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  • Why BEST FRIENDS end up as CO-FOUNDERS?

    The book Good to Great, by Jim Collins illuminates us on the need of having best friends in life to make our lives a better and fulfilling place.

    “For no matter what we achieve, if we don’t spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect – people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us – then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.”

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

    This is precisely the reason as to why great organizations like Apple, Microsoft have been co-founded by the best of friends.

  • For any ENTREPRENEUR, THIS is a GREAT LESSON.

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.

    “A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.”

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

    Thus recruiting the right talent is paramount for the growth of any start up.

  • What does RESEARCH have to say about GREATNESS?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.

    “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

    Thus greatness never happens out of chance.

  • When can we ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING in LIFE?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.

    “You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. —HARRY S. TRUMAN”

    Thus selflessness is a key aspect to achieving fulfillment in life.

  • Should a LEADER be AWARE of his CHARISMA?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.

    “Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.”

    Thus possession of CHARISMA alone cannot ensure SUCCESS.

  • Why doing MEANINFUL WORK is IMPORTANT?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.

    “For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”

    Thus meaningful work plays a very important role in our lives.

  • Can GOOD be the ENEMY of GREAT?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

    “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”

    Thus SETTLING for GOOD is the primary reason that limits the number of GREAT PEOPLE in our universe.

  • Do you have what it takes to be a LEVEL 5 leader?

    Three qualities of Level 5 Leadership
    The THREE prerequisites to LEVEL 5 leadership

    If you want to be a LEVEL 5 leader these are the 3 characteristics which are necessary pre-requisites as mentioned by Jim Collins in his book Good to Great.

  • Can CREATIVITY be MULTIPLIED by instilling DISCIPLINE?

    The following self help and leadership insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

    The following matrix is a plot between CREATIVITY and DISCIPLINE across different kinds of ORGANISATIONS shows how GREAT ORGANIZATIONS stand out by mixing the right amount of CREATIVITY and DISCIPLINE

  • As a LEADER how frequently do you exhibit these THREE qualities?

    The following leadership insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

    The following THREE core QUALITIES are exhibited by the BEST of LEADERS , these qualities find relevance in our everyday lives as well

    Level 5 Leadership