Tag: values

Money doesn’t lie

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Google’s mission was to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Today, 81.3% of their revenue comes from advertising, which admittedly has little to do with making information universally accessible.

Source: Visual Capitalist

Facebook’s mission was to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Today, 97.7% of their revenue comes from advertising, which admittedly has little to do with giving people the power to build community or bringing the world closer together.

Source: Visual Capitalist

If you don’t measure the right things, it’s very easy to end up in a very different place from the one you initially had in mind.

Darkest solitude

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In dark times, solitude is never the answer.

Because in solitude the darkest narrative becomes the only possible one. There is no escape to negativity and self-pity if we don’t connect, don’t open up, don’t reach out.

The good news is, solitude is a choice.

Richer

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It’s not a negative thing to question your strongest beliefs.

You might either get away with some new ones or with some stronger convictions.

Of course, it’s scary. Because for a moment, in the process, you might not know what to hold on to, you might feel lost, you might feel shaky.

On the other side, though, there’s a richer version of you.

Arrogant assumption

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When leaders say any of the following:

  • I put a lot of pressure on myself.
  • I hold myself to very high standards.
  • I am the biggest critic of my work.

It typically means that they will find it challenging to establish relationships based on trust, particularly with direct reports.

And it’s not because what they say is not true. It might indeed be that they expect a lot of themselves, that they are never happy with what they achieve, that they always strive for more.

But they then extend the same expectations on others. They assume that just because others don’t feel the same pressure, don’t adhere to the same standards, don’t agree with the same critiques, it means they are not as committed, as motivated, as performing.

That’s a bit of an arrogant assumption.

Routine

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We want something, and when we get it we end up being deeply disappointed, unexpectedly scared, ultimately sad.

It might be because that thing is not what we wanted (or needed), but often it’s also because we do not have a clear idea of what the thing will entail. What skills are needed, what resources are necessary, what it actually means to be in the situation.

So, before we move onto the next big project – the new thing we really, really want now – let’s try to be with our achievement for a while. Let it sink in, get used to its reality, make it comfortable.

It might as well be that a bit of routine and practice is all we need next.