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Agape Leadership | Drama Triangle | Create your own goals

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Agape Leadership Is ‘Love’ relevant in Leadership? In the book Trillion Dollar Coach, leaders often described Bill Campbell as someone who loved people. He gave bear hugs. He took people out. He generously donated his time. He held people accountable. Bill Campbell demonstrated Agape Leadership. To demonstrate selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love, is key in agape …

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Embrace our current selves | Rationalizing | Building beliefs

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Embrace our current selves We are constantly changing ourselves consciously or unconsciously. One day, our gradual changes become visible to us and others. We are quick to draw comparisons with our older selves, while others want us to get back to our older version. For Instance-We might say to ourselves, “I used to be someone …

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Feeling successful | Charisma | Unsolicited advice

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Feeling successful Even the most well-accomplished people can feel defeated. Why should someone feel so even after winning? It could be because(1) The price they paid to win in one area may be too high at the expense of other areas of life(2) They won but not on their terms(3) They had hoped to experience …

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Enjoyment as criteria | Midnight rule | On his blindness

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Enjoyment as criteria More than half of our lives are filled with chasing goals. We usually make SMART goals and evaluate our activities against the performance criteria. We often ask ourselves ‘Did I give my best?’ for everything we do, without knowing what best means in some cases. Then one fine day we realize that …

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Tribute to Daniel Kahneman | Beliefs about power | Contrast makes ordinary special

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Tribute to Daniel Kahneman Behavioral Science is no more about biases and nudges. It has evolved beyond these frames into the multi-disciplinary domain. The field got its prominence because of a few thought leaders like Daniel Kahneman who made behavioral science more visible to the larger world outside academics. Through his work, he proposed to …

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Defining productivity | Tribute to Wordsworth | Exhaustion and default

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Defining productivity Living on a farm can shift our perspectives about how we define work. As I watched the people carry about their work caring for their livestock, cleaning the pens, I wondered how they define their productivity. Working on the farm is hard work with a lot of uncertainties and constraints. Yet, Farmers seemed …

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To grin and bear it | The map is not the territory | I have nothing to add

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To grin and bear it The marathon event held during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics proved to be quite challenging for the runners. They had to endure unfavorable conditions, such as suboptimal temperature and humidity, as well as overcrowded drink stations. Despite these hurdles, Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge successfully won the Gold medal in the men’s …

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