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La acción perfecta

GTD Bergonzini

Existe la tormenta perfecta. La ola perfecta. La chica/o perfecto y ¿Por qué no soñar que existe la acción perfecta? Aunque habría que definir en su contexto que significa la acción perfecta. Puede que suene a utopía o animal mitológico extinguido hace millones de años, pero cada uno de nosotros disponemos de unas pautas para encontrar la acción perfecta.

Si nos basamos en las escrituras (David Allen), la acción perfecta es aquella que define exactamente lo que debemos hacer para seguir progresando en el proyecto, es aquella que por su inmediatez, resulta ineludible y que sin ella, nos saltamos los pasos del proyecto creando un caos que muchas veces acaba por descontrolarse.

La acción perfecta ha existido en nuestra vida, tal vez no hemos sido capaces de identificarla y a su vez disfrutarla como se merece, pero si nos paramos a pensar e intentamos identificarla podremos encontrar lo que por su sencillez desencadeno en el proyecto.

Esa acción determinante, que hizo avanzar el proyecto, una decisión acertada, eficaz y por encima de nuestras creencias, completamente sencilla. Nada define mejor a un proyecto que el encadenamiento de sus acciones. Tener claras sus acciones nos garantiza su éxito, un camino plácido para nuestra tranquilidad, ante nuestros atónitos ojos que ven disiparse las dudas, huir al miedo y encerrar la procrastinación.

Esas acción perfecta es la que buscamos repetir una y otra vez, enfrentándonos ante las cosas, sin titubear: ¿qué es? ¿requiere alguna acción? Y nuestra mente ya divaga por la imaginación. ¿Que espero? ¿que deseo que pase? ¿esconde un proyecto en su interior? ¿cuál es la siguiente acción? ¿cuál es la siguiente acción perfecta?

A veces las dudas nos llevan a delegar, a diferir, a desechar e incluso hacer. Somos víctimas de una decisión poco elaborada, sin construir realmente el camino. Queremos correr y nuestras acciones se resienten, nuestros proyecto no acaban convenciéndonos por no encontrar la acción perfecta en cada momento. Somos víctimas de nuestro propio estrés.

Dicen que la productividad es realizar más y mejor los proyectos, las escrituras lo contradicen y apuestan por una menor cantidad y mejor calidad, con todo el peso de su amplio significado. La acción perfecta es crucial para hacer realidad los proyectos y tomarnos el tiempo para estudiar la cosa, para tomar la mejor y natural decisión, sin contaminación ni presión del estrés.

La acción perfecta es la más productiva, es el motor de nuestros proyectos.

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Los 7 falsos mitos de la Productividad

Productividad. Alrededor de esa palabra hay muchas mentiras y falsos mitos. Algunos muy divertidos que me arrancan una sonrisa al escucharlos, otros menos graciosos; y quienes vivimos y amamos esto (sí, lo amo porque es la forma de vida que yo voluntariamente he elegido) sentimos la necesidad de aclarar o explicar.

En el último año he hablado sobre Productividad cara a cara a más 5.000 personas. Eso sin contar a otras personas como tú, que a diario leen este blog, otras que han comprado mi libro o las que por Internet disfrutan semanalmente de mi curso online.

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Cómo tratar a empleados que no producen

Por: Andrea Vega

Las empresas deben tener cuidado con colaboradores que no logren los objetivos de rendimiento; se debe tomar en cuenta que el no cumplir las expectativas afecta a todos los sectores de una firma.

Cuando alguno de sus colaboradores cercanos no está llegando a sus metas, los CEO deben actuar de forma certera.

Lo primero es identificar si los objetivos fijados fueron realistas. Si la respuesta es sí, habrá que determinar cuál es el origen del problema: razones personales, falta de capacidad o una causa externa.

En caso de que no sean motivos relacionados con la compañía, “debe ser firme, pero no duro con la persona y manejar la situación en un entorno constructivo”, afirma Fernando Fernández de Córdova, vicepresidente ejecutivo de Shore Consulting Group.

Además, es importante mantener el foco en la responsabilidad asignada y tomar en cuenta si es reincidente, agrega Fernández.

