Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 5

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Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 5
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Dalai Lama - CCARE Research and Experiments on Compassion II

October 15, 2010 - In the first of two afternoon sessions, His Holiness the Dalai Lama participates in a panel regarding compassion and the development of compassion. The panel includes many Stanford faculty members as well as discussions of programs like CCARE, which focuses on how people might be trained to be more compassionate.

These sessions and the morning ones that preceded it were part of the 2010 visit to Stanford by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His visit included this session as well as several other sessions where the Dalai Lama talked about compassion and religion in the modern world.



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this KINGDOM

A moment in the life of Brian Wolke, his wife, his kids and their challenge.

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Breakthrough with Tony Robbins 4 Scott and Mandy Smith

In this episode of Breakthrough with Tony Robbins, after their daughter has a near-death experience, Mandy and Scott Smith's marriage begins falling apart. Tony works with the family to show them a fulfilling life means taking risks.



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fear.less - WHERE'S THE IKEA MANUAL FOR...LIFE?

I received this article by email from the fear.less magazine, as probably did you if you subscribed to their mailing list. It was written by Matt, fear.less editor, I found it so inspiring that I decided to share it with you here. If you like the article subscribe to their newsletter.

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WHERE'S THE IKEA MANUAL FOR...LIFE?

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual, and most of its components don't either. But who really enjoys reading them anyway?

Even if we think we've accepted that sometimes we must press on without a roadmap, we still convince ourselves that maybe we'll get a guide instead. A mentor, someone who's walked our intended path before, and even if they haven't concretely charted it down, they can lead us to safety.

Sometimes we don't get that either. Whether we're starting an experimental book or launching a new business model or about to enter a tense and difficult conversation, we can easily end up without the blessing of any sort of direction. We don't have enough information to reason our way through comfortably, and our emotions are a mess of doubt and fear.

The apparent answer that I always get is both infuriatingly simple, and often repeated by people who want to sell us shoes: "Just do it."

A lot of the apprehension from trying something new comes from the fear of failure and ridicule - but when you attempt something no one else around has expertise in, it's difficult for them to persecute you for being wrong. Failure becomes just a valuable learning experience, not a crippling catastrophe.

And that's only if you're wrong. For all you know (because you don't know), you may enjoy a sudden flash of brilliance, like all human beings are prone to do in times of crisis. You may be right. You may write the next forever-quoted sentence, start the next revolution, say the magic passwords that bring a conflict to an
unexpected and peaceful resolution.

But how will you know if you don't just do it?

Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 4

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Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 5
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Give your books away

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I like to give books. I always feel that when a book is read only by me that that is a waste of knowledge, sensations, inspiration, hope, and everything else we can find in books. I'm always glad to borrow my books to someone who reads and appreciates them as much as I did. I hate to see them in the shelf getting dusty year after year.

I use BookCrossing to share my books with anyone who is willing to read them and take good care of them. Once I sent a book to Romania and four years later I still feel that good sensation at the bottom of my belly, that must worth much more than the monetary value of the book, right?

Soon I will send a collection of books that I have repeated (my wife did the same collection before we were married) to a small village in Mozambique so they can establish a local library, and I know that will make more room in my house and a good and warm sensation in my belly.

Try it, give your books (or borrow them if you don't feel comfortable giving them away) to someone you just know that is going to appreciate them, and leave a comment letting us know how you felt.

You can find all my books here, if you want to read some, just let me know and I will be glad to send it to you.

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Dalai Lama - CCARE Research and Experiments on Compassion I

October 15, 2010 - This session presents important findings from CCARE's research on the "neural, genetic and behavioral mechanisms associated with compassion, altruism and other pro-social emotions." The panel explores the evolutionary origins of mammalian nurturing as well as neuropsychological and neuroeconomic models of compassion.



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Harvard Business Review - Use Failure to Grow Your Business

About this video
An interview with Rita McGrath, Professor, Columbia Business School. How can companies plan and pursue an aggressive growth agenda with confidence? By framing their strategic growth opportunities, testing assumptions, and creating a culture that acts on evidence and learning.

About Rita McGrath
Rita McGrath, an Associate Professor at Columbia Business School in New York, is one of the world's leading experts on strategic business growth in highly uncertain environments. She works with both Global 1,000 icons and smaller, but fast-growing organizations. Her current clients include Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Nokia, Microsoft, AXA Equitable, Novartis, Swiss Re, Glanbia, ON2 Technologies and the World Economic Forum. She is a popular speaker and works extensively with senior leadership teams.

Her new co-authored book, Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity was published by Harvard Business Press in the Spring of 2009. She has co-authored two previous books: The Entrepreneurial Mindset(2000) and MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth (2005), also published by Harvard Business Press. MarketBusters has been translated into ten languages and was named one of the best business books of 2005 by strategy+business. It was featured by Bill Gates at the 2005 Microsoft CEO Summit, whose theme "New Pathways to Growth" was derived from the book's main topic.

