New Terms, Same Principles – Smarter Marketing In marketing terms, I am a baby boomer. Because of that one might consider me, not a technophobe but a late starter. It took me until 2010 to fully embrace the potential benefits of modern technology and its connectivity (with the help of a MII digital marketing course). Read More …
Author: howardmjhughes
Understand this to experience success.
There is a balance to be struck. On the one hand you have to give yourself the space to reach your destination on the other there has to be a sense of urgency about getting there. Most successful people know that it is the journey that counts because destinations are stagnant places. Paths lead to static places – when you reach a destination, you stop. So success isn’t a destination, it is a continuously improving journey so give yourself the space (time) to make it continually happen.
What helps us stay focused, on track and motivated?
One question I think about more often than most is ‘Why aren’t more people successful’. Like Howard, (but without the science and definitely more of an opinion piece here), I put my thoughts to paper. I’m a Chartered Accountant with a practice in Dublin 2 and have seen all sizes of companies, all types of Read More …
The Lens Through Which We View The World
Origins If you were to ask kids in the first class of a primary school how many of them are artists you’d probably get close to 100% of them enthusiastically raising their hands. Ask the same question of fourth class and the number would probably drop to 50%-60%. By the time you make it to Read More …
The Cultivation of Leadership – Your All-Star Team
It’s said that the purpose of good leadership is to create other leaders. Far from this being a case of too many chiefs and too few Indians (or native Americans to be correct) it is a return to Stephen R. Covey’s reference to the best relationships; interdependence through independence. The best analogy I came across Read More …
Being led by the nose and how to stop it.
Has anyone else noticed how reactionary the world has become? Is it me as I get older? There seems to be people ands groups taking offence to anything. I could easily give rise to the impression that the world is spiralling downward and actually getting worse. People in panic, people in deep sorry, people in outrage. This Read More …
The Cost of Change
In Chicago’s O’Hare airport on my way back from Hawaii and looking for some reading material, I came across a book by a gentleman named Ron Karr. The book is called “Lead, Sell or Get Out of the Way.” Mr. Karr has been attributed with approximately $500m in sales. He’s motivational and one hell of Read More …
Limiting Beliefs – What’s Stopping You?
Have you ever heard yourself saying something that you believed to be true, something that has guided your decision making and you’ve never questioned it? It was told to you a long time ago by someone that you held in regard, it could have been a parent, relation or friend. ‘You know what, they told Read More …
Top Resons For Coaching
Personal Fulfillment: Do you go from day to day just going through routine longing for weekend? Wouldn’t rather feel that your actions are worthwhile? Wouldn’t like to wake up looking forward to your day, whatever it holds, work, play, house work? One of the by-products of great coaching is the pushing out of that hollow Read More …
The best starting point is yourself…
“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer Brand awareness, brand positioning, competition analysis, creating a brand, business growth, funding, sponsorship, lead generation, marketing, sales, customer relations, customer loyalty, talent management and retention and the ‘X Factor’. Read More …