You do not want 70% of the population on your team!

I know that may sound ridiculous, but it is true.

Yes, “even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then”
and the only reason to sponsor anyone is to figure out
who they know that can go to the top in your opportunity.

Did you hear that?

Most people you attempt to recruit will ultimately be more
trouble than they are worth!

Why do you want an organization full of Ningkapoops?

It might be my imagination, but it seems to me the
industry has slanted towards the tail wagging the dog.

“Leaders” seem to be willing to cator to the whims
of people in hopes of keeping them on autoship for
one more month.

We are in the leadership development business!

Leaders must stand up and tell people what they
need to hear, not what they want to hear!

You seriously do not want 70% of your population on
your team. Understand that, work with that and this
business will become much easier.

I even did a video on this topic for one of our personal
websites, it is on your tube and you can check it out
here

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

A discussion with my step daughter this afternoon
prompted me to find this article.

Myth of the Well-Educated Manager

I wanted to share it with you guys.

As I have always known “Formal education makes you
a living, if you become self-educated you create a
fortune” JIM ROHN

The #1 reason many cannot make it as an entrepreneur
is the fact their formal education holds them back because
it creates a sense of entitlement.

Nothing Can Replace Persistence

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful
men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost
a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
– Calvin Coolidge

HERE IS THE ARTICLE:

Myth of the Well-Educated Manager
by J. Sterling Livingston
Havard Business Review

How effectively a manager will perform on
the job cannot be predicted by the number
of degrees he holds, the grades he receives
in school, or the formal management education
programs he attends. Academic achievement is
not a valid yardstick to use in measuring managerial
potential or success in any occupation. Indeed, if
academic achievement is equated with success in
business, the well-educated manager is a myth.

Managers are not taught in formal education
programs what they most need to know to build
successful careers in management. Unless they
acquire through their own experience the knowledge
and skills that are vital to their effectiveness, they are
not likely to advance far up the organizational ladder.
Those who have effective communication and people skills
are ultimately the ones that advance. It has been
said that most A students find themselves working for C
students and our research concurs.

While effective managers are valuable to an organization,
the world pays for leadership. Leadership is the highest
paid profession in the world.

Although an implicit objective of all formal management
education is to assist managers to learn from their own
experience, much management education is, in fact,
miseducation because it arrests or distorts the ability of
managerial aspirants to grow as they gain experience.
Fast learners in the classroom often, therefore, become
slow learners in the executive suite because they are not
effective communicators and believe their formal education
entitles them to career advancement opportunities.

Men who hold advanced degrees in management are
among the most sought after of all university graduates.
Measured in terms of starting salaries, they are among the
elite. Perhaps no further proof of the value of management
education is needed. Being highly educated pays in business,
but only initially.

But how much formal education contributes to a manager’s
effectiveness and to his subsequent career progress is
another matter.

The numbers show this simply does not happen.

Professor Lewis B. Ward of the Harvard Business
School has found that the median salaries of graduates
of that institution’s MBA program plateau approximately
15 years after they enter business and, on the average,
do not increase significantly thereafter.1 While the incomes
of those with a general degree continues to rise dramatically,
the career growth of most of them levels off just at the time
men who are destined for top management typically show
their greatest rate of advancement proving the thought that
people rise to their highest level of incompetence.
(The Peter Principal)

Equally revealing is the finding that men who attend
Harvard’s Advanced. Management Program (AMP) after
having had approximately 15 years of business experience,
but who—for the most part—have had no formal education
in management, earn almost a third more, on the average,
than those who hold MBA degrees from Harvard and
other leading business schools.

Thus the arrested career progress of MBA degree
holders strongly suggests that men who get to the
top in management have developed skills that are
not taught in formal management education programs
and may be difficult for many highly educated
men to learn on the job. The ability to communicate
effectively and motivate people seem to be at the top
of this list.

Many business organizations are cutting back their
expenditures for management training just at the
time they most need managers who are able to do
those things that will keep them competitive and
profitable.

But what is taking place is not an irrational exercise
in cost reduction; rather, it is belated recognition by
top management that formal management training and
education is not paying off and cannot replace common
sense, the ability to communicate, and work effectively
with people.

A friend of mine sent me this today, and I thougth our
subscribers would like it, I hope you.

I have talked about the concept of Wistful Regret for
many years. Hot regret is decisions we made in the
momenet, we wish we handn’t.

Wistful regret is when people come to the end of their
life and wish they hand taken more changes, not played
it safe. They wish they had had a dream and went after
it.

START OF EMAIL.
On the first day of school our professor introduced himself
and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already
know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched
my shoulder.

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming
up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being..

She said, ‘Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven
years old. Can I give you a hug?’

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, ‘Of course you
may!’ and she gave me a giant squeeze..

‘Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?’
I asked.

She jokingly replied, ‘I’m here to meet a rich husband, get
married, and have a couple of kids…’

‘No seriously,’ I asked. I was curious what may have
motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

‘I always dreamed of having a college education and now
I’m getting one!’ she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and
shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three
months we would leave class together and talk nonstop.
I was always mesmerized listening to this ‘time machine’
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me..

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon
and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved
to dress up and she revelled in the attention bestowed upon
her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at
our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.
She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she
began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her
three by five cards on the floor.

Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the
microphone and simply said, ‘I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave
up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get
my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.’

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, ‘ We do
not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because
we stop playing.

There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy,
and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humour
every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your
dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and
don’t even know it!

There is a huge difference between growing older and
growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year
and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years
old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year
and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody! Can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or
ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity
in change. Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but
rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear
death are those with regrets..’

She concluded her speech by courageously singing ‘The Rose.’

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out
in our daily lives. At the year’s end Rose finished the college
degree she had begun all those months ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in
tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that
it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word
of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP
IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get. We make
a Life by what we give.

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God
brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Pass this message on to 7 people. You will receive a miracle
tomorrow ( if you don’t think so….look out your window when
you wake in the morning and think about it )

If you choose not, then you refuse to bless someone else.

‘Good friends are like stars….. …..You don’t always see t
hem, but you know they are always there.’