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In a company, a group of people were elated because they were working on a project proposal that won the tender. According to them, a proposal which worked very good and interesting. In these circumstances, who does not want to be praised by the boss?
When are enthusiastically reported their success to the leadership, the leadership simply commented that the quality of proposals and plans that they had indeed met the criteria for customer and market needs. However, director further said that the proposal was not special and do not meet her standards. Proposal-making teams limp. Instantly came grumbling among them, why the work we’ve done is not appreciated by the leader or why our leaders are not satisfied with the results of our work.
In this situation, a manager commented, head of the company to agree not to quickly feel satisfied with working standards mediocre. Standard of excellence we should be higher than the demands of the company, bosses, and customers. Only with high standards and whack proclaimed himself to perform very, very good, we can be competitive.

If ponder again, we all would agree that it’s hard to compete if our performance mediocre. We soon will be run over by a person who performs only slightly better. Only by running far ahead and perform very well, we can attract customers without having to “bleed” to compete with each other. With mediocre achievement, how can we create a sophisticated programming language? Without a high standard of excellence, which may create the technology I-Mac or the VW Beetle which can last tens of years?
If we do not set high standards and lashed themselves to go beyond existing standards, how can we make a breakthrough in products, services, and achievements that could be it the name of the nation?

Anti “mediocre”
Not a few people who are working hard to achieve the best performance. Our challenge is actually an unstable performance, aka have fluctuated. It is realized or not, we often tolerate mistakes, let the error happen repeatedly, and assume that the error was a “humane”. In fact, a new product or service can be called excellent if he had a perfect 100 percent. What if we tolerate the existing 1 percent incidence of malpractice in surgery at the hospital? If every week there 500,000 operations around the world, means that we tolerate a 5000 malpractice incident. Is not this extremely dangerous? That is why, we can not tolerate performance is inconsistent, unstable or on-off.

If we really want to stand out, excellence must become a lifestyle and attitude in all aspects of our lives. How can we achieve the ambition to achieve excellence in sport, if we do not feel guilty if the delay time of exercise? When it reaches a success, not many people who feel angry or upset when he was criticized by others? In fact, excellence is a mindset and a proactive attitude, where we are not easily satisfied with our success, always trying to do self-criticism before the criticism of others, and always alert to the reduction in the quality of our performance. We see that the difficulty to maintain that attitude, especially within ourselves.

Significantly different

Personally and professionally, when we’ve proven different and have a level of excellence that can not be imposed, we would no longer need to market yourself tired-tired. That is why, every individual or organization needs to think twice when his mission is not listed in the desire to achieve a performance level very, very good. We need to fight the attitude of tolerance toward the medium, mediocre, or mediocre. Tom Peters, management expert who is very berobsesi on attitudes and beliefs about excellence, in his latest book called The Little Big Things, said, “Excellence is sooo …. Cool! Let’s Punish mediocre success “.

How to combat the mediocre? The first step is to identify good condition, but have not been able diacungi two thumbs.
This condition should we consider to be the starting point of our improvement efforts. We should not hesitate to shift to the best level of quality standards, without compromise. The standard was created for sliding-sliding. Standards are used to increase the awareness and level of our consistency. Person or institution that pursues standards of excellence are more action oriented, close to the customer, not bureaucratic, young spirited, curious, and cheerful. So, the standard ef excellence become part of everyday life and not create stress.

For those who got a new job offer from another company, or moving to a new workplace to start a new career, is still important to consider the following things:

1. Consider realistic expectations of salary.
If this is your first employment contract, then you should already have a picture on the salaries of new graduates for the industry concerned, so that the appropriate proportion of your request.

If the case is that you’re moving the work to start a new career, do not necessarily assume that you are “entitled” to the salary many times over. Return to the main purpose of moving your work, in addition to also consider the condition of the company

2. Note the benefit package offered.
Remember that your salary is just one component of a package provided by the business. Do not hesitate to ask, what other benefits are offered, and where better to compare with that you received in the previous company.

Remember early on that job satisfaction is something more important than how many rupiah you can bring home. It is often forgotten by the first job seekers and those who changed jobs. Whatever the salary and bonus that you receive, if you hate your job, then you will not be happy.

3. Take decisions based on circumstances which “real” and not based on “what if”.
Do not worry about what would happen if all the demands on the road to success for your new job. What’s important, what can you do now.

