What the CEO wants you to know...

If you are looking to move up the ranks of your company or want to change companies, I recommend you read this book "What the CEO wants you to know" by Ram Charan. It is a simple, easy to read and apply book about how business works.

I came across this as part of a program run by a client. Since a fellow coach and myself are delivering part of this program, we read up on the same material the client is requesting the participants read.

Six Sigma-ites... If I was still a DC (Six Sigma Deployment Manager) I would probably make this a part of the Black Belt training program (reading and discussion groups).

Simple rules, but oh... so hard.

I was thinking about the 8 Pillars of Well Being today and it struck me that there is one pillar missing: Positive Relationships! (the photo here is of me, my sister Ann, and friends Karen, Graham, Stuart, Ian, Elaine and Uncle Jim, Aunt Dorothy, Aunt Nancie and my Mum - taken by my Dad, on a beach in Scotland, a long long time ago).

Then, I was thinking about all the books I read on these topics and it seems to me the advice all is very similar so it is all readily available, to all of us. So, why do so few of us follow this advice? Why do we struggle putting it into practise? Is there an issue about belieiving it works? Or, is it an issue of self worth and self discipline? Or, are we just too busy to focus on this sort of thing? Hmmmmmmmm.

Another Email from yesterday talked about how we should live our lives with the 3 Es: Enthusasim, Energy and Empathy. Perhaps the problem with all this advice is that it is difficult to translate into action in our daily lives? It may be like horoscopes - so generic that everybody can find something that applies to them without meaning anything.

And, to doubly ensure that I really gave all this lots more thought, I received a book, from a friend, by an author I enjoy (Barbara Kingsolver) all about the path toward concious eating and consuming!

8 Pillars of well being.

I just heard about a new book that sounds very interesting. If somebody has read it, please let me know what you think about it by leaving a comment.

The book is "Quantum Wellness" by Kathy Freston.

She says there are 8 pillars of well being or wellness.

1. Meditation (daily)
2. Visualisation
3. Fun (do something fun each day)
4. Concious eating (know where all your food comes from and the processes required to bring it to your table)
5. Excercise (a no brainer)
6. Self examination (knowing where you need to develop more and doing it)
7. Spiritual practise
8. Service to others

As a quick self check, on a scale of 1 -10, how well do you practise each of these things today?

Here is her website address:http://www.kathyfreston.com/