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  • Can you define LOVE better than this?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s book Leaders Eat Last

    My favorite definition of love is giving someone the power to destroy us and trusting they won’t use it.”

  • What is the science behind HABIT FORMATION ?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit

    This process within our brains is a three-step loop. First, there is a cue, a trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and which habit to use. Then there is the routine, which can be physical or mental or emotional. Finally, there is a reward, which helps your brain figure out if this particular loop is worth remembering for the future.”

  • What is the RECIPE of SUCCESS for any GREAT BUSINESS?

    The following leadership insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game

    The definition of the responsibility of business must: Advance a purpose: Offer people a sense of belonging and a feeling that their lives and their work have value beyond the physical work. Protect people: Operate our companies in a way that protects the people who work for us, the people who buy from us and the environments in which we live and work. Generate profit: Money is fuel for a business to remain viable so that it may continue to advance the first two priorities.”

  • Are you associated with an ELITE institution yet FRUSTRATED?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath

    The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities.”

  • Do you agree that UNREASONABILITY and PROGRESS go hand in hand?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

  • As a LEADER do you TRUST your GUT decisions?

    The following leadership insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s book Start With Why

    Great leaders are those who trust their gut. They are those who understand the art before the science. They win hearts before minds. They are the ones who start with WHY.”

  • Does your STRATEGY consider these CRITICAL ASPECTS?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game

    Strategy is empty without change, empty without passion, and empty without people willing to confront the void.”

  • Which is that ONE QUESTION that DEFINES you as a LEADER?

    The following leadership insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game

    To ask, “What’s best for me” is finite thinking. To ask, “What’s best for us” is infinite thinking.

  • How do your EARN the TRUST of your FOLLOWERS?

    The following leadership insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game

    People will trust their leaders when their leaders do the things that make them feel psychologically safe.”

  • As a LEADER are you OBSESSED with COMPLIANCE?

    The following leadership insight has been adopted from Daniel Pink’s book Drive

    While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it’s a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”