Rita has appeared on television and radio and has been interviewed by numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Businessweek, Inc., and Entrepreneur. She blogs actively on strategic growth (see www.ritamcgrath.com) and is featured as a discussion leader at Harvard Business Online (see http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/mcgrath/). She has co-authored six articles in the Harvard Business Review, including the best-selling "Discovery Driven Planning," which has been highly recommended by Clayton Christensen.

Rita joined the faculty of Columbia Business School in 1993. Prior to life in academia, she was an IT director, worked in the political arena and founded two startups. Her Ph.D. is from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. At Columbia, she teaches MBA and Executive MBA courses in strategy and growth. She teaches regularly in Columbia's top-rated executive education programs, and is the Faculty Director for Leading Strategic Growth and Change, and Creating Strategy, Tokyo.

Rita's academic publications have appeared in leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Management Science. She has won numerous awards for excellence in scholarship. Among these are the Strategic Management Society 'best paper' and 'runner up' awards in 2001 and 2004; the Maurice Holland award from the Industrial Research Institute; the Academy of Management Review "best paper" award, and the Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Award for the Best Conceptual Paper (both 1992 and 1996). She is on several editorial boards of prestigious journals.



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Breakthrough with Tony Robbins 3 Juaquin and Kim Hawkins

In this episode of Breakthrough with Tony Robbins, when an ex-NBA player suffers a stroke, he gives up on life and his family. His only hope is for Tony to help get him back to being the man he can be.



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Scott Adams and the Imagination Interface

See how Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert Cartoon, leveraged his career using imagination and visualization in this inspiring and funny story.

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Don't send a duck to eagle school

Francesca Gino, associate professor at Harvard Business School, explains how quiet bosses with proactive teams can be highly successful.

Always be youself

Some people think they have to pretend to be someone they are not just to succeed, they just act the way they think other people expects them to act. And wile they may seem very successful, this people feel like a clown at a funeral.

One of the biggest characteristic any leader can have is authenticity.

Did you ever tried to force your kids into eating or bed? If you did I'm confident you were headed for a big fight from with you came very frustrated. Why are children so stubborn!

You can't change people, the same way you can't make them do anything they don't want to do. You can however create the desire for change, the same way you can create the desire for action. The only true way to accomplish this is by being authentic, clear, transparent, honest and coherent. People only follow leaders in with they trust. Sure there are other ways to make people want to take action, you can make them do it out of fear or out of necessity, but they will not truly follow you, at first change they will flee like rats in a sinking boat.

Should you give order or ask for advice?

Wile there are excellent leaders that are very assertive giving orders to their followers, this is a kind of leadership that demands a lot of the leader, and very little of the followers. In this situation the followers are comfortable waiting for the leader to decide and to give orders, wile in the other hand the leader must be aware of everything and involved in every decision. This puts a lot of pressure on the leader and none on the team.

Wile there are situations where giving orders is necessary, those should be restricted to a minimum. A much better approach is to give directions to the team, and let them know what you expect of them and then be there to listen, to help and to guide whenever necessary. In this situation you put yourself in a position of servant allowing your team to grow and became more responsible and proactive.

Concluding

As mentioned in the video, although you can and you should stretch yourself a little out of your comfort zone, you should not contradict your nature. If you send a duck to the eagle school and then send him to hunt a rabbit, they will probably become friends and go drink a beer at the nearest pub.

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Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 3

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As the videos are published, each of these will turn into links to those posts.

Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 1
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 2
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 3
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 4
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 5
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 6
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 7
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) Wrapped Up

Failure: The Secret to Success

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford

Failure. The mere thought can paralyze even the most heroic thinkers and keep great ideas off the drawing board. But is failing really that bad? We get an inside look at the mishaps of Honda racers, designers and engineers to learn how they draw upon failure to motivate them to succeed. From poor color choices to blown race engines, these risk-taking individuals provide an honest look at what most people fear most. Watch the film and discover the upside of failure.



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Dalai Lama - Role of Compassion in Education and Wider Societal Context

October 15, 2010 - This session focuses on the place of compassion, both in individuals" lives and in larger societal contexts, such as understanding across peoples and cultures as well as the future course of education." It examines how compassion and altruism can be brought into social and educational systems and what the benefits might be.



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Harvard Business Review - Keeping Top Talent Engaged in Tight Times

About this video
Sylvia Ann Hewlett of the Center for Work-Life Policy discusses how to keep engagement up when business is down.

About Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy (CWLP), a nonprofit think tank, where she leads the "Hidden Brain Drain," a task force of 56 global companies and organizations committed to fully realizing female and multicultural talent. In addition, she directs the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Gender Gap.

