Today’s thought from the Dalai Lama is essentially we’re not on this earth for long, so we had better spend our brief time doing something useful to ourselves and others. That’s a bit of a truism – but hidden inside is something many businesses forget. If customers are going to pay you, then what you …
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Passion and pragmatism (#RealWorldWoo No.1)
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Messages from the Mountains (10)
Posted Oct 8th, 2011 By Andrew Horder in Clarity & Focus, Decision Making With | No CommentsTwo weekends ago, I attempted the 3 Peaks Challenge* – ascending Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales respectively. During the trip, and while pushing myself to get up (and down), I learned some things about myself, and the world. These I’ve been sharing here in a series …
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Messages from the Mountains (8)
Posted Oct 7th, 2011 By Andrew Horder in Clarity & Focus, Decision Making With | No CommentsLast weekend, I attempted the 3 Peaks Challenge* – ascending Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales respectively. During the trip, and while pushing myself to get up (and down), I learned some things about myself, and the world. These I’ll be sharing here in a series of …
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Messages from the Mountains (1)
Posted Oct 3rd, 2011 By Andrew Horder in Clarity & Focus, Decision Making, Motivation & Management With | No CommentsLast weekend, I attempted the 3 Peaks Challenge* – ascending Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales respectively. During the trip, and while pushing myself to get up (and down), I learned some things about myself, and the world. These I’ll be sharing here in a series of …
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Good decisions
Posted May 19th, 2011 By Andrew Horder in Clarity & Focus, Decision Making With | No CommentsThis post is adapted from Chapter D of my new book “The Busy Fool’s A to Z of Loving Work“ Decisions are much easier to make when you have clarity about what you are really trying to achieve. It’s often said, in the success literature, that wealthy people tend to make decisions quickly, and change …
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Decisions as a factor in business strategy coaching
Posted Jan 5th, 2011 By Andrew Horder in Business Strategy Coaching, Clarity & Focus, Decision Making, Loving your Work With | 1 CommentDecisions are core to business strategy coaching And they’re much easier to make when you have clarity about what you’re really trying to acheve. And in the context of making a living doing what you love, knowing exactly what that is, and having a simple method to quickly decide which of your options is most …
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Are you a Protopreneur?
Posted Dec 21st, 2010 By Andrew Horder in Business Strategy Coaching, Decision Making With | 1 CommentWhat is a protopreneur? We’ve all heard of entrepreneurs, haven’t we? And most know what a ‘micropreneur’ is. And a ‘solopreneur’ too. Even ‘Mumpreneurs’ (and ‘Dadpreneurs’, according to Rachel Elnaugh). But what’s a ‘protopreneur’? It’s a made-up word, just like all the rest. Well, apart from entrepreneur (which, according to Dubya, is something the French …
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Wealth Dynamics: When is a shortcut not a shortcut?
Posted Nov 23rd, 2010 By Andrew Horder in Clarity & Focus, Decision Making, Motivation & Management With | 1 CommentWhen talking about Wealth Dynamics, Roger Hamilton points out that successful people follow radically different paths to wealth. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett – for years the #1 and #2 richest men in the world – have completely different ways of being successful. Gates had all his eggs in one basket, relying on innovating within …
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“Action always starts with calculation”
Posted Oct 26th, 2010 By Andrew Horder in Clarity & Focus, Decision Making, Motivation & Management With | No CommentsThese days we are constantly harangued with the need to take action, not to just sit around wishing for good things to come to our business, LoA-style. But what about the need to plan, to analyse the opportunity, to truly understand how to get the most out of our best opportunities? I’m just reviewing a …
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Assumptions?
Posted Oct 22nd, 2010 By Andrew Horder in A Better World, Decision Making With | No CommentsGreat video from Reckless Tortuga What unfounded assumptions do you make, and how do they get in your way?
