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Tag: Life lessons

  • Great Leaders build & lead their tribes

    Adopted from the following great quote of Seth Godin that highlights the role of Tribes in leadership

    “What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It’s about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it’s something that people have wanted forever.”

  • This is how a Team is supposed to be!!

    A team is not a group of people who work together.Team is a group of people who trust each other

    Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book Together is Better

  • The most important factors to consider in the infinite game of business

    Adopted from the book titled The Infinite Game from Simon Sinek mentions about the noteworthy factors

  • Use this framework as a guiding star to never Quit

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good To Great illustrates this framework commonly referred as the Stockdale Paradox

  • How this simple sentence construct can take us closer towards fulfillment

    Simon Sinek who has coined the concept of WHY has mentioned in Find Your Why , the construct of a simple WHY statement

    The WHY statement can help bring fulfillment in our lives by making us realize what drives our PASSION and hence channelize all our energy in that direction

    The following has been adopted from the book Find Your Why illustrates the WHY construct in a very lucid manner

  • Core abilities needed to thrive in this economy

    Adopted from the following insight shared by Cal Newport from his book Deep Work

    The Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy  are:

    1. The ability to quickly master hard things.

    2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

  • It is our ability to FOCUS is what makes us what we are

    Adopted from the following insight shared by Cal Newport from his book Deep Work

    “Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.”

  • Doing this can reduce stress on the emotional limbic human brain

    Adopted from the following insight shared by David Rock from his book Your Brain at Work

    Dopamine is a hormone stimulated by reward whereas adrenaline flows when we are over excited.

    “Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.”

  • An Email writing masterclass

    Adopted from the following insight shared by David Rock from his book Your Brain at Work is a masterclass on email writing skills.

    1. Emails should contain as few words as possible.

    2. Make it easy to see your central point at a glance, in one screen.

    3. Never send an email that could emotionally affect another person unless it’s pure positive feedback.

    4. Emotional issues must be discussed by phone; email should be used only to book a time for a call.

    5. If you accidentally break rule number four, phone the person immediately, apologize, and discuss the issue by phone.

  • This is why SIMPLICITY is the utmost sophistication

    Adopted from the following insight shared by David Rock from his book Your Brain at Work

    “Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.”