Perspectives
Perspectives
Bill Cosby once said, “If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.” If part of having resilience is being able to see things from another perspective then here are a few perspectives on work for a Friday. Lest you think I spend all my time making up jokes,...
Soichiro Honda – Resilience
Soichiro Honda didn't start out to develop one of the largest and most successful automotive companies in the world. All he really wanted to do was to develop a better type of piston to improve car performance. His first attempt to commercialize his improved pistons...
Research into Resilience
Research into the subject of resilience has shown that while for some, it is innate, for the rest of us, it can be acquired. Emmy Werner was a sociologist who followed nearly 700 children from Kauai, Hawaii growing up with risk factors (one-third of whom had multiple...
Resilience
Work, like life, is usually two steps forward and one step back. Your ability to handle the one step back periods is what will define a lot of your success. To get through the setbacks, you'll need resilience. Resilience, or the ability to bounce back from setbacks,...
5 Signs That You Have Quit and Stayed
Perseverance is great but sometimes it can be confused with quitting and staying. What's that, you say? Well quitting and staying is when you're just going through the motions at work, not putting forth any great effort. For all intents and purposes you have quit, you...
True Grit – (Not the Movie)
If you could choose to have one outstanding attribute, what would it be? Would you choose intelligence or creativity. Perhaps charisma, self-confidence or emotional intelligence. Maybe even physical attractiveness or extroversion? Come on, think about it, what one...
Olympic Perseverance – Wilma Rudolph
Watching the Olympics today I was reminded of the story of a woman who showed incredible perseverance to get to the Olympics, let alone emerge a champion. Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely, the 20th of 22 siblings. At the age of four she contracted infantile...
Persistence and Perseverance
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." - Napoleon Hill Perseverance works on your own tasks Great books abound on the subject of persistence and perseverance. Seth Godin's the Dip was an awakening for me as I am very slow to quit....
Karoshi – Death from Overwork
In an attempt to acknowledge the problems of work related stress, the Japanese have coined a new word. “Karoshi” is now the new term for “Death from Overwork” and is the word used to explain occupational sudden death, mostly due to heart attacks and stroke. The...