My old mate Peter Woodruff once said.
“Perseverance is THE measure of YOUR
faith in YOUR future.”
sell his reseller business to Bell Atlantic for £10 million,
we have been busily gathering irrefutable evidence
that the principles of developing a winning mind-set
crosses ALL boundaries.
Take our Olympians, Leicester City, Welsh Football,
Facebook or Jordan Spieth, and yes all the guys at
Seneca, and you’ll find the lessons are the same.
1. Work out what you want; exactly what you want
(yes, you might need help with that, but it really
can be whatever you want)
2. Decide whether it’s a pipedream or Future Reality
(no need to tell anyone, just make sure you know,
and you’ll find it helps if the answer is Future
Reality)
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3. Know, not ‘hope’, not ‘believe’; KNOW that it’s
going to happen
4. Ignore the evidence of previous failed attempts,
lack of resource, experience, skills, support,
being the right age etc. (all of these are red
herrings there only to save the weak the pain of
the sacrifice they might otherwise have to face)
5. Persevere until it’s done
‘It’s always impossible until it’s done’ said Nelson Mandela.
‘One person with courage is a majority’ said someone
before Sir Winston made it famous.
‘Winning Hearts And Minds’ (WHAM! as we call it) has
two meanings for us. First, do you as a member of your
team have a WHAM? If you haven’t then you’d better
get one, quickly.
You can’t get anywhere good in life without one.
And second, can you the leader WHAM in your business?
If you can’t, then you’d better educate yourself, now.
Cameron couldn’t, Corbyn is struggling, Chris Evans
did his best, and the British media are doing their best
to ensure we LOSE ours (and couldn’t care less as long
as we watch/read them).
Yet Claudio Ranieri did, Chris Coleman did, the
Icelandic Dentist did, and Sir Winston certainly did.
Right now, we Brits need to focus on the five i2i WHAM
points above, for sure.
In my 24 years of research, whinging, moaning, bleating,
blaming and looking back do not surface too often in
success recipes of winning people and organisations;
but ‘The Five Principles of WHAM’ do, repeatedly.
‘Perseverance is THE measure of YOUR faith in YOUR
future’ my old mate Peter Woodruff once said.
So come on; let’s WHAM!