格闘技

　　オバマ大統領は２０１１年８月２５日、「国際的組織犯罪に対する戦略」を発表し、国境をまたいだ犯罪で収益を上げる組織に金融制裁を科す大統領令に署名した。金融制裁の対象とされた犯罪組織は、イタリアのマフィア組織やメキシコの麻薬密売組織、旧ソ連圏を拠点とする犯罪組織、それに日本の「ヤクザ」の４組織だ。これは、アメリカ国内で蔓延している麻薬問題が発端だそうです。

　　日本の芸能人がヤクザと関係があるという理由で引退したり、格闘技が急に放送されなくなったのも、そこらへんと関係があるのだそうです。

　　しかし、格闘技TVで見たいな。 

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

• 作者: Marshall Goldsmith
• 出版社/メーカー: Profile Books Ltd
• 発売日: 2008/02/09
• メディア: ペーパーバック

   I read this book in Japanese in 4 yaers ago , which was very insightful. He said we have 20 bad habits.

  http://nasser.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2008-03-26

   Yes, habit#4 "Making destructive comments" can be applied to me.When I asked my wife to point out my bad habits, she pointed it as a first one.

   Destructive comments are the cutting sarcastic remarks we spew out daily, with or without intention, that serve no other purpose than to put people down,hurt them, or assert ourselves as their superiors. They are different from comments that add too much value - because they add nothing but pain.

  Habit #14 "Playing favorites" also becomes a trap for us.

  "At home,who gets most of your unabashed affection? Is it your husband, wife or partner; your kids; or  your dog?" More than 80% of the time, the winner is the dog because the dog gives you unconditional love, no matter what I do, in other words, the dog is a suck-up.  

  Leaders can stop encouraging this behavior by first admitting that we all have a tendency to favor those who favor us, even if we don't mean to.

• 1.Winning Too Much: The need to win at all costs and in all situations—when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point.
• 2.Adding Too Much Value: The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion. The problem is, you may have improved the content of my idea by 5%,but you've reduced my commitment to executing it by 50%,because you've taken away my ownership of the idea. My idea is now your idea.
• 3.Passing Judgment: The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.
• 4.Making Destructive Comments: The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.
• 5.Starting with “No,” “But,” or “However”: The overuse of these qualifiers, which secretly say to everyone, “I’m right. You’re wrong.”
• 6.Telling the World How Smart We Are: The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are.
• 7.Speaking When Angry: Using emotional volatility as a management tool.
• 8.Negativity: The need to share our negative thoughts, even when we weren’t asked.
• 9.Withholding Information: The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others.
• 10.Failing to Give Proper Recognition: The inability to praise and reward.
• 11.Claiming Credit We Don’t Deserve: The most annoying way to overestimate our contribution to any success.
• 12.Making Excuses: The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture so people excuse us for it.
• 13.Clinging to the Past: The need to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past; a subset of blaming everyone else.
• 14.Playing Favorites: Failing to see that we are treating someone unfairly.
• 15.Refusing to Express Regret: The inability to take responsibility for our actions, admit we’re wrong, or recognize how our actions affect others.
• 16.Not Listening: The most passive-aggressive form of disrespect for colleagues.
• 17.Failing to Express Gratitude: The most basic form of bad manners.
• 18.Punishing the Messenger: The misguided need to attack the innocent, who are usually only trying to protect us.
• 19.Passing the Buck: The need to blame everyone but ourselves.
• 20.An Excessive Need to Be “Me”: Exalting our faults as virtues simply because they exemplify who we are.

　If you can measure it, you can achieve it.

  Memo to staff how to handle me.

  The 95-year-old you understands what was really important and what wasn't, what mattered and what didn't. What advice would this wise "old you" have for the "you" ?

From Publishers Weekly

Goldsmith, an executive coach to the corporate elite, pinpoints 20 bad habits that stifle already successful careers as well as personal goals like succeeding in marriage or as a parent. Most are common behavioral problems, such as speaking when angry, which even the author is prone to do when dealing with a teenage daughter's belly ring. Though Goldsmith deals with touchy-feely material more typical of a self-help book—such as learning to listen or letting go of the past—his approach to curing self-destructive behavior is much harder-edged. For instance, he does not suggest sensitivity training for those prone to voicing morale-deflating sarcasm. His advice is to stop doing it. To stimulate behavior change, he suggests imposing fines (e.g., $10 for each infraction), asserting that monetary penalties can yield results by lunchtime. While Goldsmith's advice applies to everyone, the highly successful audience he targets may be the least likely to seek out his book without a direct order from someone higher up. As he points out, they are apt to attribute their success to their bad behavior. Still, that may allow the less successful to gain ground by improving their people skills first. (Jan. 2)

 

He has his own web site. Check it up.

http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/

31 books in 2012