ð They are loved when they are good sports. They support others, support competition, congratulate them, and are gracious. These are people that everyone LOVES. They learn from competition, and study their training methods and moves. As for you, be kind to your competition, and don't knock them. Learn from them, and let them help you learn to be wiser about your business.

ð The athletes have learned not to cheat, and many have learned that experience and opportunity to be at Games is satisfaction, and a medal isn't everything. Find satisfaction in each victory you get, and realize that as every competition cannot be won, neither can every sale. Don't cheat - it catches up to you.

ð One great aspect of competition - audience loves to see athletes smile. This warms them to audience and gives a good feeling. People connect with you. In your business, smile with your clients, and smile on phone and on emails - it shows through!

I have seen a lot of this in many years. Years ago I worked at Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, under Bob Mathias as my manager. Talk about a great role model for kids to look up to. He showed so much class and sportsmanship. These days, I follow my daughter on her competitive journeys in figure skating. I see whole gamut of competitive behavior. But you know which kids others gravitate toward. These are ones who behave as above, and have same qualities that make Olympic athletes special.

I believe if same qualities are used in business, you will see a positive effect in your sales and following. Try it!

Extrinsic motivation such as stock options and bonuses given to K-professionals are no longer sustainable because this ploy is temporal for as long as emerging industries enjoy a stock market boom. Today's K-professionals must have professional discipline to develop a high degree of professional pride to achieve excellence through self-directed initiatives increasing favourable perceived value. K-professionals must continue to build strong positive work habits and loyalty towards their chosen profession and not organisation. This is result of emergence of extreme careers and departure of dream careers where K-professionals are searching for organisations that can provide employability and not job security.

K- professionals must have a strong desire for ideas generation and a passion to create critical and valuable knowledge at work place. Creativity alone will not be sufficient in K-economy, as significant focus on innovation must be in place to make things happen. K- professionals must have knowledge, skills, an attitude and habit for self-driven continuous innovation to achieve significant work improvements.

Solution focus mindset is belief that there is a solution to every challenge and having a positive end result in mind. This means to say that concept of local problems with global solutions by leveraging on organisational and individual knowledge to create more effective solutions. This can be done through a culture of preservation by capturing, storing, updating and constantly leveraging on valuable knowledge to address work challenges. As a result, higher knowledge retention of both tacit and explicit knowledge is achieved within solution focus workgroup.

In addition, K-professionals will synchronise personal focus with work goals for personal development by constantly creating personal knowledge capital. For K-professionals to be forward thinking and self-driven individuals, they must leverage on intrinsic motivation to achieve sustainable performance.

Therefore, K-professionals are not technology professionals but competent professionals with right attitude, knowledge and skills supported by technical abilities.