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2024 Mar 19

Till the soil well and it will grow what you seed

To get B work on A   Example: Beliefs shape people People shape values Values shape culture Culture shapes potential Potential shapes performance Performance shapes impact   All progressive resilient endeavours are built on a stack of compounding effect. You remove one and the stack weakens and stifles.   Which is why great things take time and need the right space Be it civilizations, ideas, people or start ups. ...

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2024 Mar 17

Everyone is an outlier in someway

Neither average nor solely unique   Being yourself is the reason for your coming into existence Every other slot is occupied - meant for someone specific   Its only in society and slot machines you are lured by uniform paths and figures Promising an extraordinary prize at the end Which is why the person who forgets himself / herself loses and the system wins, eventually   Find your natural ...

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2024 Mar 14

Why everyone needs a sounding board

The sounding board excels in a way that enables you. The sounding board’s inputs are neither correct nor binding – they are perspectives that enhance your thinking. The sounding board makes you reflect on: What is the crux of the issue The gap in your thinking Your stance The consequences The value derived depends on the space the participants jointly create. More open the space is, the greater the ...

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2024 Mar 12

Combustion needs 3 ingredients

So do you     Combustion needs: Fuel a substance which can burn Oxygen to support Heat a minimum ignition temperature   Combustion further needs: A trigger to kickstart itself - such as friction or spark plug All the 3 ingredients together make up the fire triangle - remove one and the reaction stops   Those who are on fire find their 3 ingredients as: Purpose as their fuel ...

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2024 Mar 09

Oh, you are qualified

Don’t worry, everyone can learn   “The paradigms we teach at Harvard Business School sow the seeds of every company’s demise” Late Clayton Christensen, Professor at Harvard Business School, Guru of 'Disruptive Innovation'   There is a difference between: What & How Territory & Maps Awareness & Techniques Perspective & Frameworks   Maps, techniques, and frameworks are common hows’ that are taught to all and known by all. Being ...

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2024 Mar 07

The courageous start with a hypothesis

Rest live with proof   A hypothesis is an enticing possibility with no past and therefore no proof. Proof emerges in response to the hypothesis.   Most courageous is the person who walks the unknown path basis a hypothesis. Moulding an intuitive belief into a hypothesis.   No hypothesis, no progress. We would still be cave dwellers. One person has to believe, before it can be seen.   Yet, ...

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2024 Mar 03

Work on your strengths and you stand up

Work on your weaknesses and you blend in   So what happens. We bet on what we have confidence in.   It is often easier to blend. To stand up, one needs to invest in gaining clarity.   Clarity that leads to conviction. Conviction that leads to courage. Courage that leads to right action.

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2024 Feb 28

Fingerprints that reveal your psychology

Unknowingly and clearly   Words you use often Way your energy moves up & down Imagery you apply to describe your world view Issues that excite & blunt your intellect and emotions Tunes, images, and stories that are stuck in your mind   Words, energy, imagery, tunes, stories reflect your conscious & unconscious self. Do you still feel you are balanced and rationale and wonder why people don’t get ...

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2024 Feb 25

A little bit of you

In everything you do   The shortest way to breakthrough in potential, purpose and performance: Find what you are special in Find who values it Find a way to serve it   Challenge is most are reluctant to reflect and take courageous bets on step 1 itself while organizations love to fit you as per their competencies and bell curves. When this happens, steps 2 & 3 reflect market ...

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2024 Feb 22

When you bridge logic and intuition

You bridge the known and unknown towards growth   Logic is applying the unfolded past. Intuition is sensing the unfolding future. Logic is continuity. Intuition is a leap.   Actions based on logic, are thus refined models of the past. Actions based on intuition, are risky bets on future.   At some point logic comes to a standstill, and intuition takes a leap. We know this intellectually but psychologically ...

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