Change Your Practices Without Abandoning Your Core

The Start Of The New Year Is A Perfect Time To Start A Stop Doing List And To Make This The Cornerstone Of Your New Year Resolutions, Be It For Your Company, Your Family Or Yourself. It Also Is A Perfect Time To Clarify Your Three Circles, Mirroring At A Personal Level The Three Questions... 1) What Are You Deeply Passionate About? 2) What Are You Are Genetically Encoded For - What Activities Do You Feel Just "made To Do"? 3) What Makes Economic Sense - What Can You Make A Living At?

It Is More Important To Know Who You Are Than Where You Are Going, For Where You Are Going Will Change As The World Around You Changes.

Level 5 Leaders Are Differentiated From Other Levels Of Leaders In That They Have A Wonderful Blend Of Personal Humility Combined With Extraordinary Professional Will. Understand That They Are Very Ambitious; But Their Ambition, First And Foremost, Is For The Company's Success. They Realize That The Most Important Step They Must Make To Become A Level 5 Leader Is To Subjugate Their Ego To The Company's Performance. When Asked For Interviews, These Leaders Will Agree Only If It's About The Company And Not About Them.

Consider The Idea That Charisma Can Be As Much A Liability As An Asset. Your Strength Of Personality Can Sow The Seeds Of Problems, When People Filter The Brutal Facts From You.

Not All Time In Life Is Equal. How Many Opportunities Do You Get To Talk About What Your Life Is Going To Add Up To With People Thinking About The Same Question?