Relationship Roundup - a few ways to challenge yourself to get out of your shell, manage difficult tasks, and put your relationships on the right track.
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Today’s most successful careerists see every relationship they have as a source of new information and expertise. They consciously seek out relationships that can teach them more and are very open-minded about who might fall into that category.
Because they're savvy at tapping the knowledge of an entire network, they’re the ones who move steadily, confidently forward as the world spins through ever-faster cycles of change.
The term originated in an IBM study that sought to identify the traits of their most high-impact employees. Turns out that ambition alone is mediocre; ambition plus intellectual humility is the winning combination.
Here’s what Bill had to say. It’s about continuous learning, but it’s also about leadership:
"IBM did a study a few years ago trying to address the simple question of what distinguishes the technologists, engineers, and leaders at IBM who have had a really huge impact on the company from other engineers and technologists, who, while excelling, haven’t had that same kind of impact. Read more →
Every month myGreenlight.com hosts the Social Capitalist series, where top entrepreneurs, executives, and thought leaders are interviewed about the human side of success – the friends won, people influenced, and skills learned in everything from performing at work to launching a business.
Our most recent guest, Mark Divine, CEO of SEALFIT, NavySEALs.com, and US CrossFit, had some great ideas about managing stress, arguing that stress is actually necessary to grow, learn, and achieve high-performance.
He introduced the phrase “stressing yourself for success.” As he explained on the call:
“You can’t develop mental toughness without challenging yourself. I call it stressing yourself for success. There’s no question the human body is designed with that fight, flight, or freeze response, and you can interpret that to mean we’re not supposed to essentially stress ourselves out because we’re supposed to avoid stress or eliminate stress (which is impossible by the way) because it’s not good for our bodies."
“Well, that’s not true. Even in caveman days, it was the hunter who was able to control the stress response and turn it into a performance behavior that would allow him to get the most meat, face down the charging tiger, and organize a team to defeat him. That was called leadership. So, just because we have stress everyday in our life, doesn’t mean it has to be debilitating or lead to disease in our bodies.”
He suggested the following strategies to channel your stress into high performance and actionable success: Read more →