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The Hanging Of Jonathan Wild: A Leadership Lesson
by Brent Filson

Jonathan Wild, notorious English criminal (1682-1725) picked the pocket of the priest who administered the last rites on the gallows at Tyburn. The unrepentant felon triumphantly waved his trophy, a corkscrew, just before he was dropped to his death.

There is a leadership lesson in this. And it’s a lesson many leaders miss. When you’re leading a group of people of whatever size to get results, understand that roughly about 20 percent of the people will be against you. The 20 percent won’t do or at least won’t want to do what you require and thus may perform poorly on the job.

One of the most persistent and difficult challenges of leadership is dealing with poor performers. Aside from job-related problems they engender, they also squander time and resources. “Forty percent of my time,” a CEO told me, “is devoted to dealing with ten percent of my employees.”

Mind you, I’m not talking about poor performance tied to “skill” issues. People who are not measuring up because they lack skills and knowledge to do well usually need a different intervention than people who have “will” issues.

You might make a rough equivalence between the people performing poorly on the job because of will issues with the Jonathan Wilds of the world. After all, as an upright citizen, Wild was a “poor performer.” But as a pickpocket, he was adroit.

Putting aside the specific kinds of interventions you might undertake, the important thing is your perspective. In dealing with them, you absolutely must not underestimate the skills, talents, and proficiency they bring to poor performance. They can “pick your pocket” and you won’t even know it.

You have three choices when dealing with them. You can choose to live with them as they are. You can choose to rid yourself of them. Or you can choose to intervene to try and change them. There’s no fourth choice.

Or maybe I should say there’s no first choice either. The first “choice” may be no choice at all. You probably can’t leave them alone. Poor performers are usually not content to be one-man-bands. They love company. They need to recruit others onto their poor-performance teams – or at least keep them from joining your team. In this capacity, they’re smart, adaptive, innovative, and good leaders. Your underestimating them gives them an advantage against you.

There are many ways to deal with poor performers. (Articles on my web site detail a few.) The point is that in your dealings, keep in mind you could be up against some Jonathan Wilds, those people who may be performing poorly on the job but who perform excellently in their parallel, and maybe to them more important, job — which is being against you.

2006 © The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

The author of 23 books, Brent Filson’s recent books are, THE LEADERSHIP TALK: THE GREATEST LEADERSHIP TOOL and 101 WAYS TO GIVE GREAT LEADERSHIP TALKS. He is founder and president of The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. – and for more than 20 years has been helping leaders of top companies worldwide get audacious results. Sign up for his free leadership e-zine and get a free white paper: “49 Ways To Turn Action Into Results,” at http://www.actionleadership.com

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Our subconscious mind does not know what is good or bad, positive or negative, what a problem is or what the solution is. It only knows that if you are focusing your conscious mind on it all the time, you must want what you are focused on, therefore it supplies for you. It is that simple.

That is why many people go through life with permanent problems, because they focus on the wrong things. We have to know, and hope that things can, do, and will get better.

Let’s take a common everyday situation where people focus on their money problems. Say for instance you are worried about how you are going to clear your credit cards, your car loan, maybe your behind on your mortgage payments or on just how am I going to get out of this debt I’m in. Stop Right There. Now, take a good long hard look at what you are thinking about day and night. Debt, debt and more debt, Right? So you are getting exactly what it is you are thinking about. How do you solve this problem?

Stop thinking about the debt and start to think about the Money, in other words stop focusing on the problem and start focusing on the solution.

You Are Not What You Think You Are - But You Are What You Think.

What you continually think about all the time is what your subconscious believes you want, so it gives it to you.

Now thinking alone will not solve the problem, you need to take action as well so in order to start learning how to increase your income dramatically go to www.thehandsontrainingsystem.com and get my 5 part training course absolutely FREE

Remember your subconscious mind does not know what is good or bad, positive or negative, what a problem is or what the solution is. The solution to this would be to focus on the money in order to solve the problem of debt. If you keep focused on the solution, and backed up by positive action, you will attain financial freedom. Go For It. www.thehandsontrainingsystem.com

Yours in Success
Leslie Johnston

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Jewish singles the world over find it ever increasingly difficult to find the perfect match using traditional introduction methods. Taking into account the pressure that modern day living places on society, one would understand why very little time is spared for single people to find a suitable match. It is no wonder that a Jewish dating service like http://www.shalom.co.za has become a vital part of the match making game.

The average single Jewish person typically works a 5 day week, usually starting very early and ending very late, by they time that they get home they still need to worry about the basic chores around the house, thus leaving them very little or no time to go through the pain staking process of going out with groups of friends only to be introduced to many potential / unlikely matches, hoping to find the glove that fits.

