“You can’t free anybody else and you can’t serve anybody else unless you free yourself” Nelson Mandela You are not an accident. You are a singular piece in the giant jigsaw puzzle that is this world. This jigsaw puzzle is not a 50 piece puzzle, nor a 250 piece puzzle… it is a 7 billion piece … Read more
Rajesh Setty shared some wisdom with me last year. One thing out of many that I remember was this idea: the most valuable compliment you can hear from another person. I had the privilege of reading a draft of Rajesh’s newest book over the last month and I have written a recommendation that hopefully will … Read more
Original article posted at Forbes 20th January 2020 How to be Happier and More Productive in 2020. I’ve spent the last 16 years working with CEOs and entrepreneurs to help them get clear on their purpose, get great people around them, execute their decisions and enjoy their life in the process. The fact that you … Read more
There are 3 primary drivers of results in life: Your luck (randomness) Your strategy (choices) Your actions (habits) Nice tweet from James Clear, the author of the book Atomic Habits. There is a fourth driver of Results 4. how I respond to what happens I am reading Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life at the … Read more
What makes for a meaningful human life? Who and what are the most important for you? Leo Tolstoy addresses these questions in his 1886 short story The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This is a book that I give away often. It is a short book, just over 50 pages long. It can be read from … Read more
The newspaper is full of other people’s problems. Do they bother you? The world is full of people who don’t know what you expect from them. Does it bother you when they don’t do what you expect? How can you have a good day when you give 8 billion people control over your state of … Read more
These are my notes from reading the short article Strategy and the Fat Smoker by David Maister. As we come up to the season of new year’s resolutions, I took some time to reflect on what it takes to make change happen in our lives, and in our businesses. David Maister is a former Harvard … Read more
It is a trade off. Charlie Munger said in a recent interview: “if you take lots of heroin, you’ll be very happy over the next 3 weeks… but the long term impact is catastrophic” How to balance short term enjoyment with long term fulfillment? Reflection in this video is on this balance between habits for … Read more
How to live a fulfilling human life? Abraham Maslow was the first psychologist to look specifically at what it takes to live a healthy, fulfilling human life. Prior to Maslow, psychology was focussed on dealing with mental illness and abnormality. Maslow suggested that to be happy, it is not sufficient to just remove sadness. The … Read more
IESE Business School Professors Mireia Gine, Yago de la Cierva, Mike Rosenberg, Mireia de las Heras and Javier Diaz-Gimenez share 5 important business trends for 2020. What are the Business Trends for 2020? Purpose is on the boardroom agenda, it is no longer sufficient to “turn a profit” Social Intelligence is the key type of … Read more