making mergers work: special report [ebook]
…j. aquila bill reeb, cpa, citp, cgma, is ceo and co-founder of succession institute llc. reeb has been consulting for three decades to all sizes of businesses, from mom and…
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how to be assertive while harmonizing
don’t be someone else’s rug.
by bill reeb
in the ’70s, there was a big movement in business culture to learn to be more assertive, aptly called “assertiveness training.” michaelle was quick to enroll because this was an important skill set to call upon, especially with many women moving into jobs that had historically been held by men (michaelle was a systems engineer with ibm during this period). the concept was simple: “you need to speak your mind, ask for what you want, demand what is fair and don’t let yourself be a rug for everyone to step on.”
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in our early years working at ibm together, when one of the secretaries needed to step away or take a break, she would often come over to michaelle and ask her to cover with typing, answering the phone and so on. in addition to the fact that she held the professional job of being a systems specialist, michaelle also had earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and an mba with a concentration in accounting. i just had a bachelor’s degree in business – far less educated – yet no one ever asked me to fill in.
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do you give yourself too much credit?
probably. here’s how to change your ways.
by bill reeb
“focus on changing you” is an important technique to embrace. for your life to change in a meaningful way, it is about you changing – not anyone else.
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while this sounds cliché, it is absolutely true. as a consultant, i work with organizations helping them with everything from improving operating processes to succession. because every project i am involved in requires me to deal with a number of different personalities, if i want the client to achieve a successful outcome, it becomes critical for our team members to understand the following premise:
change occurs when you change!
how to focus your priorities
what is the best use of your time right now?
by bill reeb
all of us, no matter what our income, gender, race, religion, origin, have the same amount of time – 24 hours in a day, 365 days in a year. each of us has the same capacity. the question is how we use it.
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for most of us, you can carve out roughly 3,000 of those hours for sleep. even if you don’t need eight hours, you need some time to sleep, and that number cuts a big hole into your available capacity.
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why clash when you can harmonize?
put another way, are you a box or a funnel?
by bill reeb
a college professor i know has had a difficult time harmonizing as his approach always escalated to clashing and resisting. and no, this isn’t a story about michaelle in disguise, but someone else i had the pleasure of getting to know.
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he had a definite approach to teaching and was good at it. he believed in setting very high standards for his students and passing only those who achieved a specific level of excellence.
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rely on strengths … but not too much
don’t let them become weaknesses.
by bill reeb
while there are many lessons in martial arts that repeat themselves, the idea that a strength can also become a weakness is a commonly recurring one.
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but it doesn’t make sense – how could a strength ever be bad? well, here are a couple of examples.
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increase your odds of success
shrink the gap between strengths and weaknesses.
by bill reeb
there are many self-development books and advisors that proclaim that you should focus on your strengths, develop your strengths and don’t worry about your weaknesses.
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this is a great story to tell because it is one everyone wants to hear. who wants to be told that they should work on what they feel inadequate about in themselves or their abilities? in other words, it is easy to get people pumped up about spending time concentrating on what they do well and discard what they do poorly and leave it for someone else.
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make tension work for you
it impacts performance, so use it.
by bill reeb
your best comes through, especially when you are calling upon fine motor skills, when you are relaxed. too much tension can quickly impact your mental, physical and emotional acuity.
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what i am referring to is finding the right level of tension to support performance at a heightened level. the problem is that there is a fine line between tension that pumps you up and tension that starts to drag you down.
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