Dr. Hewlett is the author of nine critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children(winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize), The War Against Parents (co-authored with Cornel West), Creating a Life(named as one of the best books of 2002 by Business Week), Off-ramps and On-ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success (Harvard Business School Press, named as one of the best business books of 2007 by Amazon.com) and Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Memo to the Ceo) (Harvard Business Press, October 2009).

She is the author of eight Harvard Business Review articles including: "Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives," "Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek," "Stopping the Exodus of Women in Science" "How Gen Ys & Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda" and "The Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets." Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Veja, and the International Herald Tribune. She is a featured blogger on Harvard Business Online.

Hewlett is the founder of Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates LLC, a boutique consultancy. In 2009 Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates formed an alliance with Booz & Company focused on helping organizations leverage top talent across the divides of culture, gender and generation.

Dr. Hewlett has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton universities and held fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard. In the 1980s she became the first woman to head up the Economic Policy Council --a think tank composed of 125 business and labor leaders.

Hewlett is a well-known speaker on the international stage. She has keynoted International Women's Day at the IMF, given the featured address at Pfizer’s Emerging Markets Leadership Summit in Dubai, and spoken at the White House with co-author Cornel West. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, ABC World News, Oprah, The View, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, BBC World News and has been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, she earned her Ph.D. degree in economics at London University.

You can follow her on Twitter.



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Breakthrough with Tony Robbins 2 Ron and Marie

In the second episode of Breakthrough with Tony Robbins Ron and Marie's American dream has fallen apart, and they hope Tony can guide them through a journey to save their marriage.



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Life Lesson

fear.less Magazine November Issue

The November edition of the fear.less magazin has just been released. You can download it here.

Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 2

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Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 5
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 6
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 7
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Peaceful Warrior The Journey

This great video sugested by Pedro reminds us that what realy mathers is the journey, not the destination. So, as old Ziglar would say live your life to the fullest!



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Dalai Lama - Harry's Last Lecture on a Meaningful Life

October 14, 2010 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama presents the 2010 Rathbun Lecture, sharing his reflections on how to lead a fulfilling life of purpose and moral values. He focuses on how one can be a valuable member of society and life a live filled with compassion even in the modern world.

The Rathbun Lecture was part of the Dalai Lama's 2010 trip to Stanford. In addition to the Rathbun lecture, His Holiness gave two other public speeches to members of the Stanford community. The Dalai Lama is the head of state and the spiritual leader of Tibet as well as being a global icon.



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Harvard Business Review - Innovating on a Shoestring

About this video
Scott Anthony, president of Innosight, explains how to innovate when time and money are tight.

About Scott Anthony
Scott Anthony is the president of Innosight, an innovation consulting and executive education company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India. He has helped clients in a range of industries improve their ability to generate ideas, develop strategies, commercialize opportunities, and develop innovation processes. Prior to joining Innosight, Scott was a Senior Researcher with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, co-founder of Innosight, and managed a group that worked to further Christensen’s research on innovation.

Previously, he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., Strategic Planner for Aspen Technology, and Product Manager for WorldSpace Corporation. While at McKinsey, he co-authored a publicly released report on the United Kingdom's economic prospects.

Scott is the lead author of the book Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business School Press) (Harvard Business Press, 2008) and of the book The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Press, 2009). Previously, he co-authored (with Christensen) Seeing What's Next (Harvard Business Press, 2004).

Scott has written articles in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Advertising Age, Marketing Management, and PressTime. He also serves as the editor of Strategy & Innovation, a bimonthly newsletter published by Innosight and Christensen. Scott received a BA in economics, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.



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Breakthrough with Tony Robbins 1 Frank and Kristen

In the next six weeks, on friday, I will be posting an episode of the Breakthrough with Tony Robbins series, I'm puting this here for the non-American people who can't see it on NBC.

If you don't want to wait, you can watch the six episodes directly on Viddler

In the first episode Tony Robbins helps married couple Frank and Kristen come back together after a tragic accident.



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The Science of Happiness

Roxanne Makasdjian reports on research into the Science of Happiness at UC Berkeley, including the work of Christine Carter, Dacher Keltner, Rudy Mendoza-Denton and Robb Willer.



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Emmanuel's Gift (MOVIE TRAILER)

Emmanuel's Gift is a movie about a true story of a man who refused to get beaten up by his handicap. This movie changed the minds of many people and will inspire you to became a better person and will give you strength to fight more for your dreams. Watch it, and share it with your friends.



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Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 1

Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) is divided in seven parts, I will be posting one part every week for the next seven weeks. If you don't want to wait you can see the entire series right away in here.



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Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 3
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 4
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 5
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 6
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) - Part 7
Og Mandino - Greatest Secrets To Success (1990) Wrapped Up