Tag Archives: personal excellence

Look Inward Before You Try to Change Others

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Nilooka

Look Inward Before You Try to Change Others.

Posted in Business Skills, Career Paths, creativity, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Leadership, Life skills, Management Skills, Personal excellence | Tagged attitudes, business skills, career paths, careers, change, creativity, knowledge, leadership, learning, management skills, mind power, personal excellence, self development, success, Thinking | Leave a comment

How do successful people reach their goals? [3 min HBR video]

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Nilooka

Successful people do things differently. Here’s how. Continue reading →

Posted in Business Skills, Career Paths, HBR - Harvard Business Review, Inspiration, Life skills, Making Life Dreams Come True, Management Skills, Personal excellence, Videos | Tagged career paths, creativity, dreams, inspiration, life-dreams, management skills, personal excellence, self development, self improvement, success | 1 Comment

Banish Your Inner Critic – NDC Oslo (A Slideshare presentation)

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Nilooka

Here’s an excellent presentation by Denise R. Jacobs on banishing your inner critic. Banish Your Inner Critic – NDC Oslo from Denise Jacobs

Posted in Business Skills, creativity, Inspiration, Life skills, Making Life Dreams Come True, Management Skills, Mindpower, Personal excellence | Tagged creativity, inspiration, mind power, personal excellence, procrastination | Leave a comment

How Tough Are You, Mentally? Find Out.

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Nilooka

“Mental toughness” is a phrase that is commonly used in sports to describe the superior mental qualities of the competitor. Most elite athletes report that at least 50% of superior athletic performance is the result of mental or psychological factors, and a whopping 83% of coaches rate mental toughness as the most important set of psychological characteristics for determining competitive success. Continue reading →

Posted in Business Skills, creativity, Inspiration, Leadership, Life skills, Making Life Dreams Come True, Management Skills, Management Training, Mindpower, Personal excellence | Tagged grit, inspiration, mental toughness, mindpower, personal excellence | Leave a comment

Why Helping Others Drives Our Success – A McKinsey Video

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Nilooka

We’ve all observed that there’s a rise in project-based work, which corresponds with the knowledge economy—fewer dedicated jobs and long, stable careers and much more, “How do I combine a skill set with a need that you have?” And I think that as we see these kinds of shifts in the workplace, we’re going to see “giving” skills become more important, because a lot of getting work done then becomes about working with, for, and through other people. Continue reading →

Posted in Business Skills, Career Paths, Inspiration, Leadership, Life skills, Making Life Dreams Come True, Management Skills, Management Training, McKinsey Quarterly, Personal excellence, Uncategorized | Tagged helping others, managerial skills, personal excellence, success, workplace | Leave a comment

Ever wake up thinking you hate work? Find out why

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Nilooka

New research from various quarters highlight the need for meaningful work and even the importance of happiness at work. This is not smiley face happiness we are talking about. Its the positive feelings that come with knowing you are productively engaged and making progress, and making a difference. Read for more. Continue reading →

Posted in Business Skills, Career Paths, Inspiration, Leadership, Life skills, Management Skills, Mindpower, Personal excellence, workshops | Tagged burnout, happiness at work, motivation, personal excellence, satisfaction, stress, work productivity | Leave a comment

Win at Workplace Conflict – An HBR Blog Post

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Nilooka

Stay focused, pick your fights, build empathy, use humour and develop relationships to effectively manage conflict at work Continue reading →

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A Few Thoughts on Criticism

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Nilooka

When giving criticism do it gently like rain, to nourish rather than destroy roots. Continue reading →

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Here are 9 things that successful people do differently

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Nilooka

Why do some people succeed in life while others don’t? Based on extensive research, Heidi Grant Halvorson published an article, in the HBR Blog Network titled Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Read more about it and get the text to the HBR article. Continue reading →

Posted in Business Skills, Career Paths, HBR Blog Network, Inspiration, Leadership, Life skills, Making Life Dreams Come True, Management Skills, Management Training, Mindpower, Personal excellence | Tagged HBR Blog Network, personal excellence, reading | 3 Comments

Are You Serious About Imagination?

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Nilooka

“This story is about taking imagination seriously. Fourteen years ago, I first encountered this ordinary material, fishnet, used the same way for centuries. Today, I’m using it to create permanent, billowing, voluptuous forms the scale of hard-edged buildings in cities around the world. I was an unlikely person to be doing this. I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.” Continue reading →