Mauro Libi Crestani: Positive thinking helps solve problems

By Mauro Libi Crestani. Some readers have asked me if all successful business leaders have always been icons of positive thinking. My opinion is that many of them have, but there are others who approached their career goals with an attitude of "I can do it."

So is the power of positive thinking  the key to success?

I refer to research by Barbara Fredrickson, a professor of psychology who has written extensively about positivity. That research and have played in other entries in this blog. Fredrickson found that those with positive thoughts have a greater ability to take into account new information. Positive thinking perspective and improves the ability to "connect the dots", which allows optimistic people to cope with the problems and obstacles with a different attitude that usually allows them to win.

The reality is that positive thinkers have more energy. If you see things in a positive or negative way, this personality trait called dispositional effect. Scientists have concluded that the dispositional positive effect on people creates more energy and enthusiasm than negative.

Positivity build resilience

Very few entrepreneurs reach success with your first idea or business project. Often there are many failures and errors behind a thriving business. The good news is that studies have shown that positivity can help you become stronger. Fredrickson states that "... positive emotions help speed recovery from negative emotions," even he says that positive thinking can be self-generating.

Positive thinking improves decision-making

It is logical that if you're in a negative mood, it is less likely to make decisions that can have a positive impact. This is highlighted in the book: Understanding the entrepreneurial mind, which states that "negative thinking entrepreneurs results in a negative mood that could lead them to make decisions affecting the production capacity of the company."

Positivity is contagious ... Even in the workplace

The same book also highlights that employers with a positive attitude who have direct contact with customers are more likely to persuade them to try a new product. This is because positivity is contagious.

Some say it is because the act of being positive toward another person releases the chemical oxytocin in the blood of the recipient and others say that it is our 'mirror neurons' cause actions to replicate those who interact with us. In the case of the latter, it is worth remembering that if you are a leader or team manager this also means that words and actions can be negative as infectious as well.

Positive thinking is nothing without positive action

Research published in a book published in 2014 by Gabriele Oettingen, ensures that only think positively about the possible positive results is not enough to make the dream come true or desired, it is necessary for the realization of positive action, which produces a power conditioning.

In other words, positive thinking (or dreaming) alone will be ineffective if conscious action does not occur.

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Mauro Libi Crestani: “Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.”, quote by Corrie Ten Boom.

By Mauro Libi Crestani. Corrie and her family  accomplished more than most. They were Dutch and when the Nazi’s took over their country during World War II, they built a safe house to hide Jews and to save whom they could.   On February 28 1944, the nazis raided their house and arrested the entire Ten Boom family. They were first sent to prison and then to a concentration camp.  Corrie’s mom told her to instill a positive attitude within her to survive the camp, “There is no pit so deep, that he is not deeper still”. The family were strong believers in God, but the message was clear. There is no prison and situation so bad that they are not stronger than. Corrie was released from the camp ten months later by a clerical error. She was left penny less, yet her attitude was one of hope….

”God does not have problems for me – only plans.”.

After the war, she set up a rehab center in the Netherlands. She travelled the world as a public speaker, appearing in more than 60 countries. During this time, she wrote many books, several which became films.

She was to receive many awards for her heroic deeds. She was also knighted by the Queen in honor of her work during the war. In Harlem a museum is named after her. There is also a woman’s college in NYC names after her.

Anna Frank was also from the Netherlands during World War II. She was jewish and had to go into hiding when she was just 9 years old. Her end came a few years later when she was killed in a concentration camp. Each and everyday she had to keep hidden in a small room. She was never allowed to have friends or go outside, at any moment she could have been found and killed. How did a girl her age mentally survive all that time in hiding? She keep a diary and believe it or not, she keep hope alive with her positive attitude. 

“The great news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” 

Hopefully none of us will every have to be in such circumstances as Anna Frank . If you read her diary, you will see just how a positive attitude can help one through the worst of times and circumstance. In normal everyday life, a positive attitude could bring one to their full potential. It is only when they give up that all is lost. By Mauro Libi Crestani.

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Mauro Libi Crestani: Companies are beginning to compete to change the world for the better

A quiet corporate revolution is underway. Companies are beginning to compete to change the world for the better. The drive for profit, often criticized for coming at society’s expense, is driving and enabling solutions to many of the world’s most challenging problem

In the past companies ignored the social and environmental consequences of their activities. Their main responsibility was delivering returns to shareholders. The better ones would do some charity and that was their extent that they did for society.  

