Loud Thinking

Archive for May, 2013

Use Your Crowd to Source Ideas

Skilled networkers use their contacts as a source of quick feedback and even solutions to challenges of all sorts. If your network is strong, you’re connected to well-placed colleagues, suppliers, customers, and fellow executives in your field — a host of experts who can help you at a moment’s notice. For example, if you’re thinking of hiring a contractor, ask for reviews of his work. Or use an internal blog to request ideas on how to cut costs. Start by making suggestions of your own and then ask others to contribute. These tactics will not only help you get valuable information but also will increase your visibility within your network.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from the HBR Guide to Networking.

“Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working
on yourself daily.”

— Epictetus

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993);
preacher, author

When Love and determination work together expect a masterpiece.

You and your opponent want the same thing. The only thing that matters is who works the hardest for it.

While most are dreaming of success, winners wake-up and work hard to achieve it.

– Unknown

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare.
Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

– Sasha Azevedo, Actress (1978 May 20)

Drive is to strive vigorously toward a goal or objective.

“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”

Bradley Whitford (born 1959);
Actor