CG Podcast #010 - Napoleon Hill’s Law of Success Podcast Series #06/16 - Intolerance
April 30, 2007
CultivateGreatness.com Podcast #0010 Napoleon Hill Law of Success - Lesson 6 - Intolerance
Lesson Six in the Law of Success Podcast Series, Intolerance!
Before Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill wrote a series of sixteen lessons, called The Law of Success, which were designed to teach fifteen principles of successful living to students, starting at the high school level.
I am going through each lesson and creating a podcast about each lesson in Hill’s Law of Success. Tolerance is very important if you want to get things accomplished in your life. This is episode 6 in our 16 part series.
Lesson 6 - Tolerance
- Why you should be aware of the two significant features of intolerance.
- Why your life is built upon bias and prejudice…and how you need to re-learn what you previously thought was the truth.
- Why children are more important to business than you think.
- The two things that are the foundation of enduring success.
- Why you don’t have the time to allow intolerance into your life.
- The lessons from a war built upon a lack of tolerance…and how you can profit from them.
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Simple Tips to Improve Your Communication/Relationship Skills
April 29, 2007
Have you ever been to a function in a room full of strangers and found yourself lost for words? The art of introducing yourself to others and creating small talk may come natural for some, but most people confess to feeling shy, embarrassed and don’t know where to start.
There are four levels of communication: Small talk, fact disclosure, share viewpoints and opinions and share personal opinions.
Small Talk
In new relationships or acquaintances the safest place to start is to talk about surface issues. For instance, make a comment about the weather, current events or the surroundings you are in.
This is called “small talk”, and is used to “size up” the other person to determine the comfort zone between the two of you. There is no need to disclose any personal information with the other person at this stage, as this initial interaction assists you to determine how “safe” they are on your first meeting.
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What is Adaptive Leadership?
April 27, 2007
I use the term not just in the sense of a trademark, but more importantly to draw attention to a way of leading. I selected a chameleon for my logo because most people readily recognize it as a symbol of 
adaptation. Adaptation is a dynamic process of mutual influence. All creatures act on their environments, and their environments, in turn, act on them. We are all engaged in co-creation in our offices and in our families by virtue of the influences we exert on each other.
Adaptive leadership is given to impacting the environment. It addresses a very active form of leadership, not a passive effort taken merely to adjust to circumstances as found. Biology teaches that relationships between living entities are circular and interactive. Our organizations are also living systems, being composed not just of capital goods and technology, but of people.
Organizations are capable of intelligent, purposeful collective action, actions taken to influence their environments in desired directions. We know that, like all living organisms, our organizations can learn, adapt and grow. We know that they too have life cycles of birth, growth, maturity and eventual decline.
ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS COMPARED TO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
It is quite a different matter to see organizations as being adaptive systems as opposed to the traditional (and ancient) way we have been conditioned to see them, namely, as Machines.
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CultivateGreatness Success and Personal Growth Blog Carnival #014, April 26th, 2007
April 26, 2007
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Here we are with the 14th edition of the Success Blog Carnival at Cultivate Greatness! A great amount of wisdom to share within this edition of our Blog Carnival… many, many golden nuggets of wisdom to share.
Thanks for your submissions! There have been 32 submissions in 6 days. Wow. So, instead of doing a carnival infrequently, here is one 6 days after our last one.
If your article is listed in this blog carnival, please provide a linkback to CultivateGreatness.com somewhere on your site, to provide a nice circle of link love! 
Here we are near the end of April. The year is 1/4th over. Make sure to stay on task with your goals and move forward toward your dreams. You deserve them! Thanks for making the April 26th, 2007 edition of the Cultivate Greatness, Success and Personal Growth BlogCarnival a success!
32 posts should be easier to digest than the nearly 150 in last issue! Rock on!
Allan Wallace presents The Entrepreneur’s Mind posted at BFU - self directed learning for visionaries, saying, “How does the thought process of an entrepreneur differ from that of an MBA when starting a business?”
SpiKe presents Spring Clean Your Life posted at Organize IT.
Albert Foong presents Little Secrets of the Power of Expressing Gratitude - Even for the bad posted at Urban Monk, saying, “Is gratitude masochistic? The power of gratitude is often misunderstood and criticised - especially when it comes to being grateful the bad things that have come into our lives. If used properly, gratitude is a powerful force for healing AND getting what we want.”
entrepreneur
GP presents A Housewife on Steroids posted at Fish Creek House - INNside Innkeeping, saying, “A day in the life of an innkeeper… take a vocation vacation can help you choose to follow that dream”
Joshua Dorkin presents Don’t Just Teach Your Friends to Make Money Online. Partner with Them! by TimeForBlogging posted at Time For Blogging.
health
James D. Brausch presents What Kind Of Diet Is That? posted at Weight Loss Dude.
inspiration
Anthony presents The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune: A Thanksgiving Thought posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune.