Technology in the Jewish personals and Jewish dating world has brought about a service called www.shalom.co.za , this allows the user to add, edit and upload content to their dating profile. As this process is streamlined, the subscriber is able to do all of this and still have the time to communicate online with a group of single Jewish members from around the world, within seconds of logging onto www.shalom.co.za

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The objective of www.shalom.co.za as a dating solution for single Jewish people is to provide an affordable yet powerful tool in allowing Jews from around the world to meet one another.

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For over 3,000 years Chinese people have turned to the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui to achieve greater harmony in their environment, and in themselves. Today we are bombarded by constant stress. How often do you wait anxiously in traffic, scroll through seemingly endless pages of email, leap at the sound of the cell phone? We are all bombarded by the daily demands of work and family, housekeeping and leisure. The pressure of bills and bosses can leave anyone’s nerves feeling frayed, and all too often we have unfulfilled personal expectations for our lives on top of the stress of just getting through the day. The good news is, you can restore your energy, recharge yourself and release tension by utilizing Feng Shui to create a home that is a sanctuary.

The principles of Feng Shui can help you design an environment that creates and directs positive energy. You may not be aware of the ways your physical space is affecting your well-being. Feng Shui provides guidelines to help in identifying problems in your environment. If learning about Feng Shui sounds like one more project in an already busy life, consider that this is one project that will lighten your load, provide relief and enhance your energy, rather than drain your internal resources or tire you out. This makes feng shui a truly worthy use of your time.

If your energy and your efforts are blocked, if your environment is contributing to your sense of restriction because the Feng Shui is not in balance, your stress only worsens. Scientists have demonstrated the negative effects of stress on the body. The overproduction of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline tax all of the systems in your body. These hormones contribute to the chronic conditions, like heart disease, that plague our society. And, excess stress wears down the immune system and leads to frequent colds and other aliments.

One of the keys to restoring energy and relieving stress is getting enough rest. Using Feng Shui to arrange your bedroom will help you get the sleep you need. Feng Shui will guide you in selecting the right room to sleep in, careful placement of your bed, eliminating mirrors in the bedroom, all of which will contribute to the quality of your rest and your waking energy.

Anxiety and stress trap and deplete energy. Feng Shui optimizes energy. An environment that employs proper Feng Shui principles contributes to harmony and well-being. The Chinese believe that Feng Shui helps create the conditions whereby you can thrive in your life and in your relationships. Feng Shui helps restore your energy because the objective of Feng Shui is to allow you to achieve harmony through your surroundings. You will learn how to place objects and arrange space so as to assist the flow of Chi energy. You will learn to leave negative energy at the door and fill your living space with good energy. With Feng Shui you can give yourself the positive pleasure of a harmonious, planned home environment designed to increase your well-being.

Ngakpa Yeshe
Further Reading:
http://www.rainbowfengshui.com

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Leadership, Tribal Spiritual Wisdom, And The Leadership Talk
by Brent Filson

You can boost your leadership skills and hence your career by understanding this one thing that most leaders miss: great leadership incorporates a spiritual dimension.

This spiritual dimension has been a part of leadership since time in memorial; but in today’s global economy, it is undergoing an historic, universal transformation. It’s a transformation that speaks directly to your individual leadership and career challenges.

However, when we talk about the spiritual in leadership, we must, first and foremost, talk about results — the results leaders achieve. Concrete results. Hard, measured results. Plus, we must talk about getting more of them, getting them faster, and getting “more, faster” continually. Otherwise, there is no sense in delving into the spiritual aspect of leadership.

Results are the stuff that leaders are made of. If they’re not getting results, they won’t be leaders for long. Results come in countless forms and functions. But one thing they all share: they are material consequences of actions.

You can’t see spirit, you can’t hear it, you can’t smell it, you can’t taste it, you can’t feel it; however, if you ignore the non-material that the spiritual encompasses, you’ll give short shrift to your leadership.

Just as the root word for spirit comes from Latin “to breathe” so spiritual dimensions of leadership are its very life-breath; for through it, the greatest results are achieved.

Spirit has been applied to many different things in different fields: to stealth bombers, corporations, rock bands, comic book characters, etc. In religion, spirit is the concept of an innate essence of a being. All religions embrace spirit in many ways. But when applied to leadership, spirit is differently manifested than with organized religions. The spiritual aspect of leadership I’m talking about must be exerted universally in the global market place, across cultures, nations, ethnic groups, etc. No religion has a corner on the spirit of leadership.

