http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy Achieving your own success needs your own commitment. There are no short cuts. If you want to complete the journey, there will be many times that your commitment is tested. Along your journey you will experience fai... http://www.articlealley.com/article_805283_24.html 03rd March 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy "The road less traveled" by M. Scott Peck begins: "Life is difficult". Most people, especially during this economic downturn will concur. Most people also moan continuously about their woes and tribulations. It's as if... http://www.articlealley.com/article_780591_24.html 09th February 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy The majority of start up businesses fail within the first year! Many of these should have succeeded. They had a good product or service, an decent marketing plan and committed people. Yet they failed because the busine... http://www.articlealley.com/article_776967_15.html 02nd February 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy Pop into any bookstore and in the business section you'll find at least fifty current books promising 'instant success' or the '4 steps to achieving your dreams' or the 'easy guide to getting everything in life you eve... http://www.articlealley.com/article_773474_24.html 31st January 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy Some writers have identified competencies that are considered to be generic and overarching across all occupations. Reynolds and Snell (1988) identify 'meta-qualities' - creativity, mental agility and balanced learning... http://www.articlealley.com/article_762088_15.html 20th January 2009 Copyright (c) 2009 John Kenworthy Most people would accept that the ability to learn, and the ease of that learning, makes a difference in life. But, is someone who is more able to learn, more easily and in many different situations, better equipped to... http://www.articlealley.com/article_753090_24.html 14th January 2009 Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage What do we mean by a 'goal'? It seems that these things are important, yet, so few people have them and some have been woefully misled by the term. Everyone at some point in their life has heard that it is impo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_736254_24.html 05th January 2009 Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage The concept of competence remains one of the most diffuse terms in the organisational and occupational literature (Nordhaug and Gronhaug, 1994). Exactly what does an author mean when using any of the terms of compe... http://www.articlealley.com/article_731986_15.html 31st December 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage At this time of year, many people are planning on over-indulgence, eating too much, drinking perhaps a little more than is wise. And we hear the refrain, "I'll make my resolution to change in the new year". But, ha... http://www.articlealley.com/article_727612_24.html 19th December 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage Continuing this series of articles about five attitudes that will change your leadership style, business, and life, here, we will consider: Now, we shall consider: 2. There is no failure, only feedback 3. Peo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_724300_24.html 17th December 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage In this third article in this series, we consider the 4th and 5th attitudes that can change your life. Attitude 4 - Respect the other person's map of the world. Attitude 5 - The meaning of communication is the resp... http://www.articlealley.com/article_720659_24.html 15th December 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 GainMore Advantage Here are five attitudes that will change your leadership style, business, and life: 1. People can change anything 2. There is no failure, only feedback 3. People are NOT their behaviours 4. Respect the ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_700921_24.html 01st December 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_675461_24.html 27th October 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_649881_15.html 26th September 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_637520_24.html 15th September 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_623304_15.html 06th September 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_599893_24.html 15th August 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_598807_24.html 14th August 2008 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_597769_24.html 13th August 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_597037_24.html 13th August 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_577204_24.html 15th July 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_575843_24.html 14th July 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_575648_24.html 14th July 2008 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_551985_24.html 06th June 2008 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_521723_15.html 25th April 2008 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_496438_32.html 26th March 2008 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 -... http://www.articlealley.com/article_495817_24.html 26th March 2008 Copyright (c) 2008 John Kenworthy Many golfers take up the game, in part, because it is known as the sport of business people - it is an especially good means of networking and developing relationships, so is there a commonality between the way people ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488402_24.html 10th March 2008