Generosity is doing something selflessly for someone without expecting anything in return. This blogpost shows the relation between generosity and flow of oxytocin.
The human brain is oriented towards fulfillment by such acts of generosity.
This leads to the stimulation of the love hormone named oxytocin which is known to increase immunity.
Thus acts of generosity help us lead a happy and fulfilled life
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled “Leaders Eat Last”
Taking the example of Navy Seals , more than performance the need is of a trustworthy individual.
A high performing individual low on trust spoils the environment and the team morale.
Whereas a highly trustworthy individual even though lacking in performance is much more in demand since IQ related to performance can be taught
EQ cannot be taught and is the most important prerequisite that a leader seeks in an individual to keep playing the infinite game
The ideal scenario is to have the balance between IQ and EQ
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game
Human beings are social animals driven by the power of social bonds
It is our basic nature to seek for company of like minded people in order to feel safe.
The true bonds are formed by touch and feel , in person communication and hence nothing for e.g virtual video calls can substitute in person communication
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s youtube videos
Leadership is not a rank or position to be attained.
Leadership is a service to be rendered to followers
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled “Together is Better”
Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “How the Mighty Fall”
The 5 stages of decline of great companies are:
The infinite game of business is where the players are unknown , time in unlimited and the rules are unknown.
The goal of players in an infinite game is to keep playing the game.
10X companies or high performing companies in the infinite game of business , exercise productive paranoia , empirical creativity and fanatic discipline to create huge margins of safety.
In the infinite game of business when the tide is rough these huge margins of safety safeguard a high performer being knocked out.During good times for luck to help these high performers derive high return on luck firstly they have to survive the rough times via the huge margins of safety.
Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “Great By Choice”
The interesting asymmetry between good luck and bad luck is that:
A single stroke of good luck , no matter how big the break , cannot by itself make a great company.
But a single stroke of extremely bad luck that slams you on the Death Line , or an extended sequence of bad luck events that creates a catastrophic outcome , can terminate the quest.
Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “Great By Choice”
High performers shine when clobbered by setbacks and misfortune.
These are ones who use difficulty as a catalyst to deepen purpose . recommit to values . increase discipline and respond with creativity.
They heighten productive paranoia and use resilience to overcome all obstacles to reach greatness.
Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “Great By Choice”
Gary Kildall and his company Digital Research had come up with an advanced operating system DR DOS for shipping to IBM PC’s.
Due to a glitch in Microsoft’s operating system , IBM had become eager to sign a contract with Digital Research for shipping it’s OS in all IBM PC’s.
But due to lack in discipline Digital Research missed the bus and could not become the modern day Microsoft.
Unlike Digital Research 10X companies do not make such mistakes and ensure high return on luck when presented with such golden opportunities.
Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “Great By Choice”
AMD gave Intel a run for its money when in the mid 1990’s AMD’s K5 processor had all features of Intel’s Pentium processor and was sure to grab a lot of Intel’s market share.
The opportunity AMD had got with its K5 chip to topple Intel’s market leader position was squandered when the K5 chips came to market later than expected due to issues in getting the chips delivered to market on time.
Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “Great By Choice”
Please find below the link from wikipedia.com that talks about all such things related to the K5 chip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K5