By Reg Scheepers
Leadership books and blogs deal with major attributes of being confident, but I want to consider the finer, often overlooked aspects.
I’ve found in my life that there are times when I just don’t feel confident. I’ll go out sometimes and feel and be confident, and other times I feel self-conscious and weak.
It’s strange and I don’t know why I sometimes feel more confident than other times, but I decided to make it my project. I’ve paid attention when I feel strong and when I feel weak. I’ve also looked at the leaders around me and noticed what they’re doing and I’ve made a few distinctions. Read more »
By Reg Scheepers
Someone who has made a profound impact on my thinking about business is Tom Peters. Tom Peters is my reason, no, my justification for being quite rebellious in my way of doing things in business. Tom Peters and his opinions on the fact that the internet and technology has changed all the old-established rules of the game – is my permission to disagree with people much MUCH! more successful than me.
As a silly example, I think that the big boss having his own holy of holies – his own private office – is total and utter BS! Sure enough, there are things he needs to discuss that can’t become public knowledge before the right time… but what is the board room for? The boardroom is for meetings, the office is for bending the secretary over. Ok, so the office isn’t such a bad idea. Just kidding.
But I digress…
Tom Peters believes that if today’s large corporations don’t DESTROY the way they do things now, and instead re-invent, or RE-IMAGINE their whole way of doing things to take advantage of the Internet and latest technologies, they won’t be here in 20 years time, or at best they will be a mere remnant of their former selves. Read more »
By Reg Scheepers
You’ve read the title: How to Become a Make-It-Happen Person. But I’m almost 100% sure that almost 100% of those who will ever read that headline will not even begin to grasp the immense power and potential that lies in that short phrase.
When I started Corporate Showcase Productions, someone once said “Reg is trying to start a video production business”, and I corrected them, “I’m not trying, I’m doing it.” I actually used stronger language than that because I felt strongly about it, because you see, a Make-It-Happen person aggressively, like a bulldozer, pursues the thing he/she wants to make happen. It doesn’t happen otherwise. Read more »
