Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Our Attitudes Are Our Most Important Assets
Our attitude may not be the asset that makes us great leaders, but without good once we will never reach our full potential. Our attitudes are the "and then some" that allows us the little extra edge over those thinking is wrong.
Walt Emerson said, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
The 1983 Cos Report on American Business said that 94 percent of all Fortune 500 executives attributed their success more to attitude than to any other basic ingredient.
Robert Half International, a San Francisco consulting firm, recently asked vice-presidents and personel directors at one hundred of America's largest companies to name the single greatest reason for firing an employee.
The response are very interesting and underscore the importance of attitude in business world:
* Incompetence--------------------------------------> 30%
* Inability to get along with other workers------------> 17%
* Dishonesty or lying---------------------------------> 12%
* Negative attitude-----------------------------------> 10%
* Lack of motivation----------------------------------> 7%
* Failure or refusal to follow instruction---------------> 7%
* All other reasons------------------------------------> 8%
Notice that although incompetence ranked first on the list, the next five were all attitude problems.
The Carnegie Institute not long ago analyzed the records of ten thousand persons and concluded that 15 percent of success is due to technical training. The other 85 percent is due to personality, and the primary persobality trait identified by the research is ATTITUDE!
Our attitudes determine what we see and how we handle our feelings.
(by John C. Maxwell : Developing the Leader Within You)
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