These days there is a new corporate revolution taking place. Corporations are partnering with the communities of the world. They are working together to make real changes in the world. From everything that includes, improving health in poor communities to job training and opportunities, environmental issues, the list goes on and on. BANPLUS, BANPLUS VENEZUELA, CADIVI, VENEZUELA, CENCOEX, DIRECTOR PRINCIPAL DE BANPLUS, GOBIERNO DE CHÁVEZ, GOBIERNO DE MADURO, INVERSIONES 4528, MAURO LIBI CRESTANI, RECADI, RUSAD, SICAD, SICAD 2

Companies like these see societal problems as opportunities for business innovation and competitive advantage. Companies are finding new opportunities to partner with nonprofits and governments to achieve these shared-value objectives. The ability to profit and at the same time to  make real changes in our communities on a local and global scale. Fortune magazine came up with a 'Change the World List'.   This list is not a ranking of who has made a bigger change or given more, it a list of stories how companies team up with governments and individuals to help the world. The goal here is simply to shine a spotlight on instances where companies are doing good as part of their profit-making strategy, and to shed new light on the power of capitalism to improve the human condition. 

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Mauro Libi Crestani: Positive attitude can help you to arise your success

Positive attitude is the reason that a country like United States exist. There were times during the revolutionary war when it looked like George Washington was going to lose the war to the British. yet, he persisted and kept a positive attitude. "We should never despair our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If new difficulties arise we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times."  

Negative attitude can be so destructive it can destroy one's life and sometimes bring down a country or government. Richard Nixon was paranoid, he believed that people were always out to harm him. This attitude hurt what otherwise may have been considered a great presidency. In 1962 Nixon ran for the California governorship and lost. He made this promise,  "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore..."  

When Richard Nixon ran for re election for the presidency in 1972, he won by 20 million votes and 520 to 17 in the electoral college. He won almost every state. Why did Mr Nixon request the Democratic party break in when he had no chance of losing the presidency. He had such  low self esteem and such negative attitude that he could not be assured of victory, even when it was so evident. As a result his government fell and he was the only American President to resign in shame. 

Another Republican President Ronald Reagan was called by many, the Positive Thinking Evangelist.  Many in the Republican Party quote and speak of Ronald Reagan as the ideal for their parties ideas. To be finally understood, Reagan must be seen as a product of the positive-thinking movement. Indeed, it was Reagan’s song of the positive—as articulated in thousands of speeches as a conservative activist, California governor, and U.S. president—that, more than any other factor, made the principle of brighter tomorrows and limitless possibilities into the idealized creed of America. 

Reagan spoke of American greatness and when he did, people believed him.

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Mauro Libi Crestani: Being positive and have a positive attitude

Some things are just a bad idea and were not meant to be. Being positive and having a positive attitude and positive thinking does not mean that you believe that every idea that you ever will have is a correct one. Some times having confidence in yourself means that you know when to quite. It is being self assured and strong enough to quit when you have failed at a task.

Sony technologies, we all will agree is a very successful company. Akio Morita, who was the founder of Sony knew that he would succeed. He started his company making a rice cooker, that was terrible, It burned the rice and was a total failure. He gave up on this idea quickly and admitted his mistake. Never be afraid to cut your losses and move on from an objectively bad idea or situation. Have the confidence that a bad idea or several bad ideas or failures does not make you a failure. A positive person moves on and learns from his mistakes to eventually find his win. Akio Morita had a saying, "If you never had a failure then you never tried anything new."

Successful people like Akio Morita and the Sony company did not look at failure more than anything but a stepping stone to success. They knew that they would succeed even when they failed. That first failure did not stop him from building a multi billion dollar company.

Akio was very positive, you had to be a positive person to make the following statement about his companies new products, "It had to be something different, something that nobody else was making." The company had the belief that even when something was impossible and everyone told you that it was impossible, that you had to be so positive that you knew otherwise.

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Mauro Libi, Cómo descubrir las oportunidades en una economía en crisis

Muchos empresarios le temen a la crisis y creen que en la época de las vacas flacas hay que cerrar la santamaría. Pocos han descubierto que las crisis se traducen en oportunidades para los empresarios más avezados. Hay que entender que entre más aguda sea la crisis más oportunidades de éxito hay.  Hay muchos empresarios que se sienten agobiados por la crisis económica mundial o nacional y se ocupan en tratar de escapar de las consecuencias de la crisis, no obstante el camino no es huir de la debacle sino enfrentarla con creatividad, persistencia y optimismo.

