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Y#59 February 1, 2017<br />
Window for action loving<br />
PROFESSIONALS<br />
LEARNING<br />
to be a<br />
SMART<br />
Person<br />
They make smart decisions.<br />
Smart people know their actions have consequences. They<br />
also know that they have to earn business results one<br />
decision at a time. In other words, a few smart calls won’t<br />
make you omnipotent. Consistently making good decisions<br />
takes discipline and focus.<br />
They learn from their mistakes.<br />
From our first steps to our last, we learn everything in life<br />
by trial and error. We all make mistakes because that’s how<br />
we learn. Smart people learn from theirs. After all, if you<br />
don’t face reality and judge yourself honestly, you’ll never<br />
do better next time.<br />
They don’t have all the answers.<br />
There’s an old saying, “Those of you who think you know<br />
everything are annoying to those of us who do.” It’s a funny<br />
line but if you say it in earnest, that’s pretty annoying.<br />
Smart people don’t need to constantly reinforce the fact by<br />
acting like know-it-alls. They’re smart enough to know how<br />
much they don’t know.<br />
They surround themselves with smart people.<br />
No man is an island. Individuals may be smart but small<br />
teams do the best work. Steve Jobs may have been a<br />
control freak, but he made sure the eight or nine people on<br />
his leadership team were the most talented he could find<br />
and taught them to do the same with their teams. That’s<br />
smart.<br />
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