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The Role of Workplace Optimism in Building Trust

Lead Change Blog

Mediocre results, missed goals and unhappy people. Workplace optimism is not a viewpoint or belief system. Without trust and extraordinary results workplace optimism is absent. Without workplace optimism talented people stay away from or leave companies. What’s left?

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Never Enough … Excellence, Agility, and Meaning

Leading Blog

It’s about realizing that the goal is not to get by but to “always look for more ways to make an impact.”. The way to get better over time is to know where we aren’t good enough, what aspects of our life are not satisfying enough, which goals we’re chasing aren’t the right ones. It begins by having a belief system in place.

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Raise your hand, if you know what yours are

Jason Womack

How many goals do you have? It's a reflection of your belief system. What goals do you have? Stating an intention is more.it's more than creating a plan, more than getting started. What you believe could happen. Are they personal? Professional? Do they have to do with you, your community or a cause?

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Personality Models: Have Fun, but Step Carefully Around the BS

The Practical Leader

Life’s full of interesting coincidences or — depending on your belief system — mysterious synchronicities. That’s their key measure of communication effectiveness and the main goal of training on this model. Social Styles emphasizes a versatility scale.

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Opposite Proverbs: How Leaders Mislead Themselves

CO2

Sometimes I’ll do it by using opposite proverbs, but my goal isn’t to make my clients look foolish or reconsider one particular decision. My goal is to help them find out what they really believe and why, and how individual beliefs fit in with their belief system as a whole. Proverb-Free Leadership.

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Great Coaches Have These 14 Attributes

Eric Jacobson

Great coaches set few goals if any. Great coaches do not force their belief system on others. They know that if a player replaces his or her own belief with the coach's belief, success will be short-lived at best. Great coaches set few expectations if any. They know better than to limit possibilities.

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Apple’s Latest Diversity Report A Big “So What”

N2Growth Blog

To close, once the essential underpinnings as outlined above are in place then, and only then, should a change in hiring policies be pursued at Apple.

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