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Category: Leadership

  • The danger of getting distracted by competition

    Adopted from the following great quote of Seth Godin that encourages us to not bother about competition..

    “The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.” 

  • This quote encourages us to stop trying to please everyone

    Adopted from the following great quote of Seth Godin , shows that it is impossible to please everyone..

    “Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.” 

  • What do people want more than anything?

    Adopted from the following great quote of Seth Godin , unearths the following psychology of human beings..

    “Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don’t show up. They want to be missed when they’re gone.” 

  • Beautiful quote that explores the merits of persistence

    Adopted from the following beautiful quote of Seth Godin , proves why persistence pays and is honored by mother nature..

    “A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.”

  • Isn’t this such a QUIRKY human psychology?

    Adopted from the following great quote of Seth Godin that exposes a quirk in human psychology which is made good use of by great marketers..

    “People don’t believe what you tell them.

    They rarely believe what you show them.

    They often believe what their friends tell them.

    They always believe what they tell themselves.”

  • Lot to learn from these TWO success mantras of Steve Jobs

    Adopted from the following inspirational quote of success , highlights the two mantras for his success..

    “That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”

  • Any work of creation in any field needs to have an aesthetic appeal

    Adopted from the following great quote of Steve Jobs..

    “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

  • This is the ONLY way to do GREAT work

    Adopted from the following inspirational quote of Steve Jobs , shows the only way to do great work is to love what we are doing..

    “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

  • Liberating the natural drive in humans for leading better lives

    Adopted from the following saying of Daniel Pink is an essential guideline to liberate this very natural drive in humans to enable leading richer and fulfilling lives..

    “Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.”

  • This is how great organizations get creative tasks done

    Adopted from the following great saying of Daniel Pink , very aptly highlights the approach used by great organizations to get such work done..

    “For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.”