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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Tradeoffs Our choices of who we want to be would mean we make choices of who we don’t want to be. This is applicable both in business and life. Successful businesses choose to serve specific customers and their needs which means they say no to others. e.g. Walmart stores do not serve people in Manhattan …
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Reminder of Superpower Superpowers are not lost. They are forgotten or taken for granted. The best way to develop superpowers in others is to remind them about it. If you are a person of credibility or someone in authority remind others of their superpower and they will start seeing it again in themselves. Kalpana Chawla …
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Valuing surplus time We value money over time. As Seneca rightly said – “People are frugal in guarding their personal property, but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”The decision to spend time is driven by the need …
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Relativity and coaching In a recent behavioral science conference, that I attended, one of the themes that was reiterated was being multidisciplinary in approach; Bringing concepts from different fields to solve a problem. Upon reflection, I found it relevant for coaching. One example is that of the concept of Relativity. The main idea of relativity …
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