Tag: entrepreneurship

What happened next …

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.. is not always newsworthy.

After you have landed that job you so much wanted, often the most exciting part is showing up every day to do your best.

When you make a resolution to change an unhealthy habit, most of the time peak adrenaline is in the moment you make up your mind, and it’s followed by days, weeks, months of sticking to it.

Decorating your new apartment might give you a kick, and then you’ll have to navigate the day after day of your life inside it, uneventful for the most part.

It’s not always easy to be at ease in the average routine, yet that’s what most of our lives are made of. If you want to be an agent of change, that’s a lesson better learned fast.

The difference you make

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Generosity and kindness work very well as a marketing tactic, particularly in times of uncertainty and discomfort.

If you have something valuable to share, do it. But value is not measured on your income statement, in this case more than ever. It is measured in the impact you have on those you serve, in the difference you make in their lives, in the ways you enhance their capacity to get past such difficult times.

If you have something valuable to share, do it. In all other cases, just continue business as usual. Leveraging the pandemic, covid-19, remote working, social distancing to sell a bunch of new subscriptions and products is not something we feel the need of.

Changing the game

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What game are you playing?

If you feel like you’ve been losing for too long now, most likely it is the wrong game you are playing. There is a chance for you to reconsider all that is involved: the rules, the playing field, the competitors, even what winning eventually means. But you can do that only if you start by understanding who you are, what makes you stand out and what you want.

Different is better than better. If you put yourself in the small pond, how you think of yourself goes up. Most of us though live in a huge pond, and the feeling we get is we will never be good enough. Give yourself a game that you can win!

Neil Pasricha

The first one

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In a moment of crisis, we need leaders that act responsibly.

Not in the sense that they need to come to us and tell that it’s their fault, or that they have made a decision and here is what we all have to do to comply. Responsibility is being accountable for your own actions, and so leading responsibly means that you are going to show us what to do, to live the restrictions, to take your own public steps towards what is necessary.

Giving orders and enforcing them is not the essence of leadership.

Be (the first) one of us, and we will follow.

Ourselves first

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Lifting others, empowering them, making them feel listened and appreciated, ensuring they can do their best with their skills and motivating them enough to go find learnings in their failures.

All of this is possible only if we allow it to happen to ourselves first.

“I am shit and you are great” is a narrative that does not serve any of the above purposes.