Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage Every single thing you do and say has a degree of influence on you and on others. You are part of their external environment. You even exert a small degree of gravitational force on others, indeed, you exert gravit...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage There's a surprising similarity between playing the game of golf and leadership. Once the analogies are made clear to you, you'll wonder perhaps why you didn't see it before. By the time you've finished reading thi...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage When we ask this question in our workshops, we are usually met with blank stares at first. I call them 'blank stares' because to be looked at as if you are completely off your trolley isn't something I choose to re...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage The search for talent is ongoing. Individuals seek to develop their talents, companies seek to identify talent and retain it, succession planning requires it, politicians plan for it, and the world wants to find it...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage In the first three parts of this series we have looked at goal setting, the process and the real research behind this to find out what makes a difference. It seems that there is considerable support for the idea...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage In this part 3 of the article, we look at some real research to find out what makes a difference in goal-setting. In Part 2, we found that there is support for the concept of SMART goals - but not why is it so i...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage In this article, we consider the goal-setting process and support for the concept of SMART goals. Part 1 of this article considered the myth of the Yale study on goal setting and we discussed what a goal is and ...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage For far too long, consultants, trainers, guru's and leaders have been misleading us about goal setting. We keep hearing the same myth that people with written goals achieve greater success in life. I fell foul of t...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage Technical aptitude alone is insufficient Jimmy Conners, winner of 109 professional singles tennis titles says "There's a thin line between being #1 or #100 and mostly it's mental." In his well-researched book...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage Push mode, Pull mode and Drift mode: Push Mode If you have to drive others towards an objective, even drive yourself towards it, I call this being in push mode. Push mode is typified by focusing your atten...

Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage What can I learn? People who achieve great success are always learning. They seek ways to improve and are prepared to work through the difficulties of change required to become better. Peter Senge in his book...

Copyright (c) 2008 John Kenworthy Imagine being 10 times richer than Bill Gates and Warren Buffet combined! Not possible? But it is! There's plenty of books on Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, to discover how they made their fortunes. All you have to d...

Copyright (c) 2008 John Kenworthy Trust is leader's and a networker's bankroll. With trust, he or she is solvent, without it, he or she is bankrupt. A trusted networker, like a trusted leader, has a thick bankroll of crisp bills. Every time you act ...

Copyright (c) 2008 John Kenworthy How do you influence yourself? If you're thinking that this is a silly question, you wouldn't be alone. When I ask this question, I usually see blank stares at first. I call them 'blank stares' because to be looked ...

Copyright (c) 2008 John Kenworthy Golfers like to blame everyone and everything else for poor shots. It's their club, the ball, the way the course has been managed, the weather, the pressure of competition. Quietly, to themselves, they know the truth -...