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Last month, we spoke of Stoicism and Poo-flinging Monkeys!
We covered the fundamental premise that to succeed in life, i.e. to get closer to What Actually Matters Most to you (WAMM), YOU are the primary variable in that process, irrespective of whether you have a business or not.
To accomplish...
Tony Dungy, who is remarkable for winning a Super Bowl as a player and then doing it again as a head coach, has a simple philosophy for dealing with challenging situations,
“You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and...
By Dino Tartaglia.
Often called the "mother of family therapy," Virginia Satir (1916-1988) started her professional life as an educator after graduating from what is now the University of Wisconsin in 1936.
While working as a public school teacher, Virginia developed an interest in meeting and...
By Dino Tartaglia.
Last month, I discussed The Big Myth.
The Big Myth that would have us believe that entrepreneurs are forged in fire, created by the tortuous challenges that they inevitably encounter on their hero’s journey, eventually, after being brought to the brink of...
By Dino Tartaglia.
This post is part one of a two-part pre-cursor to a 5-part series - part Deux will appear in the next issue.
For the avoidance of doubt, this is a rant, albeit a very (very) considered one, so my use of language may be a little more 'choice' than usual if you're used to...
By Dino Tartaglia.
Imagine that you had no word for ‘blue.’
Here’s an extract from a story shared by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, Antifragile.
“We know more about what something is not than what something is. If there would have been no word for the colour...
By Dino Tartaglia.
Your Personal 'Star Chart'
In the year of my birth, Robert McNamara became the US Secretary of Defense, and he remained in the post for several years until 1968.
McNamara was obsessed with the idea of making decisions based ONLY on quantitative analysis, purely...
By Dino Tartaglia.
In the October issue of Create Evolve Overcome Magazine, we opened up the discussion around Asking Better Questions and saw how this singular skill helped Billy Beane, the GM of the Oakland A's baseball team, effectively save his team and make the business of baseball in...
By Dino Tartaglia.
Life isn't fair. Get used to it! ~ Bill Gates
Whatever you think about Gates, the Billionaire's statement about Life might, at first blush, sound a bit fatalistic, like you're a hostage to Fortune.
But that's not really what the man meant.
The focus of the statement,...
By Dino Tartaglia.
In the mid-80s, an American drama-cum-sitcom, very much of the style of that era, hit the airwaves.
It was named after the classic expression ‘Crazy like a fox’, which gained currency (reputedly) when the humourist S. J. Perelman used it in 1944 as the title...
By Dino Tartaglia.
There are TWO questions I have in mind whenever I’m asked by a business owner to help them (or, more usually, a person who IS a business owner but calls themselves by what they DO, e.g., physiotherapist, hotelier, graphic designer, accountant, etc).
(We’ll get into...
By Dino Tartaglia.
At Success Engineers, we’re all about:
- Simplicity not Complexity
- Brutal Honesty (with kindness) not Fluff and Platitudes
- Tailored advice not ‘Blueprints’ designed for only one type of Entrepreneur
- Fundamentals not chasing Shortcuts, Hacks and Trends
- ...
By Dino Tartaglia.
In the classic film, The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland’s character, Dorothy, finds herself and Toto, her pet dog, in a mysterious and often dangerous land, having been whipped away by a cyclone from her home in Kansas, USA.
She discovers that the land is called...
By Dino Tartaglia
For the first quarter of 2021 (Jan-Mar), we looked at a bunch of things to help you build your business more effectively, following the simple 3-Step System we use at Success Engineers:
Get Clarity
Get a Plan
Get to Work (and stay on track).
This quarter (Q2: Apr-Jun) in The...
By Dino Tartaglia
I’m pretty sure that there’s almost no one left in all-but the most remote corners of the planet who doesn’t know the wonderful fairy story of Cinderella, the beautiful girl who lived with her wicked stepmother and horrid, ugly stepsisters, and who...
By Dino Tartaglia
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll tells of a situation where Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat. It's a piece I use a lot to talk about ‘Strategic Direction’, or simply having a Plan to execute and a Place that it'll take you to, if you will. It...
