Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

YOUR POTENTIAL 
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Here is the next question: “What 
should
your competitive advantage
be?” If you could be absolutely outstanding in any one area, what
should it be? If you’re not sure, go and ask your boss or your co-
workers. Ask them,
“If I was really, really good in any one skill, what
one skill would have the greatest positive impact on my results?”
You usually know the answer to this question as soon as you ask
it. If you are in doubt about the one skill that could help you the
most, ask for advice and input from others. The people around you,
especially your boss, can usually tell you quite quickly the answer to
this question.
Once you have the answer, you set the development of that skill
as your new goal or target to aim at. You change your thinking in a
very positive way in that area, and you begin to imagine that you
have the ability to be absolutely outstanding in that one area. You
write it down, set a deadline, make a plan, and go to work on im-
proving yourself in that area. In no time at all, you will begin to de-
velop the winning edge in your job that will enable you to move
ahead of the crowd.
■
FIRE THE STAFF
Some companies today are taking their people through an exercise
that can be quite traumatic to their employees. They call everyone
together, and then they 
fire
the entire staff. They announce that they