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  • “Winning” has two choices- Which do you choose?

    There are only two choices.

    1) Win by being more ordinary more standard and cheaper

    2) Win by being faster more remarkable and human

    Adopted from Seth Godin’s Linchpin

  • “Winning” has two choices- Which do you choose?

    There are only two choices.

    1) Win by being more ordinary more standard and cheaper

    2) Win by being faster more remarkable and human

    Adopted from Seth Godin’s Linchpin

  • “Winning” has two choices- Which do you choose?

    There are only two choices.

    1) Win by being more ordinary more standard and cheaper

    2) Win by being faster more remarkable and human

    Adopted from Seth Godin’s Linchpin

  • The “Rule of Ordinary People”

    This is the business model adopted by finite minded factory model oriented organizations.

    The business model is:

    “The model will be operated by people with the lowest possible level of skill”

    Adopted from Seth Godin’s book Linchpin , outlunes why such environments are graveyard for innovative people

  • What is PERL in a factory model?

    Organizations running their business in a factory model mode , have the goal of having the highest PERL which stands for Percentage of Easily Replaced Labors

    If you can easily replace most workers , you pay them less and hence make more money.

    In such an environment , needlessly to say risk-rewards dominate

    Adopted from Seth Godin’s book Linchpin

  • Understanding “Packard’s Law”

    David Packard co-founder of Hewlett Packard:

    “No company can grow revenues consistently faster than its ability to get enough of the right people to implement that growth and still become a great company”.

    This implies that if the growth rate in revenues consistently outpaces the growth rate in people , we simply will not and indeed cannot build a great company.

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

  • Three major principles in “people decisions” followed by Level 5 leaders

    Great companies powered by Level 5 leaders adopt the following 3 principles to introduce rigor in people decisions:

    1. When in doubt , do not hire , keep looking
    2. When you know you need to make a people change , act
    3. Put your best people on your biggest opportunities , not your biggest problems

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.

  • Great leaders gel with the right people

    “Great Leaders CREATE A CIRCLE OF SAFETY.”

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book Leaders Eat Last

  • The “joy of leadership” defined

    “The joy of leadership comes from seeing others achieve more than they thought they were capable of.“

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s great quotes

  • Inspirational quote of the day

    “It does not matter when we start.

    It does not matter where we start.

    All that matters is that we start.”

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book Together is Better.