Zitat des Tages von Chip Conley:
Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.
Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.
When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.
Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.
When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.
The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.
The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
