John Wooden used to say to his players. (paraphrasing it) Winning and losing is not determined by the score on the board, but how much of yourselves you gave in the game. Sometimes your opponent is weak and you beat them even if you don’t give it your all. Regardless of the score you are [...]
Category Archives: Success
Benchmarks of Success
Posted by admin on July 2, 2008
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Look for these things and consider them well as you walk your road to success: _ Know that Failure is Just an Event. We talked about this at length previously, but it bears repeating. If you fail, it doesn’t define you-it just puts you back at ‘square one’ with your idea and plan. _ Consider [...]
TomTom. Destined to fail
Posted by admin on May 23, 2008
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I normally don’t like to say “See I told you so.” That’s why I am posting here that TomTom the GPS company will be bankrupt within 12-24 months. I spent 2 days about an hour trying to buy a license from them. While I was on hold on the second day I went to amazon [...]
Success: Time Out to Reflect and Assess
Posted by admin on March 21, 2008
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At some point on your road to your goals, you’ll need to take some time to reflect and assess where you are, where you’ve been, and how this is affecting where you want to go.One way you can determine how you’re doing and where you’ve been is to journal. I personally am not a journaler, [...]
When to start training your employees
Posted by Turk Akbay on January 22, 2008
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When you hire a new employee you have about a week to set him/her up for success or failure. During the interview: the prospective employee does not really think about anything other than ” I need to get this job.” When the job offer is made: Employee is the happiest. New job represents a new [...]
How to take action Consistently
Posted by Turk Akbay on December 13, 2007
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Steve and I must be sharing the same source of intuition. Every time I read his posts I feel like I’m reading my own thoughts. Even our wives have similarities. If I wasn’t born 7000 miles from the US I’d think we’re related in this plane too. On his new post he’s outlining how to [...]
I’m going Interactive
Posted by Turk Akbay on November 26, 2007
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Finally the computer technology has caught up with my vision, and I can finally teach. The biggest reason why I’ve been lagging on my posts is because I’ve been trying to learn about Interactive learning environments. Don’t get me wrong. I’m still learning, but I’m confident starting early 2008 I will have interactive classrooms for [...]
Americans are reading less. Yeeeeah
Posted by Turk Akbay on November 19, 2007
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I just heard on NPR that reading numbers are down again. Less and less Americans are reading. Study cited 58% of the college grads who read books don’t pass page 18. This is great news for me other reader alike . As long as we’re willing to read and learn continuously we can’t help but [...]