Make Your Own Luck

Elaine Shapiro has written a new book about leadership and making your own luck.

Leadership Test #1 is to Picture where you want to go.

Leadership Test #2 is my favourite, Organizing - Identify your starting point and begin to reorganize the assets you currently have toward the future you want to create. She says, "It's difficult to bet smart if you don't know how to organize your starting resources."

Leadership Test #3: Predicting - Figure out the bets you want to take that have the biggest potential to get you where you want to go with the least risk.

Leadership Test #4: Acting - Act well enough and fast enough to capture the opportunities while the opportunities are available.

Take a look at more of the book "Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business". Make Your Own Luck

It's not your father's world - Tom Peters

Tom Peters has some interesting ideas for you:

Ed Michaels ran McKinsey's War for Talent project for a half-dozen years. He says that Jack Welch (GE) insisted that every business be "first or second in the marketplace or you're out" (all businesses must be 1st, 2nd, or closed out). Passe, per Michaels. Now it's "Best talent in each industry segment to build Best Proprietary Intangibles." (Or else.) I like it!

Bob Taylor founded Xerox's wildly inventive Palo Alto Research Center/PARC. A colleague spoke to Taylor's chief skill, called him a "Connoisseur of Talent." That Resonates with me: Connoisseur of Talent.

The Professional Service Firm is Everything

25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself

1. Care as if it's your own

2. Do your daily work with passion!

3. Build strong relationships

4. Dream big!

5. Set the right expectations

6. Ask for help

7. Celebrate small victories

For the rest of Rajesh Setty's 25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself click here, 25 Ways.