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Selfish Mindset

March 22nd, 2011

Do tweets, Facebook posts, YouTube videos and email blasts have consequences? Absolutely. There is a growing trend of posting whatever you are thinking at the moment with no consideration of the impact. That is an example of a Selfish Mindset. What impact?

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Collaboration Mindset

February 21st, 2011

Is competition required in today’s business environment or is it time to embrace collaboration? Competition is about winning by defeating someone else; collaboration is about working together to create something. Which are you engaged in daily? Which would you rather be engaged in?

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Competitive Mindset

January 31st, 2011

Competition has become prevalent throughout our everyday activities. There is competition for parking spaces, for access to the shortest line at the grocery store, for the next sale, for the better job, for the idea that wins the boss’ approval… and the list goes on. Our collective mindset is that competition is the way to get ahead, the way to ensure our success… yet is it?

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New Year – New Start Mindset

December 31st, 2010

Welcome to the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011! Great time to reflect and plan. What did you accomplish in 2010? What did you learn new? What did you let go off? What did you want to experience yet did not in 2010? And, what do you want to be different in 2011?

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Beloit College Mindset List

August 18th, 2010
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014

Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992.
For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
What is your relationship to the following items?
How different is your perspective and experience?
Your mindset impacts how you perceive information, how you communicate with others and your decision about what is important.
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Clever verses Kind Mindset

August 4th, 2010

Have you ever figured something out and made a clever comment that actually belittles someone or makes them feel bad? Sometimes we think from our perspective how smart we are while not realizing the impact our comment has on someone else. Which mindset is one that increases your success? Clever and smart (aleck)? Or, Kind and caring?

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Linchpin Mindset

July 14th, 2010

Linchpin, by Seth Godin, is a thought provoking book about making a difference… about being the difference. Have you accepted that you are average and view your life through your average comfort zone? Or, are you seeing opportunities… creating opportunities… trusting and launching into the opportunity?

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Limited View Mindset

June 17th, 2010

Oil disaster in Gulf of Mexico… downsizing in an organization… tweaking the finances for quarterly reporting… eating too much!!  Each of these are examples of where limited view or short term thinking has been used and resulted in undesirable consequences. Do you think with a limited view or broader/long term view?

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Skillset verses Mindset

May 27th, 2010

In your opinion, is there more impact on success from skillset or mindset? Can you be successful with a low skillset and a great mindset? Or a high skillset and a challenging mindset?  What can guarantee success?

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Mindset created from Name

April 29th, 2010

It seems that just hearing a name for something often activates our mindset about the named item. Assumptions are made; judgements are made; likes and dislikes are established… even before fully understanding the named item. For example, I was recently given a plant that is known as a Chicken Gizzard plant. Wow, now that’s a name that stirs up some assumptions…

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