Pile On Motivation

Category: Motivational

  • How to “win” an infinite game

    An infinite game is one where the players are not fixed , there are no clearly defined rules and no fixed timelines.Any number of players can enter or exit at any stage. In such a scenario the two important factors are 1) will & 2) resources An infinite player’s goal is to use the “will”(motivation…

  • What happened when Steve Jobs visited XEROX PARC?

    When Steve Jobs and his team at Apple visited Xerox PARC , Palo Alto CA in 1979 they were introduced to the new GUI based concept. Though Apple had made significant investments in command based interface for its Apple PCs , being an infinite minded leader he exercised “Existential Flex” and decided to adopt GUI…

  • What if Kodak had listened to Steve Sasson?

    Steve Sasson is an American engineer who in as early as 1974 is believed to have invented the first digital camera. Kodak the pioneer of film photography had made huge investments in vertical integration involving “film based” analog photography. Steve Sasson had put forward the idea of embracing digital photography to Kodak leadership.Unfortunately since Kodak…

  • What is “shiny object syndrome”?

    Whenever a new idea arises , need not always mean it has merit. Frequently followers of leaders who need a group of “yes” men around , feel the need to say “yes” to a new thought or idea espoused by a finite minded leader. More often than not since these ideas do advance a “just…

  • Existential flexibility explained

    Existential flexibility is the ability of an infinite minded leader to initiate a disruption to a strategy or business model in order to advance a just cause. To explain this in more details, very frequently it may so happen in an infinite game , a just cause may become fuzzy and adoption of new strategy…

  • Infinite minded leader – James Sinegal

    Learn from the following wikipedia link , more about James Sinegal the former CEO of COSTCO whose investment of “will” over “resources” has made COSTCO wholesale what it is today. A truly infinite minded leader who finds a mention in many of Simon Sinek’s videos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sinegal

  • Role of a “worthy rival” in an infinite game

    Historically if we look at business , numerous examples show how losing sight of a worthy rival , led to complaecency and eventual extinction of a company. When an organization has rivals , survival is the key even to the extent to thinking of disruption opportunities.The moment a company dominates with apparently no sight of…

  • Nothing can be more infinite minded than this Apple ad

    This ad of Steve Jobs dates back to as early as August 1981.This was a time when IBM was about to enter the PC industry being dominated by Apple. Instead of trying to downplay a big name like IBM , Apple’s approach was to welcone its Worthy Rival in order to get better by the…

  • “Disruption” is for the infinite minded , “Adoption” is for the finite minded

    There are numerous business examples that showcase this fact. Let us take the case of the mobile phone market.Apple took the industry by storm with its disruptive iPhone.Neither did it copy anyone but came up with a disruptive design aimed at relieving the pain point of a mobile phone user. On the contrary if we…

  • “Cause Blindness” – What is it?

    When an individual is selfishly engrossed in his/her cause/motive , without any care for others around , he/she suffers from “Cause Blindness”. This is very harmful for an individual wherein he/she loses sight of own “weaknesses” & others “strengths”. More often than not this kind of mentality is driven by a finite mindset and can…