Pile On Motivation

Join 22.5K other subscribers

Category: Personal Development

  • Why COMPLEMENTARY SKILLS are needed to run BEST ORGANIZATIONS?

    The following insight has been inspired from Simon Sinek’s best selling book, The Infinite Game.

    Best organizations are run by a combination of CEO and COO with complementary skillsets. The time has come to rename CEO to CVO (Chief Vision Officer) who is the gatekeeper of the organization vision.

    While one skill keep an eye on the INFINITE HORIZON, the other skill sets EYES on the BUSINESS PLAN.

    Thus having complementary skills for CEO and either of CFO or COO is needed to lead an organization in the right direction, inspire people and satisfy customers.

  • The HUMAN MOTIVATION flowchart to liberate the INNER DRIVE

    The following human motivational flowchart adopted from Daniel Pink’s Drive clearly outlines the roadmap for imbibing human motivation depending on different scenarios

    Unleash human motivation

    The flowchart shows different scenarios for unleashing human motivation

  • How can GRATITUDE help REWIRE our BRAIN?

    The following great insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s great leadership quotes

    Showing GRATITUDE

  • Are you a RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEUR?

    A responsible entrepreneur is one who realizes that the purpose of his business is to focus on the following 3 aspects in order of PRIORITY..

    1. Advance a LARGER than LIFE PURPOSE
    2. PROTECTING the internal and external stakeholders
    3. Generating PROFIT

    Thus the order of priority matters in deciding whether an entrepreneur and hence the business is being responsible enough or not.

    Simon Sinek mentions the same in his book The Infinite Game.

  • Building an “ETHICAL FADING” proof WORKPLACE..

    A workplace that is “ethical fading” proof is created and nurtured by infinite minded leaders. Simon Sinek mentions this fact in his book The Infinite Game.

    Infinite minded leaders accept the fact that creating a TRUSTWORTHY CULTURE that is ETHICAL FADING proof requires huge amount of patience and hard work. It requires a devotion to JUST CAUSE, bias for WILL over RESOURCES and the ability to nurture TRUSTING TEAMS.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game

  • What is the LITMUS test for any TRUSTWORTHY team?

    The following insight shared by Simon Sinek in his book The Infinite Team beautifully summarizes the litmus test that any trustworthy team faces. For the feeling of trust to evolve the members have to feel safe in order to trust each other..

    When we work on a TRUSTING TEAM, we feel SAFE to express VULNERABILITY. For the feeling of TRUST to develop we have to feel SAFE expressing OURSELVES.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book the Infinite Game

  • What is so UNIQUE about a Results Only Work Environment (ROWE)?

    The guiding principle behind a Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) that makes it indeed UNIQUE has been mentioned below –

    Giving PEOPLE CONTROL over WHAT they do and HOW they do increases HAPPINESS, ENGAGEMENT and sense of FULFILLMENT.

    Adopted from Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You

    Human beings are driven by a sense of control to achieve fulfillment and a ROWE taps into this inner drive of humans.

  • Fanatic Discipline for high performance

    Fanatic Discipline for high performance

    Why is Fanatic Discipline needed for High Performance?

    In his book Great by Choice Jim Collins illuminates us on the need for leaders to exhibit fanatic discipline for high performance of their teams.

    Such Discipline helps in displaying extreme consistency of action in terms of values , goals , performance standards & methods.

    With a sense of “Fanatic Discipline” , high performers are utterly relentless , unbending in their focus on their quests.

    The following snapshot mentions the 5 elements which are the key ingredients of Fanatic Discipline.

    Fanatic Discipline for High Performance

    For another such wonderful insight from the same book, please read below:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/10x-organizations-and-their-fanatic-discipline/

    To know more about the author Jim Collins and his work please read the link:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Collins

  • FIVE STEPS to CREATE STORIES

    If you are looking for your next story, watch out for these five steps to create  compelling stories.

    1) Travel more be it personal or business

    2) Keep changing your mode of transport to work – use carpool , bus etc. to get connected with more people

    3) Say yes to more and more event invitations even though they may seem weird

    4) Dont run away if you bump into someone weird

    5) Convince your spouse to do something adventurous e.g. new method of exercising to stay fit.

    Margot Leitman has provided these fascinating tips in the book titled ” Long Story Short”