El CEO debe evaluar el costo-beneficio de tolerar a un empleado que no cubre las expectativas y establecer una cercanía con él en caso de decidir su permanencia en la compañía para vigilar que tenga las herramientas necesarias para mejorar.

Según Sergio Torres, socio mundial de Mercer y CEO de la operación en México, lo más recomendable es tener una conversación franca y abierta con el involucrado y decirle: “Vamos a determinar cómo hacemos para que mejores”.

Pero Jorge Llaguno, director adjunto del máster ejecutivo del IPADE Business School, cree que es necesario sacar la tarjeta preventiva y decirle: “La organización requiere estos resultados en tal tiempo, ¿puedes darlos?”.

Fuente: CNNExpansión.com

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AUTOR(A): Cristina Mejias

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7 Habits of Highly Excellent People

Are you driven in life? Do you love to excel? I believe all of us do. We are born to be the best we can be and to make the best out of our lives.

When I was in high school, I wasn't exactly the kind of student teachers would like. I was truant, didn't do my homework and did badly on my examinations. I was lazy and unmotivated in school. However, after a while I realized that this wasn't who I wanted to be. This wasn't the life I saw myself leading. People around me were judging and negative, and I had enough of all of that crap. I had enough of being discriminated against and I decided to turn everything around from then on.

So when I entered University, I began to get my act together. For the 3 years I was in Business School, I was on the Dean's List (an honor roll for the top students in the faculty). I eventually graduated as the top student in my specialization of marketing and was awarded with accolades for being the most outstanding student. When I started working, I entered one of the top companies for marketers, a Fortune 100 company, and led my business portfolios to record breaking results in the few years I worked there.

Then 2 years ago, I left my regular job to pursue my true passion in personal development. I started The Personal Excellence Blog where I share my best advice and help others achieve personal excellence and live their best lives. It has quickly established itself as a trusted and coming-to-age personal development blog, having 3-4k readers a day and being featured by prominent media, including CNN.com.

After years of striving for personal excellence, working with top people in their fields and observing top people in their fields, I realized that there are universal habits that enable people to achieve excellence. As Aristotle would put it, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”.

These habits aren't "ingrained", or "genetic"; they are habits that anyone like you and me can cultivate. Just like Stephen Covey's 7 habits will help anyone become highly effective, these 7 habits of highly excellent people will help anyone become excellent. I find that as long as anyone practices these habits, excellence is always a given. And I'm more happy to share with you these habits in this article today. Here they are:

1. Have the end in mind.
   This is the same habit as Stephen Covey's 1st habit, and with good reason. Everything starts with the end - the goal or the vision you want to fulfill. If you don't know what the end is, then there's no way of getting there, is there? Imagine getting into a cab. What do you first do when you get into the cab? Maybe you say hi to the taxi driver, then what? You tell the driver where you want to go, so that he can take you there. Similarly, you need to know what is the end you want to reach in order to get there.
   
   Hence, it's critical that you form clear goals of what exactly you want. What do you want? What is the end you envision? What are your personal goals and dreams for yourself? Personally, I have a vision board beside my bed where I have my dreams plastered over it. These dreams include developing The Personal Excellence Blog into one of the top personal development blogs, running my international personal excellence school, speaking to tens and thousands of people in seminars, achieving world peace, finding my soul mate, hitting the best seller's list with my books, and so on. These dreams remind me of what exactly I want and drive me forward every day.


2. Do what you love.
   When you do something you love, it's like you have unlimited fuel that keeps you going- day after day. The hunger to excel in it is just greater than if you do anything else. Every day, I'm endlessly driven to build and write at my blog, because it's for a cause I believe in. Helping people grow and live their best life is the one thing I know I want to be doing for the rest of my life.
   
   I have a coaching client who has tried to start 4-5 different ventures before (one at a time), and he was never able to succeed in any of them. Why was this the case? It wasn't that he was stupid, or that he was lazy. Ultimately, the reason was because he wasn't passionate about the things he was pursuing - he was just chasing money. The nature of the business didn't appeal to him emotionally. This is not to say starting businesses because you want to earn money is bad - all I'm saying is it's important that you love what you want to do first and foremost.
   
   What is it you love to do? If you are not sure what your passion is yet, then what is something you are most eager to try at the moment? If you can choose to do anything, what will it be? Your love and interest are fuels that will drive you towards excellence.


