It depends on your definition.
If you want to be a branch manager at Bank of America, you have thousands of chances. If you want to be the president of the Bank of America, there is only one job.
If you want to be an Olympic Gold Medal winner in water polo, there are seven [...]
Continue Reading →If you are successful, some people aren’t going to like you.
Some people don’t like you because you make them fell bad about not being more ambitious themselves.
Some people don’t like you because you were chosen over them for raises or promotions.
Some people don’t like you because of your gender, color, creed, national [...]
Continue Reading →You are an Action Principles(R) Champion. You are a nice person. You wish others well.
However …
You are an Action Principles(R) Champion. You are ambitious. You are a winner.
If you are working for a company as an employee, you seek promotion. As you move up the chain of command, there [...]
Continue Reading →Friendly’s Ice Cream is a chain of approximately 500 east coast restaurants.
In October, Friendly’s declared bankruptcy and will close an additional 63 restaurants.
In a recent survey by the National Restaurant News, Friendly’s scored 10th out of a field of 12 restaurants. Not good.
Who cares?
My first non-family job in high school was [...]
Continue Reading →If you want to be average, you don’t need much of a plan. You can just shuffle along with everyone else.
However, if you want to be successful, powerful, respect and extraordinary, you need a plan, a to-do list, a schedule.
You need a power schedule.
A few years ago, the Army ran a ad [...]
Continue Reading →I have a nephew who works for State Street Bank.
The CEO of State Street, Jay Hooley, has vowed to see how he can effectively run his company with as few employees as possible.
In the first round of layoffs, my nephews department shrunk from five employees to three. The same amount of work and [...]
Continue Reading →Because you have the Action Principles(R) and live as an Action Principles(R) Champion? Yes.
Because you are a tough, mindful, spiritual person of action? Yes.
You are already rich because you have you and your positive can-do attitude.
You wake up in the morning happy.
You head to work with a purpose.
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Continue Reading →Because they are old.
Because they are old, they are going away soon.
When these old people leave, you can take their place.
If you are young, you should smile when you see old people.
Today, I was looking at the annual review issue of the New England Real Estate Journal. Everybody looked old to [...]
Continue Reading →You get a first job anywhere and you are the newbie. You do the grunt work.
Remember Lloyd on Entourage. Lloyd’s character had a master’s degree in business from Stanford and worked for years as a “coolie” for Ari who headed the largest talent agency in Hollywood.
Think of the Hollywood agency system. Everyone [...]
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