“It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting themselves in the foot - why aid someone else in creating a competitive advantage? I don't look at it that way. Helping someone else look good doesn't make me look worse. In fact, it often improves my own performance, particularly in stressful situations.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingLooksEnoughFactsHelpingMy OwnSituationFeetSucceedCreatingAdvantagePerformancesCompetitionAidsHelping OthersShootingStressfulStreaksCompetitive AdvantageHelping SomeoneStressful Situations Author:Chris Hadfield
“The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.” WorldShouldRealHelpingCausesCasesGroupsDisciplineCreatingResearchConnectionsPerformancesManagementInvestmentFinancialSatisfactionObviousProductivityTreatedCorporateBridgesEmployeeGapsReal WorldOfficersUsualMarketplaceResearchersInvestigatorsNotchesTop Notch Author:Sean Sullivan
“Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.” PeopleGivingDoneJobsEnergyResultsProduceInspireEasierCreatingCommitmentPerformancesExcellenceExtraordinaryPermissionGet The Job Done Author:Douglas Conant
“If there is genuine potential for growth, build capacity in advance of demand, as a strategy for creating demand. Hold the vision, especially as regards assessing key performance and evaluating whether capacity to meet potential demand is adequate.” IfsGrowthVisionKeysDemandCreatingCapacityPerformancesRegardStrategyGenuineAdequateAssessing Author:Peter Senge
“I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.” PeopleRealSoulCharacterActorsDramaCreatingPerformancesIncrediblesChemistryBrotherhoodTwistsEnsembleCreating A Family Author:David Ayer
“I definitely wanted to pay homage to what he did and use his performance in the first one as a foundation. But, I had to make it my own. I couldn't sit there and try to imitate Michael Clarke Duncan. I think that would have been disastrous. I had to make it my own. I tried to take as many nuances that he had with the character and utilize them as best I could, while creating a character that was unique to me. That's going to happen, no matter what.” ThinkingTryingFirstsHas BeensMatterCharacterUseHappensWantedMy OwnPayCreatingUniquePerformancesNo Matter WhatFoundationNuanceHomageDuncan Author:Dennis Haysbert
“I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances.” CareFansCreatingPerformancesVideoI Care Author:Steve Grand
“Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.” ArtGoalLevelsAchieveInspireCreatingPerformancesClimateExtraordinaryInspire Others Author:John Michael Montgomery
“Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling.” ThinkingGivingHelpingFeelingsWalkingCreatingIllusionPerformancesSpotsSpontaneousBack And Forth Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.” CreatingPerformancesTapeCreating Music Author:Paul Lansky
“When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it's a different sort of performance.” WritingTryingDifferentRealityVoiceFictionCreatingPerformancesCastsSpellsWriting Fiction Author:Darryl Pinckney
“Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and having discipline, but not prescribing what the performance was supposed to be. Neither of them are really directing their actors into a performance.” ActorsProcessFocusDisciplineCreatingUniquePerformancesMoodSupposed To BeNaturalistIntentionalityPrescribing Author:Sam Pressman
“If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.” IfsWayTryingDifferentProblemAnswersKnownCreatingPerformancesOperationsSomething NewEnginesExecutionRight WayRight AnswersCreating Something Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.” IfsMomentsCharacterChoicesActorsActingFrontsEmotionalPlanetsSceneDirectorsCreatingPerformancesCamerasTranslateApesFacialAnimator Author:Andy Serkis
“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.” MenSaidHumorPoetCreatingPerformancesBlindRidiculousDrivingReasonableSense Of HumorCravingPostureSinister Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)