Twenty Great One Liner Monday, 28 November 2005
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1. Regular naps prevent old age… especially if you take them while driving.
2. Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.
3. Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!
4. They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried – but they wanted cash.
5. A child’s greatest period of growth is the month after you’ve purchased new school uniforms.
6. Don’t feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.
7. Don’t marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without… but whatever ! you do, you’ll regret it later.
8. You can’t buy love . . . but you pay heavily for it.
9. True friends stab you in the front.
10. Forgiveness is giving up my right to hate you for hurting me.
11. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
12. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired
13. My wife and I always compromise. I admit I’m wrong! and she agrees with me.
14. Those who can’t laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
15. Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.
16. It doesn’t matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.
17. They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.
18. Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
19. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something
20. Real friends are the ones who survive transitions between address books
Leading Ideas: Culture Drives Success Thursday, 24 November 2005
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Last week, a colleague was venting some frustrations about a project at her company. She’d been working on a culture change initiative for 6 months and didn’t feel like she was getting much traction. When I asked her how much input she’d been getting from the executive team, she said very little. Then she started to defend them by saying they were too busy – until she caught herself. “I guess that’s the problem,” she smiled. “The executives being ‘too busy’ to focus on people issues is how we ended up in this situation in the first place.” – Bingo.
Culture is your organization’s DNA – the blueprint for everything you do. To be better at innovating – your culture must expect and foster innovation. To improve customer satisfaction – your culture must expect and foster great service. Great leaders realize this. They know that
“culture” isn’t a single item on a task list. And it can’t be delegated to a committee. It’s all encompassing. It’s the real work – and legacy – of leaders.
Something to try:
Consider the team/group/organization you’re leading
*1.* Look at your vision/mission statement and jot down the behaviors that everyone supposedly follows.
*2.* On a second list jot down the behaviors that everyone actually follows.
*3.* Pick the one discrepancy that annoys you the most.
*4.* Make it a top priority to change it.
*5.* Have a conversation with colleagues on why each of you think the discrepancy exists.
*6.* Agree on some structures to put in place to ensure that change happens (communication, processes, rewards etc).
Question: How do you foster a culture of success at your organization?
I wish our toilet is like this Thursday, 17 November 2005
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Something Sucks Friday, 11 November 2005
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