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William Frank Diedrich's Articles Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest Something From Nothing To make something from nothing is what visionaries do. In the 1970’s few entrepreneurs were looking for opportunities in Bangladesh. What opportunities could be created with millions of poverty stricken people? Yet one man saw something in what appeared to be nothing to most people. His business now employs 17,000 people and impacts the lives of millions of people. Finding and Expressing Your Voice Each of us has a unique and significant set of traits, abilities, passions, and skills that we offer to the world. This is our voice. When we are expressing our voice we feel significant, valuable, and joyful. We seek and find a sense of meaning in our work and in our lives when we are operating at this level. When we are expressing our voice we are in alignment with who we are. How do we help the people we lead to express their voice? Reinventing You One of the most beautiful aspects of life on this planet is that we always have the option to reinvent ourselves. If you don’t like what you are experiencing, you can change it. If you want to play at a higher level, you can choose to grow. We have the ability to dream and to make our dreams come true. One thing that stops us is our own fear. Living With a Bold Heart A bold heart is a big heart. It does not play at being small. It is not tentative or hesitant. It moves forward, embracing life, creation, and its own ability to love. Motivation: What Works? Criticism and blaming do not work to create motivation. To lead is to create a motivating environment through a clear understanding of how people think and work. Leaders need to shift their vision from fixing what doesn't work to reinforcing what does work. Beyond Blaming Effectiveness is found beyond blaming. Whenever we blame we make ourselves ineffective and we are of no help to others. Once we are willing to give up the payoffs blaming seems to offer, we become more powerful leaders. Moving beyond blaming is not about being nice or overlooking poor behavior. It is an effective way to lead others through directness, compassion, and clarity. Raising Your Expectations We receive in life according to our expectations. If I expect to be rejected, inevitably I will be. We can raise our expectations. Raising our expectations changes our experience. If I accept myself, I find others accepting me, too. Kick Your But's "But" is the great negator. We express our good intention and then qualify it with "but". “I want to help these people, but they are unreasonable.” As leaders we need to kick our but's and take complete responsibilty. Power Power comes from within. Seeking external sources of power frustrates us and leaves us powerless. We are powerful beings when we derive our well-being from our Source within. Power is also increased when we live in this moment and in intergrity with who we are. Conversation Conversation is when two or more people speak, listen effectively, and come to a shared understanding. We are often afraid to listen or refuse to listen because we already have an opinion. When there is no conversation people make things up, and it usually isn't positive. It is important to look at what we say to others and determine what effect we are having on them. As we increase our willingness and ability to converse our influence grows. Finding The Greatness Within Greatness is found within, but we don't always find greatness when we look there. Often an inner sense of lack, conditioned by years of negative messages convinces us we aren't great. The problem is that we attach our sense of worth and our well-being to the opinions of others and to "failures" we have experienced. We can face our thoughts and feelings and move through them. There we will find our greatness. Working With Dominant People Dealing with dominant people can be difficult, but it doesn't have to be. It's not so much about managing them as it is about managing your own tendencies. The tendency of most people is to avoid dominant people and then complain to others. This does not work. Instead be clear, honest, and straight forward. An understanding of how dominant people function will help you gain influence. Instant Success Success is a state of mind. External trappings of success may or may not indicate true success. You can be successful right now. Make the decision to do so and success is yours. The Leadership Choice Leaders make choices at the level of thought. These choices determine the structure of an organization. This structure inflences the behavior of employees. Great customer service is the result of great leadership. Poor customer service is overcome through consistent thinking and behaving that puts the customer first. The choice to lead is made moment to moment. The Power of Decision The Power of Decision is always ours. We can decide what we want and move in that direction, or not. Joy, peace, and success are not the results of good things happening to us. They are decisions we make that create joyous, peaceful, and successful results.

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