Peak performance. Becoming the best you can be. Fast Track Management Guide: Š MBA 2008
Mark Butcher
An MBA Fast Track Management Guide
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Peak performance. Becoming the best you can be. Fast Track Management Guide: Š MBA 2008
Contents Introduction
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What’s holding you back?
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First -decide what you want
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The power of the subconscious mind
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Programme your sub consciousness for success
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Modelling Peak Performance behaviours
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Visualisation: The key to using your whole brain to succeed
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More things Peak Performers do
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Are you feeling lucky?
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Further reading
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About the author
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Peak performance. Becoming the best you can be. Fast Track Management Guide: © MBA 2008
Introduction About MBA
MBA, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, is one of the U.K.'s leading providers of training, consultancy and information to voluntary, community and statutory sector organisations. In the past 14 years we have worked with hundreds of organisations across Europe, Africa and the U.S.A. including the National Trust in London, the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam and the Carmichael Centre in Dublin. Our mission is to enable not-for-profit organisations and the individuals within them to exceed expectations and operate at a higher level.
About MBA Fast Track Management Guides Each Fast Track Guide is designed to give you a quick overview of a specific management issue, covering all of the points and issues.
Other titles in the series include:
21 Ways to Manage Your Time
The 10 Golden Rules of Not-for-Profit Marketing
An Introduction To Project Management
The Magic Circle – Strategic Planning for Nonprofits
Influencing and Negotiating Skills
High Impact Presentation Skills
Fundraising
Leading Your Team
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Peak performance. Becoming the best you can be. Fast Track Management Guide: Š MBA 2008
About this Management Guide There are two ways to benefit from this publication. You can read it from cover to cover (we have kept it nice and short to help you). This will give you access to all of the key ideas, themes and issues related to the subject.
If you have more time though, you can work through the exercises, apply the learning to your own organisation and share your thinking with colleagues. Although this will demand more time, we strongly believe it will give you better results and real solutions to your specific challenges.
Taking your learning further You can find full details of the publications, training, consultancy services and information resources available from MBA Consulting at www.mba-consulting.co.uk.
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Peak performance. Becoming the best you can be. Fast Track Management Guide: © MBA 2008
What’s holding you back?
In every cry of every Man ‘N every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ I hear William Blake
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Bob Marley
Will you fulfil your potential? When life’s race has been run, will we look back Everyone one of us will succeed in life. Some will
and conclude that we achieved everything we
be successful financially. Others will find their
could, did everything we wanted to do and made
perfect partner. Some will find deep satisfaction
the right choices? Or will we look back, sigh and
in their work. Others will take huge joy from their
mutter under our last dying breath ’oh bugger’.
children and make parenting their life’s focus. Maybe you’ve learned to play the guitar, cook, or
For most of us it will probably be a bit of both.
paint. Or maybe you will run a marathon, climb a
Yes, we will have success and many triumphant
mountain or travel to places you could only dream
moments in life. But will we fulfil all of our
of as a child. Or then again, you might simply
potential and become the best we can possibly
amass many loyal and caring friends.
be? For most people the answer is ‘probably not’.
But life will also have its disappointments. Jobs we go for and don’t get. Relationships that end badly. Friends that fade away. Money problems and many other personal and professional frustrations.
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