Archive for June, 2007
The Rules of the Game #1 - Introductions
Posted by Sharon 18 June 2007Years ago I worked in a financial services organisation where it seemed that everyone but the CEO and me knew the rules of the introduction game. Thanks to Paul and some friendly Business Development Managers, I’ve learned the rules and in recent work with an organisation, we developed a model for Introductions, because surprisingly, […]
Prediction and Behaviour Change
Posted by Sharon 18 June 2007I’ve been reading an INSEAD Knowledge Newsletter article about some recent marketing research, investigating people’s predictions compared to their behaviours and it seems to be pointing in the following direction (the research is not yet completed):
If you ask people to predict how much they will do of a norm based behaviour (eg exercise, where there […]
Perfectionism and Goal Achieving
Posted by Sharon 5 June 2007I seem to have a theme going here - the balance between good enough to “produce” and always aiming higher, but not aiming first for perfection, otherwise we will never get started.
I’ve been reviewing Stephanie Burns’ Goal Achievers program and am enjoying some of the insights, such as:
Time passes, whether you act or not.
You don’t […]