Every human being we closely associate with is a result of a conscious or sub conscious choice we have made. We pick friends, life partners, colleagues, and managers. We control the picking process more in some cases than others. In cases where we did not directly pick a person we interact with, it was likely a result of association.…
1. The early men believed that everything in this life was in controlled by unknown powers. They did not have any reason to believe choice existed. The thinking around this changed over time and it was the free-thinkers in the ancient Greek society who asked interesting questions about the choices we have. It was during this…
Borrowing a framework from Stephen Covey's book 7 habits of highly effective people, we move through 3 stages in our lives: Dependence -----> Independence -----> Interdependence. The Dependence years are marked by childishness, the independence years are marked with rebelliousness and the interdependence years mark adulthood. There are 2 phrases that best mark the transitions between…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp6_3UQLi2Y When I started my career in consulting, a client once told me that business consultants's fees should be paid on the results of their advice, not fixed and payable irrespective. Basically, what he was saying was that consultants will be more vested in not only the advice, but the outcome of the advice. To…
Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.
A man was walking by the side of the road and came across a butterfly cocoon on a tree. He saw the small hole on the cocoon and the butterfly struggling to come out of the cocoon. Fascinated by what he was seeing with this butterfly's struggle, he stood there watching the butterfly struggling to…
Paul Jobs asked his young son, Steve to go paint the wall outside the house. Steve Jobs said: "Yeah sure dad, I will do that." A few hours later, Steve Jobs's father came outside to inspect the wall. And he said to Steve: "You did a great job painting the outside of the wall, but…
You will not outthink your competition. Neither will I. None of us will. We will never outwit, outsmart or even outrun them. We will not out-manoeuvre, outguess or outdo them either. The truth is competing is a zero-sum game. We succeed when we make peace with the fact that we do not need to compete…
What does it sound like when you put something off for later? All of us have a catalog of voices in our head. We have got the voice for feeling behind, the other one for not feeling good enough, the one we use when we are trying to avoid a sore spot. There are…
If you want the people to dance and they are not…you are either playing the wrong songs or playing your songs for the wrong people. If you want people to buy your products and they are not... you are either selling the wrong products or you are selling to the wrong people. It is worth…
I'm sure you are genius, that's what they sent you the invite, gave your platform and microphone to speak. The question is are you going to use the opportunity to tell us how genius you are or are you going to use the opportunity to create other geniuses? Are you going to use the platform…
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