3. Work harder than anyone else.
   I don't know of anyone who has achieved excellent results who hasn't worked hard for them. A big component of excellence is hard work. Sheer, unadulterated hard work. We can streamline processes, choose effective strategies and steps, but ultimately the hard work will still have to come in. Fortunately, if you are doing what you love (step #2), work wouldn't even be work at all.
   
   In the past year since I set up The Personal Excellence Blog, I have spent countless hours, including weekends, building up the blog and writing high quality articles for readers out there. All these have paid off in their own way. I'm not saying you should abandon all social life because that defeats the purpose, but you will have to dedicate yourself to making your business a success. This year in 2010, I intend to increase my efforts even more compared to 2009, and I know it's going to pay off.


4. Make use of every moment.
   Every moment counts. Excellent people know that time is highly valuable. There's this quote by Donald Trump which I read in one of his books, and I absolutely love it. He said that time is more precious than money, because you can earn back money, but you can't get back time. That is absolutely true.
   
   Hence, I'm always making sure that I'm maximizing every moment. If I'm commuting over a distance, I'll pick up a book or listen to a podcast. If I'm out waiting for a friend, I'll take the chance to do something meaningful for the time being. If there are some pockets of time, I'll take out my laptop and do some work.
   
   Note that this habit doesn't mean working like a hog, 24x7. That wouldn't be a true application of this habit. Making use of every moment also refers to knowing when to rest and rejuvenate when it's needed, because this will help us walk the longer mile on the path of excellence.


5. Take action to achieve your results.
   Living a life of excellence means being a proponent of action. Many people often say "The sky is the limit". My personal philosophy is the sky isn't the limit; we are the limit. Whatever we do or don't do will determine how much we can grow or achieve. If we want to grow and achieve great results, we need to take the equivalent actions to reach the results we want.
   
   For example, many people agree that having press and media feature their business can greatly benefit them, but they believe it only happens when you are prominent enough. While that's usually true, I refuse to let that stop me. I took proactive steps to reach out to the press, writing my own press release and creating a strong story angle so the press would want to feature me. To date, I've been featured in the press for almost 20 times. To read more about how to be featured by the press, you can check out my guest post at Problogger: How To Get Featured By the Press (Repeatedly) Even If Your Blog is New.


6. Continuously upgrade yourself.
   Learning never stops. There is always something we can do to become better. We may have great skills and knowledge today, but no matter how great they may be, our skills need to be continuously developed. Excellent people are always learning, reading, exposing themselves to new knowledge, new people, new contexts and developing their skills. If you have played role-playing games or RPGs before, you would know that the characters need to be leveled up to get stronger and progress to the next level. Likewise, we need to always be leveling ourselves up to achieve excellence.


7. Ask for feedback.
   No matter how much we try to improve, we will have blind spots. Blind spots are things about ourselves that we don't know about, and we can't improve on things that we are blind to. Asking for feedback is one of the fastest and most effective ways to improve.
   
   For everything I do, I make it a point to gather feedback. For example, when I was in my previous job, I would often ask my manager and peers for feedback on how I could improve. With my friends, sometimes I would have a random feedback session with them on how I can do things better. As I run The Personal Excellence Blog, I would invite my readers to send in their feedback, either through comments, emails or private messages. Sometimes the feedback is predictable, sometimes it's not and many times it leads to an epiphany on some level.


8. Strive for #1 in what you do.
   ... Wait, you didn't think that there would just be 7 habits in achieving excellence, did you?
   
   There's 1 final habit to become a highly excellent person - that is, to strive for #1 in what you do. No one's going to achieve excellence if they aim for average, or mediocrity. Excellence comes from aiming for the top - being #1. This #1 should be better than whoever is #1 at the moment, because it will spur you on to work even harder. You will only achieve great results when you set high standards for yourself.
   
   For example, I aim for The Personal Excellence Blog to be the top personal development blog, both in terms of the quality of content and traffic. Whenever I write my articles, I make sure I'm giving the best value that can ever be offered in that topic. Because of this, readers recognize the value of my articles and have spread the word to their friends and family. This has helped the blog to grow quickly and establish itself as a trusted and coming-of-age blog in personal excellence.

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