped the driver to find out what he […]
» Read more“Quality” is people. It is the partnership of researchers, developers, designers, programmers, production workers, office staff, salespeople – the works – determined to help one another put out the best goods and services in the field, “Quality is the old-fashioned pride of an expert in a craft whose happiness is doing the best job possible. It’s the thrill of beating […]
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