Measuring Performance Doesn‘t Help, Measuring How You Perform Does! It is not what you do that matters, but how you do it that does! by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Significant effort, time and resources are spent by companies in assessing the current level of performance in order to be able to determine what […]
VIEW POSTTwo Questions To Attain and Maintain Focus Achieving and maintaining focus is a key skill in modern business. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a time-poor environment in which more demands are being made of us it is more and more important that we focus on what we do. This is especially true […]
VIEW POSTThe Three Key Determinants of Business Performance Having two out of three is not good enough… by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions There are three key determinants for business performance – direction, aptitude and attitude. Direction Performance occurs in context of the goals, outcomes and measures that have been established. How well are the […]
VIEW POSTDeveloping Emotional Agility & Overcoming Your “Inner Chatter” What to do when you become your own worst enemy, and how to overcome to win over yourself. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions On average you speak sixteen thousand words, a day or nearly six million words a year. That is a lot. What we […]
VIEW POSTCreating Peer Pressure How to design and create peer pressure to align people and efforts. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Peer pressure is a useful way to get people to work together. A working definition of peer pressure for the purpose of this is: “Peer pressure is the influence exerted by a peer […]
VIEW POSTAttitude vs. Aptitude How attitude is the driver of success and how to help people succeed. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a previous article, “The Exactitude of Attitude”, we examined the importance of having people not only with the right skills, but the right attitude – and that 46% of new hires […]
VIEW POSTThe Exactitude of Attitude How attitude is a good predictor of prospective employee success, and how you can identify those with the right attitude for your business. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions The top challenge for CEOs according to a survey from the Conference Board (January 2013) is Human Capital – the ability […]
VIEW POSTTake Responsibility to Gain Momentum Freeing yourself and others to gain traction and action. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions How often have you waited for work or input from someone else in order to get your work done, or to actually start the process. It’s not your fault you are delayed, but what […]
VIEW POSTThe Power of Self-Doubt How true leaders lead with self-doubt. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In a podcast of a lecture by Tim Macartney, which he gave at the London School of Economics, that I recently listened to – and which I would highly recommend – he shared a valuable insight which hit […]
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