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8 Signs that You Need More Drive At Work

If you want to be successful in your business and career (and who doesn't?), it's important to know whether you're driven at work on a day-to-day basis.  The following are the 8 signs that you are bored at work and need more drive:
  1. You spend more time searching for where to find the cheapest parking for your event after work
  2. You look out at the window and admire the scenery every day, even when it is raining. "This is called living in the moment" as what you would say if being asked what are you staring at.
  3. The problem you find hardest to solve is where and what to have for lunch
  4. You're the first to respond to every group chat. Let's be frank: you are the one that started all but one of the group chats.  
  5. It takes you an hour to read through a short document or excel file
  6. You begin to wonder why the pantry lady is not here today as you seem to visit the pantry every hour
  7. You join your colleagues for smoking breaks, and you don't even smoke!
  8. You are still reading this article instead of preparing for that meeting in an hour
By Andy Ng, Chief Coach and Trainer at Asia Trainers. Andy specialises in Sun Tzu Art of War courses for Sales, Leadership, Human Resource, Finance and Management. Visit him at www.asiatrainers.com 

LEADERSHIP WITH SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR

Succeed in Your Leadership with Art of War wisdom and 36 Stratagems
 
Date: 31 March 2017 March 2 to 5.30 pm
 
Venue : The Plaza 02-346, 7500A Beach Rd (inside Parkroyal Hotel building)   
 
Fee: $298 each, $199 each for 2 & above, $149 each for 5 & above (no GST but with PIC 40% cash back)
 
Sun Tzu (or Sūn Zǐ in pinyin) was a 500 BC Chinese general, military strategist, and author of The Art of War, an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy. Many great leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan study his work and became legendary leaders. Many corporate leaders paid thousands of dollars to attend courses to learn Sun Zi secrets. 
 
We at Asia Trainers believe that you too can learn master his secrets with just two hundred dollars. This is because we take the essence and compile them into a 4-hour course that will leave you with just enough materials to lead your team to greater heights. Since October 2010, we have trained over 1,137 leaders coming from countries including Hong Kong, Japan, Myanmar and even China. 
 
The most valuable lesson out of his 13 chapter of 5,000 words must be found in the 3rd chapter: Win Without Fighting. 
 
As translated from The Art of War: Generally, in war the best thing is to take the enemy state whole and intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. To capture the entire army is better than to destroy it. Hence, to win on hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill.
 
To subdue the enemy without fighting is supreme excellence. In short, win without fighting is the best. 
 
How does it apply to your leadership? 
  1. Enemy here refers to not your enemy but your team that you are leading. 
  2. Take the enemy state whole and intact means you must lead your team wholly with not just their bodies, but also their minds, hearts and spirits. 
  3. Never destroy the bodies, minds, hearts and spirits of your team. So you cannot over-work them for you will be destroying their bodies and minds. You also cannot break their hearts by not delivering on your promises and make them give up on you. Finally, you may destroy their spirits when you unknowingly make them a fool in front of others.
  4.  To win without fighting in leadership is to lead without your team knowing that you are leading them. A leader is at his best when people barely knows he exists, when the work is done, the team will say: we did it ourselves. This is because the leader has empowered the team so much and they have become so competent that they are mini leaders themselves, thus the leader is leading without actually leading them. This must be the highest form of leadership. Lead without Leading. 
  5. If you too want to be a great leader, learn from the master.
 

POWER-PACKED CONTENTS INCLUDE:

  1. Sun Zi Art of War demystified and simplified 
  2. Applying the Five Elements of Sun Zi (Mission, Climate, Ground, Leader and Methods) to your leadership now
  3. How to Know Yourself Know Others per Sun Zi
  4. 36 Stratagems as applied in Leadership
  5. Real Life Cases from Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela
  6. Winning over people using Sun Zi Straight and Odd Stratagems
  7. The Ultimate in Sun Zi: Take the entire Nation (body, mind, heart & spirit)

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