Tag: purpose
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Book Recommendation: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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 […]
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Business Trends for 2020: The year of Purpose
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 […]
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How to Live a Long Life: Friends, Money & Purpose
The founder of Strategic Coach, and one of my favourite podcasters, Dan Sullivan plans to live to 156 years old. It will allow him to see 3 different centuries (19,20,21). What will it take for him to live that long? He’ll need to eat well. He’ll need to stay physically and mentally fit. He’ll need […]
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Finding Purpose, step 1
In Vistage, we say “Great leaders ask great questions.” The most important question: What’s my purpose? The 2 Ingredients of Purpose Your purpose is about solving problems that are meaningful to yourself. Two phrases are key in this sentence: solving problems – whilst you can get momentary happiness from experiences, only improving quality of life […]
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Living a Purpose Driven Life – inspired by Dandapani
I was in Boston to teach on the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation EMP (Entrepreneurial Masters Program) this week. MIT Endicott House is one of the most beautiful locations for leadership retreats and programs. I brought my drone to capture the scenery around the main buildings. You’ll see the drone shots right at the beginning of the video […]
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How to Achieve your Most Ambitious Goals
In his TED talk, Stephen Duneier explains that what defines him are not titles, but an approach to decision making that transformed him from someone who struggled with simple tasks to a guy who is continuously achieving even his most ambitious dreams. For thirty years, he has applied cognitive science to investing, business and life. […]
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Purpose & Mastery: The harder to learn, the longer the passion lasts
This video is from up in the French Pyrenees. It is about learning to ski. It takes a few days of hard knocks to get to a level where you can even basically enjoy it. The skills that turn out to be passions in your life, they will take time to develop. Many people give […]
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Finding Purpose and Defining a Vision for your Life
Last week’s blog post (Do you have inspiring goals?) triggered a wonderful response in emails and comments. I had many questions. A common question was about how to begin to find a purpose and define a vision for your life. This video shares a tool I found 8 years ago that had a major impact […]
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Purpose and Vision Beats Opportunism
Two Approaches to Life My friends live their lives in one of two contrasting ways: Guided by a Long term Vision for their Lives Take Opportunities as they come In the short term, the opportunists made great early progress. I have one friend who changed job every 1-2 years in the investment banking industry. Each […]
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Do you Have the Wrong Mission?
I made a little change to the classic story about 3 men building a cathedral… Working on a Cathedral In the distance I see the construction site of a future cathedral. I approach the site and see three men laying bricks. I approach the first man and ask “what are you doing?” He says “I am […]
