‘The shortest answer is doing’ – George Herbert. What prevents us from doing what we know we need to be doing? Reasons could be many – might need clarity, courage or whatever that it takes. How do we get to ‘doing’, acting-upon things that we keep contemplating for long… The shortest answer is doing.
‘I would place my bet on curiosity’ – Michael Dell, when asked to name the single most important attribute that CEOs need to succeed in turbulent times. Curiosity – that which helps us to explore, listen, be receptive, be open-minded, rejoice… and to enjoy life, and the journey…
What we focus on expands – Anonymous. Whatever I put my focus into, that’s what I get more of. Wouldn’t it make more sense therefore to focus on what I want than what I don’t want? On good than the bad? On positives than the negatives? On solutions than the challenges? It’s my choice –
Thinking about possibilities, than about constraints – former is expansive and the latter, limiting. It’s not that one needs to ignore constraints / challenges for practicing this. It’s thinking beyond them, not about them. Thinking and operating from a ‘possibilities’ perspective uncovers new arenas, potentialities, possibilities…, brings a whole new dimension to our lives, the
‘People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care’ – Theodore Roosevelt. The key difference between individual achievers and great leaders. As a leader, its supremely important to ask this question – how much do I care for others?
Great leaders translate the organisational goals into team members’ personal goals. Inspire their team members to achieve them and make them feel what they do will benefit them and the organisation. Aligning individual, team and organisational goals – How does one get there? Exploration with a Coach could help.
Receiving and responding to a feedback / feed-forward determines how willing others will be in providing them. Feedbacks / feed-forwards provide critical inputs when received in an open way – we need to be watchful over our defensive behaviours, sense of denial to benefit from them. How open could I be in receiving them, in
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” We wanted to grow and multiply our revenue 400% in 3 years, but we were faced with multiple challenges. With PK’s help, we successfully reached our revenue goals in our desired time-frame and also had a few rounds of private equity infusions through the journey. “
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1% Rule – Try to improve our key performance parameters 1% at a time! Learned yesterday from my Client. Be it reducing the wastage, decreasing re-processing, improving yield, improving margins, savings through negotiations – target 1% at a time! Quite a constructive approach!
When we are faced with endless opportunities in our journey, it is quite easy to get lost in small details, specifics. Small details have a knack to catch and retain our attention. It is likely that we get focussed on them and miss the big picture. Seeing the big picture helps us find our purpose.