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What's Your Secret Sauce?
by Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
(This report is an excerpt from Lee's next book "What's Your Secret Sauce?")
Would you like to know a guaranteed recipe for you and your team to be in the top one-tenth of one percent of all performers? Can you afford not to?
Throughout our lifetime, we grasp at the latest fads and the newest techniques, all with the hope of capturing the magic we see in others who are highly successful. We emulate strong role models, we study, we strive – all to find the real recipe for success.
Ultimately, scientific studies reveal this secret is not necessarily a matter of talent, intelligence, creativity or strategy. As the winds of change continue to stir our world, the recipe for success remains the same. The absolute highest-achieving people and teams, whether they are leaders of themselves or others, continually mix three ingredients into their secret sauce. They:
Although these three ingredients form a timeless recipe for success, real success is found in how each of us mixes up these ingredients to create our own secret sauce.
We all know that McDonald’s has a secret sauce on their Big Mac, but they are not the only ones. Each of us has a secret sauce! Making the recipe our own is what gives it a “kick”, what makes us unique and special…what creates success.
For example, while most girls were playing with dolls or getting ready for their high school proms, Hannah Teeter, 2006 Olympic gold medalist in the half-pipe snowboarding event, was trying to keep up with her four older brothers. She learned whatever they were willing to teach her about snowboarding, and they urged her to “push higher” and “go big.”
After standing atop the highest step on the medalists’ podium in Torino, Italy, Hanna was interviewed by a television commentator. He asked Hannah, “To what do you attribute your gold medal performance at the young age of 19?”
“My ‘secret sauce,’” she said, “is my brothers, having great parents and being able to stay positive about anything and everything that’s come my way. Keeping a positive outlook is definitely key to success on a snowboard or in any competition.”
That’s Hannah’s secret sauce. Now, what's your's?
No doubt, you have mixed your experiences, knowledge and passions to create your own secret sauce... and unique successes. So click here to share your secret sauce.
Who knows, it might end up in my next book, "What's Your Secret Sauce?"
I can't wait to read about it!
Copyright © 2007 by Lee J. Colan
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