A success Formula - John S Veitch - Keeping a Journal

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John S Veitch
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The discovery of apoptosis is the process of cell death that is critical to our understanding of cancer.
For 20 years laboratories around the world focused their research on cell growth, and research on cell death was ignored and not funded.
That was a mistake that's repeated over and over and over by people as they make deliberative decisions about what to do.
When we plan to be successful, the first order of business in hundreds of success guides is to "decide EXACTLY what your GOALS are".
If you are the CEO of a progressive company or the champion for an innovative idea, you are in great danger if that's your success formula.
More than 60% of all CEO's rate innovation as critical to the success of their company. Very few people know how to make innovation happen.
At a personal level I have liked Stephen Covey's approach to success. It's both practical and open to change.
A Generalised Success Formula
Be your own leader, DO THINGS. Take responsibility for what is happening about you, and be proactive in how you approach your work.
Discover and Remove Your OWN Blindness. This is the "big one" that points to the fallacy in all the books about positive thinking.
Discover the Useful Common. Today with the Internet the reach of the useful common is global. You take from the common, and you contribute to it.
Generally, you can trust other people. You'll need to read a lot, and to listen to other people. "Seek first to understand," says Stephen Covey.
Initiate Your Own Learning. All real education is self driven. You need to decide what you need to learn, and where best to find that knowledge.
Every Community of Practise has it's own agreed core discipline, and disputed edges where practice is an "art". Keep a private journal, or a private blog.
Build Your Productive Capacity. None of us can be successful alone.
Most innovations are tiny modifications of existing processes. This stepping stone method is tedious but relatively safe and secure.
There are many stories of people who worked and struggled for a long time before finding the right partner and success.
Collaborations usually start by working together informally and simply, by being helpful and sharing information.
Do Good Work. Economic growth has to be defined in a new way, or in the long run there will be death for many and little business for anyone.
If we are clever there is an incentive here to be more efficient and more profitable, while doing LESS.

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