Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book The Infinite Game
“A Chief Executive Officer is actually a Chief Vision Officer, someone who is responsible for setting and articulating and ensuring the organization is heading in one direction and then hiring the people and giving them direction beyond the short term.”
The term “schmoozing” is related to forming more social connections and contacts so important for entrepreneurs of start ups.
In his book “Art of The Start” Guy Kawasaki makes a mention of “schmoozing” and the need of it wherein he defines it as-
The most important thing is NOT WHAT WE KNOW OR WHOM WE KNOW , IT IS WHO KNOWS YOU.
The term “schmoozing” is related to forming more social connections and contacts so important for entrepreneurs of start ups.
In his book “Art of The Start” Guy Kawasaki makes a mention of “schmoozing” and the need of it wherein he defines it as-
The most important thing is NOT WHAT WE KNOW OR WHOM WE KNOW , IT IS WHO KNOWS YOU.
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Dan Ariely from the book Predictably Irrational
Hooked By Nir Eyal mentions of a 4 step Hook Model in order to create “habit forming” products. The steps are as follows:
Hooked” by Nir Eyal makes a mention of the Hook Model and ways to ingrain a product in the mind’s of a customer. The tips provided go a long way in explaining how to get your customers hooked to your product.
To hook a customer to a product , the product should get ingrained with the habit of the customer via the following :
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book A Whole New Mind
1) Left Brain for number crunching vs Right Brain for getting the big picture
2) From Industrial Age till Information Age need of the hour was L(Left Brain) Directed thinking.
3) In the modern Conceptual Age , in the age of abundance , R(Right Brain) Directed Thinking would rule.
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book The Infinite Game
A “Just Cause” is defined as the futuristic vision aimed towards engaging employees of an organization for achievement of fulfillment in their lives.This is solely driven by the sense of meaning in the vision that makes monetary short term benefits insignificant to an employee of an organization.
Needlessly to say taking baby steps towards that vision gives us a sense of fulfillment.This is why the company mission and vision statements should be oriented more towards alignment with a “Just Cause” rather than benefits which can be felt only in the short term.
All great organizations orient their vision and mission statements keeping the long term perspective in mind.
In the book named “Hooked” , Nir Eyal makes a mention of Fogg’s Behavioral model that goes a long way in helping product manufacturers design habit forming products.
The formula is B = MAT where behavior of an user is a function of the following three parameters
B = behavior , M = motivation , A =ability of the purchase & T = trigger provided
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book The Infinite Game
When Steve Jobs and his team at Apple visited Xerox PARC , Palo Alto CA in 1979 they were introduced to the new GUI based concept.
Though Apple had made significant investments in command based interface for its Apple PCs , being an infinite minded leader he exercised “Existential Flex” and decided to adopt GUI for its Macintosh to be released in the next 4 years.
Needless to say he faced quite a lot of resistance from his own employees who were not comfortable with disruption.
The fact that the risk paid off is ample testimony to the fact that an infinite minded leader can preempt disruption in enabling an organization to reach great heights in an infinite game.