Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Success - Howard H. Stevenson

Howard H. Stevenson is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
Published: June 24, 2002

Success: four particular sources that are often contradictory but all necessary: achievement, happiness, significance, and a legacy.

Successful people are good at matching goals with their own skillsets; they lead a team of believers; they take risks; they are lucky, hard workers, fierce competitors; they overcome challenges; they had a high dissatisfaction with their environment.

Their success reflects their values and uniqueness; they were not people who tried to copy anyone else.
Individuals want a sense of mastery and pleasure; relationships are important to success. The most common reason people give him and Nash is, "I want to make a difference in the world."

They seized opportunity as life presented it: "They did what they could with what they had," he said.


What enduring success provides

There are four satisfactions of enduring success, according to Stevenson:

* Achievement: Do you measure accomplishments against an external goal? Power, wealth, recognition, competition against others.
* Happiness: Is there contentment or pleasure with and about your life?
* Significance: Do you have a valued impact on others whom you choose?
* Legacy: Have you infused your values and your accomplishments into the lives of others to leave something behind?

Happiness, significance, and a legacy are similarly complicated. "If you're deeply content all the time, what happens to your achievement? It's not there. One of the reasons you're successful is that you're not happy," Stevenson quipped. Significance to others can be guided by a sense of fairness, generosity and caring, but do fairness, generosity and caring help you in your achievements? Should individuals leave a legacy at the end of their lives, or do they create legacies as they go along?

"Significance is a lot about what you do for others, and achievement is much about how you feel about yourself, how you rate yourself. If you think about happiness, it's a now thing. Happiness is about a present experience; it's about the ability to enjoy the moment, whereas legacy is about forever: 'How do I create something that goes on for a long period of time?'"

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Chris Meyer...Monitor Networks - Monitor Group

Was CEO of Innovation CapGemini/Ernst and Young

- "Spend a day/week a year solving another industry/firms/executives problems" paraphrase

-http://www.mimc.org/main.cfm
-http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/

http://www.monitor.com/AboutUs/WhoWeAre/ThoughtLeaders/tabid/111/Default.aspx
http://www.monitortalent.com/talent/Christopher-Meyer-Profile.html