4. Remember that finding a job is (part of) the overall job itself.
If you’re want to make changes, you need an approach that saw the change as a project work. Plan for everything to run as desired.

Confidential employee productivity is its ability to control attention effectively in the workplace. But, with the presence of a variety of innovative communication and digital media like today, everyone is very easily tempted and lose focus of attention.

Try to count, how much time is wasted work because you are busy sending instant messages or flipping through pages of social networking sites like Facebook? If done at lunchtime, certainly not a problem. But, different story if the activity is carried out in the middle hours of productive work.

Well, here are some things that you should be aware because it can steal and divert attention from the job:

1. Twitter
This micro-blogging site can indeed be a very informative tool for its users. On the downside, a lot of labor time consumed if you are too engrossed in reading the timeline. If you are using Twitter as a business tool to build a brand or product, it does not matter if frequently checked. But, if only used as a social tool, you need to limit the time to check them.

2. Up / online games / social application
Some people use social networking site Facebook as a means of business. But, the majority of people use it as a means of social relationships. Just like Twitter, you should limit the time for flipping the page up, or even just playing games online and many other applications. Instead of stealing work time to play up, you should take advantage of lunch time to open it open.

3. Instant Messaging
Exchange instant messages via applications like Yahoo Messenger, Meebo, AOL, to the BlackBerry Messenger can confiscate your productive time. If not used for business, you should not turn on your instant messaging application.

4. Electronic waste
E-mail inbox is flooded with hundreds of messages or desktop computers that filled with tens of files, can create stress and interfere with attention. Instead, check e-mail every morning to sort e-mails which are important and what is not important. Also, clean the computer’s desktop on a regular basis to get rid of unneeded files.

The quality of leadership are elements of every good leader, motivate a good cover skills, ability to make others think like him, the ability to communicate clearly, treat all staff the same, no favoritism.

Recognize and provide benefits in the success, positive and inspiring, and treat all staff individually, in accordance with their capacity and quality.

A good leader must have always wanted to develop his skills. Acknowledging that he is nothing without the staff and need help and support from others to achieve company goals.

The best leaders are those that firm but fair, try to inspire and recognize successes and to treat all members of staff with respect.

A good leader, always dedicated to work, making each staff feel good.

If you have these skills then you can become a great leader. If you do not just work to spend time, leadership skills will be yours.

Travel careers have their own pattern. One time, perhaps rapidly rising career, but next time career stuck or even skydiving. So, if you feel careers are now under, rest assured that whatever happens now will definitely give you a valuable lesson. How can you be more brilliant career in the future, the following tips:

1. Write What You Want

Ask yourself, what you really want for your career, then write on a piece of paper. Attach this paper in place or thing you see every day. Big things usually happen to people who knew their life goals.

2. Create Plan

The next step is to make a plan. Planning is very important, because it will help you achieve what you want. Without planning, a step can be described as walking without a destination. In essence, you must have a goal and then plan what steps should be taken to achieve these goals.

Planning will also keep you from doing things that really do not need to be done. The more specific the plan, the better and easier it will move you. Another reason is to prevent the need to make plans so you do not become excessive. For example, there are things that should not have done but you are doing well in the absence of a plan.

3. Take Action

The following is a real step process which is very important. Planning without action arguably futile work. And to keep you still go according to plan is to record what steps you have to do. Make note of this as a guide and “guards” so you keep going according to plan and target.

Note this will also help you monitor your career journey. How far you’ve walked, how it works, what the next step, as well as conduct the evaluation process. One thing that must be maintained is a matter of discipline. Open this record on a regular basis, if necessary, every day.

4. Say, “I will definitely be successful!

“The environment and atmosphere of the longer work and will increasingly affect handcuff ourselves as employees. For example, the working atmosphere yng office is always negative in the long run will make you hard to be positive. If your boss always says that every day you are incompetent to work, then the longer you will be increasingly unsure of your ability. You can no longer objectively assess yourself and your abilities.

How do you see yourself is how the world sees you. If you are confident and appear confident, then the world would see a Confident on yourself. If you are not comfortable with yourself, then it also will be seen the world and people around you.

Do not be surprised if you feel no one else is watching you.

So, rest assured that what you are doing is the path to success. Remember, success will be working right up to them, earnest, and confident in his own abilities.