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Saturday, May 21, 2005


This week's featured woman entrepreneur is Saj-nicole Joni, CEO, Cambridge International Group Ltd. (Boston, MA), a business consulting organization.

about Saj-nicole Joni and Cambridge International Group Limited
Cambridge International Group Ltd. (www.cambridgeinternationalgroup.com) is an organization dedicated to serving the advisory needs of leaders with significant responsibilities and challenges. Founded in 1997 by Dr. Saj-nicole A. Joni, Cambridge International Group has been carefully designed to offer world class exponential thinking partnerships in a context of high structural trust. Cambridge International Group's clients include leaders across the globe in Fortune 200 companies, in highly innovative smaller companies, in governments, and in non-profit organizations. CEO Saj-nicole Joni, Ph.D. is an internationally known business strategist and Third Opinion adviser to senior executives and high-potential leaders, providing insight into high stakes issues at the intersection of strategy, action and complexity. Read The Third Opinion: How Successful Leaders Use Outside Insight to Create Superior Results by Dr. Saj-nicole Joni, available through www.barnesandnoble.com.


Saj-nicole's Top 10 Tips


Saj-nicole's tips this week offer ideas about how to helicopter to the top - a map for sustaining results, when results matter.

1. Helicopter Up
Make sure that you know what the big picture looks like. Look in the rear view mirror and out the windshield. Identify the key challenges that you and your organization will be facing in the coming months. Understand your company's place in the world today and consider what it needs to do to thrive in the world tomorrow. Ask yourself: "Given all that I'm doing, what really matters?"

2. Boost Your Inner Circle Horsepower
Commit to upping your thinking. Just as in golf or tennis, decide that you are going to "play up" this year. Seek out and secure a provocative thinker for your inner circle - someone whom you respect and can bring independence, knowledge and new perspectives to your deliberative process. Someone who will tell you the truth and who doesn't have a vested interest in your decisions. You may need to develop a thick skin and summon the courage necessary to ask people whom you don't know well important questions, but you'll be surprised how many people will be willing to help you out. And then make time for them - it's worth it.

3. Invest in Your Team
A few great people can shift the performance of many. Put superstars in the "game-breaker" positions in your organization, and give them room to lead by example. Make sure they want to go where you are leading.

4. Develop Your Curiosity
A good leader is a curious leader. It can be difficult to explore all the areas that strike your interest particularly when you are under pressure to perform, but it is vital that you make time to engage your natural curiosity. Curious leaders want to know more than just how to get something done. They thrive on understanding underlying principles and on comprehending where and when these principles apply - or don't apply.

5. Broaden Your Line of Sight
We live in a vast world that is increasingly just a key stroke away. Who are you talking to that sees the world in ways you don't, and what is about you that makes them want to tell you what you what they are seeing?

6. Know Your Moral Compass
You are going to have to make a lot of decisions in the "grey-zone," where something isn't fully right or fully wrong. Excesses in one decade are prosecutable events just a few years later. In the end, you are accountable for your actions - so develop your own moral compass, and even if there is pressure to do otherwise, stick to it. And don't go it alone. Make sure there's someone you look up to and trust who will be there for you when you need it.

7. Don't Be Stymied by Your Own Hype
We now live in the era of the twenty-four hour news cycle driven by an insatiably hungry press. In a networked organization, personal press is part of scooping the competition. But remember that the press is always about spin. As personal marketing becomes a larger part of professional life, you need to be careful. Personal press and personal branding are important, but they're antithetical to winning thinking, especially if you start to believe all of your own press!

8. Commit to Mentoring
No one ever wins big alone. Share the lessons that you have learned with others. Look for at least two of the most promising untapped talents in your organization and plan regular conversations with these people. Being a resource to them will bring you value, too: don't forget to listen to what they will teach you.

9. Audit Yourself
Time to get honest. Ask yourself: "What do I really know about myself?" One of the hallmarks of great executives is that no matter how good they are, they are always learning, always committed to getting better. Perform an honest inventory of your strengths and weaknesses and develop a realistic, attainable plan of self-improvement. How can you focus to play to your strengths? Where can your Inner Circle advisors have the most impact in helping you achieve optimal results?

10. Seek Inspiration
Winners lead by focusing their heart, mind and energy in the same direction. You can't do this unless you surround yourself with people who deeply inspire you. Reach out to someone whose life and work you find inspiring and make them part of your team. Don't underestimate the importance of inspiration - it's not a luxury - it's the fuel that enables you and your people to do more than you ever thought possible.


Contact Information

Dr. Saj-nicole A. Joni, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Cambridge International Group Ltd.
www.cambridgeinternationalgroup.com
617.491.4098

A big thanks to Saj-nicole for her wise words.


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