This is a follow-up on my post about MaryEllen Tribby's excellent Success Indicators. Here's my version of MaryEllen's Success Indicators.
Successful People | Unsuccessful People |
Sense of gratitude | Sense of entitlement |
Inspires respect | Demands respect |
Exude joy and enthusiasm | Exude anger and fear |
Embrace change and differences | Fear change and differences |
Active learner (eg reading) | Passive consumer (TV) |
Self-reflective (eg journaling) | Self-ignorant |
Unwavering ideals and values | Malleable ideals and values |
Long term goals and life plans | Short term, often vainglorious plans |
Forgive and seek resolution in conflicts | Hold grudges and seek revenge |
Value themselves and others equally | Value only themselves; or only others (martyr syndrome) |
Accept responsibility for own mistakes | Blame others for everything (victim) |
Give credit readily and genuinely | Take all the credit; with hubris |
Talk about ideas | Talk about people |
Share ideas, information and data | Horde ideas, information and data |
Willing to learn from others; being right is not important | Think they know it all; has to be right every time |
Want others to succeed | Want others to fail |
Compliment others to build them up | Criticize others to cut them down |
Empathetic and open | Quick to judge and dismiss others |
Focus on contributing and making a difference (transformational) | Focus on personal gain and profit (transactional) |
Embrace hard work; get off on working smart | Avoid hard work; get off on cheating |
Focus on the work; get things done | Perception over substance; create the illusion of getting things done (eg lying on CV) |
What do you think?
