Category: Learnings
In negotiation, get all the professional help you can trust.
But do not surrender control of the negotiations or the agenda to such professionals. They are not the ones who will have to live with the consequences – you are. -How to get rich, p.164 Continue reading In negotiation, get all the professional help you can trust.
Do not mistake serious negotiations with management bargaining.
They require very different skills. Let’s say an employee wishes to deposit and collect their child from school each day. This will interfere with his/her “normal” working hours. Big deal. If the employee is important to you, you will probably bend over barckward to “negotiate” a solution. If they are not, you will probably enforce the letter of law (and fire them). Whatever you decide to do, you are not involved in “negotiating” – you are problem solving. -How to get rich, p.150 Continue reading Do not mistake serious negotiations with management bargaining.
When he hits yet another bump on the road, or has a head-on collision, he attempts to change his luck by changing direction.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity
-Roman Seneca, How to get rich, p.140 Continue reading Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity
It’s usually better to leave no doubt in your visitor’s mind if you’re not interested in their project or idea.
In a way, it’s kinder, as well. While the temptation is to say, “I’ll confer with my colleagues and get back to you,” this will eventually come back to haunt you and waste more of your most valuable resource. Time. -How to get rich, p.130 Continue reading It’s usually better to leave no doubt in your visitor’s mind if you’re not interested in their project or idea.
When you stop listening, you stop learning
-How to get rich, p.129 Continue reading When you stop listening, you stop learning
Strangling your own baby, in order to grow, is far more common than you might think.
Ex: If you have a successful monthly magazine, for instance, and then launch a weekly in the same category, you will inevitably weaken sales of your original title. So should you launch the weekly? YES! A thousand times yes! Why? Because if you don’t launch the weekly, your rivals will do it for you. You will be left with a damaged monthly and no weekly. -How to get rich, p.124 Continue reading Strangling your own baby, in order to grow, is far more common than you might think.
Trust your instincts
Do not be slave to them, but when your instincts are screaming, Go! Go! Go! then it’s time for you to decide whether you really want to be rich or not. You can’t get rich by painting numbers. You can only do it by becoming a predator, by waiting patiently, by remaining alert and constantly sniffing the airand by bringing massive, murderous force to bear upon your prey when you pounce. -How to get rich, p.122 Continue reading Trust your instincts
Doubts can and should be confronted, as should fear.
This is best done in daylight, under rigorous examination (Three o’clock in the morning is a difficult time to confront any such messengers.) Write down your doubts and fears.Examine them.Hold them uo to the light.Suck the wisdom out of them and discard their husks in the trash. -How to get rich, p.117 Continue reading Doubts can and should be confronted, as should fear.
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