maya angelou

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Because it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
                            - Maya Angelou

how to get ideas and make then work

Coming up with ideas may be a struggle. Here's 3 items that will help.

1. Write down on paper your three greatest wishes, numbering them one, two, and three. Look at this wish list every day.
2. Spend one hour every day analyzing and studying your job. Do this often and in less than five years you will be an acknowledged expert on that job.
3. Spend one hour every day with a white sheet of paper in front of you and write down every idea you can think of. You will get surprising ideas that will improve your job and performance.

7 questions to end the week

I found this on Facebook from Emily Thomas and I wanted to post.

1. OBSERVE - What pleasant surprises did I discover?
2. REFLECT - What lesson did my work teach me that I can build upon next week?
3. FOCUS - Are my short-term efforts aligned with my long-term goals?
4. BE PRODUCTIVE - What could I spent more or less time doing?
5. HAVE COURAGE - How did fear and uncertainty affect what I did and didn't do?
6. CLEANSE - What mental clutter can I clear?
7. BEGIN ANEW - What is the first logical step for next week?

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network performance

"Doing more with less" is beyond cliche'. Challenges include shrinking budgets and increasing workloads. A good rule is that an 18% productivity improvement in performace is needed. Performance enablers are needed. This productivity increase can be achieved with a new approach through collaboration across networks.

The traditional view of successful performance focuses on assignment completion. That's it, nothing more. This view is changing. Goals are more complex with the rise of social media. Discussions and decisions are increasingly driven by data. Workflow requires more collaboration across a variety of platforms, both internal and external. Contributions require capitalization of networks. Their is a strong attraction of network performance and organizational success.

To achieve gains in productivity, better management of network performance is needed. In practice, effective network performers consistently demonstrate behaviors that contribute to their networks. This includes, but is not limited to, harnessing great ideas from other parts of the organization and applying them to one's own work. Opinions and feedback are two other categories in this application.

Concentrate on network performance. Identify connections and cultivate relationships by identifying influencers. They help with priorities.

Only through a new perspective of network performance will we be able to achieve better productivity performance.