Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Together is Better , explains the power of social bonds..
“To go FAST go ALONE, to go FAR go TOGETHER..”
Category: Motivational
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This is why SELF DISCIPLINE is the most sought after skill..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Charles Duhigg from the book The Power of Habit..
“Highly self-disciplined adolescents outperformed their more impulsive peers on every academic-performance variable,” the researchers wrote. “Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not.… Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.”
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Are you getting STRESSED out Or LIVING your PASSION? This explains..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from the book Start With Why
“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.”
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The BLUNT truth about listless LEADERSHIP in bureaucratic organizations..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Start With Why
“Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.”
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This is the single BIGGEST motivation to COMPETE with OURSELVES..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Start With Why
“When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.”
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Long story short on GREAT LEADERSHIP..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Start With Why
“Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.”
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This explodes the myth around the HIRING process of GREAT organizations..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Start With Why
“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them”
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This is how INTERNET has bridged the gap between EXPERTS and PUBLIC
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Steven Levitt from the book Freakonomics shows how internet has bridged gap between experts and ordinary public.
“Information is the currency of the Internet. As a medium, the Internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it into the hands of those who do not. Often, as in the case of term life insurance prices, the information existed but in a woefully scattered way. (In such instances, the Internet acts like a gigantic horseshoe magnet waved over an endless sea of haystacks, plucking the needle out of each one.) The Internet has accomplished what even the most fervent consumer advocates usually cannot: it has vastly shrunk the gap between the experts and the public.”
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Amazing illustration on the THREE components of an INCENTIVE..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Steven Levitt from the book Freakonomics
“There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral. Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties. Think about the anti-smoking campaign of recent years. The addition of a $3-per-pack “sin tax” is a strong economic incentive against buying cigarettes. The banning of cigarettes in restaurants and bars is a powerful social incentive. And when the U.S. government asserts that terrorists raise money by selling black-market cigarettes, that acts as a rather jarring moral incentive.”
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This is how we gauge our IDENTITY..
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Steven Levitt from the book Freakonomics
“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of “identity“. It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.”