People who feel helpless often react that way because they cannot locate any acceptable alternatives in their own minds. A good way to circumvent that problem is to find others who have had similar problems, and ask them what they would do in your situation. Undoubtedly, you’ll get some ideas, and then you […]
Irresistible forces can leave you feeling helpless. When that occurs, you are often vulnerable because inaction is often worse than a poor action.
How can you find a helpful path? Answering the following questions is intended to help you see alternatives where you might otherwise feel helpless in the face of irresistible forces.
How can this […]
Your biggest customer calls to say that the firm is going into bankruptcy and won’t be able to pay the six month’s worth of outstanding invoices. You wish him well and hold your head in pain.
An hour later, you discover that your plant is in violation of OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration) standards. You […]
Building a Network Marketing Business is not so much about managing people as it is about leading others. You can manage from a very selfish vantage point but to maintain longer term leadership demands the ability to be others oriented. It means you do what is best for the people.
It has been noted that […]
The Helplessness Stall often follows the Wishful Thinking Stall. Here’s an example of how that can occur. Sales and earnings at a large retail chain had been declining for years.
The chain’s executives were continually forecasting a turnaround that never came — that’s the wishful thinking beginning of this painful example. After a decade […]
There may be no stronger source of unhappy surprise than having the customers’ and community’s perceptions of your products and services suddenly turn from positive to negative with no warning. Perhaps a television program runs an expose about the safety of your product, testing it in ways that you have never considered or are […]
Recent evidence has shown that there is a Personality Profile for someone who can be called a natural born leader. In this personality profile there are a set of innate characteristics that can be studied and learned by those who feel they are inadequate in a leader ship position.
A natural born leader can effectively […]
Like Captain Kirk on the Starship Enterprise in the Star Trek television series, movies and books, you should spurn helplessness and believe that there is always a positive way out of a difficult or unexpected situation. Your job is to find and take that way out.
As a cadet at Starfleet Academy, the […]
The big buzz in the Learning and Development community is about Leadership development. “If only we could train good leaders,” goes the argument, “we could be beat the world”
This belief is so well ingrained that hardly anyone stops to question it. But when you step back for a second, there are a number of […]
That hot-footed cat is ready to jump as soon as its paws get too hot. You should be too. The best ways to be able to move away from a mistake about an irresistible force are to keep your commitments as low as possible for as long as possible and to have contingency plans in […]
