What are your personal success factors?

by Stefan Lindegaard

At work, we often talk about critical success factors. Have you considered developing your personal success factors? What should they be? To become successful as an innovation leader and intrapreneur–and as a partner, family member and friend–you can explore these pathways to success:

•  Know your values. Often success at work is defined by others, which can cause internal conflict with your inherent values. Even if you haven’t taken time to delineate your values, you will feel stress when you take actions that go against them in an effort to please others. I assure you that knowing your values and living by them will eliminate this unfortunate situation.

•  Follow your passion. As you get to know your values you will also discover where your passion is. And you...

Making change happen

by Stefan Lindegaard

Our current business climate brings a lot of change at the corporate as well as the personal level. They also bring out career development issues that often evolve around what you might call the “professional midlife crisis”. Besides the financial turmoil we currently have, such a crisis can also be caused by situations such as these:

•  Your company is not focused enough on innovation to offer you the types of exciting innovation leadership or intrapreneurial opportunities you desire. •  You have plateaued in your company with no obvious next step available to you that will move you forward on the career path you desire. •  Having defined your personal values, you realize they do not match those of your employer. •   You do not have...

Know your values and live by them

by Stefan Lindegaard

I am puzzled that so few people can describe the values that guide their daily actions. Think about it. These are the fundamentals that help you become successful as an innovation leader or intrapreneur as well as in personal life. No doubt some of you have spent time helping your company define its core values, which, if followed, will drive the organization toward success. Doesn’t it make sense to also define the core values that will also impel you to success? I want you to think more about this and start working on developing a better understanding of your values.

We all have values, whether we are consciously aware of them or not. Values are traits, qualities or beliefs that we find valuable. Personal values are...

Outliers, the new book by Malcolm Gladwell

by Stefan Lindegaard

Outliers, the new book by Malcolm Gladwell is worth a read if you want to now more about success and what makes people successful.

I did loose some interest in the last chapters as they focused too much on math – not my favourite topic. But still an interesting and quick read in the same page-turner style as his previous best-sellers, The Tipping Point and Blink.

You can read more on this link: www.malcolmgladwell.com