by Mark Donovan | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorised
Motivation is often seen as something we can ‘do’ to another person. This is not so, we can’t motivate someone else to do something… try getting your kids to study! What we can do is, create an environment where people will be engaged to motivate themselves. ...
by Mark Donovan | Jun 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
My mother told me a story once which I feel is apt for these strange and challenging times we sometimes live in. My brother and I were going off to school one morning when my mother said to my father as he was also leaving for work. “I feel sorry for the boys having...
by Mark Donovan | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorised
As leaders, we need to ‘continually challenge the perception of ourselves’. When a large gap exists between how we see ourselves and how others see us, this leads to ‘leadership blind spots. This is why feedback from others is so important, it’s like a mirror that...
by Mark Donovan | Jun 2, 2023 | Uncategorised
For many leaders today, organizational life is like being a hamster on a wheel. We are working extremely hard but we are getting nowhere fast! We make promises with good intentions but then don’t deliver on these. This hits the results we achieve and the personal...
by Mark Donovan | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorised
When we initiate a personal campaign to improve ourselves, it takes longer than we thought. Our need for instant gratification trumps our patience and discipline. 1) It’s more difficult than we thought – improvement is hard, if it were easy, we’d already be...
by Mark Donovan | May 12, 2023 | Uncategorised
One of my key philosophies is accepting self-responsibility and taking action. The problem with most people today is not the absence of knowledge, it is the absence of doing. The starting point for achieving anything is accepting the self-responsibility for doing it. ...
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