SelfGrowth.com: The Power of Saying, "No" & Being a Great Manager

 [SelfGrowth.com]  Self Improvement Newsletter Improve Your Life Today!  10/17/16 issue: The Power of Saying, "No" & Being a Great Manager Email for: {EMAIL} * Self Improvement and Personal Growth Weekly Newsletter * Issue #942, Week of October 17-18, 2016 Publisher: David Riklan - [] In this issue: -- Quotes of the Week -- Article: The Power of Saying, "No" -by Linda D Tillman, PhD -- Article: 10 Characteristics of a Great Manager - by Tom Hopkins -- Book Review: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life - by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans -- How to Advertise in the Self Improvement Newsletter -- How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe from this Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------ *** Quotes of the Week *** ------------------------------------------------------------ Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham ------------------------------------------------------------ *** ARTICLE: The Power of Saying, "No" -by Linda D Tillman, PhD *** ------------------------------------------------------------ ======================= "No" is such a simple word.... ======================= only two letters. Yet saying "No" out loud is harder for most people than saying, "I'll be glad to..." (eleven letters) or "When do you need me to..." (seventeen letters) Most of us said, "No!" quite well when we were two. After all, it's the two-year-old's job to say "No." The authority figures in our lives at the time, our parents, expect us to say "No." And it is because of "No" that the year is known as the Terrible Two's. Many of us grow up to be people pleasers. The word "No" drops out of our vocabulary, and we substitute lots of ways to be agreeable and keep the other person happy. Saying "No" to the authority figures is not expected. And underneath it all we believe that saying "No" can cost us a lot in our adult life. ** To read the full article, [go here.] ------------------------------------------------------------ *** ARTICLE: 10 Characteristics of a Great Manager – by Tom Hopkins *** ------------------------------------------------------------ Being a good manager is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. The first time you try to fit the pieces together, it takes a while to get everything to fit smoothly. The second time you attempt to make the pieces fit, you are a little more familiar with the pattern. Each time after that, it becomes more and more natural to easily match everything together and have it all turn out right. The pieces of the puzzle a manager has to put together are: 1. advertising 2. recruiting 3. holding productive meetings 4. motivating a person who is in an emotional or financial slump 5. handling types of personalities they don’t relate to 6. recruiting people that are happy on other jobs, but are ready for change. All of these techniques combined together make a great manager. In fact, great managers have ten characteristics, and if each of these ten characteristics is developed, you will become a great leader and a great manager. ** To read the full article, [go here.] ------------------------------------------------------------ *** BOOK REVIEW: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life - by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans *** ------------------------------------------------------------ Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise. "Designing Your Life walks readers through the process of building a satisfying, meaningful life by approaching the challenge the way a designer would. Experimentation. Wayfinding. Prototyping. Constant iteration. You should read the book. Everyone else will." —Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive ***** The list price of this book is $24.95. 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