Page 236 - Roy W. Rice - CEO Material How to Be a Leader in Any Organization-McGraw-Hill (2009)

Conclusion • 217

■ Write a complimentary note to a business reporter on an article.
■ Ask a favor from someone you normally wouldn’t.
■ Show your humanness to someone intimidated by you.
■ Write a note to someone written up in the Wall Street Journal.
■ Volunteer to give a speech.
■ Develop your accomplishment stories—24 of them.
■ Create your career history book.
■ Phone an old mentor and update each other.
■ Start a collection of business-appropriate anecdotes, jokes, and
stories.
■ Inject levity into a serious business conversation.
■ Recall a mistake, and write down what you learned from it.
■ Recall a mistake, and check with people involved to make sure
that you’ve rectified it.
■ Look at a current problem situation from the perspective of all
people involved to come up with a solution.
■ Look at a current problem situation as if it were already solved
to come up with a solution.
■ Talk to your barber about a business problem (or someone else
unrelated to the situation).
■ Start work one hour earlier today.
■ Before you take some action, consider the Golden Rule.
■ Fix a problem.
■ Take your calendar, and schedule-in personal days and activities
for the rest of the year.
■ Add to your financial self-worth today.
■ Give acceptance to a “jerk.”
■ Act more confident than you feel.
■ Stand ramrod straight.
■ Slow down walking, moving, etc.
■ Give a two-handed handshake.
■ Sit asymmetrically in meetings.
■ Speak up at a meeting three times more than you usually do.
■ Learn some Spanish—or Scandinavian.
■ Get another mentor.
■ Take on a good trait that the opposite sex has.