Articles by Joe Farcht

1) How To Select the Right Person For The Right Position
Critical to business success is selecting the right people, especially executives, managers and supervisors, for leading and managing the work that needs to be done. Selecting someone ill-suited can cost tens of thousands of dollars and much wasted time. Mistakes are made when a rigorous selection process is not used. Often, the selection process consists of a relatively few questions sometimes... » read more

2) Who is Responsible For Your Working Environment?
Have you ever walked into a workplace and literally felt heaviness in the air? It was as though fear were the predominant emotion permeating the atmosphere. People only did what they were told, never showed initiative, avoided problems, and engaged in lots of finger pointing. Gossip was rampant and verbally bashing others and the company was a constant pastime. This kind of workplace atmosphere does... » read more

3) Eight Techniques for Happiness, Joy and Mental Ease
Attitude is a habit of thought. Every second your five senses are bombarded with millions of bits of data. Since it's impossible to process that much data, your brain has created well worn neural pathways, or patterns of interpretation, to process repetitive data sets. Those patterns filter the incoming data and make it possible to form an understanding of the world from historical repetitive... » read more

4) What Are You Thinking About Today?
We are all born with a physical body which is ready to sustain life. As we grow and mature throughout childhood, we develop into a fully functioning physical human being. Yet, having a fully functioning physical body is only half of the life equation. The other half is the programming needed to make it function. That programming half is obtained through learning from our experiences as we grow up. » read more

5) What's The Quick Fix to Developing Effective Leadership?
Everyone wants a quick fix. Wouldn't you like it if I could just tell you the secret to developing more effective leadership and you could be an effective leader right now? You know -- make it quick and sweet and get it done today! Well, here's the truth: I can and I can't! Here's the "I Can" Part There is an exact process to developing more effective leadership. And it's not complicated! ... » read more

6) You Deserve to Work and Live with Passion!
Passion is an intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction. It can be fear-based, as in anger. Or love-based as with intensely positive feelings. The greatest joy and happiness you will ever experience occurs when you are passionate about your work and the life you are living. A person working in their area of passion is completely absorbed by it. Time flies by quickly and there is... » read more

7) Get Paid More and Promoted Faster
Everyone wants to get paid more and promoted faster. It is just human nature. But who knows what they must do to be recognized as a high performer worthy of being paid more and promoted faster? There are many things you can do and I've chosen to share three with you. Develop Good Work Habits Most people are time wasters not because they deliberately waste time but because they have picked-up poor... » read more

8) Change is The Only Constant. Here's How to Master It!
Change surrounds us and is unrelenting. All a person needs to do is walk into an electronics store and survey all the new gadgets available for purchase. We are constantly bombarded by advertising and marketing telling us of the improvements and benefits of new products and services. Reflecting back on the past and comparing 20 years ago to now, you find that some almost unbelievable changes have... » read more

9) You Deserve To Experience Outrageous Success. Here's How To Get It!
Practice a behavior once and find out how it's done. Repeat the behavior once more and you correct some mistakes. Practice it a third time and start to feel more comfortable. The fourth time you start to feel a little confident. Practice it six more times and start to build mastery. What's so hard about mastering new skills that will bring you greater success? Fear of never having behaved in that... » read more

10) Managing Time and Activities
The mechanics and techniques for managing your time and activities are very simple and well known. A good book to review the tools and techniques of time and activity management is 'Building Personal Leadership: Inspirational Tools and Techniques for Work and Life'. What is not so simple are the underlying beliefs, attitudes, and motivations of different types of individuals as they learn to use... » read more

11) Parents, Why Develop Personal Leadership
As a parent of two grown boys, I did my best, but I could have done better. I learned from my experience. I have a wonderful granddaughter with whom I practice personal leadership and it works. I must admit though, that she teaches me. I am going to share with you powerful thoughts about modeling, understanding personality differences, and encouraging children to follow their passion in service to... » read more

12) In Search of Wisdom
Long ago, a man asked for just one thing. He did not ask for riches, a fabulous life, material possessions, or anything of this world, but he asked for wisdom. When the gift of wisdom was bestowed upon him, all those worldly things materialized. That man's name was King Solomon, the richest man to ever live. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet's wealth are not even close to what King Solomon enjoyed. The... » read more

13) Learning and Growth or Fear of Failure
Little children have no fears and explore the world with wild abandon. As they mature they are taught and learn to respect and even fear experiencing some life situations and activities. Often they develop the thought that to try something new and failing is embarrassing and uncomfortable and should not be attempted. That learned fear of failure then prevents them from exploring new parts of their world... » read more

14) Responding to Your Thinking
What You Think: What you think influences what you see. What you think influences what you do. What you think greatly affects your experience. What you think determines what you learn. What you think makes work and life easy or hard. What you think creates wonderful or broken relationships. What you think determines the quality of your life. What you think controls what you manifest into your life. ... » read more

15) Building Personal Leadership - Planning Needed
The Perfect Time for Planning: December is the perfect time to review your year's goals and accomplishments noting the progress you have made. It is also the perfect time to fine tune your Vision, Purpose, Mission, Values and create a Goal Plan for the coming New Year. This article will describe how you can accomplish this important activity. Why Have Vision, Purpose, Mission, and Value Statements:... » read more