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Napoleon Hill was a pioneer in the genre of books on business success and leadership. His most famous book, Think and Grow Rich, is still on of the bestsellers of all time.
Hill believed that having a purpose or a plan is essential to attaining success. He advised readers to think their way through a failure, to view failure as a small part of a plan that will ultimately benefit them. If you analyze failure…see it as a plan with a …

Know what you want to achieve. Make a list, if you wish, of the qualities you want to have as a strong business leader. Believing in yourself, knowing who you want to be, is key to success.
Take a moment today and make a list of both short term goals and long term goals.
Now take it a step further. Beyond knowing what you want to be, you have to know which actions will take you there. Your actions have to reflect your confidence in yourself. To become a strong leader, you …

A real time player is not concerned about individual credit. Like a true leader, he or she knows that they would not have deserved the credit without the other team members input. And a true leader knows that the credit will come in the long run… that having been part of a successful team will put him in line to be on other successful teams, or earn a promotion, or simply make him or her more valuable when it comes to looking for new objectives.
It is amazing what you can …

Although motivational words never hurt, sometimes you just have to step back and realize that it’s not just you who needs care and feeding in your daily work life. It might be time to start thinking about those you work with…your teammates, your staff, and your colleagues. You want to get the most you can from these people, because all of you want to deliver the best work possible.
Stay engaged with your team and it’s leaders. The big picture and strategy is the common objective.
I think when Ralph Waldo …

Highly motivated people are the reason that any organization can develop a successful product or service. But what motivates them to begin? Is it the compensation, or do they have tons of pride in what they do? Harvard Business School professor Bill George believes that the pride felt by inventing something valuable cannot be matched. When he said “competitors will eventually copy an innovative idea for a product or service, but an organization of highly motivated people is very hard to duplicate,” he is clearly stating that an environment of …

The word “commitment” has recently turned into business jargon, a buzzword whose meaning has been lost through overuse and dilution. You want your team to be committed, to “buy in”, so that their passion will drive up the energy level of the organization and produce stellar results. But most employees are rarely committed to the degree you’d hope. It’s not that they lack the essential passion to feel committed (or that they aren’t compensated and rewarded enough). Rather, Australian business mogul, Richard Pratt believed that most of the time they …