"...keeping you great"
HEADLINES:
Crazy Busy - this is the title of our latest online seminar by author
Ned Halloway, more below but first...
Hyper
Growth
-
Fortune
released their latest "100
Fastest Growing companies" list this week. #1 is Silver Wheaton which has
purchase contracts with mines where silver is a by-product. With 14 major
contracts that lock in a purchase price of $4/oz., they are mining gold at a
sale price of $33/oz. No wonder they netted $575 million on $771 million in
revenue. Why didn't I think of this!!
Here's a link to full list. Not surprisingly, the industry with the most
fast-growth firms is healthcare. More surprisingly, Apple came in at #8 - to
think they can still grow over 50% with their huge revenues.
Mental Fitness - Wimbledon finals, Olympic gold medal, and slugfest winner
of the US Open this week, tennis player Andy Murray is a living case study of
the importance of mentally always "playing to win" vs. "playing not to lose."
You could see Andy switch mental gears after winning the first two sets, playing
more defensively in the third and fourth sets and losing both. The same happened
with Victoria Azarenka who had the women's final all but won against Serena
Williams and then started playing not to lose. And who has helped Andy finally
win? In January he hired former tennis great Ivan Lendl. Underscores the
importance of having a coach.
Executive ADD
- many of you have met Mark Yaphe, CEO of
ExecuThink, at our Fortune Summits (he'll be in Phoenix again for the Growth
Summit).
Here's a link to his latest white paper entitled "Executive
ADD: Information Overload and Your Career." Notes Yaphe "We hear similar complaints all the time:
people feeling that they are not as sharp as they used to be, less able to
focus, less able to recall key facts and information at the right time. Often
people will wrongly self-diagnose as having attention deficit disorder, when
instead what they really have is a non-clinical issue that we call Executive
ADD." Yaphe and Avner Stern's white paper addresses concrete ways to reverse the
5% - 10% brain functioning we lose each decade. Click
HERE to download a copy.
Chronic Underperformance
- Yaphe and Stern happen to refer to psychiatrist Edward "Ned" Hallowell in
their white paper where they note "he suggests in an article in the Harvard
Business Review, modern office practices are turning steady executives into
frenzied underachievers. The ever-increasing noise in the environment overloads
our central nervous system and causes smart people to under-perform." If you are
interested in finding out more about enrolling yourself, your team, or your
company in their cognitive training program, please email Mark at
mark@executhink.com. With an average executive experiencing over 28% gain in
their trained cognitive capacity and with over 92% of their individual and
corporate clients volunteering to be testimonials
it's worth checking out to see if it will help you regain your peak mental
capacity.
A
Ferrari Brain -- ...with bicycle brakes! This is how Dr. Ned Halloway,
psychiatrist and former Harvard Professor refers to entrepreneurs and children
with ADHD. Here's
a short 4 minute video that discusses why we need to celebrate Ferrari
brains and just get these people (and children) better brakes!
Crazy
Busy (the F State) - this is why we flew to Dr. Halloway's Boston office and
produced a 42 minute online seminar - to help all of us crazy busy executives of
growth firms gather some tools that strengthen our brakes and reduce having to
live in what Dr. Hallowell calls the "F State:" Frantic, frenzied, frenetic,
fearful, forgetful, frustrated and furious. Interestingly, many of the basic
Rockefeller Habits naturally improve your brakes. Here's
a link to his pay-for-view online presentation - worth a watch at your next
monthly management meeting.
