Competency and Performance Solutions

Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage. – Arie de Gues

Would I rather be happy than right any day? I don’t think so.  (From Dhenuka Ganesh – taking issue with Douglas Adams.)

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

There is do, or not do, there is no “try”. (Paraphrase of Yoda, Star Wars)

“Clarity is the antidote to anxiety”  (Marcus Buckingham)

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” (Lewis Carol)

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

There are three types of people in this world… Those who can count, and those who can’t.

“When you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said ”

“If what you say is what you feel, that’s sincerity,
“If what you say is what you think, that’s honesty,
“If what you say is what you do, that’s integrity.”

The Suncoast ASTD OD Sig met with Lisa Jacobson, from Univ. of Pennsylvania, who is working with Dr. Martin Seligman, Chairman of the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center.

Lisa’s presentation focused on how the hard science of positive psychology research can help to create:
a. better thinking, judgment, deductive reasoning and creativity
b. durably strong personal and interpersonal climates.

She emphasized that some people still think of positive psychology as “fairy dust and rainbows”, instead of the science-based psychological equivalent of creating good physical health, and taking research-proven preventative measures to maintain it.

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