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 | November 29, 2011 - Vol. 4 Issue 39 |  |
 | 8 Secret Time-Wasters and How to Overcome Them There's a reason we send Seeds of SUCCESS at 2 p.m., CT, and not first thing in the morning. We follow the mantra of time management: Tackle your most important or difficult task first thing in the morning. So if you're reading this newsletter to avoid doing something else more important on your to-do list, we're on to you. "The most common time-waster is procrastination," says author Paul J. Meyer. "People who are masters of time organization wear success blinders. They do not look to the left or the right." The most productive folks always look straight ahead to complete their most important tasks for the day and larger overreaching goals. Productivity coach Cynthia Kersey highlights these procrastinating behaviors and offers ways to spur you into action: Click here to continue reading. |  | | | | Nature Gives Us Clues
If you were going to pick a model from nature for how to create and operate as a great team, which animal would you pick? How about lions, tigers, hippos or bears?
Those species are known to eat their young, or the new guy or gal on the team, in our analogy. That doesn't make for good team building! How about wolves or hyenas?
These animals are known to constantly have ego fights for dominance—definitely not good for trust and the morale of a team. How about salmon?
Certainly their long struggle to swim upstream in dedication to duplicate (procreate) the team has to be a good role model. Yeah, well, the only problem is, once they have finally done the quiver (seriously, that's what they do—they align themselves next to each other and quiver while they each do their part of the act), they die. That can't be good if every time new people are brought into your team the leaders die. So salmon are out. I know what you are thinking… eagles, right?
Eagles are good role models for soaring to individual heights, but they are poor team players. They are known to be territorial, pretty hostile toward one another and constantly stealing prey from one another. Get this… momma eagle usually lays two eggs and most often the bigger of the two siblings (which is usually the female, as they come out bigger) kills the other sibling while mom looking on (harsh, right?). No, you don't want the new recruits killing each other or the leaders stealing sales and clients from each other. Eagles, team players? Not so much. No, the animal species you want to learn from and emulate in working together as a team are...  | MORE BLOG POSTS Sharma: How Exercise Affects Leadership
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| | | | |  | |  | Set new leadership goals! Leadership expert Mike Figliuolo suggests creating your own set of 10 "leadership maxims" that guide your professional and personal life. Start now by listing three principles you try to live and work by and then share them with your team! | | "Some men see things the way they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things that never were, and ask 'Why not?"
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