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  • Organizations susceptible to “Ethical fading”

    Leaders with a finite mindset put numbers and profits over people.

    In an organization or culture where people are pitted against each other , in order to meet performance targets even the most talented of people can indulge in unethical practices to meet targets.

    Thus such kind of organizations which are run with a finite mindset and numbers are put ahead of people there is more chance of ethical fading than organizations led with an infinite mindset where people are put ahead of resources.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled The Infinite Game.

  • Why is it natural to put numbers before people?

    For finite minded leaders the natural instinct is to put profits and numbers before people.

    This is because resources or profits fuel an organization’s growth and are tangible.There are various short cuts that can be adopted to report an improvement in profits and hence these short cuts are adopted by most leaders.Resource is tangible and related to financial metrics associated with an organization.

    True infinite minded visionary leaders take the difficult path of putting people over resources.Putting people over resources entails investing in the intangible asset of “will” which cannot be manipulated by money.Motivating people to get the best out of them by creating a good environment goes a long way in inspiring the “will” of people to in turn take care of resources.

    Thus being an infinite minded leader needs risk as well as a lot of hard work.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled “The Infinite Game”

  • Infinite minded leaders look beyond numbers

    Infinite minded leaders work hard to look beyond the financial pressures of the current day and put people before profit as often as possible

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game

  • Is it time to change the CEO title?

    A CEO’s job is to ensure everyone clearly understands the vision or the just cause and all C level execs direct their efforts to advance the just cause

    Since the CEO is the holder , communicator and protector of the vision , the person will be better equipped to discharge responsibilities if he/she steps into the role of a Chief Vision Officer or CVO

    In an infinite game thus the new title of a CEO should be CVO

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book “The Infinite Game”

  • The infinite minded leader , Herb Kelleher

    Adopted from wikipedia , read more about the chairman emeritus of South West Airlines and what made him a visionary , infinite minded , 10X leader

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Kelleher

     

  • “Poor Leaders” vs “Good Leaders”

    “Under poor leaders we feel like we work for the company.With good leaders we feel like we work for each other”.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled “Together is Better”

  • “Who’s right” vs “What’s right”?

    A finite minded short term oriented leader cares for “Who’s right”.

    An infinite minded long term oriented leader cares for “What’s right” with the just cause in mind.

    This highlights the difference in approach between an infinite and finite minded leader.

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled “Together is Better”.

  • How great leaders inspire their teams?

    Truly infinite minded great leaders understand the psychology of their team members to perfection

    When faced with crisis situationsn, the natural instinct of the rational mind is to think too much about the problems.

    The emotional or limbic brain as well , lacks direction from the rational brain and sends negative vibes

    A visionary calms down the rational mind with crystal clear direction to remove any ambiguity.Such a direction by focusing on bright spots send right signals to the limbic brain.

    To add on to this , the leader motivated motivates the limbic brain by showing the way to dispel any negativity

    These end up inspiring the teams to fight crisis situations.

    Adopted from Chip and Dan Heath’s book titled “Switch”

  • Reasons behind reduction in “average life ” of a modern day company”?

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled “The Infinite Game”

    According to a 2017 study by Credit Suisse the average life of a company has reduced from ~60 years in the 1950’s to ~20 years in the modern day.

    Though disruptive technology proliferation is often provided as an excuse for this we need to delve deep and understand that disruption is nothing new.

    Think of micro-oven , television , transistor , credit card etc. these were all invented around the 1950’s.

    The reason reason is increasing finite mindedness in modern day leaders.These are leaders who are willingness to sacrifice people to meet their numbers for their beloved shareholders.Since the people are pitted against each other these leaders end up creating an environment filled with micro-management where people lack a feeling of trustworthiness.

    Hence the need of the hour is to train modern day leaders to possess an infinite mindset with a long term goal in mind.

  • What is common between John Sculley and Kevin Rollins?

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled “The Infinite Game”

    The iconic leaders Steve Jobs and Michael Dell led with an infinite mindset and took them to the level where Apple and Dell respectively are today.

    But when Steve Jobs was replaced by John Sculley and Michael Dell was succeeded by Kevin Rollins they caused huge damage to the work culture and environment of these iconic companies.

    The damage caused by leading with a finite short term mindset landed the companies in a terrible mess that forced the respective authorities to reinstate these iconic leaders to their rightful positions.

    Time is witness as and when an iconic company has suffered a setback due to finite minded leaders , infinite minded leaders have introduced trust to bring back the company to its growth trajectory.