http://zenhabits.net/2007/08/
five-great-ways-to-achieve-happiness-through-serving-others/
Five Great Ways to Achieve Happiness Through Serving Others
This guest post was written by Stephen Smith, editor and publisher at Business Development in Context.
*** begin quote ***
4. Keep your promises. You can create an atmosphere of service simply by doing the things that you say you will do. Dependability and punctuality are the hallmarks of the service-oriented individual. When people can trust you it creates happiness all around.
*** end quote ***
Creating trust is a common failure I see in IT all the time. Just today, I was trying to explain why a team’s participation was need in a group effort. All I heard was that the subteam didn’t feel they were getting value out of the effort. No concern over the grou[‘s perception that they were “mia” and not part of the team. I’m not sure if I got thru the self-centered objection. Sigh!
I’m going to be better at D ‘n’ P.
p.s.: oops, almost said “try”!
# # # # #
Reinke Faces Life 