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Rhino Capture Experience
Enjoy a memorable experience performing a world class once-in-a-lifetime intimate conservation activity, being part of a game capture team, catching and tagging an adult Rhino. This activity forms an integral part of the Moditure Group offering which can be tailored to suit the needs of our clients.
Source: Michael E. Porter
What is Strategy?
For almost two decades, managers have been learning to play by a new set of rules. Companies must be flexible to respond rapidly to competitive and market changes. They must benchmark continuously to achieve best practice. They must outsource aggressively to gain efficiencies. And they must nurture a few core competencies in the race to stay ahead of rivals. Positioning - once the heart of strategy - is rejected as too static for today's dynamic markets and changing technologies. According to the new dogma, rivals can quickly copy any market position, and competitive advantage is, at best, temporary.
Source: Senge, Peter M
Personal Mastery
"Personal mastery" is the phrase used for the discipline of personal growth and learning. People with high levels of personal mastery are continually expanding their ability to create the results in life they truly seek. From their quest for continual learning comes the spirit of the learning organization. When personal mastery becomes a discipline - an activity we integrate into our lives - it embodies two underlying movements. The first is continually clarifying what is important to us. We often spend too much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.
Source: FORTUNE Magazine
I want a revolution
"I want a revolution," Jack Welch told another General Electric executive just after the company revealed Welch would be its next CEO. He got what he wanted soon enough. Looking back from our high-tech, information-driven era, it may seem surprising that the chief of one of America's biggest, oldest companies emerged as the leading management revolutionary of the century. But it shouldn't be. To see why Welch wanted - needed - a revolution, you have to remember the sorry state of the world when this driven, intense 45-year-old got his job: On the December day in 1980 when GE announced his promotion, the prime rate rose to 21.5%; the economy was coming out of one recession and was about to drop into another; and the Dow was at 937, a level it had first reached 15 years earlier. Stocks had just come through their worst decade since the '30s.
Source: Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit.
Influence - A case study
The Greek philosophy of influence called ethos, pathos, logos, is an excellent summary of the process of increasing your influence. Ethos basically means your ethical nature, your personal credibility, the amount of trust or confidence others have in your integrity and competency. When people consistently come through in a principle-centered way on those things they have promised and what is expected of them, they have ethos. SQ (Spiritual Quotient). Pathos is empathy - it's the feeling side. It means that you understand how another person feels, what his needs are, how she sees things, and what he is trying to communicate - and she feels it. EQ (Emotional Quotient).
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Group Training Manager: Roger Smyth
"Of all the initiatives I have been involved with, one of the most rewarding has been the series of workshops which were run by Sean Donnelly on Career Strategy using the book 10 degrees to North, it is different and the response from those who attended was AMAZING. In a very real way many lives were changed and individuals took charge of their own careers."
It will stay with them for a very long time.