Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The Smart Organization – Daily Dose 2

The Smart Organization – Daily Dose 2
What are smart organizations doing to get better?
Develop people – the permanent solution.

1.      Focusing on learning and application of success principles.
2.      Creating clear expectations for what the leaders bring to the table.
3.      Creating relevant success stories so people can have stories to tell.
4.      Focusing in developing character and relationship, not just on results.
5.      Finding and investing in the 10% that are willing to stand up and lead; others will follow them.
6.      Upgrading the quality of the thinking of the leaders and upgrading the quality of ideas and innovation.
7.      Creating leaders with strong spines; the spine of the weak is stiffened in the presence of the bold.

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Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana
Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

Monday, June 8, 2015

The Smart Organization – Daily Dose 1

The Smart Organization – Daily Dose 1
What are smart organizations doing to get better?
Develop people – the permanent solution.

1.      Developing leaders – invest in a leadership education system.
2.      Creating a culture of leadership – help leaders to fall in love with learning.
3.      Developing a culture of trust – there is no empowerment without trust.
4.      Rewarding the emergence of leaders – invest in new emerging leaders.
5.      Developing the business – communicate the need for business growth.
6.      Making people development systematic – leverage a predictable system.
7.      Allowing the learning to happen – fast business comes from fast learning.

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Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana
Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."


Sunday, June 7, 2015

Freedom – Daily Dose 10

Freedom – Daily Dose 10
Freedom is never free; that is why it is priceless.
We are all responsible for protecting our freedoms.
What are you doing on a daily basis to protect our freedoms?

Are you speaking and acting freedom into existence?

1.      Let your children be inspired by your actions and results.
2.      If your desire for freedom is big enough the fact don’t count.
3.      If people don’t trust you, you cannot help them become free.
4.      Inspire others through your actions and create belief in others.
5.      Be a fanatic about freedom like you are fanatic about your sport team.
6.      Pursue freedom for the person you will become in the process to be free.
7.      SMART stands for Systematic Mentoring Always Rewards Tremendously.

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Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana
Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."


Saturday, June 6, 2015

Freedom – Daily Dose 9

Freedom – Daily Dose 9
Freedom is never free; that is why it is priceless.
We are all responsible for protecting our freedoms.
What are you doing on a daily basis to protect our freedoms?

Who are the creators and defenders of freedom?

1.      Rascals. Cannot stand tyranny nor illegitimacy.

2.      Leaders. Visionaries who cannot stand the status quo.

3.      Entrepreneurs. Creators of better futures.

4.      Warriors. Wise and influential generals.

5.      Soldiers. Centurions armed in defense of truth.

6.      Change agents. Propagators of truth.

7.      Educators. Mentors producing great thinkers.
      
      Where do you fit in?

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Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana
Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."


Friday, June 5, 2015

Freedom – Daily Dose 8

Freedom – Daily Dose 8
Freedom is never free; that is why it is priceless.
We are all responsible for protecting our freedoms.
What are you doing on a daily basis to protect our freedoms?
What are you doing to exercise your freedoms?

1.      The freedom to fail.
We only learn through failure; fail fast and forward.

2.      The freedom to learn.
The only way to learn is to get exposed; open your mind for learning.

3.      The freedom to think.
Thinking is hard work that is why so few do it; stretch your thinking and grow.

4.      The freedom to dream.
Nothing great ever happens before dreaming; dare to dream dreams others don’t dare to dream.

5.      The freedom to have faith.
Faith is a choice; choose to believe before seeing.

6.      The freedom to choose our attitude.
A positive attitude is a choice; change your attitude and change your life.

7.      The Freedom to choose a profession.
Our choice of profession determines our level of achievement; choose wisely.

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Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana
Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Freedom – Daily Dose 7

Freedom – Daily Dose 7
Freedom is never free; that is why it is priceless.
We are all responsible for protecting our freedoms.
What are you doing on a daily basis to protect our freedoms?








  
   
Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana
Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."

"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Freedom – Daily Dose 6

Freedom – Daily Dose 6
Freedom is never free; that is why it is priceless.
We are all responsible for protecting our freedoms.
What are you doing on a daily basis to protect our freedoms?
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire

1.      Without freedom what does really matter?
2.      No men have ever regretted for fighting for freedom.
3.      Freedom fighters have the courage to follow their hearts.
4.      We will all end up dead, the question is have we really lived.
5.      Freedom fighters would prefer to die for freedom than to live in bondage.
6.      An important freedom we all have is the freedom to learn from our mistakes.
7.      Long live freedom. Viva a Liberdade. Viva la libertad. Viva la libertà. Vive le liberte.

Thank you for reading and reflecting on today’s nuggets. Share them with others.   

Be blessed and be a blessing to others
Carlos Fontana
Author of the book Priceless, Co-author of the book Follow to Lead

"The future belongs to those who can see and pursue opportunities before they are obvious."
"Those that take swift action will always leave those that don't breathing the dust."