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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. He shares his self-defeating behavior early in life that led him nowhere and the commitment that was required to turn his life around. He did both.

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Weight Watcher Ron - My Role Model for Commitment and Goal Achievement

Building Personal Strength

Now he weighs 180 pounds - very close to his goal weight. Back in 2002, Ron was motivated by the symptoms of Type II diabetes to sign up for the Weight Watchers program. During 2002, Ron lost 50 pounds in 9 months. His goal was to lose 60 pounds before 2010. He's already met his goal. That means I can do it, too.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Gennard and Judge (2002) state, “Employee relations is a study of the rules, regulations, and agreements by which employees are managed both as individuals and as a collective group, the priority given to the individual as opposed to the collective relationship varying from company to company depending upon the values of management.

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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How Does the Relevancy of your work, affect Productivity?

Mike Cardus

Your work and life are consistently driven by goals. What you find relevant about those goals you do more of. Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen,2002) Wikipedia. We are goal-driven beings.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Cisco studied which characteristics of leaders on collaborative teams are most important, and we found that the most critical attribute was a leader's willingness to follow through on commitments. Modeling the desired collaborative behaviors -- showing your employees that you walk the talk -- is the goal. This involves two elements.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

” McClelland’s findings in a 1996 study showed that “when senior managers had a critical mass of Emotional Intelligence capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earning goals by 20%. Meanwhile, division leaders without crucial mass underperformed by almost the same amount.” The secret of organizational change is empathy.