No nos cansamos de repetir que el éxito es de aquellos que asumen una actitud positiva ante la vida, ante los negocios y ante la realidad circundante de un país. El éxito se puede alcanzar en todo momento si se toman decisiones inteligente y ajustadas a la realidad. El empresario que mantiene una actitud positiva y se traza las metas confiado que las va alcanzar, seguramente logrará arropar el éxito en un tiempo prudencial.

Hay que entender que el cambio en la vida, en los negocios se logra cuando se cambia la mentalidad con que se mira el presente y el futuro.  Muchos empresarios han cambiado su disposición mental ante la vida, asumiendo  una actitud positiva, actuando con seguridad, cumpliendo un plan de metas concretas a corto y mediano plazo, y siempre mirando hacia el futuro con la certeza de que el éxito les pertenece.

Un secreto de los hombres exitosos es asumir los cambios, trabajar en construir una mentalidad emprendedora que obviamente implica una responsabilidad.

Los obstáculos siempre estarán en el camino,  y el empresario exitoso debe aprender a campear esos obstáculos, siendo más activo, incrementando la productividad. El consejo más valioso es mantener la mente positiva. Ser optimista te permite entrar en un selecto grupo que se diferencia del resto.

Una economía difícil es algo que nadie desea, pero ésta puede ser tu oportunidad para sobresalir y posicionarte en el mercado. No pierdas el tiempo en estrés, en preocupaciones, o generando actitudes negativas, en tiempo de crisis los que mantienen un pensamiento positivo son los que manejan la situación y conquistan el futuro.

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Share iniciativa by Mauro Libi

How many times have you heard about some rich guy or some company coming into a neighborhood and donating a lot of money? Everyone celebrates the donation and has high hopes for how this will turn around the poverty and crime and low employment in this particular community. A few months later, the community and the people living in it are in the exact same situation and then nothing has changed. The donation money is unaccounted for and it seems like the situation will never change.

Then came about the concept of share value initiative. Instead of donating money to the community. A group of professionals and businesses and organizations get together and they pool their expertise in solving the problems of this community. Educators come into the school system and they work with the schools. Job counselors come into the community and train many of the unemployed to be job ready. Businesses come into the community and open up that offer jobs and bring up the standard in the community. Together, this group of professionals work on solving crime, pollution, lack of jobs, poor education, the list goes on and on. What one business could not accomplish with it's money, can be accomplished by this new concept called share value initiative.  This concept believes that together we can solve problems that we always believed were not solvable. 

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Mauro Libi Crestani: Challenges and failures in business

Every business has it’s times of failures. A good entrepreneur does not let the challenges and failures get him down but sees opportunity to build an even stronger company. Its those tough times that really require a proper business leader to keep positive. Being positive, helps the mind think clearly and gives one an energy needed in those hard times. Having  positive goals and direction is what is needed to be successful. Of course you have to be realistic and not sugar coat the failures but by staying negative, it hampers our creativity and ability to think clearly. The answer to failure is not negativity. The answer is to be positive. Be positive that you can be turn it all around to success.

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Avelina a 100 percent Venezuelan product

Despite the crisis and the country risk, companies in Venezuela who are betting the country and work with young talent to overcome the obstacles of the crisis and meet the objectives of producing for Venezuelans. Inproceca company is one of those companies that decided to stay in Venezuela and bet on the future. Among its projects implemented, is expanding the product line of food corn flakes with Creole flavors that are the premium Avelina line.

Avelina Food Premium is a proven nutritional content makes a promise to its consumers healthy life. An oat hand manufactured with young and professional Venezuelan and technology of the highest quality work, making it a 100% national product quality backed by the strength of Inproceca CA It is intended solely for people who care about their health, attentive to the nutritional content of the food they eat, and they demand quality and good taste. In seeking to satisfy the palates of today's dynamic, fresh, demanding and attentive to the news day, Inproceca CA expands its range with more products in the field of oats, and throws his Flavored, Instant oats and fortified. Avelina is then presented as the perfect balance between taste and demanding consumer welfare and an active and healthy life.

The flavors of the new product include cinnamon apple, maple banana, chocolate, vanilla, honey - raisins and almonds and strawberry. They are available in packs of 200 grams whose content will be 5 envelopes of 40 grams each, the right amount to prepare a healthy oat base, which may be mixed with water, milk or yogurt drink. 

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