Fortunately, there is a universal ground for the kind of spirit needed in today’s leadership: the spiritual wisdom of tribal cultures. Anthropologists have come to identify common features in the diversity of tribal cultures around the world. First, they are earth-based. The relationship between the earth and the people is one of mystical interdependence. Second, the powers of nature, the acts of daily life, birth death, nature and the cosmos are all invested with deep meaning through ritual and dance. Third, most tribal cultures view all individual things that make up our universe — rocks, stars, mountains, rivers, people, animals, fish, etc. — as interdependent.

This interdependence is not just a physical dynamic. Yes, we live on the same earth, breath the same air, and are all mortal. But tribal cultures understand it as a spiritual dynamic as well. Unlike the concept of human souls, which are believed to be eternal and preexisting, one’s spirit according to tribal wisdom develops and grows as an integral aspect of a person living interdependently with the community and its environment.

Today, these interdependent features of tribal spiritual wisdom can be applied with dramatic consequences to global leadership. Just as tribe members saw themselves as interdependent with their tribe and their spiritual deities and dictums, so today’s leaders in order to be truly successful on a global stage must see themselves in similar interdependent terms. However, the difference today is that interdependence is not with a tribe but with people the world over and with the world environment. That’s a profound, spiritual leadership lesson, hard but necessary to actualize, from which great leadership results flow.

How do we actualize this spiritual imperative? Enter the Leadership Talk. I have been teaching the Leadership Talk to leaders of all ranks and functions worldwide for nearly a quarter of a century. It works on the premise that great results happen primarily when leaders establish a deep, human, emotional connection with people. When I first began developing and teaching it, I saw it as a powerful results generator. It is that. In fact, the Leadership Talk is the most powerful leadership results generator of all. But I had not really understood why until recently. Now, I see each one of those descriptors, “deep, human, emotional”, which grew organically out of my having to work with leaders challenged to get great results, are fundamentally spiritual in nature. That’s because they are predicated on the spiritual wisdom of interdependence. (You can find out more about the Leadership Talk on my website.) A key reason the Leadership Talk has helped leaders get great, material results for nearly 25 years is its driving methodologies are fundamentally spiritual.

Globalization is forcing broad and deep changes in human relationships as organizations are being challenged to achieve greater results than ever before. When you understand that the best results come from practical processes bolstered with spiritual dynamics connected to tribal wisdom, you’ll have an opportunity to achieve an unmatched competitive advantage in the world marketplace.

2006 © The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

The author of 23 books, Brent Filson’s recent books are, THE LEADERSHIP TALK: THE GREATEST LEADERSHIP TOOL and 101 WAYS TO GIVE GREAT LEADERSHIP TALKS. He is founder and president of The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. – and for more than 21 years has been helping leaders of top companies worldwide get audacious results. Sign up for his free leadership e-zine and get a free white paper: “49 Ways To Turn Action Into Results,” at http://www.actionleadership.com For more about the Leadership Talk: http://www.theleadershiptalk.com

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German is one of the most popular languages in the world. In fact,

the Guinness Book of World Records has listed the German language as one of the three languages that are learned the most by

people. It is also included in the ten most spoken languages in the world. In the European Union it is the second most known foreign

language.German is also one of the agreed upon official languages of the

EU and is also chosen, along with English and French, as one of the three working languages used in the European

Commission.

German is also considered as a pluricentric language much like English and French. With the wide scope of usage for this

language, it would be quite expected to think that a person who knows German would be able to go to any part of Germany and be

expected to communicate effortlessly. Unfortunately, this is quite far from the truth. In reality, the German language has many

dialects that are spoken in a large part of the country (and even in other countries).

The German dialects are not mutually intelligible to each other. This means that people who only know the different German

dialects and not the common German language will not be able to understand each other.

How did the dialects evolve into this? Each dialect has evolved to contain typical words that are not considered as cognates of the

words used in standard German this makes it quite difficult to understand in areas where the dialect is not spoken or an area where a

different dialect is used.

There is a so-called dialect continuum in countries where German is spoken. During normal situations the dialect that is used by

a neighbouring region is understood quite well even if it is also distinctly different from the dialect that is used in the adjacent region.

The so called Low German dialects that are used in the Northern part of Germany are considered mutually intelligible but it still

remains not understood in other parts of the country. Of the other remaining dialects, the German dialects used in Switzerland,

Southern Bavaria, Austria, and the West Bank of the Rhine are notoriously known for being very hard to understand outside the

regions in which these dialects are used. On the other hand, the so called Central and Eastern German dialects are seen to be more

understandable in other parts of the country.

Low Germanic dialects are those dialects that were not affected by the High German consonant shift. The Low Germanic dialect

is comprised of two subgroups – Low Franconian and Low German.

The High Germanic dialects are broken down into Central German and Upper German subgroups. The Central German dialects

include Ripuarian, Moselle Franconian, Hessian, Thuringian, South Franconian, Lorraine Franconian and Upper Saxon. Upper German

dialects include Alemannic, Swabian, East Franconian, Alsatian and Austro-Bavarian. The Upper German dialects are also used in

certain parts of the Alsace, as well as in southern Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and in certain parts of Switzerland and Italy where

German is spoken.

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Staying calm, composed and maintaining strong self
esteem in today’s tough environment can be difficult but
is not impossible if you follow a few simple guidelines.
Here are 6 tips you can use as a starter guide to self
improvement.

Everything and everyone else around you can affect
your self esteem. Other people can deliberately or
inadvertently damage your self image. Unchecked
people and circumstances can ultimately destroy your
self esteem and pull you down in ways you won’t even
notice. Don’t let these influences get the best of you. But
what should you avoid?

1 : A Negative Work Environment

Beware of a “dog eat dog” environment where everyone
else is fighting just to get ahead. This is where non-
appreciative people usually thrive and working extra is
expected and not rewarded. In this environment no one
will appreciate your contributions even if you miss
lunch, dinner, and stay at work late into the night. Unless
you are very fortunate most of the time you will work too
hard with no help from others around you. This type of
atmosphere will ruin your self esteem. This is not just
healthy competition, at its worst it is brutal and very
damaging.

2: Other Peoples Behaviour

Bulldozers, brown nosers, gossipmongers, whiners,
backstabbers, snipers, people walking wounded,
controllers, naggers, complainers, exploders,
patronizers, sluffers - whatever you want to call them, all
have one thing in common - an overriding desire to
prosper at the expense of others. Avoid them and do not
be tempted to join them. They may get some short term
advantage with their behaviour but deep down most are
very insecure, unhappy and ashamed of their
behaviour. For most their self esteem disappeared a
long time ago. Seeing someone like this prosper is
sickening but do not join them - you are better than that!

3: A Changing Environment

In today’s fast moving society it is difficult if not
impossible to avoid change. Changes challenge our
paradigms and tests our flexibility, adaptability and alter
the way we think. Changes can make your life difficult
and may cause stress but, if it’s inevitable, you must
accept it, don’t fight it and in time find ways to improve
your life. Try to manage change and try to avoid multiple
changes at the same time. If a particular change can’t
be avoided welcome it. Change will be with us forever,
we must learn to live with it.

4: Past Experience

We all carry “baggage” - past experiences which have
moulded us to who we are today, but some people live
in their past experiences - usually something that hurt
and still hurts. It’s okay to cry out when you experience
pain but don’t let pain dominate your life as it will
transform itself into fears and phobias. If something
painful happens, or has happened to you, find a way to
minimise the effects. Discuss it with a friend, a family
member or a professional if necessary and move on.
Don’t let it continue to dominate your life and dictate
your future actions. Because something bad has
happened doesn’t mean it will happen again. Learn
what you can from any bad experience and move on.

5: Negative World View

The television news is full of doom and gloom and it is
true that around the world there are many people
suffering war, famine or other natural or man-made
disasters. Whilst I do not suggest you should not care
and do nothing, remember that there are many beautiful
positive things happening too. Don’t wrap yourself up
with all the negative aspects around the world. Learn to
look for beauty too for, in building self esteem, we must
learn how to be positive in a negative world.

6: Determination Theory

Are we a product of our biological inherited
characteristics (nature) or a result of the influences we
absorb throughout out lives (nurture)? I believe how we
are is due to a mixture of both nurture and nature and as
a result our behavioural traits are not fixed. Whilst it is
true that some things are dictated by genetics (for
example race, color and many inherited conditions)
your environment and the people in your life have a
major effect on your behaviour. You are your own
person, you have your own identity and make your own
choices. The characteristics your mother or father
display are not your destiny. Learn from other people’s
experience, so you don’t suffer the same mistakes.

Are some people are born leaders or positive thinkers? I
don’t believe so. Being positive, and staying positive is a
choice. Building self esteem and drawing on positive
experiences for self improvement is a choice, not a rule
or a talent. No-one will come to you and give you
permission to build your self esteem and improve your
self. It is in your control.

It can be hard to keep positive, especially when others
and circumstances seem to be conspiring to pull you
down. You need to protect yourself and give yourself a
chance to stay positive. Improving your self esteem
gives you that protection.

One way to stay positive is to minimise your exposure to
harmful influences while using affirmations to boost the
positive influences in your life. Constantly reminding
yourself of the good things in your life will keep the
impact of negative influences to a minimum.

About the Author

John Edmond has 4 grown up and successful children
and recently obtained a creative writing degree. He now
writes on a number of topics including Building Self
Esteem. To improve your self esteem get your free
copy of The Affirmware “7 Part Affirmation Course”
now.

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